Experience

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  Specter Aerospace

  • Chief Information Security Officer

    • Nov 2022 - Present

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  United States Marine Corps

  • Communications Officer

    • Aug 2015 - Present

    •Lead, train, mentor and facilitate the professional development of 150+ Marines, ensuring that they were tactically, administratively, and medically ready for deployment.•Plan, organize, and execute mission to provide local and wide-area data communications support to deployed headquarters element and major subordinate units, delivering secure/non-secure web access, email, video teleconferencing, IT help desk, and messaging services for over 600 users.•Build communications plan that includes a network architecture, use spectrum planning, and implement satellite communications. •Adjust communications requirements, and supervise installations in communications systems in support of command’s mission. •Determine and direct cybersecurity operations to ensure the readiness of communications networks.•Supervise the adherence to information technology (IT) policies, standards compliance, and accreditation documentation for accessing services on government owned classified and unclassified networks.• Charged with oversight, accountability, serviceability, and maintenance of all networking and fiber equipment worth $4M+

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  Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA)

  • Information Systems Security Professional

    • Jun 2022 - Nov 2022

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  Raytheon Technologies

  • Cybersecurity Site Lead

    • Sep 2021 - Jun 2022

    • Cognizance of 26 collateral and federal information systems onsite per Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) code in the Raytheon Technologies facility. • Conducted strategic risk management and implementation of security controls for information systems within the business and local to the CAGE.• Coordinated self-inspection and DCSA SVA preparation activities assigned for the Woburn Facility. • Weekly interactions with DCSA SCA/ISSPO to track items including all ATO submissions, new technologies solutions, and onsite assessment and authorizations. • Developed, maintained, and update in coordination with all system stakeholders, applicable site milestones in order to identify system weakness, mitigating actions, resources, and timelines for corrective actions.• In conjunction with the Information Systems Security Managers (ISSMs) and Information Systems Security Officers (ISSOs), responsible for conducting comprehensive assessment of implemented controls and control enhancements to determine effectiveness of the controls.• Coordinated data spills and incident response for the Woburn facility. • Assisted in hiring and training ISSMs and ISSOs within the Woburn facility. • Certified IT systems in accordance with DCSA Authorization and Assessment Process Manual (DAAPM).

  • Information Systems Security Manager

    • Jul 2019 - Sep 2021

    • Certified IT systems in accordance with DCSA Authorization and Assessment Process Manual (DAAPM). • Conducted self-inspections, audit trail review of all IT systems to include SIPRNet.• Delivered information systems security education and awareness which include privilege user briefing.• Executed Assessment and Authorization (A&A) activities in documentation preparation, system configuration/validation, and certification testing in order to submit Authorize to Operate (ATO) requests.• Monitored security sustainment activities including hardware change management, software change management, account management, media protection, user interface, file transfers for over 15 systems within the Andover facility.• Managed IA incident responses as well as interfaces with other IA team members, other security disciplines including industrial security, physical security, and special programs security.• Answered over 1600 test results and 300 controls in accordance with NIST 800-53, DAAPM, and IA SOP.• Validated certificate of volatility on multiple systems to determine proper handling and sanitization of system components.

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  Northeast Security Inc.

  • Security Supervisor

    • Jun 2013 - May 2015

    •Provided professional security and customer service for commercial, industrial, residential and corporate environments. •Conducted surveillance, alarm systems monitoring, building inspections, emergency preparedness, bomb detection, predictive profiling, crime prevention, chemical safety, and accident investigation.

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  University of Massachusetts Lowell

  • Resident Advisor

    • Aug 2011 - Apr 2015

    •Supervised, manage a residential area within a building, and stimulate the growth and development of over 300 residents.•Exercised leadership in building a community in a diverse environment. Provided academic resources for residential students.•Counseled students on various personal and academic issues. •Conducted building-wide security for residents, while professionally enforcing university policy and regulations resulting in a safe living environment. •Conducted risk assessment, conflict resolution, judicial reporting, and conflict mitigation.

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  UMass Lowell Center for Terrorism and Security Studies

  • Research Analyst Intern

    • Jan 2014 - May 2014

    •Project: Three-year project to develop a descriptive typology of involvement in terrorism based on a detailed examination of the roles and functions held by members of terrorist group. Research supported by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security through the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START).•Developed data-set by populating a 121 variable codebook with information obtained through the analysis of open-source documents and media.•Scholarly research on all aspects of terrorism, political violence and issues of domestic and international security. The Center’s work is multidisciplinary, drawing on many perspectives, research methodologies, and analytic frameworks in order to better understand the causes and consequences of new and emerging security challenges.