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CACI International IncCyber Security Architect
Sep. 2018Suitland, MD• Primary Cyber Security Architect for the Enforcement and Analytics Systems Directorate within CBP of DHS to develop secure cloud infrastructure and assist with application modernization efforts.
• Developed brand new Gitlab Pipeline that hosts the CI/CD pipeline that scans merged code for vulnerabilities in DEV, PRE-PROD, and PROD environments.
• Review SAST and DAST code scans and create sprint tasks to work with development teams on vulnerability remediation.
• Work with product architects and systems engineering teams on identifying secure SAAS solutions as part of application modernization efforts.
• Develop engineering documentation while assuring technical processes are repeatable, avoiding single point of failure scenarios.
• Build Terraform IaC from scratch for building AWS EC2 Instances.
• Managed continuous monitoring of systems for security and compliance also creating ansible playbooks to automate secure configuration of endpoints.
• Worked with systems engineers on rollout of AWS Security services such as Detective, GuardDuty and Security Hub for SOC incident response use when conducting event analysis and triage.
AtosPrincipal Information Security Analyst
Sep. 2015 - Jan. 2020• Lead Tenable Nessus Vulnerability Management Engineer responsible for enterprise scanning of over 10,000 assets.
• Point of Contact for coordinating approved scanning activities with cyber security subject matter experts.
• Conducts web vulnerability scanning leveraging cloud based scanning utilities.
• Creates documentation outlining scanning standard operating procedures and organizational best practices.
• Participates in review of vulnerability scan reports and recommends remediation steps.
• Tracks and assigns work in Remedy ticketing system.
• Provides weekly status reports on open remediation activities.
Amyx, Inc.Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Specialist
Jun. 2014 - Aug. 2017Fort Belvoir• Supervise 4 staff and manage a Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) portfolio with over 300 physical and virtual information systems, keeping critical data secure. • Conduct vulnerability scans, track vulnerability mitigation activities using a plan of action and milestones format, and make recommendations.
• Provide security architecture, policy, and design guidance for the DLA’s Enterprise Business System (EBS), which contains 5.2 million hardware and troop support items. • Perform an annual assessment on the EBS accreditation portfolio, ensuring compliance with security control requirements.
• Use DLA risk analysis guidance to evaluate risks for program management, advising on preventative measures and remediation when needed. • Work on cross-functional teams, maintaining certification and accreditation documentation in accordance with the Department of Defense (DoD) Risk Management Framework (RMF).
• Designed and presented training briefings on topics such as secure computing practices and communications security, certifying that employees followed proper security practices. • Designed, implemented, and tested a continuity of operations plan for the production environment, ensuring that the system will maintain operations in case of a disaster. • In coordination with program management, migrated to latest DoD RMF policy, increasing supervised security controls from 100 to 439.
ManTechInformation Security Engineer, Principal
Sep. 2013 - May. 2014Maryland• Responsible for making security recommendations to senior government officials based on current threat landscape.
• Create and maintain documentation that is utilized across projects in the corporate portfolio based on industry best security practices.
• Defines, plans, designs and evaluates information security systems.
• Assesses architecture and current hardware limitations, defines and designs system specifications, input/output processes and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility. • Performs a variety of complex tasks associated with information security ranging from the design of security components to complex architectures.
• Supervises the work of other engineers performing a variety of information security tasks.
• Proficient in NIST/JSIG publications and DON Certification and Accreditation processes.
• Hands on experience within virtualized environments to include Citrix and VMware.
• Examines and assess RMF security control requirements and designs secure enterprise solutions to obtain compliance.
Delex Systems, Inc.IT Site Lead
Jan. 2009 - Sep. 2013Patuxent River Naval Air Station• Took on projects which exceeded original scope and delivered a functional product which met stakeholder expectations saving time and resources valued in the millions over time.
• Responsible for presentation and demonstrating capabilities and solution benefits of projects to government customers/stakeholders on a semi-quarterly basis.
• Responsible for briefing network capabilities of various protection levels to potential government customers.
• Responsible for the compilation and completion of RFP/RFIs out to our vendor community; and the process review for vendor selection.
• Manages a group of 9 Information Technology Professionals specializing in different areas charged with providing leading edge customer support to the government customer.
• Presented top government officials with metric supported statistics to gauge project success.
• Responsible for acting as the corporate presence for top military officials regarding contract performance while maintaining quality operational relationships.
• Established and maintained employee buy in in-order to close IT projects in accordance with preset work breakdown structures with milestones established after completing critical path analyses.
• Participated in configuration management boards where I was responsible for presenting voting members with technical solutions in support of organizational goals.
• Responsible for responding to RFI’s, RFP’s and end user training requirements.
• Responsible for managing COMSEC material.
Air National GuardInformation Assurance Officer
Jul. 2001Joint Base Andrews• Twice awarded the Air Force Achievement Medal for providing outstanding leadership, professionalism and innovative management techniques which resulted in major contributions to the effectiveness and success of the mission in both wartime and state side initiatives.
• Awarded the Army Achievement medal for contributing to the successful operations associated with the 56th Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama. • Provided the Commanding Officers with a Communications focal point of contact during the 57th Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama from a communications flight perspective. Provided Senior Leadership to include commanding Generals status reports on high visibility projects.
• Served as the Unit focal point for status reports to unit leadership during operation readiness inspections. • Trained COMSEC Responsible Officer
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