Director-Information Security and Technical Operations

• Oct 2022 - Present

Information Security Officer

• Sep 2021 - Oct 2022

I walked in to an organization that suffered from a lack of cyber experience. In short order I led the organization to significantly better cyber hygiene improving security posture and trust ratings in various platforms. As the ISO, I have been in several client facing meetings where the risk management lead passes on kudos from their CISO as to the turn-around they have observed at Technical Toolboxes. I walked in to an organization that suffered from a lack of cyber experience. In short order I led the organization to significantly better cyber hygiene improving security posture and trust ratings in various platforms. As the ISO, I have been in several client facing meetings where the risk management lead passes on kudos from their CISO as to the turn-around they have observed at Technical Toolboxes.

Principal Solutions Architect

• May 2015 - Aug 2021

Systems engineer for a corporate development lab, implementing near seamless security and auditing policies to protect proprietary or otherwise sensitive data, evaluating new technologies and advising systems administrators on new products being integrated into the enterprise.

Sr Security Engineer/ Application Engineer / ISSE

• Dec 2010 - May 2015

Surge operations lead security engineer for the office of cross-domain operations. Responsible for adhering to DCID 6/3 requirements, implementing necessary security controls. Numerous successful new system deployments. Patched existing systems up to refined baseline standards and conducting certification and accreditation activities to maintain current ATOs. Assisted in developing a hardened RedHat and Solaris baseline as well as putting automated build procedures in place to assure consistent production for operational deployments. Developed secondary procedural checklists to provide additional control of enterprise system output Show less

System Engineer

• Sep 2008 - Dec 2010

Data-flow engineer on the FIBONACCI program. Primary role is the design, integration, configuration, test and operational support of mission critical systems. Full life cycle of systems, as well as training customers in key hardware and software components. Prepared test systems in labs for function check and integration testing prior to system deployments Managed multiple Red Hat based critical-path systems. Configured and updated Perl scripts to facilitate tedious maintenance. Wrote bash scripts to automate tasks. Show less

Intelligence and Operations Analyst

• May 2003 - Aug 2008

Served as the lead analyst in support of a development effort to automate a function of the 24/7 Watch center. Contributed to the development effort by generating technical documentation in the form of training material and user help files as well as assisted in object and systems modeling/design. Served as senior principle analyst maintaining scripts, web pages, and documentation that the 24/7 Watch center depends on for continuous operations. Migrated existing scripts and reference files into a CVS repository to allow for better configuration management. Developed scripts to create and query database tables in a Sybase RDBMS. Responsible for evaluating mission metrics and recognizing shortcomings of the Operations Center and presenting possible solutions to mitigate future problems. Responsible for tracking and resolving a wide variety of problems and presenting necessary training to the individual(s) responsible or delivering root-cause analysis to appropriate software developer for further troubleshooting. Assisted local system administrators in troubleshooting and maintaining computer systems in a mixed UNIX/Windows environment. Show less