OBJECTIVE

Obtain a position in government or private industry in critical infrastructure security design and protection or intelligence analysis. Highest clearance granted is Top Secret based on SSBI 5 year PR November 2010 .

KEY COMPETENCIES

Business Continuity, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Force Protection, Inspection and Assessment, Intelligence Analysis, Operational Risk, Public Health Administration, Risk Assessment, Security Design, Technical Writing Manuals, SOPs, CONOPS , Training, Veteran Army: Intelligence and Medical Service

MOST RECENT POSITION

Senior System Analyst

• I directly support, or supported, the Department of Defense US Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command and US Army Communications-Electronics Command , the White House Communications Agency, the Intelligence Community National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and other non-federal and private sector entities such as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and HNTB Corporation. In each instance I successfully provided the customer with measurable improvement in security condition, communications, security design, and efficiencies that reduced risk from manmade and natural hazards. Twice received recognition for work conducted for the White House Communications Agency and bonus for work for reacting to and mitigating a high impact security training issue for a government agency.
• I work independently or part of tailored teams, to conduct analysis of operational mission needs and threads develop alternatives to maximize efficiency identify and reduce capability gaps and establish and evaluate performance parameters. Also design and perform testing, training, and requirements development to support system architecture. Develop and conduct end user training. Expertise associated with direct work experience include Critical Infrastructure CI protection risk threat, vulnerability, and consequence and capability assessments and analysis of need and employment of intrusion detection sensors, as well as improving information-sharing processes associated with security command and control, intelligence, and homeland security operations. I completed risk reduction and security design work on four major bridge and tunnel facilities in the New York City region.
• I routinely use multi-source research and findings to create Concepts of Operations, Procedural Guides, Standard Operating Procedures, and checklists. Also, provide subject matter expertise for security design, intrusion detection sensor systems, and DHS business practices and organization associated with National Incident Management System NIMS , National Response Framework NRF , and National Infrastructure Protection Plan NIPP .
• I provide direct support of functional testing and operations with end users and then make adjustments to close identified gaps. Provide ongoing training and training planning in support of current and future operations security education and training, threat assessment response, situational monitoring, emergency management and response, etc. . Conduct assessments and provide onsite advice, support and training to improve the efficient application and implementation of security design and activities to deter, detect, and defend facilities and personnel from all threat types to reduce risk and close capability gaps.
• I use, and am expert with, common office software. I easily interface with persons of varied skill, management position, and education to teach, inform, gain consensus, and guide in work and briefing situations.
• I received the highest possible rating in all my annual performance reviews and received performance bonus.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

Project Manager

Confidential

• Authored the state of South Carolina's Critical Infrastructure Key Resources CIKR protection plan
• Developed, facilitated, and assessed capability and risk across entire state CIKR landscape
• Coordinated CIKR data collection, analysis, and information sharing among state and federal agencies and privates sector owner/operators over the entire state
• Project valued in excess of 290,000 completed on time and within budget
• Confidential Provided instruction and briefings to aid decision-makers, and emergency responders in possible preventative, corrective, and administrative actions to prepare for and reduce risk from man-made, cyber, and natural threats
• Received specific recognition from participants and customer FEMA Region V for a terrorism scenario I developed and it was then used in other regional exercises resulting in cost savings to emergency planners for using a standardized scenario
• Confidential Break in paid employment to obtain a National Security Studies Master Degree and certification in Intelligence Methodology
• Selected as one of only ten students, from a nationwide applicant pool, to a paid internship at the Government Accountability Office, Atlanta
• Recognized for academic and professional excellence by induction into the Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society, distinguished as a National Security Studies IC Scholar, and received the inaugural Captain Paul Vegna Memorial Award in National Security Studies Scholarship
• Confidential Subject matter expert on military, weapons of mass destruction CBRNE , public health, and Middle East
• Intelligence Analyst and Instructor for the SC Information and Intelligence Center state fusion center
• Assistant Project Coordinator for South Carolina Office of Domestic Preparedness ODP 2003 State Homeland Security Assessment and Strategy survey. Facilitated a first time acceptance by the ODP, one of only four states to receive a first time Go of the state's data by the ODP
• Curriculum developer/coordinator for local and state law enforcement agencies intelligence training
• Worked on a Defense Intelligence Agency DIA contract related to the Iraq area of operations
• Confidential Promoted to Senior Instructor/Medical Instructor Supervisor over Nuclear/Biological/Chemical NBC and Field Training Support Technicians in Field Exercise and Evaluation Branch
• Instructor Assistant/Editor for training development
• Training Event Developer/Planner/Controller for command post and live exercises
• Confidential Combat experience in multiple regions
• Assignments: Company Command 1st Cavalry Division , Tactical Operations Center supervisor, Group Training Officer, Corps Medical Regulator, Task Force staff Bosnia , Chief of Patient Administration, Assistant Inspector General, Executive Officer and Platoon Leader 2d Infantry Division , command and staff positions at the National Training Center NTC and Joint Readiness Training Center JRTC , and overseas tours in Korea, Middle East, and Balkans
• Medical administration and planning
• Routinely applied risk analysis and hazard assessments to all training and operational activities
• Selected over peers to conduct Army Training and Evaluation Program ARTEP assessments
• Confidential Intelligence Analyst 96B and Physical Security Manager for multi-functional, special operations unit
• Prepared and briefed teams for regional and international deployment in support of missions
• Exclusive analyst for Order of Battle OB , Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield IPB , regional/country political, military, cultural, and geographic intelligence
• Subject matter expert in foreign materiel equipment identification and threat analysis
• Special recognition in unit's ARTEP for extraordinary tactical performance