Adjunct Professor

• Dec 2022 - Present

Senior Cyber Defense Engineer

• Feb 2021 - Present

•Spearheads innovative strategies across multiple departments, such as • Implementing automated responses to leaked credentials by using threat intelligence sources, Identity Account Management and XSOAR. Successfully reduced response time from days to minutes of reported leaked credentials • Leading incident response efforts for exposed credentials, log4j and dark web concerns •Works with compliance teams to ensure adherence to SOX, PCI-DSS and other security standards •Frequently conducts internal red team assessment of insecure protocols to determine the threat surface area by using a collection of native and third-party tools •Regularly interfaces with external organization for network security audits, third-party red team assessments and security gap analysis •Supervises threat intelligence integration and automation using third party organizations open-source intelligence and ISAC collaboration

Cyber Operations Officer

• Aug 2002 - Present

•Manages four teams of cyber security professionals in various geographic locations with tasks that include: • Provide mentorship, planning, reporting, performance evaluations and long-term strategic skill development for on premise and cloud environment for five direct reports • Resource management, budgeting, and operational development for an actionable five-year plan enabling the next generation of cyber operations •Leads cyber protection teams in site assessments, threat hunt operations and forensic investigations ensuring consistent high-quality security recommendations for mission critical systems increasing the survivability of the networks and integrity of the data •Oversaw response teams for breaches and hacks within state agencies. Highlights include leading quick reaction team for the State of California and providing solutions for the SolarWinds hack that allowed for state agencies to harden networks to ensure the security of the data for millions of Californians •Provides security recommendations to executive leadership and contractors on insider threats and legacy equipment issues during overseas assessment of security posture for critical information systems. •Facilitates the development and encourages teams through group activities, coaching, empowerment, and effective feedback by classroom training, and structured hot-washes

Cyber Security Lead and Project Engineer

• Sep 2015 - Feb 2021

•Project managed technical projects for NASA JPL, NASA GSFC, NOAA, and DoD Agencies from network assessments to development of secure coding practices while ensuring the activities were aligned with business goals to maintain value and enforced security decisions •Cultivated and maintained relationships with managers, directors, and security professionals of the customer’s organization, defines issues and concerns, and worked with many technical teams to execute and deliver cybersecurity strategies, and recommendations •Developed and executed Concept of Operations for “first of its kind” security assessment of a live space network finding unexplained network activity and critical misconfigurations. Quickly identified the critical concerns and prioritizing actions to continue operations. •Collaborated with NASA stakeholders on cybersecurity mission assessments that led to architectural studies that ultimately enhanced network security across the enterprise •Concurrently managed four teams to provide compliance subject matter expertise, survey networks and recommendations, and to determine active or future threats to information systems based on Statements of Work and strategic business decisions

Communication Systems Engineer

• Jul 2012 - Sep 2015

Application Intern

• Jun 2011 - Aug 2011

Electrical Engineer

• Sep 2008 - Jun 2011