James Brown

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Education

DEGREE DATE EARNED SCHOOL

·BS, Computer Science, 1982, State University of New York

Skills & Abilities

MANAGEMENT

·Directed Information Assurance efforts on a major project for numerous customers including; DHS, CBP, TSA, and the US Census Bureau

·Concurrently directed employees on four Information Assurance projects for the Department of Defense

·Directed Security and software testing and integration teams for the Department of Defense

·Director of operations for a combined NY State/NY City Welfare Management initiative

PRODUCT TESTING

·Evaluated, tested, and supported numerous Information Assurance products that included; Enterprise protection, desktop protection software, Intrusion detection systems, software anomaly detection, host-based intrusion detection software and vulnerability management scanning software.

·Validated security documentation through testing in DoD (using DoDI 8500.2) and non-DoD (using NIST 800-53 and DHS MD4300a)

TRAINING

·Trained customers in computer security methods

·Cross-trained trained NY City and NY State IT personnel in different mainframe technologies

·Trained staff in solid state storage implementation

·Trained staff in identifying software systems and software services that required certification and accreditation

LEADERSHIP

·Managed teams of

·70 computer operations personnel

·25 security engineers

·15 software test engineers

Experience

SR. VP OF INFORMATION SECURITY & INFORMATION ASSURRANCE WIDEPOINT FROM 10/2003 TO PRESENT

·Worked directly with WidePoint and customer personnel to ensure that our telecommunications management software maintained a strong security posture

·Currently directing efforts to migrate from a managed service to a FedRAMP cloud based environment

·Managed security and software testing teams at multiple government agencies

·Evaluated, tested and provided support for multiple security- oriented products for multi-factor authentication, network security, intrusion detection, intrusion protection, host-based intrusion detection, log correlation and aggregation

·Created security documentation in accordance with federal guidelines (E.g., NIST 800-53, Rev 4, CIS baselines, STIG’s, DHS’ MD 4300A)

·Developed corporate wide security policies aligned with NIST 800-53 guidance

·Managed the creation of security awareness training for staff

·Developed disaster recovery plans, Insider Threat programs, System Security Plans, Configuration Management Plans

DIRECTOR NORTHROP GRUMMAN FROM 1982 TO 10/2003

· Served as engineering manager for the security and software testing groups on a major DoD initiative

·Managed IT support for Northrop Grumman’s internal user community of 25,000

·Served as the Director of Operations on a software development project for the city and state of New York