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Hanover, Md, Us

Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, United States

Directs and supervises over 5,500 military, civilian, and contractor personnel, including subordinate commands and cyber operations forces. Oversees day-to-day secure operations and defense of the Navy’s unclassified and classified networks, including sensitive critical national networks. Manages operations across more than one million endpoints globally, serving half a million users. • Modernized Navy networks over 3-year period from legacy enterprise to cloud-based, hybrid infrastructure, adopting IaaS and SaaS models within a Zero-Trust environment increasing cyber security while reducing operational and procurement costs; spearheaded the overhaul of cybersecurity infrastructure, reducing vulnerability to external threats by 60% through the deployment of state-of-the-art intrusion detection systems, identity management architecture, and continuous risk assessment protocols. • Oversees, coordinates, and directs incident response and cyber recovery operations across all Navy networks; advises the commander and Navy senior leaders on cyber threats; leads Department of the Navy effort to resiliently secure Navy networks. • Oversees and governs technology adoption for cyber operations; represents Navy equities to United States Cyber Command and the Joint Cyber Warfare Architecture; government advisor on Defense Science Board Future Cyber Capabilities Study; advises commander on capability development and employment. • Oversees cyber workforce development and readiness initiatives, resulting in gains across all measurements. • Spearheaded the strategic planning and execution of a comprehensive cyber security framework and incident response plan for a highly regulated government entity, safeguarding the integrity and confidentiality of sensitive data across 15 departments and ensuring compliance with national security policies

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Ensures reserve units are prepared to support naval missions and could transition effectively into active roles when necessary. Oversees and coordinates operations, training, and overall readiness of reservists. Serves as a senior advisor to higher-ranking officials on matters related to the reserves. Participates in the development of strategic plans and policies. Manages budgets, resources, and personnel within command.Positions held include:Reserve Deputy Commander, US TENTHFLEETRegional Commander, Navy Information Forces Reserve Region SoutheastCommanding Officer, NR STRATCOM USCYBERCOMExecutive Officer, NR PACOM JOINT INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS CENTER (JIOC) 0219Commanding Officer, NR NIOC GA-ORLANDOCommanding Officer, NR NIOC TX-MINNEAPOLIS

Advises United States Army Cyber Command's Chief Technology Officer and staff on technology capabilities, challenges, trends, and operational impact; executes special projects as directed by the CTO; orchestrates the command's commercial industry and academic engagements.United States Army Cyber Command's 19,000 Soldiers and civilians operate in a global footprint to achieve the command’s three strategic priorities: aggressively operate and defend the DOD information network; deliver effects against our adversaries; and design, build and deliver integrated capabilities for the future fight. Currrent technological pursuits include cyber security sensors, analytics (to include machine learning, artificial intelligence, expert systems, and data science), orchestration, and risk management.

Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, United States

• Directs and supervises a staff of over 300 personnel and cyber mission force members, providing daily oversight of all Joint Task Force actions across the Intelligence and Operations Directorates. Serves as the third in the Chain of Command for all Joint Task Force operations, coordinating and expediting matters of special interest to the Commander/Deputy Commander as needed. Plans and advises on offensive cyber operations and related technical operations, ensuring proper reception, assignment, and equitable distribution of all key assets. • Developed coalitions and keenly negotiated difficult/contentious operations between stakeholders through open and continuous communication; building trust and cooperation in an extremely complex information sharing environment. • Streamlined capability development and acquisition, ensuring mission and operation success; development and integration speed increased from years to months to weeks through agile practice adoption, employee empowerment, across multiple internal and external parties. • Built award-winning, high impact organization from the ground-up. Matured professional cyber operations within the command and across the military. Streamlined internal operations by implementing a strategic management framework that improved cross-departmental workflow efficiency by 25%, enhancing overall organizational responsiveness and agility

Hanover, Md

• Led corporate technical direction for 85 engineers supporting 4 commercial products for advanced threat detection and removal, big data analytics, network monitoring, and access control. • Established a remote, highly-automated security operations and incident response center to provide 24/7 coverage to over 25 customers. • Consolidated legacy development infrastructure and processes into a modern agile development process while moving towards increasing gains in quality assurance and test-driven development. • Transitioned and established sustainment development to off-shore resources resulting in effective cost savings, increased innovation, and new feature implementation, without loss of quality or customers. • Evaluated dozens of cyber security companies for acquisition and/or product integration.

Hanover, Md

Provided programmatic oversight and technical leadership, for a 120-person business unit conducting $51M worth of cloud computing, cloud analytic, enterprise messaging, software assurance, and advanced cyber operations support. Designed, engineered, and oversaw the development of: next generation active computer network defense platform, cyber operations simulator, autonomous remote host command and control framework, and a ground-breaking seed-controlled build engine for generating signature and disassembly resistant executable image variants - all foundational cyber operations technologies, delivered on-time and within schedule to meet the needs of national customers. Received 100% of award and incentive fees. Developed an Internal Research and Development program on cloud migration, cloud analytics, Hadoop instrumentation, analytic optimization, data presentation, and network mapping.

• Designed and developed cutting edge network visualization and analysis products using advanced mathematics and scientific approaches.• Directed a multi-disciplinary engineering group, achieving a 30% reduction in development time by implementing agile methodologies and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.• Initiated the development of early machine learning algorithms, increasing accuracy of anomaly detection by 150% contributing to early revenue success.

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• Various roles of increasing technical and leadership responsibility (15-60 personnel) within emergency preparedness, network operations, network analysis, incident handling/response, digital forensics, penetration testing, red team operations, and risk management and governance.• Pioneer of cyberspace operations and innovator of cyber capability development - all predecessors for the modern Cyber Mission Force.• Established cyber workforce education, training, development, and talent management programs, foundations still in use today.

Master’S Degree, Systems Engineering (Iw Systems)

Master's Thesis: Therminator 2: a thermodynamics-based method for real-time patternless intrusion detection Abstract: A novel system.

Master Of Science (Ms), Computer Science

Master's Thesis: Therminator 2: a thermodynamics-based method for real-time patternless intrusion detection Published in MILCOM 2002.

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science