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Herndon, VA, US

• Led the Cybersecurity Advisory Services practice for the Chief Technology Officer's team providing vCISO consulting, policy auditing and review, and compliance assessment efforts.
• Provided cybersecurity consulting to Iron Bow Tactical Cyber, an incident response/threat detection and threat intelligence service within the company.
• Led vulnerability and patch management programs for high-profile clientele utilizing Nexpose, Secureworks, SentinelOne, WhiteHat Sentinel, Jira, ServiceNow, Tenable.IO, SumoLogic, InsightVM, BeyondTrust.
• Provided leadership to cybersecurity analysts; assisted with organizational guidance and direction.
• Assisted analysts with communication and collaboration training.
• Quadrupled the social media presence of the company in under 2 years.

Fairfax, Virginia, US

• Led high-performing portfolio containing multiple cybersecurity teams across diverse clientele responsible for a broad range of cybersecurity disciplines that included site assessments, vulnerability management.
• Trained other team leaders on the use of tools, techniques, and processes to become more effective leaders.
• Led the administration of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) initiative for federal clientele.
• Conducted vulnerability assessments and proactively led the vulnerability management efforts for federal clientele.
• Developed risk tracking processes to proactively identify and mitigate network environment exposures, enhancing endpoint detection & response.
• Utilized Agile methodologies to complete customer-centric projects.

Whippany, New Jersey, US

• Provided clientele with tailored organizational cybersecurity best practice guidance in accordance with applicable frameworks (NIST, CMMC).
• Provided risk management guidance and leadership to clientele through composition and testing of business continuity plans.
• Engaged clientele leadership to collaborate on risk assessment and risk management activities to more clearly identify the overall risk landscape.

Mclean, Virginia, US

• Led the contract cybersecurity team in support of federal clientele which comprised three main sites and several remote site offices across the United States.
• Led the administration of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) through management of tools to include Forescout, Splunk, and BigFix.
• Led vulnerability assessment and management efforts to provide a more accurate portrayal of the threat and risk landscape.
• Enhanced and maintained communications with the federal executive leadership on current cybersecurity posture.
• Developed vulnerability tracking processes to proactively protect the network environment from exposures, enhancing endpoint detection and response.
• Conducted threat analysis of ongoing network physical and logical threats to the federal network environment.

Mclean, Virginia, US

• Increased the levels of communication and collaboration through use of the tools available within the environment (Skype for Business 2015, Exchange, and ZOOM).
• Led the stabilization of the Exchange 2010 environment for federal customers.
• Led the migration efforts of the federal customers to Office 365 utilizing Exchange Online with minimal interruptions or issues.
• Led security investigations through the email environment upon request.
• Designed the architecture for the new Mobile Device Management/Enterprise Mobility Management (MDM/EMM) solution for federal customers aligning with NIST 800-53 Rev 4 guidelines.
• Created detailed project plans, environment diagrams, and design plans; briefed executive management and federal leadership on design details through in-person meetings and video teleconference sessions.

Hagerstown, MD, US

• Utilized my combined knowledge and experience to help teach students looking to become college graduates in Cybersecurity disciplines
• Created comprehensive syllabi to assist the students in overall navigation through the courses.
• Provided constructive feedback on assignments and discussion posts in an effort to assist the students in reaching their collective goals.
• Taught CYB-246, Introduction to Cloud Computing and CYB-210, Ethics in the Information Age.

D.C., Washington, US

• Secured the Exchange and Lync environments for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation utilizing cybersecurity control sets (NIST 800-53 Rev 4).
• Assisted the federal agency (Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation) in migrating to Office 365.
• Assisted in the migration from Blackberry devices to iPhones (migration from BES to Airwatch).
• Served as Release Manager ensuring that software releases aligned with agency best practice and ITIL guidelines.

• Served as team Problem Coordinator, as well as SMTP SME for the Messaging/Active Directory team, coordinating problems and changes with multiple support groups to ensure that SLA’s were met on a consistent basis.
• Secured the Exchange e-mail and Active Directory environment through RBAC for Altria Corporate Services, Inc. through rigorous testing and implementation.
• Secured and administered Microsoft Lync 2010 pilot utilizing internal chat capabilities via PowerShell utilizing Microsoft best practices.
• Managed IronMail anti-spam and Trend anti-virus system for Altria Corporate Services, Inc. This included the administration and maintenance of IronMail 4.1 and 4.52 (through CMC), Trend OfficeScan, Trend ServerProtect.

• Supported the Exchange e-mail environment for Altria Corporate Services, Inc., which supports the operating companies of Philip Morris, Nabisco, and Kraft Foods worldwide.
• Assisted in managing IronMail anti-spam and Trend anti-virus system for Altria Corporate Services, Inc. to prevent spam and virus attacks on global e-mail environment. This includes the administration and maintenance.
• Assisted the administration of multiple user necessities (Blackberry (BES, smartphone devices), Fenestrae Faxination).
• Worked with different continents (South America, Asia) on supporting their e-mail environments, as our Exchange team was their first level of support for Exchange outages and issues.

Madison, NJ, US

• Managed the IT field support team of 2 helpdesk representatives and 10 desktop support technicians for Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage and Jack Gaughen ERA, comprised of 115 sales offices, 6600 real estate agents.
• Managed the Exchange server environment, as well as the LAN and WAN for the NRT Mid-Atlantic network, to include configuration, troubleshooting and repair of the IT server environment and infrastructure.
• Provided desktop and telephone support to the users in our environment, and performed desktop service and support as the senior technician to the corporate office.

Reston, VA, US

• Installed and implemented the Action Request System for the Washington DC National Guard.
• Performed technical component removal and installation for the Washington DC National Guard in a UTP Cat 5 LAN/MAN/WAN environment running the RCAS (Reserve Component Automation System) build of Microsoft Windows NT 4.0.
• Beta tested Blackberry devices for use in the Army National Guard (ver. 850 and 950)
• Served as VIP technical support for the Director of the Army National Guard, as well as the Chief of Staff for the Army National Guard.

Arlington, Virginia, US

• Provided preventative maintenance checks and services (PMCS) on all light-wheeled vehicles in Alpha Company, member of the 84th Engineering Battalion, 45th Corp. Support Group.
• Conducted quarterly, semi-annual, annual, and biennial inspections and services on all light-wheeled vehicles in Alpha Company.
• Learned discipline, leadership, and strategic logistics as well as motivations and methodologies of leading teams.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Cybersecurity Policy

Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Computer And Information Systems Security/Information Assurance

Project Management Professional, Project Management

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Cybersecurity

Associate Of Applied Science (Aas), Cybersecurity

Hazmat First Responder, Firefighter 1, Ems First Responder, Pump Operator, Emergency Vehicle Driver

Microsoft Exchange 2007, 2010, Moss 2007

Mcts In Wss 3.0, Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0

Multiple Areas Of Study Within Microsoft Os (Server, Workstation/Desktop, Applications)

Mcse, Mcp+I