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- Responsible for technical advisement of Operational Plans (OPLANS), Operational Orders (OPORDs), Planning Orders (PLORD), and Fragmentary Orders (FRAGOs) in support of Commandant Commands. - Leads Joint Planning Groups and Operational Teams (JPG/OPT), develop and integrate Department of Defense Information Network and defensive cyberspace capabilities into plans, support action officers with planning, and remain cognizant of missions and priorities.- Reviews drafts and provides advice and assistance to the Operational Planning Teams and Joint Planning Groups. Review plans to identify expressed or implied missions and responsibilities. Develop concepts of support, courses of action, integrate command and external capabilities, coordinate, and document comprehensive plans.- Assists in planning, research, and analysis of DoD cyberspace policy, analysis of cyberspace events and operations, provide specialized expertise in such areas as Cyberspace Protection Teams employment, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Analysis, Targeting Process, and Exercise Planning. Provides subject matter expertise on current capabilities, emerging technology challenges and on-going development activities in the Offensive Cyber, Defensive Cyber, and Department of Defense Information Network Operations.-Developed cybersecurity capabilities in support of JCSE cyber initiatives to include evaluation, training, and operations. Develop and deliver cybersecurity training to JCSE personnel.

- Responsible for the Information Assurance (IA) program as stipulated by various US Government requirements including DCSA Authorization and Assessment Process Manual (DAAPM) / Joint Special Access Program Implementation Guide (JSIG) as well as customer/contract specific Information Assurance (IA) regulations.- Security manager for several large collateral and Special Access Programs servicing contracts from business capture to stead state production.- Works with government agencies to track Cyber threat intelligence to understand intentions and provide technical security recommendations to the organization.- Conducts self-inspections, audit trail review, delivers information systems security education and awareness, and manages/mentors a team of 15 Information System Security Officers (ISSO).- Regularly writes facility and corporate security policy regulating classified processing and interfaces with government authorizing officials for approvals.- Manages the Cyber incident response program in collaboration with other departments across all security disciplines (industrial security, physical security, special programs security, etc.).

- Cyber Warfare Officer Lead for a 39 Soldier Cyber Protection Team (CPT) responsible for the employment of threat-focused, intelligence-driven Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) capabilities at all echelons supporting Department of Defense Information Network (DODIN) to include Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental, and Multinational (JIIM).- Led a Joint Chiefs initiative to establish the defensive cyber operations internal defense measures of the Joint Systems Integration Laboratory (JSIL) enclaves enabling Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) integration testing.- Responsible for management of DODIN Incident Response (IR) including specializations in Cloud and ICS/SCADA throughout the hunt, clear, hardening, and assessment operational phases.- Assembled and managed the Army’s quick reaction forensics fusion cell of over thirty DoD civilian and military service member SMEs in response to the SolarWinds supply chain breach.- Interfaces with managers and directors, local or regional network owners and Cyber Security Service Providers (CSSP) to advise and enable improvement of cyber health posture.*Mobilized Army Reservist in support of Operation Enduring Freedom assigned to the Cyber Protection Brigade, Army Cyber Command

- Mission Element lead for 180 Cyber Protection Team of the Northeast Cyber Protection Center.- Leads Cyber threat intelligence fusion cell specializing in enemy tactics, techniques and procedures.- Leads, plans, and executes functional mission analysis aligning mission element capabilities to mission requirements.- Cyber Operations Planner for the stand up the first fully mission capable Army Reserve Cyber Protection Team.- Conducts Defense-in-Depth Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) of cyber key terrain in global, multi-tiered networks.- Attended Cyber Warfare and Information Operations curriculum at the US Naval War College Newport, RI.- Continuing service as a Reserve Cyber Warfare Officer (17A), Captain with 18 years of military experience.

- Section Lead in a theater All-source Intelligence Collection Element (ACE) focused on the US Forces Korea (USFK) mission set.- Battalion Operations Security Officer managing training, assessments, working groups and overall operations security policy.- Assistant S3 coordinating major training events such as annual exercises with active component counterparts in Korea including live fire operations.- Completed resident Military Intelligence Captain’s Career Course in Fort Huachuca, AZ (Honor Graduate).

- Developed and implemented policy incorporating Allies (French, United Kingdom, Italy) into US operations in Africa.- Contributed substantive and timely input to dozens of white papers, senior leader talking points, Joint Staff studies.- Represented the Command to Allied nations, negotiating international intelligence sharing agreements and coordinating both multilateral and bilateral information collection requirements.- Wrote weekly information papers and foreign engagement talking points informing AFRICOM Senior Leaders concerning ally political policies enabling strategic decisions.

- Served as the Brigade Reserve Liaison Officer for a Theater Intelligence Brigade (TIB) consisting of 1200 personnel supporting US Army and Joint Forces in the European and African Theaters.- Managed US European Command International Security Cooperation Military-to-Military Intelligence engagement program developing and coordinating training events with NATO allies.- Supervised the Brigade’s Reserve Integration training and readiness to include operational support, coordination and synchronization of Reserve Component Federated Intelligence Production for two Regional Operations Centers.- Led a military engagement program instructing Polish field grade Officers on Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield at the Warsaw Military Technical University.

- Second in command (Executive Officer) of Alpha Company 323rd Military Intelligence Battalion responsible for administration, maintenance and logistics in support of more than 300 Soldiers.- Maintained a high level of readiness completing unit reports, OPORDs, etc. ensuring quarterly and annual training requirements were met.- Coordinated with Combatant commands for Live Environment Training on real-world mission sets providing valuable experience for the Soldiers of the command.- Attended Military Intelligence Officer Leaders Course (Ft Huachuca, AZ), class leader with superior ratings - Direct commission.

- Selected to serve on the Chief of Army Reserve personal staff assigned to the Pentagon (Active Guard Reserve status).- Security manager for SCIF overseeing operational security standards.- IT Communications subject matter expert for the Chief of Army Reserve managing DoD systems and social media.- IT liaison for website/social media services as well as secure Qualcomm Video Teleconference.- Travel/Deployment coordinator ensuring continuity and security for transport of General and his staff.

- IT manager for Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) site issues.- Site security manager for DEERS processing and issuance of government Common Access Cards (CAC) to contractors deploying to Afghanistan and Iraq.- Conducted briefings concerning military standard operations and security in theater.

- One of 2 lead Architects developing IT solutions for Michelin North America.- Responsible for enterprise technical security architecture for internal networks as well as DMZ.- Responsible for researching new technologies and writing technical solution documents including technical diagrams and cost analysis.- Developed security solutions for UNIX/Linux and Windows platforms.- Managed client meetings to review current environments and gather requirements for new solutions of vital enterprise systems.- Assisted in contract development and negotiations with the client.

- Managed IT decoupling project of a major grocery retail chain divestiture which included corporate servers and 66 stores with multiple in-store processors.- Developed scripts to migrate live system configurations to interface with corporate servers without outage.- Routinely provided advanced technical support to level 1 support groups as directed by the CIO.- Advised Agilysys, a service provider, in retail application security architecture for major customer contracts.- Provided performance analysis and problem determination for enterprise systems as a service.- Partnered with IBM hardware sales in planning and implementation of Disney’s multi-million dollar east coast and west coast disaster recovery centers.

- Lead system administrator for Gap Clothing Inc. European growth initiative project expanding its brands with over 200 stores throughout Europe.- Responsible for endpoint security and system hardening ensuring PCI compliance.- Part of a 3-person, level 3 team supporting all projects enterprise-wide in locations around the world.- Conducted incident response, performance analysis as well as architectural recommendations for development, test, and production distributed systems.- Part of a tiger team taking on delinquent projects to provide deliverables on time and within budget.- Routinely provided technical training to level 1 and level 2 offshore support groups.

- Senior Technical Engineer in an IBM datacenter transformation/relocation project, moving all existing Disney datacenters to IBM facilities.- Responsible for security, administration and performance analysis of Disney SAP Central Instances and application servers.- Successfully installed and configured Disney’s first SAP DMZ middleware environment.- Part of a team that planned and implemented a high availability solution for Disney’s most critical SAP enterprise systems.

- Part of a 5-person team providing 24x7 support for the North American enterprise environment.- Provided network management support via Tivoli Netview, CiscoWorks, and Lucent VitalQIP DNS.- Supported enterprise security and identity management with IBM Tivoli products.- Managed IBM pSeries logical partition installation, configuration and cluster management.- Architected and configured the company's first network Install environment enabling rapid recoverability and provisioning of critical systems.- Supported a variety of Linux flavors such as RedHat and SuSe.

- AIX Administrator responsible for Level 2/3 support of over 700 RS/6000 workstations, 20 standalone servers, in 8 different sites supporting over 7,000 users.- Developed and maintained corporate disaster recovery data replication system, which replicated critical application data across five remote sites.- Responsible for system security and incident response for the site.- Regularly developed Kornshell and Perl scripts to automate system and application services.

- Responsible for a five to eight Soldier Combat Engineer team.- Led Airborne operations both heavy and light.- Graduated in the top 10% from the Military Academy Preparatory School.- Distinguished service with an honorable discharge.