Kenneth Daily - Chief Technology and Security Officer, Department of Veterans Affairs

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U.S. Department of Veterans AffairsChief Technology Officer

Aug. 2020Develops and implements innovative IT strategies, judiciously manages multiple IT budgets, and continuous guidance of a successful team supporting business avenues. Positions the ITS department with the structures and competencies to support strategic IT directions and technological shifts. Provides senior leadership in development, coordination, and use of technology to assure ongoing operations and facilitate innovation. Manages and allocates multi-million dollar capital and expense budgets, and processes related to vulnerability management, incident response, associate awareness, testing, and secure coding. Develops and leads a committed team in providing consistent, relevant, quality services. Keeps the team agile as needs evolve, while providing stability in core systems and services, such as: network, server, desktop, virtual and mobile environments; data services, web and social media integration; and learning technologies, including course management, hybrid learning, and video conferencing. Leads the Information Security and Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance teams/divisions along with external vendors and service providers, to ensure that the disciplines, protections, and procedures are in place to secure Veterans Affairs’ organizational systems and data. Manages and allocates multi-million dollar capital and expense budgets, developing and enforcing security programs and processes related to vulnerability management, incident response, associate awareness, testing, and secure coding. Ensures there are network and data safeguards across all parts of organization, while overseeing ongoing risk assessments, incident responses, risk remediation efforts, and the implementation of measures to drive security feature/control development.

U.S. Department of Veterans AffairsChief Technology Officer Internet and Web Operations

Jan. 2011 - Aug. 2020Greater Philadelphia AreaProvides executive-level leadership with full accountability for all technical activities of a data center with more than 700 servers that support multiple systems and applications including Oracle, Windows, Red hat, and VMWare. Holds concurrent responsibility for round-the-clock operations, seven days a week, for all Internet facing applications. Designed a recovery suite for multiple recoveries of disaster using various technologies, i.e., F5 Global Traffic Management, VM Ware DRS, and SA LUN replication. Introduces strategic and tactical action plans on the defense for an in depth program of security and an Internet facing application for the agency. • Conceptualizes and initiates a multitude of “high available solutions” utilizing several databases, varied networking, and various platform operating systems. • Reviews, selects, and recommends IT system performance in order to determine costs of operation, requirements to upgrade, and levels of productivity. • Creates requirements to bid on software and hardware enhancements, evaluates proposals for compliance within agency requirements. • Directs successful creation, deployment, maintenance, monitoring, and oversight of hardware/software for complete operational needs. • Drives research for possible solutions of technology applications and develops original resources, initiatives, and procurement efforts. • Determines technology operations are setup according to federal guidelines, standards, and procedures.

U.S. Department of Veterans AffairsLead Digital Forensics Examiner

Jan. 2009 - Dec. 2011Greater Philadelphia Area• Coordinate and implement an enterprise forensics program for the VA, with plans to manage over 250,000 forensic servlet deployments • Manage team to conduct acquisition, discover, and analysis of electronic evidence to be used in criminal and civil proceedings • Conduct malware analysis • Create and implement a Comprehensive Threat Analysis Program for the VA, including the research and creation of security notifications for the VA OI&T field. • Create and manage a Threat Analysis Portal, giving the VA IT community a single web-based location to view the current threat landscape to VA IT systems. • Work intra agency to coordinate high level incident response with US-CERT, VA OIG, VA-NSOC, and VA-OI&T • Work directly with network and system administrators to perform investigations related to VA business.

Sungard Availability ServicesInformation Security Manager

Jan. 2004Greater Philadelphia AreaDevelop and Manage Security Administration Group for provisioning of technical and physical controls. Implement policy and framework for Sungard to centralize all provisioning and develop federated access controls. • Work with internal audit to improve process and procedures of security controls for card access readers, Windows, IBM, Cisco, Radius, VPN, and other major applications. • Manage and mentor team of employees to improve services and standards for the company

DuPontSenior Information Technology Analyst

Jan. 2001 - Dec. 2004Greater Philadelphia AreaProvide strategic, technical, and budgetary planning in design, expansion, and implementation of enterprise WAN/LAN network infrastructure. Assist IT director in managing daily operations of all information technology systems. Write and develop technical documents. Establish and administer IT security policies. Maintain accurate documentation of all corporate hardware and software assets to facilitate customer support and problem resolution. • Serve as technical expert to director and senior management on network and security issues. • Manage specialized technical projects, monitoring progress, controlling costs, hiring and supervising contractors, and providing status reports. • Establish and administer periodical testing of network backup and recovery procedures to protect corporate data and system assets. • Develop detailed, comprehensive communication plans, change management plans, risk assessments, and standard operating procedures. • Design and lead network and security system upgrades, providing technical guidance and problem-solving analysis. • Participate in the development and of corporate policies and guidelines that affect security for the entire company of 90,000 employees. Includes software packages, disaster recovery, and full-scale corporate implementations. • Use commercial and open source scanning tools to perform network vulnerability assessments to find potential gaps in security of network, desktop, and server components • Manage security incident responses through the use of training in proper computer forensics and investigations. Respond to security incidents and report on incident handling and resolution with Legal and Human Resources. • Implementation and Development of ISO Standards for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning using industry guidelines and corporate policies. • Execute threat and vulnerability analysis and mitigation through penetration testing.

Apptis (now part of URS Corporation)Network Administrator

Jan. 1998 - Dec. 2001Atlantic City NJDirect support of the Federal Aviation Administration for Windows and Sun Solaris Internet Servers, DNS, SMTP, and other internet technologies. Team Lead for support of the base-wide LAN/WAN/MAN consisting of over 40 Novell 3.x and 4.1 IntraNetWare servers, as well as 32 Windows NT servers with over 3,000 users connected via copper and fiber optic 10/100MB Ethernet, FDDI and multi-protocol topologies. Also lead team for End-user/desktop management, cc:Mail 6.3, DHCP/IP Delivery. • Develop and maintain five Windows NT single master domains for use in web development, Citrix, project development, software applications/distribution, and file storage. Includes support and testing for Capacity Planning, Security, Oracle, Sybase, SQL, Visual Basic, Perl, ASP, CGI, and other Internet Languages. • Responsible for the security, support, implementation, and standardization of employee intraweb and large number of public government web sites hosted on Windows NT servers and Sun Solaris servers in a DMZ firewall configuration. • Write and edit departmental web pages for Federal Aviation Administration ACX-10 Information Technology Support Services • Control security access for web authors, ftp clients, and other users on the Windows and UNIX servers. • Administer IIS and Apache servers for use in the public domain. Responsibilities include security patches, backups, hardware support, FrontPage Extensions. • Administrator Lucent QIP DNS Management software. Includes management and distribution of IP addresses and DNS entries. • Responsible for direct PC technical support for designated segment of LAN consisting of 400+ users. Novell client installation and configuration, cc:Mail, and all MS desktop operating systems including Windows 3.x, 95, 98, NT3.x, 4.0, and Me.

Richard Stockton College of NJHelpdesk Support

Jan. 1993 - Dec. 1996Pomona NJAssisted students and faculty in day-to-day tasks and operations for email desktop publishing, and user accounts. Managed MAC lab primarily used for graphic arts. Assisted in administration and hardware maintenance of DEC Alpha Lab using OSF1 as primary operating system. • Performed upgrades on existing systems including memory, drive space, modems, monitors and printers. • Maintained software and hardware for graphic design students using PhotoShop, CorelDraw, Illustrator, and Pagemill.

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