Engineer Security

Edgardo Roman Home: 301-***-**** Mobile: 240-***-****

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Sandy Spring, MD 20860

IT / Cyber Security Leader and Expert Systems Engineer with extensive experience and proven results in the IC,

DoD and Civilian markets.

Clearance: TS/SCI + Poly, Certifications: Security+ #001*********, CISSP #418803

Experience Summary by Functional Domain

Program Management, Technical Leadership, Systems Engineering, Architecture and Integration

• Established PM business rhythms, processes and tools resulting in program cross organizational productivity and

successful program technical performance.

• Multidisciplinary Engineering and Management Systems Integration of SIGINT and GEOINT systems.

• Authored DODAF systems architecture artifacts for accounting, controlling, planning and development.

• Spec / produced SOA views. Developed use case diagrams to illustrate end to end functional behavior.

• Identified Tech Standards for DOD and IC programs interoperability, protection and safe data sharing.

Cyber Security Engineering

• Provided Security Systems Engineering Analysis and Integration of Complex Computer Network Systems,

OPSEC and host based IA Assessments.

• Led DIACAP/ DISCAP security certifying and accreditation processes.

• Knowledgeable of protection level requirements prescribed by DCID 6/3 standard.

• Assessed FISMA cyber security posture for state government systems.

• Assistant Chief Engineer responsible for Information Security engineering for DHS program.

Systems Troubleshooting, Transformation, Transition, Deployment and O&M

• Systems and Project Engineering for BRAC of GEOINT systems. Readiness checks / dependency tracking.

• Led planning, factory check out, deployment and executed customer acceptance tests. Led software deployment

of many HPC installations across the nation.

• Systems Engineer in charge of optimal performance of supercomputer, network and peripherals.

• Expertise in UNIX OS supercomputers, clients, file-systems and network configurations.

• Hands on HPC systems, networking, high end file/storage serving, visualization capabilities, hard/soft real-time

processing and industry interoperability technical standards. Technical Support 7x24.

Product Design, Development and Testing (IV&V)

• Developed UNIX scripts to validate accurate functionality of DHS program capability. Fluent in UNIX shells.

• Development of make files to support development of C, C++ and JAVA codes in porting DII COE system.

• Troubleshoot High Performance Platforms; Cray, SGI and Sun UNIX based operating systems.

• Led development of 3D visualization environment prototype. Led 7 engineers in the strategy, planning and

configuration, application suite for high performance platform development for Air Force customer.

• Authored DHS program test plan and test procedures for checking compliance to PL 2/3 DCID 6/3 security.

• Developed CONOP, System Design Artifacts and Test Plans for customer SIGINT CNO Platform.

• Software Developer for FAA en Route Air Traffic Control Systems; expert on real-time algorithms, Radar Data

Processing and Redundant / High Availability Control Processing. Led development of test plans and test

procedures. Led acceptance testing in the delivery software revisions.

People Management

• Systems Engineer Manager responsible for performance, people development and personnel management.

• Led mentoring program and new professional career development efforts.

• Coached employees assigned to tasks in a cross functional matrix organization.

Business Development / Marketing

• Pre-sales support, evaluated systems problems, positioned high performance solutions, products and services as

favorable and cost attractive. Customer briefings in support of sale efforts. Authored technical white papers.

• Led systems and application engineering in the winning proposal for high performance platform for AF customer.

Detailed Work Experience

Ocean Riders Engineering, Inc.

September 2012 – Present: Principal Systems Engineer; Systems Engineering, Systems Integration and

Technical Assistance in the area of Mobile Devices SIGINT. Led cross organization technical exchanges, created

architectural artifacts that aid in the definition of requirements, planning and documentation of key enterprise

capabilities. Define and collect program key performance measurements that support direction and project funding.

The SI Organization, Inc. (Formerly LM EIG)

August 2010 – September 2012: Systems Engineer Sr Stf; ESEA System Integration and Analyses for Crypto

logic Enterprise High Performance Computer Systems. EPM II Systems Engineering, Cyber Security Architecture

and Technical Assistance to Tailored Access Operations (TAO) SIGINT customer in support of Security Engineering

activities. Assist Program Management with regards to Thrust initiatives. Requirement Analysis, CONOPS, feature

abstracts and other design artifacts. Process improvement and program management support for DNT organization.

Lockheed Martin – EIG

July 2008 – August 2010: Systems Engineering Mgr; Systems Engineering Mgr; People performance

management, execution and career development of 20 engineers with a range of levels of expertise. Staff program

positions according to program requirements. Recruit high quality talent for task assignment in GEI (GEOINT)

Enterprise Integration) NSG SI program.

Sept. 2008 – August 2010: BRAC Transition Lead; Work closely with customers, milestone decision authorities

and other key stakeholders in assuring effective planning, technical depth, security and programmatic aspects for a

successful BRAC transition of NSG Enterprise Geo Spatial segments; CASi, APO and ISPS. Assure meeting strict

quality and checklist readiness guidance for CDR, PSR, IC&T, FAT, SAT, ORR, OTR and associated security

DIACAP milestones.

Sept. 2007 – Aug. 2009: Systems Architect Sr Stf; Developed DoDAF SOA services view for the Enterprise.

Analysis and review of architecture for system acquisitions, integration, enterprise transformation planning, security

architecture, modernization/transition activities and trade studies. Validate SOA services definition, schemas and

operations. SOA Governance planning, optimization, policies creation and integration / reuse opportunities of SOA

service functionality as provided by distinct capability developers. As NSG SI Systems Architect responsible for the

development of the DoDAF Architecture; SV1, SV2, SV6, SV4 and associated planning and analytical products.

Dec 2004 – August 2007: Technical Lead; Intelligence Community Customer Lead Systems Integration (LSI)

Program: Subject Matter Expert Member of the Agency Enterprise Standards Program Team. Task included:

Sensitive Programs Standards Compliance (such as Security IA including DISA DISR Security Standards and

DITSCAP process) Verification and adherence to the DoD Acquisition Policy, DoDAF requirements and Agency

Enterprise Standards. Advise on technical matters such as process, requirements, security analysis and technology.

Principal Engineer on matters of compliance verification and facilitation of technical standards. Produced several

segments technical views (DoDAF TV-1 and TV-2). Project Management Support for establishment of Intelligence

Community Standards Registry Program (ICSR). LSI CAM Deputy, managed integrated master schedule and

planning, staff resource management (FTE profile/forecasting), skill need assessment, risk mgmt, reported on

program status.

Feb 2004 – Nov 2004: Assistant Chief Engineer; Systems Engineer Sr Stf / Technical Lead; Department of

Homeland Security / Transportation Security Agency - ONRA: Associated Chief Engineer for DHS / TSA CAPS II

Program, in charge of security engineering aspects for achieving Security Certification and Accreditation (C&A).

Responsible for Security Engineering in achieving certification to operate (IATO) for special mission application.

Authored System Security Plan and Security Test Plan for DCID 6/3 compliance for PL3 requirements. Developed

operating requirements, operating architecture and test strategies for UNIX software solution segment. Wrote UNIX

scripts in awk and perl for functional integrity capability testing.

KPMG, LLC

Jan 2003 – Feb 2004: Sr. Associate; Advisor to customer leadership on industry best practices; FISMA, DITSCAP.

IT Security Auditing, Vulnerability Assessment, PKI, Security Engineering, Information Integrity, Continuity of

Operations, IT Architecture and Network Performance. Formulated solutions IT compliance posture to meet federal

Cyber security policies and best practices. Collaborated in the evaluation of client compliance state to SE/CMM and

SE/CMMI methodology. Established project success criteria, assessment of IT subjects (systems/networks),

analysis of findings and recommendations to client's IT enterprise such as penetration testing, network traffic sniffing

analyses, vulnerability assessments, remediation for critical single point of failures and performance deficiencies in

client’s computing base. Mentored staff professionals on systematic approach to solve complex problems. Identified

approaches and tools to utilize to meet customer delivery requirements. Learned the techniques hackers would use

to disrupt or penetrate a client site: denial of service attacks, Trojans, worms, spam, spoofing, phishing and social

engineering techniques.

Silicon Graphics, Inc. (Merged with Cray Research, Inc)

Apr 1998 – Jan 2003: Sr. Systems Engineer / Architect; Designed High-End 3D Visualization solution for C4I

battle theater assessment integrating several key SW and HW components: DII Common Operating Picture (COP),

Analytical Graphics, Inc STK, COTS/GOTS and multi screen high end desktop. Led Defense Information

Infrastructure Common Operating Environment (DIICOE) Kernel Development in UNIX, C, C++ and Java. Program

Managed DISA IV&V certification for Silicon Graphics, Inc systems; only major computing vendor in the industry

officially compliant to Joint Defense Command and Control mandate. Analyzed defense programs requirements for

applicability and value of the vendor's COE port and application: Navy AADC, Army BMC3, ISC2 and other

programs. Promoted vendor's HPC & visualization value proposition to defense programs such as C4ISR for MC2A

(Boeing 767-400) AF Program or Army FCS. Analyzed computing performance (density), reliability, visualization,

network bandwidth, power consumption and adherence to standards. Authored white papers: Real Time processing,

Common Operating Environment and Multi-Level-Security. Orchestrated proposal team efforts for High Performance

Computing for HANSCOM AFB/ESC Major Resource Center for HPC Modernization Program and the Joint

Synthetic Battle Space AF Program; winning proposal for the $20M high performance solution. SME for Trusted

Operating System Multi-Level-Security capabilities to the Dept. of Homeland Security and other customers

interested in knowledge sharing with information compartmentalization. Managed Industry and Technology

Standards. Represented the vendor at the Open Group (X/Open) Consortium Meetings. Architected high-end

computing concepts and design in support of sales. Led company-wide efforts regarding engineering, legal /

contracts, and marketing of Act 508 Compliance.

Cray Research, Inc.

June 1988 – April 1998: Technical Support Mgr, Technical Support Engineer, Analyst in Charge; Field

engineering and system deployment of the first Cray Massively Parallel System, customer beta installation and

acceptance efforts ($30M effort). Led large system (>$15M) deliveries to major computing labs. Advisor, architect

and major contributor for installation, testing and acceptance of high-end servers, network and storage solutions.

Achievement of demanding system availability acceptance criteria. System dump reading, debugging analysis and

interpersonal skills required to close system problems. Delivered value added services and led IV&V of high

complexity or time critical factory trials. Enhanced customer satisfaction at very demanding high security customer

site. Identified and eliminated numerous bugs in early versions of the OS. Co-lead establishment of Cray de Mexico,

Mexico City, MX. High-risk installation achieved 99%+ availability during the acceptance period. Received Cray

Research Customer Service "ABOVE & BEYOND" Award 1991. Developed binary only delivery packaging for

installation that resulted in cost savings of 100 million dollars in licenses and royalties for vendor and client. This is

the first deployment of a supercomputer in Latin America.

Federal Aviation Administration Software Development Contractor (RG, Inc., RMS Technologies Inc.)

Feb 1982 – June 1988 Sr. Programmer Analyst; Delivered National Air Traffic Control Software Systems.

Requirement analysis, preliminary/critical design, software development and testing activities (conforming to SEI-

CMM 2/3). Promoted and attained increased the team’s productivity when developing software for the FAA. Tech

Lead for the last two deliveries of the system. 1987 DOT FAA Award. Major contributor to the functional

enhancements to the DARC and R-2508 Air Traffic Control Systems. System Analysis and programming in C and

Assembly Languages. Loaded the resulting executable binary onto a Raytheon Data Systems 500 Processor for

online testing and debugging. Developed software tests plans and procedures, acceptance testing and quality

assurance.

Education Johns Hopkins University Graduate Program Studies, Drexel University Master of Science, Computer

Technical Management 1993 Science 1987

Richard Stockton State College Bachelor of Science, University of PR Natural Sciences and Math 1980

Computer Science 1982

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