**The following details are contingent on project details.
Profile:
Hands on, results driven professional with over 12 years of experience in Information systems, security, and network operations.
Notable success directing a broad range of DoD, Federal, and Corporate IT security initiatives while participating in the support of
Security Architecture, SOC design, client critical infrastructure, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, physical security, and threat mitigations. Outstanding project and program leader; able to coordinate, direct, and operate at all phases of project-based efforts while managing and guiding teams strengthened during three operational tours in Iraq as a United States Marine. Further experience gained and provided to the DoD, Federal, and Commercial entities through the direct contract support and the ownership of an IT consulting firm specializing in short term engagements, content development, system deployments, security design and implementation. Driven to seek out professional challenges and achievements in the world of information systems security.
Employment Status:
Employed. Enterprise Security Architect & Technical Lead of Security Implementations
Relevant Experience:
Principal Security Architect - Security Operations Lead
▪ Managed, designed and implemented a next generation Managed Security Service paired with innovative and unique security
solutions. Leveraged commercial toolsets and customized Open Source projects to deliver a continuously integrated, modular
and automated service offering decreasing security overhead internally and for clients.
▪ Developed and acted as the advisor to high level risk program metric awareness to senior leaders, executives and elected
officials. This capacity provided direct influence and presentation to leaders and decision makers in commercial and Federal
entity’s such as the Small Business Administration, Department of Labor and Department Education. Security Architecture,
planning and implementation oversight also included the White House Internal Communications Agency with direct reporting
and leading weekly planning meetings with the Department of Homeland Security.
▪ Oversaw the full System Development Life Cycle (SLDC) from the ground up in the build of supporting Hybrid Cloud Security
infrastructure and 24/7 service delivery. Design included an on-premise network implementation as well as server deployments.
Leveraged Cloud services to include an infrastructure backbone in Azure and Services in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Instituted
a tokenized global mesh network for secure direct client gateway.
▪ Responsible for the customization and maintenance of Security Operations Center (SOC) technologies, such as IDS, Firewalls,
Vulnerability Discovery and Security Incident Event Management (SIEM) systems to satisfy SOC service level agreements and
client requirements. Responsibilities include content requirement definition, content development, implementation, and
testing.
▪ Served as enterprise SIEM and data source Architect Splunk and Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) centrally
responsible for planning and management support including development and maintenance of project planning
for the Splunk installations in Federally mandated and commercial environments. Personally, in charge of system
implementation to include cloud based, server hardware, firmware, Operating systems (Windows Server and Linux), application
deployment, configurations and content development for key metrics and security monitoring according to specific compliance
or advanced threat hunting.
▪ Acted as the escalation point for issues identified by Federal Employees, SOC Analysts, Virtual and Network Operations.
Instrumental in identifying and designing new technologies for potential use in security initiatives conceptual, technical and
environmentally specific operations.
Available for:
Statement of work, Project Based, Remote/Satellite Based, System & Application Deployments, Configurations and Content Development, SEIM Tuning, Threat Intelligence, Linux, Windows, VMWare, Docker, Advanced Threat Detection and Hunting. Vulnerability Discovery and Patching, Security/Cyber Automation & Scripting, AWS, Azure and Office 365 integrations.
