Candidate ID: #35
Location: Towson, Md
Clearance: Active TS/SCI with FSP (MD customer)

EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY

• Current/Most Recent: 9 months (Dec 2025 – Present) as a principal systems engineer supporting a DoD/intelligence program — Analyzes user requirements, CONOPS, and high-level architectures to develop system requirements specifications, leads design and development activities, prepares systems engineering management plans and integration/test plans, and holds ultimate responsibility for technical integrity of deliverables while interfacing directly with government stakeholders and senior executives
• Past: 25+ years of progressive systems engineering, process engineering, and program management experience, including 14 years in the cryptologic community — Deep experience spanning requirements elicitation and analysis, enterprise and service-oriented architecture design, model-based process flow development, data center transition and disposal (T&D) efforts, certification and accreditation, and Agile/SCRUM software development lifecycle support across DoD, intelligence, and civilian federal customers

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Systems Architecture & Requirements Engineering – Developed high-level and detailed system and enterprise architectures against defined frameworks, produced thread block diagrams, sequence diagrams, interface control documentation, and design artifacts, conducted feasibility studies and technical alternatives analyses, and established interfaces between disparate systems to improve communication and eliminate duplication
• Process Modeling & Technical Documentation – Built extensive Cameo and Visio process flow diagrams and Process Description Documents, ran Cameo system reports to capture data flows and map product-to-product relationships and data element transfers, converted roughly 50 legacy PDF process flows into maintained Visio drawings through customer interviews, and authored user guides, how-to articles, and team documentation in Confluence
• Data Center Design & Systems Transition (T&D) – Produced to-scale data center layouts and room/grid diagrams for CONUS and OCONUS sites, applied interface management to lock down designs and limit layout churn, worked across DEV/TEST/PROD environments in a DCIM platform to manage asset inventory, barcode tagging, power provisioning, HVAC, and airflow, deployed a commercial data center planning platform at commercial and government sites to replace legacy tooling, and designed SCIF and data center cable plant layouts with associated RFPs and BOMs
• Security, Certification & Accreditation – Built POA&Ms and drove IATT/ATO for a first-of-its-kind standalone network, embedded security and C&A phases into the SDLC from inception rather than retrofitting them, performed risk analysis and mitigation under NIST 800-37, NIST 800-60, and FIPS 199, coordinated with ISSOs/ISSEs and CAA/DAA authorities, served as alternate ISSO and PKI Local Registration Authority for a federal bureau, and conducted three digital forensic examinations involving encrypted, password-protected, and deleted media with full chain-of-custody reporting
• Program, Release & Team Leadership – Led a Tier 3 SME team across AV/multimedia, VoIP, desktop engineering, mission assurance, land mobile radio, networking, cable infrastructure, and network monitoring; managed builds and release packages to schedule as a release manager; served as program manager on a federal information assurance program reporting weekly to the acting CIO; supervised and evaluated mid-level engineering staff as a section manager; and ran configuration control board activity, sprint reviews, and version control using JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, and IBM Rational ClearQuest/RequisitePro

CREDENTIALS

• B.S. Business Management; MCSE, MCP, MCP+I; Certified Computer Examiner (CCE, forensics); ITIL v3; Certified SCRUM Master (CSM)