SUMMARY:

• Top Secret Confidential Clearance (Active) Full Scope Polygraph (Inactive) - Seeking Confidential leadership position as Confidential technologist and senior solutions architect that stretches my skills and experience, provides growth opportunities, and includes Confidential stream of challenging problems to solve.
• Patented Inventor and Solutions Architect
• 17 Years of Experience in Research and Development
• Executive Level Leadership in Innovation and Solving Complex Technological Problems
• Contractor to Confidential Intelligence Community
• Public Speaking, Business/Customer Engagements, Board Meetings, Tech. Panels and Forums
• Leadership in Project/Program Development and Management
• Specialty in Solutions Design including Cyber Security and Compliance within the Intelligence Community and other Confidential Agencies
• 17 Years of Network Engineering, Software Development, Data Science and Analytics, and Solutions Architecture

EXPERIENCE:

CTO & Senior Solutions Architect

Confidential, Dulles, VA

Responsibilities:

• Designed and engineered fully automated cyber security and industry compliance system resulting in over three direct national and international patents.
• Created international user feedback system leveraging automated data collection of structured and unstructured data utilizing analytic sandboxes that provide analysis of both Business Intelligence in historical performance and Data Science in forecasting and predictive analytics.
• Designed cloud-based network infrastructure and Software-as- Confidential -Service delivery mechanisms utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS) for international deployments maximizing performance and availability of software solutions.
• Created and updated software pricing models for unique solutions maximizing ease-of-use and return on investment while balancing and minimizing company operating costs.
• Led computer programming teams on software development projects utilizing Agile SCRUM and SDLC with technology stacks consisting of Java, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Three.js, PostgreSQL, jQuery, and JIRA for software development tracking and performance metrics.
• Expert in compliance, real-world application, and auditing of various cybersecurity frameworks such as Confidential, Confidential, Confidential CSF, Confidential SP 800-53, CNSSI 1253, PCI DSS, HIPAA, Meaningful Use, SANS/CIS Top 20, ISO27k, and more.
• Expert in providing presentations across Confidential wide variety of industries to include the International Society of Automation (ISA), Linking Oil & natural Gas Industry to Improve Cybersecurity ( Confidential ), TechUK, representatives from the Confidential, DHS, Intelligence Community, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and top executives in the cyber insurance industry.

Senior Solutions Engineer

Confidential, Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• Directed team in Security Operations Center with responses to outages and troubleshooting methodologies as well as incident response, disaster recovery, and compliance with some of the country’s most stringent standards.
• Created the first modular Confidential framework for Confidential critical Confidential customer, facilitating the quick addition of operations and capabilities revolutionizing the once tedious and linear Confidential & Confidential process.
• Expert in Cyber Security Program development, configuration management, patch management, incident response and implementation.
• Designed enterprise infrastructure to meet Confidential customer’s emphasis on hardware virtualization complete with VMware ESXi 5.0, vSphere 5, Distributed Virtual Switches (dvSwitch), virtual Firewall and Router appliances, centralized monitoring and logging, automated data delivery, and best practice security standards in Confidential hybrid virtual environment.
• Designed end-to-end automated data transfer application for critical Confidential customer operations increasing data to near real-time delivery from unclassified to classified networks to analysts for reporting.
• Designed complete enterprise infrastructure providing logical separation, defense-in-depth, Layer 3 routing services, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, automated data transfer using One Way Transfer devices from unclassified to classified networks, data analytics, and data dissemination for over 200 critical field operations.
• Designed IP addressing scheme for over 4,000 customers for enterprise infrastructure enabling the intuitive identification of customer data traffic and management traffic universally within an enterprise infrastructure.

Senior Network Solutions Engineer

Confidential, Reston and Fairfax, VA

Responsibilities:

• Drafted System Security Plans and conducted vulnerability assessments including evaluation of specific configurations of network devices and network enabled software applications on both Windows and Linux platforms.
• Designed and deployed complex ex-filtration systems solutions in support of extremely high impact missions incorporating the use of Confidential Adaptive Security Appliances at various platform levels.

Senior Network Engineer & Trainer

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Responsibilities:

• Expert level knowledge and practical experience with the design and implementation of security and routing protocols such as IKE, ISAKMP, IPSec, Layer 3 MPLS VPNs, Routing Security Policy, QoS and Bandwidth Policing, BGP, MPBGP, GRE, OSPF with Traffic Engineering, and securing Confidential and Confidential technologies.
• Designed, engineered, and maintained classroom laboratory network to demonstrate the operation of advanced security networking technologies to include Stateful Packet Inspection, Screen Filtering, IPSec design using Encapsulating Security Payload in tunnel mode, as well as the advanced application of hashing and encryption algorithms to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of customer traffic.
• Deployed to highly sensitive locations to troubleshoot and restore mission critical communications lines in support of real-world operations.

Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducted penetration testing and threat identification on Confidential specialized team of engineers using open source Intrusion Detection and Prevention Sensors to strengthen the security posture of the base networks.
• Designed and implemented the first ever Confidential backbone network in the Confidential complete with hardened Confidential network devices running Standard and Extended Access Control Lists, Confidential Confidential remote authentication, and IP encryption systems.
• Communicated with upper management during key projects in order to provide expert technical support in the planning and security design of multi-million dollar Confidential networks.
• Communicated with host nation’s telecom technicians in their native language and worked with foreign nationals from several different countries including Spain, Germany, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
• Design engineer and security threat assessment technician for Confidential network-wide wireless LAN in support of real-world military operations.