Senior Cybersecurity Analyst

• Feb 2023 - Present

• Produces detailed reports, metric dashboards and tailored presentations to properly communicate data to controlling offices and responsible system owners. Facilitates communication between customer, stakeholders and vendors to address Department of Defense requirements or NIST 800 standards. • Operates all aspects of Information Systems (IS) data availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation. Utilizes active and passive cybersecurity measures to deliver vulnerability findings, analyses and recommendations to system owners to ensure delivery of vulnerability free systems. • Develops technical expertise in junior technicians in the operating of Host Based Security Systems (HBSS), firewalls, Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Tenable Vulnerability and Management (Tenable.sc). Identifies training or operational shortfalls and provides authorizing documents or technical guides to improve and maintain overall cybersecurity posture.

Senior Cybersecurity Analyst

• Oct 2020 - Dec 2021

• Produces detailed reports, metric dashboards and tailored presentations to properly communicate data to controlling offices and responsible system owners. Facilitates communication between customer, stakeholders and vendors to address Department of Defense requirements or NIST 800 standards. • Operates all aspects of Information Systems (IS) data availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation. Utilizes active and passive cybersecurity measures to deliver vulnerability findings, analyses and recommendations to system owners to ensure delivery of vulnerability free systems. • Develops technical expertise in junior technicians in the operating of Host Based Security Systems (HBSS), firewalls, Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Tenable Vulnerability and Management (Tenable.sc). Identifies training or operational shortfalls and provides authorizing documents or technical guides to improve and maintain overall cybersecurity posture.

Information Security Risk Specialist, Senior Consultant

• Feb 2019 - Sep 2020

• Communicates between Fleet Readiness Directorate (FRD), Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC), Program of Record (POR) system owners and United States Navy Information Assurance technicians, producing daily status reports, feedback, and proper protocol for all deliverables. • Utilizes Assured Compliance Assessment Solution (ACAS) to detect, analyze and resolve security issues associated with hardware, operating systems, and applications software. Delivers vulnerability findings, tests, analyses, and recommendations to technical installers to ensure delivery of vulnerability free systems. • Develops technical expertise within Active-Duty technicians in the operating of Vulnerability Remediation Asset Manager (VRAM), Assured Compliance Assessment Solution (ACAS), Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and various vulnerability remediation and scanning procedures. Determines appropriate training/support areas and provides existing documentation and tools to improve and maintain overall cybersecurity posture.

First Class Petty Officer/E6 - Information Systems Security Officer

• May 2016 - Feb 2019

• Communicates with various Program of Record (POR) to consolidate, identify and mitigate issues and vulnerabilities within the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services LAN. Works extensively to track STIG/IAVA delinquencies to reach organizational wide compliance. • Manages afloat McAfee ePolicy 5.4 HBSS suite for three DoD allied networks. Enforces agent and antivirus updates; generates queries and analyzes sequential reports to identify rouge agents, unauthorized escalation and software use. • Leads a Security Operations Center (SOC) and its technicians in the active tracking and response of network alerts and anomalies. Verifies implementation of Windows updates, hot fix installations, firewall and black-hole entries as well as STIG compliance.

First Class Petty Officer/E6 - Senior System Administrator

• May 2016 - Feb 2019

• Responsible for the management of a $10,900,000 Local Area Network comprised of 7 separate networks, 120 virtual servers and 200 workstations, supporting 350 users. • Maintains a solutions database for process improvement to track known and newly discovered issues throughout the LAN, enabling fast track troubleshooting and the reduction of off-site support by 70%. • Supervises, trains and qualifies junior system technicians in the administration of a wide variety of operating systems and software applications directed towards logistics, maintenance, communication and training.

First Class Petty Officer/E6 - Communications Watch Officer

• May 2016 - Feb 2019

• Supervises an effective watch floor in meeting communication requirements scaling from independent tasking to combined Force level operations. • Ensures the proper operation of all communication equipment covering the HF, VHF, UHF, SHF and EHF frequency spectrums. • Trains junior technicians on the correct use of Controlled Cryptographic Items (CCI), covering a broad array of procedures to operate Legacy, Voice, RF Data and IP Data cryptographic equipment.

Information Technology Specialist

• Feb 2013 - May 2016