Experience

B.E.A.T. LLC

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Business Development Consultant / Cyber SME

  • Apr 2022 - Present

  Weems, Virginia, United States



Crumpton Global

• Cyber Security Senior Consultant

  • Sep 2019 - Present

  Weems, Virginia, United States • Contribute as a cyber security SME in consulting engagements to build credibility and trust with clients. • Interact directly with client C-level executives to articulate IT risk management concepts with a business context and using business language. • Participate in enterprise and IT risk assessments, CMMC implementation, applying knowledge of systems, controls, and technology. • Perform or oversee technical assessments, including incident response, exercise development, and… Show more • Contribute as a cyber security SME in consulting engagements to build credibility and trust with clients. • Interact directly with client C-level executives to articulate IT risk management concepts with a business context and using business language. • Participate in enterprise and IT risk assessments, CMMC implementation, applying knowledge of systems, controls, and technology. • Perform or oversee technical assessments, including incident response, exercise development, and forensics. • Provide guidance on technical and procedural control implementations for clients. • Support or provide guidance for cyber incident investigations and training for clients. • Partner with Crumpton Global business development and client relations executives to drive sales and revenue growth, support business development activities, write proposals, and acquire new clients. • Stay current with cyber topics, trends, technologies, and relevant news. • Create position papers on processes, methods, and technologies at client request. • Provide cyber security mentorship and guidance to our internal analyst team and support customer-embedded analyst teams as a cyber SME. • Research and review new security technologies for potential investments • Support CISO in delivery of ISO 27000 policy security framework and cybersecurity policy documentation, Show less



Blue Force Cyber, Inc.

• United States
• Information Services

• CEO & President

  • May 2010 - Present

  Weems, VA David Pere is the CEO & President of The McKenna Principals, Inc., a Service Disabled Veteran's Owned Small Business The McKenna Principals is a recognized data innovations pioneer. We provide transformative data solutions that enable the full range of data providers and consumers across all mission instances to conceptualize new and expanded ways to harness and use data. We engineer and deliver big data platforms that conform to an agency’s data and service structures within a… Show more David Pere is the CEO & President of The McKenna Principals, Inc., a Service Disabled Veteran's Owned Small Business The McKenna Principals is a recognized data innovations pioneer. We provide transformative data solutions that enable the full range of data providers and consumers across all mission instances to conceptualize new and expanded ways to harness and use data. We engineer and deliver big data platforms that conform to an agency’s data and service structures within a defined technical and policy framework. McKenna delivers capabilities that are designed to work within an ecosystem of abstracted services and interfaces that remove the constraints and inflexibility associated with hard coding to a single defined system solution or implementation. We syndicate interconnected but fully encapsulated big data services so that our solutions provide a secure, safeguarded and powerful processing and storage environment fully enabling information discovery, sharing and understanding.

• Senior Program Manager and Security Manager

  • Jun 2014 - Sep 2017

  Herndon, VA - Provided program management for two prime contracts with multiple CLINs providing enterprise architecture, enterprise access control design and implementation, cloud services, data processing delivery, Big Data platform deployment, software design, development, testing, and deployment into production systems. Responsible for pricing, marketing, recruiting and staffing, contracts management, budget control, quality assurance, cost accounting, and scheduling. - Led development of core… Show more - Provided program management for two prime contracts with multiple CLINs providing enterprise architecture, enterprise access control design and implementation, cloud services, data processing delivery, Big Data platform deployment, software design, development, testing, and deployment into production systems. Responsible for pricing, marketing, recruiting and staffing, contracts management, budget control, quality assurance, cost accounting, and scheduling. - Led development of core program activities including metadata management, data quality management, and data structure definition that produced reliable data quality, data management, data design, data interoperability practices and ensured data integrity and consistency across multiple big data platforms and security domains. - Orchestrated entire framework of activities required to deliver big data services and big data management. Led team of policy and legal SMEs, engineers, technicians, architects and designers, business process specialists, SW developers and testers, system administrators, and specialized data experts to extract or receive, fully automate, transform and integrate large-volume and variety data from source systems throughout DHS to a consolidated Neptune data hub and 100% integrity replication from Neptune to the target classified system with controlled enterprise access by both system and human data consumers. - Led process and functional requirements support for the ACES project, including research and analysis to identify the capabilities and tools necessary to establish Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC) enterprise services, including governance, authentication and authorization, digital policy management, metadata and system enhancement services. Efforts included the development of compliance documentation, uses cases, white papers, outreach materials and systems questionnaires to advance DHS ABAC capabilities and to conform to federal interagency mandates and guidance



Blue Force Cyber, Inc.

• United States
• Information Services

• Senior Policy Analyst/Strategic Planner

  • Nov 2010 - Dec 2012

  Nebraska Avenue Complex, DHS DHS Intelligence & Analysis, Information Sharing and Intelligence Enterprise Management, Information Sharing and Collaboration Branch Planning lead for the Information Sharing Segment Architecture (ISSA) Working Group. Developed the process, timeline and information sharing subject matter expertise in drafting the ISSA Transition Plan. Provided analysis on the current ISSA 2.1 documentation to address gaps identified in GAO reviews and Department progress reporting. Conducted a series of… Show more DHS Intelligence & Analysis, Information Sharing and Intelligence Enterprise Management, Information Sharing and Collaboration Branch Planning lead for the Information Sharing Segment Architecture (ISSA) Working Group. Developed the process, timeline and information sharing subject matter expertise in drafting the ISSA Transition Plan. Provided analysis on the current ISSA 2.1 documentation to address gaps identified in GAO reviews and Department progress reporting. Conducted a series of working group meetings that developed the 7 major ISSA capabilities, service dependencies, deployment dependencies, sequencing plan, prioritization and transition approach. Led coordination of drafting the ISSA Transition Plan and participated as a contributing author. Planned, developed and managed the Information Sharing Governance Board Information Sharing Roadmap tracking and performance management system. Developed and implemented a series of tracker systems and initiative scorecards adopted by the ISIEM and PPPM staffs, approved by U/SIA Wagner and used by the Components as a Department - wide tool for coordinating DHS review and tracking response to ISE initiatives, identifying DHS information sharing issues and researching solutions, identifying information sharing disputes, and provide a path for addressing information sharing policy recommendations to the ISGB. Developed the IS&C Roadmap Tracker 90 Day Action Plan that established roles and responsibilities of the government and contractor staff and assigned activities to integrate, coordinate and synchronize actions in the execution of Roadmap Initiatives management Show less



ITT Inc.

• United States
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Dept Mgr Information Integration Services

  • Aug 2009 - May 2010

  David established and led the Information Integration Services Department designed to provide the national security establishment with technical and operational solutions in response to sharing, integration, collaboration, and net-centric information challenges. Supervised program management and support staff ensuring coordination, planning, quality execution and sustained performance throughout eight major contracts. Managed department resources in support of five program managers supporting… Show more David established and led the Information Integration Services Department designed to provide the national security establishment with technical and operational solutions in response to sharing, integration, collaboration, and net-centric information challenges. Supervised program management and support staff ensuring coordination, planning, quality execution and sustained performance throughout eight major contracts. Managed department resources in support of five program managers supporting Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO), CENTCOM, STRATCOM, AFRICOM, NORTHCOM, SOUTHCOM, DIA, INSCOM, and the Joint Functional Component Commander, Intelligence, Surveillance, & Reconnaissance (JFCC-ISR). Directed and oversaw expansion of associated budget, recruiting, human resources, contracting, deployment support, legal, and export control to effectively manage growth from 5 employees to over 100 in less than a year. Successfully captured over $100M in task order awards over multiple IDIQ contracts and delivered an award on the $500M JIEDDO Comprehensive Support Services IDIQ. Show less



AES, ITT

• Director of Business Strategy

  • Oct 2008 - Aug 2009

  David, as the director of the newly formed business strategy effort, defined and facilitated the Information Systems business unit's strategic vision and business goals to guide strategy development and execution, and to focus organizational resources on penetrating homeland security and national defense information and cyber markets. Directly supported the Vice President and President with strategy engagements through active outreach and marketing to industry, academia, and government clients.… Show more David, as the director of the newly formed business strategy effort, defined and facilitated the Information Systems business unit's strategic vision and business goals to guide strategy development and execution, and to focus organizational resources on penetrating homeland security and national defense information and cyber markets. Directly supported the Vice President and President with strategy engagements through active outreach and marketing to industry, academia, and government clients. Led strategy engagements with a strong focus on business analysis, strategic and financial modeling, differentiated service offering experiences, and mapping key ITT capabilities to customer requirements. Created internal capture and proposal management policies, procedures, and infrastructure support and led the capture and proposal teams that won business and gained first entry into DIA, INSCOM, JIEDDO HQ, STRATCOM, and JFCC-ISR markets.

• Program Mgr, Information Integration COIC Services

  • Jul 2006 - Oct 2008

  Provided program management, quality assurance, and performance oversight for JIEDDO headquarters and COIC. Managed the human resources, cost accounting, contracting requirements and supervision for over 300 employees and 36 subcontract companies supporting two large JIEDDO contracts.



ITT Corporation

• COIC Operations Laboratory Director / Intelligence Operations Lead / Planner

  • Jul 2006 - Sep 2008

  - Provided program management, quality assurance, and performance oversight for JIEDDO headquarters and COIC. Managed the human resources, cost accounting, contracting requirements, and supervision for over 300 employees and 36 subcontract companies supporting two large JIEDDO contracts. - Led contractor support for the standup, development, and pioneer employment of the COIC. Established marquee innovations where experimental reach-back, multi-intelligence fusion cells identified data… Show more - Provided program management, quality assurance, and performance oversight for JIEDDO headquarters and COIC. Managed the human resources, cost accounting, contracting requirements, and supervision for over 300 employees and 36 subcontract companies supporting two large JIEDDO contracts. - Led contractor support for the standup, development, and pioneer employment of the COIC. Established marquee innovations where experimental reach-back, multi-intelligence fusion cells identified data access needs, drove data architecture, modeling and design requirements, and communicated functional analytical requirements and tool features for SW developers and Data Scientists of the Systems Integration Lab. - Provided multi-theater, streaming Common Operations Picture/User Define Operations Picture development and integration; stood up and executed the experimental reach-back, tactical operations center (TOC) providing real-time, collaborative support and subject matter expertise, and integrating intelligence feeds through extensive reporting channels. - Organized intelligence analysts, ISR specialists and Operations Lab SMEs to respond in real time to engaged warfighter demand signature for tailored data visualization graphics, synthesized representations of non-obvious, correlated intelligence data, and spatially and temporally referenced threat information support packages employing customized COIC tools, COTS C2 products, and purpose-built applications. Show less



Marine Corps Recruiting

• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• Infantry Officer

  • Jun 1986 - Oct 2006