PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Senior level Solutions Architect with over 20 years of IT experience including project management, solutions development lifecycle planning, business development, technical consulting, information security, system integration, and application development.

CORE EXPERTISE:

Cyber Security Team Lead and SME for Federal, Commercial, and Service Provider Markets - Strategic Planning - Systems Consulting - RFP research and solicitation - Custom Network Solutions Creation - Proxy and Load Balancing Solutions - Mobile Security Solutions - Borderless Security Solutions - “Data At Rest” and “Data in Flight” Encryption Solutions - BigData /Hadoop/ NoSQL Security Solutions - Application Integrity Solutions - Enterprise Network Risk Identification and Management

Professional Experience:

Lead Technologist 

Confidential, Springfield, VA

Responsibilities:

• Initially as a consultant under my LLC (JMc Associates) and then as W2. Evaluate and develop “go-to-market” solutions as a Value Added Reseller and Service company. Setup Demo installations of vendor software solutions for evaluation and demonstration to potential customers. Solutions include: Encryption Technologies for inflight and data-at-rest. Virtual storage solutions for VMware environments.

Team Lead and Sr. Solutions Architect

Confidential

• Architecting unique data protection solutions in tactical and strategic environments for DoD and Intelligence communities including counter-intelligence data security requirements assessments. Architecting “insider threat” mitigation solutions, inter-agency data sharing, and big data security.
• Project Management - workflow based model File and RAW volume block level encryption including DAS, NAS, SAN, NFS Database and Application Level Encryption. Solutions including Oracle, DB2, Sybase, MSSQL, NoSQL/Big Data/HADOOP/Couchbase/MongoDB, MS Sharepoint Security. Servers including Windows, Unix (AIX, HP), Linux, Solaris. Cloud security solutions whether public, private, or hybrid including SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, Amazon EC2, RBAC Controls including N of M split key knowledge. Compartmentalization and multi-tenant security solutions. Vertical partner and customer technical training. Professional services for implementation and training for our I.C. customers. Presentations/Speaking engagements at industry events.

Owner/Principal Consultant

Confidential, VA

• Independent consulting firm assisting small and medium sized businesses with their I.T. Datacenter, Cyber Security requirements, and business process needs.

Consulting Systems Engineer, Federal Borderless Security

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Responsibilities:

• Consulting Systems Engineer focusing on security technologies with the Confidential. James provides overlay security consulting to include; Identifying security gaps within a I.T. Infrastructure, providing security architectural design, project planning and design implementation. Security technologies include, but not limited to:
• Team Lead supporting 7 systems engineers -DataCenter/Hypervisor Security - Cisco Virtual Security Gateway -ASA Anyconnect. CSM (Cisco Security Manager) - Developed a Mobile User Security and Federal Teleworker Campaign. -Cisco Virtual Office (CVO) -Cisco "TrustSec" Architecture -Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE).

Systems Engineer III 

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Systems Engineer with Business Solutions & Development Team supporting Sprint/Nextel. James' focus is on architecting managed security solutions for Sprint to use for "Go-To-Market" with their commercial customers. Solutions include, but not limited to: Managed Firewall, Managed IPS/IDS, Managed DDoS, Managed URL/Web Filtering, Configuration Management Solutions.
• Projects include: 3G HWIC CDMA wireless Broadband for CPE- GETVPN (Group Encrypted Transport - Tunnel-less VPN) for MPLS - TACAS+ integration - Proof of Concept for Digital Signage for Retail over Wimax - WAAS: WAN Optimization (NCE Module). - Indoor Wireless Mesh- Developed GETVPN Training Program and Lab for Service Providers.

Senior Network Systems Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Consulting Network Engineer. Engaged with various worldwide customers to provide route/switch/Security designs and implementations. Product vendor equipment includes: Cisco, Checkpoint, HP, SUN.
• Notable Projects Include:
• • Developed security practice for the Falls Church Office of I.N.S..
• • Provided ongoing internal continuing education classes in network security practices and design.
• • Processes and Procedures development - Sprint
• • Business Processes Re-Engineering - Network Development Dept, NEXTEL
• • Security evaluation- Policy development (Corporate, Department, and Employee Handbook Security Policies), Kerberos Implementation project - America Online
• • Y2K Testing, Security, and Lab Design - NASDAQ Trading Network.
• • Cisco CAT5K Switched network implementation - US Census Bureau - 2k Census project.
• • Project Manager and Cisco router design engineer – Telecom Italia (Telemedia International), Rome Italy for Global Network Operations Center – Provided NetCool, and Cisco NetSys implementations.
• • Team Leader – Cisco P.O.E.T. conversion for UUNET Network backbone HUBS (Cisco 12000 series) (USA).