vCIO

• Feb 2021 - Present

I work to effectively communicate with our clients, understand their needs, and align their technology to their business goals in the pursuit of maximizing the effectiveness of the investment. Helping our customers navigate their business growth, dynamic IT requirements, and managing their strategic IT initiatives are among my primary responsibilities. I focus on business impact, business relationships, and client strategy.Call me anytime as one of our complete support customers for strategic advice and budget planning! Whether you are a small business looking to grow or a burgeoning enterprise with an international presence, we can develop a plan together to scale, improve, and better manage your IT environment through continuous monitoring, proper administrative and technical controls, and proactively planning to improve and scale your network to keep up with your business.

Retired Veteran

• Jun 2018 - Present

Account Manager

• Jan 2019 - Jul 2020

Proposal Development Manager

• Jan 2019 - Jul 2020

Cyber Security Analyst

• Jun 2018 - Dec 2018

Information Systems Manager

• Jan 2015 - Jun 2018

Unit:Communications Training Battalion (CTB)• Participated in weekly meetings with peer and higher echelon communications experts in order to collaborate and improve the organization’s efficiency through better network availability, resulting in a continuously available data network for over 4,000 permanent and student personnel with 99% up time.• Directly led a team of communications professionals and migrated over 2,000 online and offline computer operating systems from Win7 to Win10 while also assisting with a hardware upgrade for over 1,000 systems thus modernizing and better defending the organization’s cyber assets.• For one year of this tour, was assigned as an instructor at the Data Training Platoon (DTP) and then chief instructor for the Basic Communications Course (BCC) and Marines Awaiting Training (MAT) platoons, mentoring, educating, and directly impacting the lives of over 1,2000 students during that time.

Data Chief

• Nov 2009 - Dec 2012

Unit:Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command (MARFORCYBERCOM)Responsibilities:- Perform the duties of a Cyber Chief; Assist and advise on all matters pertaining to theCommand, Control, Communications, and Computers (C4/G6) mission areas including;requirements development, operations support/planning, policy development, InformationTechnology (IT) procurement, certification and accreditation, installation, operation,tracking and maintenance of C4 systems and equipment.- Advise on IT concerns regarding current operations, future operations, training, andexercise support in order to effectively plan, coordinate, integrate, synchronize anddirect defensive cyberspace operations, and when directed, execute offensive cyberspaceoperations.- Coordinate with external agencies and facilitate secure and reliable communication viadata networks, video teleconferencing, telecommunication, and mobile business solutions.- Provide Information Systems Coordinator (ISC) support, provide end user training to allMARFORCYBER personnel.Accomplishments:• Established entirely new administrative, operational, logistical, and communications policies and procedures, along with new lines of communication, for an entirely new military organization.• Direct involvement with the procurement and planning of a new facility for a world-class, cyber-focused military organization along with the procurement and installation of $1.6M of hand-picked IT equipment.• Interfaced regularly with leadership at numerous internal and external organizations to expedite direct lines of communication for the sharing of classified information between our separate entities.

Senior IT Manager

• Oct 2011 - Aug 2012

While still on Active Duty in the Marine Corps and stationed out in Washington, DC, I had the immense pleasure and opportunity to work part time for LG-TEK as the Senior IT Manager after hours. I worked hands-on with servers, routers, switches, firewalls, telephony, encryption, PKI, software solutions, SharePoint, standard websites, end user support, and more during the evening shift.Responsibilities:- Directly analyze, identify, and resolve any and all shortfalls across the entirety of the company’s full IT makeup and brief the CEO/CIO on any available courses of action (COAs) along with their respective costs and impacts. - Identifying and briefing IT related business requirements. - Obtaining meaningful IT related KPIs and Bottom Line Improvement (BLI) information- Generating Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) reports and decision documents concerning IT infrastructure, software, or security related actions.Accomplishments:• Immediately upon hire, resolved the company headquarters’ three-week long inability to pay its employees due to software and database communications issues.• Developed and implemented a plan to fully replace the company’s aging servers with a virtualized environment on a new blade system with updated O/S and completed within days of hardware delivery. From the original concept through to presentation to CEO, procurement, delivery, implementation, and full production the task was completed within one work week.• Analyzed and vastly improved the pre-existing defensive posture of the enterprise environment by locating and correcting a great deal of security flaws and oversights on the servers and network devices.• Built, fully configured, and designed a SharePoint server that established internal and external collaboration that demonstrably enhanced communication and sales relations to potential clients.