Professional Skills Summary:

Over 15 years of diverse experience working with the Department of Defense DoD . Skills include, but are not limited to system and network administration, hardware and software installation and configuration, and Project Management. Possess extensive training and hands on experience in the DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation DIACAP process and related tools.

Professional Experience:

Technical Writer

Confidential

• The Cyber Security Technical System Matter Expert SME's directly supports both the Product Service Owner PSO and the Product Service Engineer PSE for the services and products associated with the Cyber Security Portfolio.
• Support analysis of requirements and traceability to programmatic requirements, alignment with current NGEN design and architecture, impacts to cost and performance, and supporting the derivation of technical requirements in alignment with the customer requirements.
• Provide analyses and recommendations related to solution approaches for engineering projects, applicability of solution to the sites and systems for which the solution is proposed, and a description of the solution and its attributes.
• Work with PSOs and PSEs to coordinate design tasks, support service/system technical oversight, schedule development, and participate in the planning and execution of projected reviews and milestones.
• Support technical reviews and verification that the service provider design, build, and test artifacts can be traced back to original customer/government requirements and constitute adequate proof that that the requirements are being met satisfactorily.
• Support independent government assessment of the technical risks including productions and implementation risks associated with projects/solutions under review.
• Responsibilities also include close coordination of activities with stakeholder, NETOPS, NAVYCYBERFOR, Service Providers and internal PMW205 organizations.

Perform the duties of the organization Information Assurance Security Officer to include supporting the Information Assurance IA compliance of Operating Systems OS and applications of unclassified and classified Army Knowledge Online/Defense Knowledge Online AKO/DKO systems. Ensure that the Agency has an active program to safeguard information security assets, including assigning security responsibilities, developing security plans, screening users, developing problem reporting systems, planning for disaster contingencies, and reviewing appropriate authorizations for processing of data. Implement and test vendor patches in support of Information Assurance Vulnerability Alert IAVA requirements. Conduct Certification and Accreditation C A planning and testing of all new systems. Conduct vulnerability assessment of all systems using Retina Scan and review and validate the vulnerability scan results at the OS and application level, and remediate vulnerabilities when applicable. Develop and maintain the Plan of Action and Milestones POA M for all systems. Support the design, deployment, and maintenance of new and existing security infrastructure capabilities for the organization. Assist in the development and maintenance of the DIACAP packages, Certificate of Networthiness CoN , and Privacy Impact Assessments PIA for all applications. Analyze IA security events, including threat model development and resulting security risk analysis of systems.

Planned and scheduled the installation of new or modified equipment in support of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner Systems. Troubleshot and diagnosed servers, network connectivity, and personal computer software and hardware issues. Ensured system availability, functionality, integrity, and efficiency for all installed software and hardware. Implemented security procedures in accordance with established procedures and best practices. Provided end user training on hardware and software functionality. Managed accounts, to include limiting rights and accesses as appropriate. Ensured systems were operated and maintained in accordance with all applicable Departments of the Army DA , Medical Command MEDCOM , Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory AFDIL and DoD security directives and procedures. Performed and managed all data protection and backup efforts utilizing multiple tools and programs, to include ARC Serve Backup.

Directly managed multiple U.S. Army security measures and capabilities for advanced Picture Archiving and Communication System PACS technology, associative imaging, and diverse teleradiology program initiatives. Consistently maintained and safeguarded IA documentation for all area systems and networks. Provided concise and regimented TARA stakeholders' information and analysis of emerging technologies reports as requested and required. Conducted market surveillance and comprehensive market analysis, which enabled unencumbered technology refresh and modernization for systems of responsibility and future planning efforts. Other supportive duties included intensive evaluation of security aspects pertinent to sustained and extended deployment of equipment and systems of responsibility tactical vendor interaction and steerage for development of applicable IA documentation and control measures coordination of all associative testing activities, and direct line submission efforts for DAA accreditation and certification.

Provided administration and support for a United States Navy USN mission critical network system. Responsible for the maintenance, development, and management of all aspects of DoD DIACAP packaging for the system, including identification, remediation, and configuration of vulnerabilities via Gold Disk and Retina, as well as other Information Assurance specific ideals and working tools. Additional duties included leadership and administration of group and user authorization and authentication for multiple network resources development and management of all intra-office Certification and Accreditation C A activities supervision of all IA and DIACAP relative efforts within his office and Project Arena and development and delivery of Computer Security Incident Response CSIR , which was critical to the mission.

Performed, directed, and enacted multiple site-wide security and control procedures to ensure provision of maximized system and personnel security alignment in accordance with IAW the Information System Security Officer ISSO duties. Analyzed security posture of systems and provided suggestions for improvement. Interacted frequently with multiple Government agencies and divisions to develop and implement a Security Concept of Operations/ System Security Plan SECONOPS/SSP and evaluated and aligned existing security practices with the documents. Analyzed and proposed changes and amendments for mission associative Information Systems IS and infrastructure and ensured configuration management control and notation for all associated IS systems and system components. Assumed the responsibility for multiple measures of user, personnel, and site security control and clearance determinations. Conducted periodic internal IS audits and reviews and made recommendations for corrective action where warranted.

Provided optimized information system maintenance and operational activities to include: management and determination of multi-faceted Ethernet, Redundant, and Mega Ethernet surfaces, networks, and connections management and institution of redundant and system state backups utilizing Net Vault and EMC SAN techniques and software and preparation and testing of disks and data for multiple applications efforts to include Boot Root of disk images and virtual CD-ROM management utilizing pServer technology. Commanded archival activities for Disaster Recovery DR utilizing Resource Configuration Collector applications, and SCSI Disk File System Resource Configuration implemented universal user accounts and access control assignation efforts, performed load balancing and balance control configurations, and multiple other administrative roles as mission required.

Managed a specialized team responsible for configuration, security enactment, and validation procedures for core and distributed servers critical to vital mission efforts. Standard duties included base and complex server and system configurations, Defense Information Systems Agency DISA Security Technical Implementation Guide STIG compliance, assurance and implementation for all associated servers and systems power management, utilization and error log mediation for all associated machines and servers and timely test and customer support.

Actively supported and implemented ICAP and EA-6B programmatic efforts while assigned as an Engineering Security Team Lead. Specific responsibilities included managerial institution of Test and Evaluation T E support for Joint Mission Planning Systems JMPS , and CONUS wide network security support for JMPS and all associated missions implementation and control of all software updates for associated MIDS Universal Planning Component UPC systems distributive authorship of integral plans to support reduction of DSMU and IMUX data effecting JMPS and PDATS systems and multiple other duties as required.

Served in a management position supporting both an integral Windows and LINUX structured network and the team of personnel responsible for the network's maintenance and operation. Daily responsibilities encompassed architectural planning and initiation configuration, automation, and deployment activities for associated large-scale, globally distributed systems direct management of Top Tier USN critical servers and hardware in all facets of operations and security assurance management, planning, and assignation and / or implementation of all associated hardware and software upgrades and installations and management and joint implementation of supportive Sybase and Oracle administrative and database development issues. Additional duties involved direct operational management of 100 OOMA Top Tier and Mid-Tier servers and hardware establishment and implementation of performance metrics procedures to support said servers for trend analysis and troubleshooting efforts operational control and management of operational backups for multi-tier servers utilizing VERITAS and Tivoli Backup tools and software management of all relative system logs, user files, security software, and system documentation. Specific major accomplishments achieved included service as key team lead and planner for the installation of mission-critical intranet connectivity between Pentagon and CHIP resources planned, constructed, and implemented a Live Link and NT 4.0 base server configuration utilizing Cisco supportive infrastructure for load balancing and Oracle 8.15 for database and cooperative support and the rapid achievement of managerial level familiarity with multiple IT-crucial skills and policies to include: TCP/IP, calculative IP subnetting for multi-subnet networks and infrastructures, Wins Server and Wins Proxy Agent operations, DHCP, DHCP Relay Agent, Preferred Master Browser role enabling from multiple Registry techniques, and multiple other techniques and services.