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Washington, DC, US

Lake Mary, FL, US

• Mentored and developed technology leaders on organizational security roadmap and objectives.
• Developed technology roadmaps that outlined and mapped organizational security objectives to industry security standards
• Worked with key customers to enhance the level of service and security provided across the client base
• Collaborated with industry partners and business experts to align IT Roadmaps and Strategies with business needs

Arlington, Virginia, US

• Following an organizational merger that doubled the size of our IT capabilities and staff by adding developers and data analytics capabilities, resumed a senior leadership role focused on driving our Infrastructure &.
• Built, mentored and led a team of people capable of executing an aggressive cloud vision
• Consolidated IT assets and services for 6 disparate organizations into a single set of shared services
• Developed cloud first strategy to speed adoption of key security objectives
• Planned and rolled out Office 365 ecosystem to 6 customer organizations, including our own
• Created an IT operations, security, applications and support capability that serviced ~1,200 customers spanning ~50 states

Wichita, Kansas, US

• Led the creation and development of Enterprise Cloud, Identity and Access Management and Security Visions, Strategies & Roadmaps
• Worked to align key stakeholders with business value and prioritization for each strategy
• Led the security components of a cloud innovation effort that involved moving a large web application environment to an Amazon AWS environment
• Redeveloped and streamlined the vendor and IT risk assessment processes
• Coordinated with domain architects and business experts across Information Security to translate key strategic objectives into actionable and governable roadmaps and designs

Wichita, Kansas, US

• Played the lead role in designing and implementing an overall network traffic analysis program for a network with 80,000+ clients and servers
• Engineered and deployed 3 customized Bro-IDS/Network Security Monitor clusters
• Assisted in deploying and implementing NetWitness to 3 primary datacenters and 2 remote sites
• Assisted in creating Incident Handling procedures for a new Security Operations Center
• Trained and mentored junior network security analyst in many facets of cyber security
• Created a program for monitoring and applying open source threat intelligence information

• Led and mentored a team of Network Security Analysts in the IG Computer Network Defense Group
• Collaborated with community partners to combat the threats and techniques used by adversaries
• Designed and maintained the intrusion detection systems, firewalls, mail gateways, proxies and other network devices
• Developed and tuned custom Bro-IDS policies for increased automated detection
• Conducted analysis of malicious files (i.e. pdf, jar, exe, etc)
• Developed and implemented incident response procedures for the information security division

US

• Supervised and mentored 10+ members of the incident handling and analysis staff
• Developed and validated incident response plans to address cyber threats and vulnerabilities
• Monitored, analyzed, and responded to security events using security event management tools
• Analyzed netflow data to identify compromised or mis-configured systems or devices
• Supported the daily coordination and remediation of information security related incidents with senior management, performing suppliers, and business units
• Developed scripts and tools in both Python and Perl that assist in automating analysis

Wainwright, AK, US

• Monitored IDS system activity at U.S. Diplomatic facilities overseas
• Drafted technical intelligence reviews for major events such as the Olympic Games and World Cup
• Produced maps and imagery depicting facilities and their proximity to major transportation infrastructure

• Provided armed internal security for U.S. Embassies
• Safeguarded American diplomats, classified material, and U.S. Government property

• Operated all flight computer systems
• Led over 400 hours of flight missions to over 10 countries across the Pacific Rim
• Participated and assisted in planning numerous flight operations

Master Of Science (M.S.), Information Security And Assurance

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Information Technology