SUMMARY

• Technology and information assurance professional with experience securing trusted information technology systems.
• Highly experienced in gathering, analyzing and defining business and functional requirements; creating global metrics, and other decision - making tools; leading process-mapping initiatives; and designing/re-engineering processes, workflows and technical security solutions for IT systems and networks.
• Proven ability to lead seamless implementations and deliver next-generation technical solutions improving security, workplace productivity and client satisfaction.
• Provide leadership vision enterprise-wide via decisive and insightful executive leadership, guiding daily operations, and policy implementation through strategic thinking and decision-making
• Known for seamlessly coordinating and collaborating with internal organizations and third-party partners
• Build and lead high-performance teams to manage, implement, and streamline complex IT designs.
• Spearhead project delivery within tight timeframes, using cutting-edge storage, and security tools
• Experienced in crafting and aligning enterprise technical security strategies with governance and security policies as well as conducting information security assessments/audits;
• Expertise applying advanced project management principles, theories and concepts;
• Known for using ingenuity and innovation to develop solutions to complex problems or to capture opportunities;
• Expertise with FISMA, FIPS, NIST, HIPAA, PCI, DIACAP, FedRAMP and other compliance / security frameworks;
• Fluency in Earned Value Management;
• Experienced leader, coach and mentor to high performance teams in a disbursed or co-located arrangement;
• Broad experience and skills which contribute to development of company objectives and principles, and to achieve goals in creative and effective ways;

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Infrastructure Project Manager

Confidential - Indianapolis, IN

Responsibilities:

• Manage the requirements, tasks, milestones and deliverables in support of a trusted high-availability IaaS for a single customer to include disaster recovery sites.
• Manage numerous simultaneous projects aimed at ensuring a high degree of information assurance, high availability and technological freshness of the enterprise . Delegate tasks to team members, gather information from team members to produce project performance reports and work with the team directly to complete the project lifecycles . Ensure that all deliverables are provided on time and of the requisite accuracy in accord with SLA provisions .
• L iaise with application project managers to assess the impact or synergy of our collective efforts. Develop detailed proposals, analysis, security assessments, functional descriptions and system specifications for network systems as well as preparing presentations for the customer recommending courses of action as necessary.

FedRAMP Program Manager

Confidential - Ashburn, VA

Responsibilities:

• Leader of initiatives to maintain Confidential ’s Authorization to Operate (ATO) Confidential Cloud Federal Edition offering to federal clients (IaaS) in accord with FedRAMP strictures
• Direct and manage Confidential ’s continuous monitoring and vulnerability management teams ensuring continual NIST 800 series compliance. Directed quarterly and annual 3rd party infrastructure compliance audits
• Lead a team of technical / operational SMEs to update the VES System Security Plan to NIST 800-53 Rev. 4
• Collaborate with Product development to monetize the ATO and leverage the ATO for new systems / services growth
• Direct mandatory third-party audits of the system
• Evaluate enterprise risk and devise mitigation strategies / assess Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
• Direct and administer contracts providing Information Technology and Security Services
• Primary customer-facing representative to present FedRAMP mandated monthly Continuous Monitoring briefings to VES’ federal Authorizing Official AO - Health and Human Services (HHS)
• Effectively introduce and integrate new technologies to ensure the privacy and security of data
• Key player in VES’ initiative to transition to a HIGH security designation for the IaaS enterprise

Senior IT Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assisting Client ( Confidential ) with maturation of processes and policies related to compliance with FedRAMP, FISMA and PCI controls relative to maintaining the current Authorization to Operate (ATO) by facilitating audits, creating metrics that drive compliance timelines, interface with the Client’s Authorizing Official (A/O) to explain remediation approaches and strategies as well as discussing the Client’s business growth objectives and initiatives that have potential positive impact on the established physical / logical security boundary.

Senior IT Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Leveraging best-in-class project management principles, practices, theories and precepts to salvage multiple troubled in-flight data center hosting (IaaS) and infrastructure projects, implementing project management guidelines and practices, and maturing PMO portfolio controls to establish a well-reasoned process that assures the success of future IaaS projects. Contribute technical and project expertise to facilitate IaaS transition to a new hardware platform within a new data center.
• Conduct direct hands-on leadership and execution of all activities related to the data center project while monitoring the progress of the project and coordinating the project teams to ensure that project goals are met. Developed the project approach and conducted all planning to ensure the project is delivered on time, within budget and in accordance with standards. Accorded considerable latitude by senior management in independent judgment to facilitate project success.
• Managed the tasks, milestones and deliverables including tasks performed by in-house staff and contractors. Delegated tasks to team members, gathered information from team members to produce status reports and worked with the team directly to complete the project. Ensured that all deliverables are provided on time and of the requisite accuracy. Functioned as the primary point of contact for all project information and liaised with other project managers to assess the impact or synergy of our collective efforts .

Chief Security Officer

Confidential - Annapolis, MD

Responsibilities:

• Provisioning and managing the physical, technical and digital security of the corporate enterprise using principles of program management to accomplish the following:
• Created a business model and plan that establishes OPT Inc. as a premier provider of cybersecurity services in the region and eventually on a national level
• Establish and expand a digital presence via social media
• Created an Information Compliance Audit/Certification program and the hands-on crafting of the model specifics ensuring traceability to FISMA, FIPS, NIST, HIPAA, PCI and DIACAP
• Devised the RFP for marketing services and negotiated a marketing strategy with vendors
• Built High Performance Teams skilled in delivering digital forensics, penetration testing, mitigation strategies, breach response, bioinformatics services and deep packet inspection capabilities
• Wrote detailed technical specifications based on creative, strategic and business requirements.
• Developed all SOPs related to delivering the catalog of OPT cybersecurity services
• Wrote and implemented the Corporate Security and Risk Management Plans
• Developed pricing models and established margins for profitability
• Conducted Open Source Intelligence for the latest threats, trends and developments in the cybersecurity landscape;
• Authored and implemented the company’s IT Strategic plan.