OBJECTIVE

Insure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of enterprise assets through the development and application of information assurance principles, policies and procedures to meet the business needs of the organization.

PROFESSIONAL ATTRIBUTES

Versatile, detail oriented leader and motivated team player with over 14 years experience in Network Operations, Enterprise Security and Information Assurance.

• CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional
• Security Clearance: SECRET Active since Dec 2001
• DIACAP / DoD Certification and Accreditation C A
• DIARMF / NIST Assessment and Authorization
• Continuity of Operations and Disaster Recovery
• Strong organizational, planning and customer service/relations skills.
• Proficient in operating, securing and supporting various computing platforms.

OCCUPATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Information Systems I/S Risk and Compliance Analyst

Confidenital

• Conduct procedural operational assessment of Information System I/S processes, systems and hosted services against corporate, government internal I/S compliance standards. Provide governance oversight of compliance requirements and implementation.
• Subject Matter Expert in transition from DIACAP Certification and Accreditation to DIARMF Assessment and Authorization control methodology.
• Perform Vendor Security Assessment of products and hosted services to include review of organization policies and security posture.
• Research, develop and forecast current and future I/S compliance requirements.
• Assist in development, coordination and review annual test/validation of incident response exercise and disaster recovery plan.
• Effectively communicate and provide ongoing guidance to I/S functional teams in the development, implementation, monitoring reporting of control processes, documentation compliance routines.
• Review Vulnerability Matrices, collect, distribute and track risk associated data across all areas of I/S.

Information Assurance Manager

Confidenital

• Plan, design, and monitor IT systems and related programs to insure compliance for information assurance throughout the state. Develop, and publish state information assurance, certification and accreditation procedures and guidelines affecting National Guard and tenant organizations throughout the state. Insure regulatory and policy compliance for confidentiality, integrity and availability of network assets.
• IA/C A subject matter expert to the Command/Directorate in support of Information Assurance matters.
• Develop, maintain and continually evolve the security posture of the Enterprise and its associated assets through policy development and enforcement, monitoring, proper audits and consistent, corrective incident response procedures and patch management.
• Design, implement and validate readiness of disaster recovery site and assets to insure continuity of operations as deemed appropriate by operational Directorates.
• Provide management with immediate, accurate and transparent view of the availability of the Enterprise to insure directives and business goals are being met.
• Insure defense in depth methodology is applied at all levels of the Enterprise with proper implementation of administrative, logical and physical controls.
• Develop, maintain and continually harden all levels of enterprise security to include access controls, perimeter defense via firewalls, traffic monitoring and analysis, web proxy and mail archiving to host level anti-virus and system security.
• Perform rogue network, system and user detection to ensure no unauthorized access is granted via remote, local, internal or wireless means.
• Project Management Lead for DIACAP system accreditation and certification to include inception, package development, submittal, POA M's and all subsequent data validation and C/A requirements.
• Perform policy review, modification and/or development in order to maintain current and future regulatory compliance of the Enterprise and its associated assets.

• Perform scanning and remediation of Enterprise assets using the approved DoD IA tools. I.E. Retina, SCCM, HBSS
• Assist the network operations center with systems administrator tasks as required for the success of the team

Visual Information Manager

Confidenital

• Manage State Visual Information assets and budget.
• Project Manager for procurement, installation and maintenance of Visual Information assets in two new Armory constructions.
• Managed scheduling and network access to 78 Video Teleconferencing sites throughout the state
• Managed teleconference scheduling
• High definition video and media development using Final Cut Pro

Senior Signal/Information Systems Specialist

Confidenital

• Supervised the installation and daily maintenance of 4 concurrent battlefield data networks, as well as FM, HF and Tactical Satellite radio systems fixed site and vehicular .
• Serve a as the Automations NCOIC see bullet below
• Information Management Officer / Network Operations Manager
• Team Leader to 6 personnel
• COMSEC Custodian and Network Security advisor to the Command
• Performed System/Network Admin tasks in a Windows environment
• Insure confidentiality, integrity and availability of network assets through management of System/Network Admin staff
• Commercial Off The Shelf COTS equipment advisor for all automations purchases