Scott is a great addition to the ItzoTech team, with his expertise in cybersecurity, compliance, auditing, we are confident with our ability to help evaluating key areas in the industry, when it comes to acquiring different assets. We are thankful for his contribution to this project.
Industry Expert / Cyber Ops Leader
20+ Years of Experience in Cybersecurity
Accomplishments:
- More than 20+ years of Information Security and Information Assurance experience – had roles in SecOps, Compliance, Auditing, Program Management and Risk Management
- Numerous honors and rewards (outlined below)
Background and Experience:
- 3 years of experience as Cyber SecOps at Otis Elevator Co – responsible for security operations, security tools, 15 staff members, Otis’s SIEM, and all Incident Response activities for an enterprise supporting 70K users in 180 countries
- 1 year of experience as Senior Program Manager and IT Security Strategist at US Mint’s Office Security Operations Center
- 2 years of experience as Cyber Risk Manager at Northrop Grumman – responsible for a wide range of CyberSecurity support to the Social Security Administration’s (SSA’s) Office of Information Security (OIS)
- 3 years of experience as PMO Lead at ActioNet, Inc – successfully established the contractor team for supporting the Joint Cyber Security Coordination Center (JC3) Program Management Office (PMO) for the DOE; within two years advanced the PMO from CMMI Level 0 to CMMI Level 2. Led DOE’s CyberScope activities, including coordination of several critical vulnerabilities and risks identified across the Federal Agency. Expertly identified skillsets/technical support requirements needed to support the client.
- 7 years of experience as Adjunct Instructor and Lead Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton. – facilitated a course in management training for Junior Front line Managers in the Firm on a quarterly basis. The curriculum included people and team development, conflict resolution, identifying and correcting program/team problems, motivational techniques, and team collaboration. Subject topics also presented included workflow process improvements. The course was entitled “Managing People for Peak Performance.”
- 6 years of experience as Sr. InfoSec Analyst, Project Lead at Northrop Grumman CorporationNorthrop – directed team activities to support multiple US Government Agencies and their IT systems. I briefed officials on security architectures and the overall system security plans
- 14 years of experience as CPO at US Navy Reserve – managed the “Request for Intelligence” Desk on the Global War on Terrorism Intelligence Task Force
Education: – Bachelor of Science (BS), General Studies at Excelsior CollegeExcelsior College
– Project Management Program, Business Administration and Management at Penn State University
Licenses and Certificates:
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISC2)
Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance)
Honors and Rewards:
Performance Award, issued by Associated with Otis Elevator Co – for implementation of Otis’s SIEM prior to Otis Elevator Company separation from United Technologies. Setting up the Security Operations Center before separation was a critical milestone. Implementation of sensors and agents throughout the enterprise was achieved in less than 8 months
Customer Engagement, issued by US Department of Treasury – for implementing overall improvements in the US Mint’s CyberSecurity Program, Security Operations Center. When taking over the SOC, there were a number of stalled initiatives that needed to move forward. Scott not only completed them, but did so within 8 months. The Mint was short staffed, overwhelmed with multiple issues. Scott implemented back up and recovery plans, he conducted a table top exercise for the US Mint leadership. Prior to Scott taking over the position, the SOC had performed well below industry standards (D+ rating). The 6 months prior to Scott’s arrival, the SOC had inadvertently taken down the Mint’s Enterprise 4 times. At the time of his departure, Scott left the US Mint’s SOC with a B+ rating, falling short of outstanding because of short staffing. During his time as the Leader of Security Operations, there were no enterprise outages – the existing staff was shortly expanded by 4 members after his departure (noting that SOC had accomplished much with an understaffed team).
3 Bravo Awards – Out of the box (entrepreneurship) and development of an ISCM Strategy issued by Northrop Grumman – A sponsored development idea by Northrop Grumman on created automated processes for Authority to Operate activities. Additional drafted and developed a mature Information Security and Continuous Monitoring program strategy.
Certificate of Recognition, issued by CSC – For dedication and support during the Operational Test and Evaluation at Ft Huachuca, AZ of the Team Portable Communications Security System (TPCS). Ultimately, the testing was a success, and the TPSC was eventually fielded, enhancing the Signals Intelligence collection capabilities of the USMC Radio Battalions.
Performance and Team Award, issued by Booz Allen Hamilton – For sustained superior performance over two year period (2009-2011). I started out at HQMC as a staff consultant, and in two years was promoted to Lead Associate. The promotion was a resut of accepting the position of deputy task manager for the Cybersecurity section. in nine months, I accepted the Task Manager position, and took on four direct reports.