SUMMARY:

• Respected, top performing, data - driven Information and Cyber Security Executive with proven record of exceeding organizational expectations while leading information, cybersecurity, and business process professionals. Successful servant leader enabling multidisciplinary teams including risk management, operational, software and product development, and engineering/architecture. Established a reputation for using a “people-first” approach to building effective, dynamic Agile teams. Military veteran with extensive experience supporting teh DoD and financial industries. Deep background in developing, analyzing, designing, and conceptualizing cybersecurity defense tactics and capabilities.
• Information Security Risk Management | Strategic Planning | Strategic Communications | Process Improvement
• IT Governance | Software Development Management | Agile Leadership | Scrum and Kanban
• Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise (SAFe) | Project/Program Management | Network/Platform Security
• Cloud Security | Cloud Migration Management | Micro-services Implementation | OT Security | TS/SCI Eligible

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - San Antonio, TX

Sr. Manager, VP

Responsibilities:

• Drives continuous process improvement to achieve improved organizational transparency; decreased time required to perform evaluations from 70 to 40 days and reduced false positives by greater than 50%.
• Changes teh culture increasing teamwork and communication; improved service level compliance by greater than 60%, improved team member satisfaction, increased throughput by 50%, and reduced team size by 30%.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to identify technical and policy solutions to address risk management challenges; streamlined pre-contract technology and information security due diligence timeline from 90 to 30 days.

Confidential - San Antonio, TX

Deputy Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed technical requirements, schedule, risk management, service level agreements and contract cost performance; improved contract compliance and exceeded customer expectations during contract review.
• Leveraged Agile principals to drive continuous process improvement that sustained software release cadence, and improved service desk support; earned contract expansion to provide support for additional defensive cyber systems.
• Created staffing plans, including skill and labor mix, to keep ahead of evolving program requirements; ensured high-demand information security and software development professionals were acquired to fulfill contract commitments.
• Drove transition from ad hoc software development environment to a mature CI/CD environment increasing software release cycle from one software release in two years to four software releases per year and achieved teh program’s first “release on demand” capability.
• Managed integration and automation of developer and QA testing to shift testing left reducing software deficiencies by greater than 90% while accelerating product delivery as measured by external operational test evaluations.
• Architected support plan to meet emerging customer requirements while addressing a three-year requirements backlog; achieved 39% growth in budget and personnel for teh DANS contract.

Confidential - San Antonio, TX

Senior Research Engineer and Technical Liaison Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Co-developed, tested, and integrated high-quality automated systems that work with massive datasets; expanded teh organizations artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities, and enabled solutions for hybrid cyber-security, electronic warfare, and intelligence analysis challenges

Confidential - San Antonio, TX

Senior Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Led a team building a system integrations lab to support operationally relevant testing of new capabilities; enabled evaluation of teh first semi-automated system build capability; reduced deployment timelines from 2-3 days to 8 hours
• Identified and implemented technical and non-technical mitigations to address threats, vulnerabilities, and operational risks; decreased response time for patches and system configuration changes from 3 months to 2 weeks

Confidential - San Antonio, TX

Senior Cyberspace Operations Director and Cyberwarfare Officer

Responsibilities:

• Managed priority cyberspace projects; enabled two-factor authentication, protection of public facing services and employment of updated boundary security solutions; ensured compliance with time sensitive regulatory mandates.
• Guided executive leadership in development of strategic guidance; directed prioritization of resources and operational requirements to meet organizational goals and gained budgetary support for security initiatives.
• Cybersecurity lead for teh Air Force Enterprise IT as a Service initiative to migrate enterprise IT and infrastructure to cloud service solutions, established foundation for Air Force network and information security modernization.
• Led $535M Security Operations Center (SOC) and Computer Emergency Response Team and drove maturation of threat hunting teams, tools, tactics, and procedures; increased capability to hunt from 1.5K to 65K endpoints per day.
• Directed 180 computer network defenders responsible for 24/7 prevention, detection, and rapid response to intrusions on US Air Force networks worldwide. Protected more than 1.4M users and 1M end points.
• Chaired cyberspace incident response planning team, aligned seven organizations and eliminated 95 investigation backlog and slashed average incident response timeline from 25 to 3 days.
• Led security event and signature management optimization effort; streamlined adversary detection tactics, techniques, and procedures; reduced operator workload from 90K to 10K security events per week.