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IndependentPersonal Coach Athlete/Trainer
Jan. 2024- Personalized coaching tailored to your unique needs
- Expert guidance and proven strategies
- Holistic approach for a balanced life
- Accountability, support, and motivation
Services include Career, Life, Leadership, Executive, and Fitness coaching. Fitness specialties provided:
- As a former BMX and mountain biking athlete
- As a current certified NASM Personal trainer
- As a current certified Les Mills GRIT and CORE instructor
- As a current Obstacle Course Racing (OCR) seasonal athlete - mainly Spartan
University of Maryland Global CampusAdjunct Professor - Cloud and Cybersecurity
Aug. 2022 - Apr. 2024Washington DC-Baltimore AreaResponsible for designing and implementing hands-on and project-based Cloud and Cybersecurity curricula covering topics and technologies to position students to succeed in real-life industry or government contracts using cloud-native solutions. Prepares students to pass cloud and cybersecurity certification exams (AWS, Azure, ISC2, CompTIA, etc.).
Invictus International Consulting, LLCProgram Chief Security Engineer / Technical Lead
May. 2018Washington DC-Baltimore AreaAs the leader of a team of Cyber Security Engineering (CSE) experts, my commitment is to support DoD and IC missions. I provide executive leadership, guidance, mentorship, and vision in the company's Cloud and Security Engineering capability area. My team builds unique AWS-based Cross Domain Solution capabilities delivering expertise to various DoD/IC client sites with special security requirements. I ensure security engineering rigor is applied to disruptive technologies, fostering cohesion between development, security, and operation teams. I aim to help customers achieve their mission goals in the Cyber Security space, and I am responsible for business development activities.
Steel Point Solutions LLCR&D Director - DevOps/CDS Engineer
Nov. 2016 - May. 2018Calverton, MDSpearheading two key strategic growth areas. 1) Provides executive leadership, guidance, and vision in R&D product development with a focus on innovative software and security engineering efforts hosted in multiple cloud providers while targeting commercial markets. 2) Provides SME on-site/hands-on systems delivery leadership in various DoD/IC client sites with unique DevOps/CDS Engineering and Cloud requirements. Specialties: *Business Development: Crafts technical and cost volumes in response to RFI/RFP/SBIRs/STTR requests. *Mentoring/coaching: leads and inspires by example while reinforcing individual team operating principles to maximize alignment within company and delivery teams. * Manages Cloud Providers: Manages several cloud providers used for hosting company IT infrastructure as well as product development. Uses AWS core services such as: EC2, S3, VPC, Route 53, IAM, CloudWatch, and CloudFormation to host production, product integration, and bug bounty environments. Uses and manages a smaller node cluster for testing in Google Cloud Platform leveraging: Cloud Shell, Cloud Launcher, Compute Engine, App Engine, SQL, VPC Network, Network Services (Cloud DNS and Load Balancing), StackDriver (Monitoring, Logging, and Debugging). Also uses and manages company IT infrastructure using VMware 6.5 focusing on VMware Software-defined Data Center products: vSphere 6.5 vCenter and vSpehere Hypervisor (ESXi). Builds volatile offline demo, dev, and test environments with Vagrant/salt-cloud and coupling VirtualBox. Used Terraform to build a cloud-agnostic procedure to stand up a cloud-based CI/CD environment that will integrate with BitBucket and Slack. *Computer Network Defense (CND) Engineering and Administration: Engineering a distributed Honey Pot using Open Source tools such as Modern Honeypot Network (MHN) and Elastic. Uses research tools such as censys.io, VirusTotal, and zmap.io for large-scale analyses.
Booz Allen HamiltonSr. Lead Technologist - DevOps/CDS Engineer
Jun. 2007 - Oct. 2016Rockville MDProvided DevOps/CDS Engineering and Cloud technologies SME, technical leadership, guidance, and vision across various DoD/IC clients. In that capacity, I'd used my Cyber Security technical background and worked on projects with start-up company drive/mentality and fast-changing/growing requirements. Focus areas: * Led secure design, architecture, engineering, and automation of a large-scale Cloud/SOA-based Enterprise Cross Domain Solution in a private cloud-based environment. Also led implementation efforts for standing up a CDS Software Security and Infrastructure testing lab which consisted of a distributed and heterogeneous (*NIX and Windows) networking environment in support of several Cross Domain guard technologies such as: RHSG, Datagate, TDX, Radiant Mercury, OWL, DSG, etc. using Deep Content Inspection (DPI) tools
* Pioneered the implementation of a Software Supply Chain using VMware, vagrant, SonaType Nexus, Bamboo, and SaltStack in support of a Continuous Integration (CI) and pre-production ready Continuous Deployment (CD) environment. * Engineered a tailored event-driven infrastructure solution using autonomic principles of self-healing * Introduced, architected, installed, configured, and maintained Atlassian tool suite (JIRA, Confluence, Stash, Source Tree, Bamboo, HipChat, Crowd) in support of my DevOps team. * Automated OS (RHEL/CentOS 5/6/7, Windows XP/7/2008/2012) hardening, patching, and remediation using Saltstack, openscap following STIG, and security best practices
* Automated machine image creation using vagrant packer and provisioned images to either VM or bare-metal using customized bootstrapping scripts – all driven and orchestrated with Saltstack
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