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Project Management Cyber Security

Location:
Ashburn, VA
Posted:
August 29, 2025

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DONALD V. ROLLINS

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

CLEARANCES

• Active TS/SCI Clearance and more

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTAL TRAINING

• Associate in Computer Science, UM 1982

• Project Management Professional Training, 2014 – PMP Exam 2015

• AWS Solution Architect (Associate) Certification Training (currently) EXPERIENCE

Architect Engineering Lead

Amentum October 2024 – Present; 9 months

• Lead the strategic design and engineering of a proof-of-concept prototype for a Unified Communications

(Voice, video, chat) Cross-Domain regional topological Ecosystem of multi-security networks for a Community of Interest Stakeholders. The prototype data center/infrastructure is built primarily with CISCO Equipment, devices, and server enclaves, including CMS and CUCM, VQ, and a cross-domain solution (CDS).

• Coordinated and Facilitated technical exchange meetings (TEM’s) among engineering teams (Network, Systems, UC, Cyber Security), Stakeholders, and third party vendors to capture technical and functional

• IT professional with more than 30 years of a broad range of successful leadership with technical skill- sets and subject matter expertise to include; Project Management, System/Software Engineering

(Object Oriented analysis and design expertise), Cloud Architectural Strategies to include Digital Transformation Planning and Technical Roadmaps for Cloud engineered solutions (native and/or hybrid) built. In support of Mission Partners, developed cloud transition and adoption strategies for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle OIC, targeted solutions, capabilities, or eco-systems.

• Extensive analysis & design experience in the Enterprise Cloud architecture and services stack, successfully lead various project efforts impacting Business/IT/Digital Transformation(s) in the areas of; Service Oriented Architecture, Application/System Re-engineering, System/Solution/Data/Technical Architectures, Cloud Computing (AWS) Native and Hybrid Targeted Solutions, to include: Cross Domain and Commercial integration, CI/CD Infrastructure System Engineering supporting DevOps, and the design of Containerization technology (Docker/Kubernetes) in supporting Data Analyst/Scientist platforms. To include: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Migration or Adoption Planning composed of: Web Services, System Integration, Enterprise Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Configuration Management, custom software; Design, Development, and Implementation oversight, SWOT analysis, as well as GAP analysis with Risk/Impact assessment(s).

• Successfully implemented various Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), System Engineering Lifecycle (SELC), and Framework methodologies such as: SCRUM/Agile, Waterfall, Joint Application Development (JAD), Rapid Application Development (RAD), Scrum/Agile, and Rational Unified Process

(RUP) with Unified Modeling Language (UML), Business Process Management (BPM), J2EE and .NET Frameworks.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills exemplified in briefing presentations at all levels within federal agencies and the private sector, to include various IT artifact deliverables such as Requirements Definition, Architectural Reference Models (Business, Technical, Services, Data), System Engineering Definition, CONOPS, COOPS, Technical Whitepapers, and executive summaries presented to Congress.

• Successfully demonstrated the following capabilities: A Strong ability to influence people and drive significant changes within an organization by engaging with employees of all levels.

• Demonstrated creative problem-solving approach and strong analytical skills, combined with a strong sense of ownership, and a proactive can-do attitude.

• Excellent communication and project management skills, with a proven track record of handling multiple customers (Stakeholders) and streams of work, with expertise in transition planning of Open Services adoption within a Community of Interest (COI).

requirements to design and develop DTO, ATO, and IOC architectural artifacts for all aspects (Network, Systems, UC, Cyber Security) in addition to Cross-Domain Solution (CDS), and Zero Trust Controls. Cloud Systems Architect / DevOps Engineer

Crimson Phoenix, LLC April 2023 – September 2024; 1 year, 6 months

• Architected (ATO & IOC certification artifacts) and cloud engineered an end-to-end Cloud Data Integration Warehouse platform based on an IaaS typologies comprising data pipelines, interoperability, and system-to- system data désimination exchanges via APIs (REST & SOAP). The IaaS platform stack is a Native Cloud solution stack engineered using AWS Services such as: LAMBDA Functions, Data Migration Services (DMS), EC2 (ETL purposes), Step Functions (workflows), SNS, Postgres RDS (multiple replications), Change Data Capture (RDS Synchronisation), Event Scheduler (Cron Jobs), In addition to the engineering and configuration of data pipelines (streaming & batch delivery) from multiple data sources integrated by Change Data Capture (CDC). Also, as a DevOps engineer I configured, developed, and implemented an automated and continuous build/integration/deployment infrastructure build for multiple environments (Dev, Test, Stage, & Prod); write, build and deploy scripts establishing a replicated CI/CD pipeline delivery method composed of: GitHub, Jenkins Node

(EC2), Cloudformation, Gitlab, and Terraform which led to a DEV/OPS capability after Prod implementation and System certification to operate.

Systems/Solution Architect (Systems Engineering and Technical Advisor – SETA) BAE Systems October 2021 – March 2023; 1 year, 6 months

• Supporting a community-of-interest (COI) of Stakeholders in their transition, adoption, and migration of their on- premises Workload to a multi-tenant, multi–Cloud Service Provider (CSP) ecosystem that consist of Native and/or Hybrid implementations within AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and IBM Cloud environments and platforms.

• This includes facilitating and guiding Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions (to include TEMs) with COI Cloud Stakeholders in developing technical and functional requirements for building their statement-of-work

(SOW) for an RFI to be completed by the various CSPs, as stated above.

• This includes the development of a Conceptual solution implementation strategy in the form of a cloud migration transition strategy and an implementation architecture as part of a comprehensive SOW.

• Facilitated project milestone Agile Scrum sessions among the project stack: Infrastructure, Network, Storage, Security, Data Transport, and External System Integration.

• This includes executive management, Technical Exchange Meetings (TEM) regarding mitigating risk across the multi-cloud ecosystem.

• This also has the inclusion of my supporting COI Cloud Stakeholders (on a limited basis) through their System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) of prototyping, proof-of-concepts, development, testing, and pre-production cycles. Participated in extensive multi-cloud strategic build planning and deployments conferences as a briefer.

• Developed guideline documentation for cloud development in the form of cloud design patterns that are applicable across the COI CSP ecosystem.

• Extensive Executive and Management briefings and mentoring to team members and community peers. Lead Data Architect

National Geospatial College

Crimson Phoenix, LLC April 2021 – September 2021; 6 months

• Devised, implemented, and facilitated a data management assessment effort that was administered across the agency's organizational business segments and components to develop an agency Data Management Framework combined with governance and a Data Management Strategy, to include a Data Transition Strategy, as well as, as task deliverables.

• Lead a team of three in conducting Technical Exchange Meetings (TEM) with each college business segment and component (totaling 22) to discuss their methods, operational practices, and procedures utilized in managing corporate data assets in their daily business operations. This procedure discovered many gaps in non-existent or limited data management practices applied to managing corporate data assets were captured during these interviews.

• As part of the corporate data management assessment effort, I conducted a second session of interviews with each organization business segment and component to build and construct architectural artifacts in the form of Data Flow Diagrams to simulate data movement, integration, coordination, and storage platforms, as well as business logic of their activity surrounding corporate data assets.

• Evaluated, analyze, and assess existing organization technical infrastructure capabilities and topology to drive towards building and developing an organization Data Management transition strategy (road map) to redesign and reconfigure their data platforms, methods of data integration and operability, coordination and collaboration, and visualization (dashboards), as well as data centralization methods in the form of data layer, data lakes, or some form of a data hub.

• Developed and built an organization Data Management Strategy in the form of a "to-be" architecture towards the development, building, and implementation of a new overarching, designed and reconfigured organizational business-data-infrastructure operations that are successfully aligned for the organization's current and future needs for managing and governing their corporate data assets. Cloud Integration Architect / Information System Security Officer (ISSO) Crimson Phoenix November 2019 – March 2021; 1 year, 5 months

• Constructed and developed various Integrated and interoperable Hybrid Cloud solutions in support of the customer’s initiatives to include modernization and digital transformation on multiple networks and infrastructure configurations. Artifacts were developed using Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE).

• Supporting the customer in the role of ISSO/ISSE, lead customer solutions through the accreditation Risk Management Framework (RMF) that’s guided by NIST 503 standards while using Xacta software.

• Facilitated the acquisitions (infrastructure components), architecture design, and the build of the customer’s new network, integrated and interoperable with Sabre travel services to include the accreditation lifecycle. Cloud Architect – Intelligence Community Mission Systems Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Crimson Phoenix November 2017 – October 2019; 2 years

• System Architect supporting the design, development, and implementation of an individual background checking and assessment system built on a complex designed native cloud AWS infrastructure as a service platform

(public and private domains) using an Agile microservices and Lambda functions engineered lifecycle for maximum automation.

• Reverse-engineered the existing built system in the form of Logical Business Process Models (BPM) that reflect and simulate all system functional areas to include cross-domain and third-party service providers' system-to- system integration and interoperability to build a system architecture baseline.

• Design and architected new system feature and targeted future capabilities to include additional services requiring third-party services integrated to achieve a system-to-system integration and interoperability in the form of Cross Domain (air gap) solutions as expected to apply knowledge of enterprise IT needs to review system capabilities and limitations, analyze user requirements, and design improved processes and procedures.

• Functions include, but are not limited to, performing systems management and cloud integration activities; conducting analysis of science, engineering, business, and data-processing problems; and developing technology and architectural advancements to support IT architectural strategy, technology migration, and integration.

• Architects are expected to apply knowledge of enterprise IT needs to review system capabilities and limitations, analyze user requirements, and design improved processes and procedures.

• Support shall extend to areas including the Enterprise Cloud Architecture (AWS) into IT investment planning, evaluation of new commercial Cloud products/applications, and mobile access solutions.

• Architect shall support the Sponsor in defining system architectures, developing Enterprise Architecture roadmaps, and identifying planned developments in information technology areas.

• System Architect shall provide systems architecture knowledge and consultation to the Sponsor on component requirements, system designs, and system architectures.

• Architect shall provide input on technical parameters for testing the Sponsor's system performance requirements, architectural traceability, and consistency, and shall update architectural models and tools to reflect testing results.

• Architect shall support architectural and design planning by developing reference implementations of the IT architecture through proofs of concept, by delivering architecture-level design descriptions for future development efforts in infrastructure and applications, and by updating baselines and project documentation accordingly.

• Architect shall assess Agency IT project portfolio gaps, overlaps, redundancies, and anomalies, and shall recommend changes to Agency IT project portfolios to leverage existing services and to improve alignment with Agency and IC Enterprise Architecture.

• Architect shall assist in ensuring that systems are compliant with the Agency's Enterprise Technical Architecture

(ETA_, and that future versions of the ETA include considerations for new technologies being evaluated.

• Architect shall work with appropriate parties to resolve discrepancies between proposed IT systems and enterprise quality and security standards.

ESITA II Task Order Lead

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

Rollins Enterprises, LLC 09/2017 to 12/2017 - (Short-term assignment for a specific task order) Supporting the Office of Strategic Planning, Policy, and Performance Management.

• Leading an effort to evaluate the Community of Interest (COI) service offerings of ‘Common Concerns’ in the order of: AWS Cloud Computing, GovCloud, and Data Service Architecture (DSA) based on adoption practices, benefits, and stakeholders’ utilization in the areas of: Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Enablers.

• Coordinate and facilitate Technical Exchange meetings (TEMs) with Operations and Maintenance (O&M) subject matter experts as well as Mission stakeholders (internally/externally) to gain real-world outcomes (documented) for executive management briefing, as well as assisting management in executive decision points (s). Cloud Architect / Systems Engineering Technical Advisor (SETA)Department of the Treasury, Office of Intelligence Analysis (OIA)

Rollins Enterprises, LLC October 2015 – August 2017; 1 year, 11 months

• As a Transition Manager, provided Subject Matter Expertise and guidance in the development of IT deliverables for mission engineering, mission integration, and development oversight for; Technical Architecture that consumes various Community of Interest (COI) Services, Strategic Plans and capability roadmaps for COI Services integration, and Implementation Strategies and coordination for the adoption of various COI Services such as; Desktop as a Service (DaaS), Data as a Service (DaaS), Identity Authentication Authorization as a Service (IAAS), and Cloud Computing as a Service (CCaaS), in support of mission customers and users future capabilities. Unified Communications Architect

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

Axiologic, LLC June 2014 – September 2015; 1 year, 4 months

• Provided oversight and leadership supporting the agency's initiative for implementing and delivering Studio Video Teleconference (SVTC) as a service to the Intelligence Community (IC). This includes the facilitation and coordination to build the required communication and collaboration among various DIA inter-agency consumers of services from the executive level to network engineering and agency stakeholders. Cloud Integration Architect

Rollins Enterprises, LLC September 2013 – May 2014; 9 months Cloud Integration Architect for a Federal Agency CIO office

• As a Cloud Integration Solution Architect, led a Focus Group of System Engineers to successfully develop a Hybrid Cloud integration and deployment strategy.

Cloud Architect / Technical Lead

Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)

Rollins Enterprises, LLC February 2013 – August 2013; 7 months Technical Lead / Cloud Architect for the Office of Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) and the Chief Information Office

(CIO)

• As a Technical Lead of the CTO EA Team, successfully facilitated the development and build of a CTO Enterprise Architecture primarily focused on Enterprise Identity Management Service (EIMS) with Multi and Single Level Security (based on ABAC topology) and a Cloud Architecture (AWS) Portfolio of 27 services defined by X as a service, such as: Data-as-a-Service (DaaS), Network-Storage-as-a-Service (NSaaS), Provisioning-as-a-Service

(PROVaaS), Security-as-a-Service (SECaaS).

Technical Team Lead / Cloud Architect

United States Army Information Technology Agency (ITA) Rollins Enterprises, LLC August 2012 – January 2013; 6 months

• Serving as a member of a technical collaboration team of Engineers, Systems, Security, Transport, Network and Data Center Operations tasked with the Life Cycle Design and the Procurement through Implementation/Deployment of the ITA Multi-Tenant Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Pilot. The VDI Pilot is designated as a baseline for an Enterprise Solution to provide Desktop as a Service (DaaS) to the U.S. Pentagon Building and the Headquarters Dept of the Army (HQDA). The VDI Pilot is being designed, developed, and constructed on "Cloud" principles with the Consumer Services being managed by vCloud, with the Platform Services being managed by VMware based on PC over IP (PCoIP), and the Infrastructure Services are being managed as a Virtualized Hosting environment built on a "Point of Delivery" (POD) engineering typology for scalability.

Lead Systems Engineer / Cloud Architect

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) – AFPAK Program

Rollins Enterprises, LLC August 2011 – July 2012; 1 year

• Served as the Data Layer Integration Lead as a member of the Dept. of Defense Intelligence Information System

(DoDIIS) AFPAK SETA Program tasked with the development and management of to-be architectural artifacts

(DoDAF v1.5/UML) composed of system components and functional capabilities such as; Data Ingest

(Midpoint/Pitchfork), Data Enrichment (MetaCarta, SOLR/Lucene, METS), Data Mashup (Presto), Widgets

(iApps), Search Engine (Vivisimo), Cloud Base (High Computing Environment), Data Enrichment (Hadoop, Cloudera), Advance Analytics (MapReduce Algorithm), Data Marts, Web Services (REST/SOAP), Data Standards

(PubXML), Data Adaptors, and API’s. They are comprised of various frameworks such as: Ozone Widget Framework (OWF), Marketplace Framework, and Mashup Framework, which align with the Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise Framework (DI2E-F). The AFPAK Program serves the DIA, the Intelligence Community, and other Stakeholders.

Senior Systems Architect

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Rollins Enterprises, LLC June 2010 – July 2011; 1 year, 2 months

• As a member of the SA Monitoring team of the Operational & Maintenance project group; tasked by the USCIS Transformation Program Office (TPO) to design, develop, configure and implement an enterprise cross domain monitoring system targeting: Networks, Servers, Applications, Database, and System Integration activities using a suite of OPNET tools called: ACE “Live” network throughput monitor, Panorama application transactional monitor, and ACE Analyst a packet analyzer. The enterprise is comprised of the following domains: Development environment, System Integration Test (SIT), Functional Quality Test (FQT), Training environment, System Acceptance Test (SAT), and a limited area of Production environment. The USCIS Electronic Immigration System

(ELIS) is virtually hosted (VMware) with WebSphere Portal on Unix (AIX), Solaris, Linux, Websphere, and Microsoft (2003) servers with Oracle 11g backend that includes the solution components of: Seibel Suite, Documentum Suite, Tibco Suite, Informatica Suite, Oracle/OBIEE, Adobe LiveCycle, Informatica and Java Development Suite.

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Technical Lead / Senior Enterprise Architect

Criterion Systems, Inc. May 2008 – May 2010; 2 years, 1 month

• The objective of this effort is to design and develop Enterprise Architectural artifacts and Technical Standards capable of providing the strategically and tactical guidance required to implement an cross domain integrated Enterprise Information Sharing Environment capable of supporting information exchanges among 5 Communities of Interest (COI) comprised of: the Intelligence Community (IC), the Dept. of Defense (DoD), Homeland Security

(DHS), Foreign Affairs, and the Private Sector in addition to State, Local, and Tribal governments. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Solutions Architect Hewlett-Packard (HP) May 2007 – April 2008; 1 year

• Serving as a SOA Solution Architect on an Integrated Proposal Team (IPT) to architect, engineer, and facilitate the development and deployment of a SOA prototype called the Competitive Test Environment (CTE) for a Business Development contractual proposal to the DOD Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). The SOA CTE prototype was architected for a Wide Area Network (WAN) with the following components; Dream weaver

(Information Portal), Sonic MQ/Sonic ESB (Messaging/Transport), jBPM/ActiveBPEL (Mediation), HP Systinet2(Service Discovery/Governance/SLA Management), AmberPoint (Enterprise Service Management), RedHat Enterprise Linux LDAP(LDAP), LifeRay (Portal), F5 LTM 6400(Load Balancer.), Oracle 10g(DBMS), and Open View (Network Monitoring). The CTE prototype also served as HP SOA Center of Excellence (COE) to demonstrate its capability to deliver an SOA construct to its customers in the Intelligence Community (IC). Senior Enterprise Architect

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Rollins Enterprises, LLC May 2006 – April 2007; 1 year Sr. Enterprise Architect

• Serving as the Enterprise Architect on the Enterprise Architecture Integration Team for the DNI Intelligence Community (IC) Enterprise Architecture effort supported by SAIC.

• Provided Enterprise Architecture (EA) program coordination among the EA teams (Business, Data, Technical, Performance, and System) to build a Baseline Enterprise Architecture and a Target Enterprise Architecture

(based on the OMB FEA).

Lead Data Architect

Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

Rollins Enterprises, LLC March 2005 – April 2006; 1 year, 2 months

• Serving as a Lead Data Architect for the TSA Enterprise Architecture effort supported by the Unisys Corporation.

• Manage TSA Enterprise Architecture Meta-model environment that consist of an EVP Portal with a SQL Server J2EE Platform. This portal is used to publish TSA EA artifacts. Lead Data / Service-Oriented Architect

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Rollins Enterprises, LLC January 2004 – February 2005; 1 year, 2 months

• Lead Data/Service Oriented Architect (SOA) for the Enterprise Data Management Office (EDMO) of the IRS.

• As Team Lead of four, designed, developed, and delivered various architectural artifact components of the Enterprise Architecture, such as The Service Oriented Architecture, the Enterprise Target Data Architecture, and the Data Architecture Handbook.

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Senior Business Intelligence Analyst

United States Postal Service (USPS)

Rollins Enterprises, LLC December 2002 – December 2003; 1 year, 1 month

• Serving as a Sr. Business Intelligence Analyst for the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) Retail Data Mart engagement for the US Postal Service (USPS). Performed data analysis and development of ETL Specifications for loading various OLTP data sources into the EDW. Including some logical and physical data modeling design of EDW dimension using Erwin 4.0. Administered JAD sessions with technical operations personnel and stakeholders to capture ETL scheduling requirements for Cognos or Informatica development. Senior Data Architect

Rollins Enterprises, LLC – Independent Consultant (National Archives and Records Administration) Dec 2001 – Nov 2002; 11 months

• Constructed the IT strategy to implement an Enterprise Data Architecture to support the NARA IT Strategic Plan for an integrated central repository to share enterprise data among NARA business applications and executive management.

Requirements Manager / Systems Engineer

Rollins Enterprises, LLC – Independent Consultant (Internal Revenue Service Dec 2000 – Nov 2001; 11 months

• Served as Requirements Manager and Solution Architect for the Internet Refund Fact of Filing (IRFOF) project, which was part of the Customer Communications 2002 initiative. 7/1999 to 12/2000

Rollins Enterprises, LLC (Independent Consultant)

MCI WorldCom

Systems Engineer / RUP Methodologist (Lead role)

• Conducted OOA to build an OOD baseline business model applying system engineering RUP Methodology for artifacts such as; use cases, visual models, implementation strategy, development guidelines, project planning, requirements management, system testing, trouble ticket management (Rational Clear Quest), configuration management, and software release management.

3/1998 to 7/1999

Rollins Enterprises, LLC (Independent Consultant)

D.C. Court Services Offender Supervision Agency

Application Architect / Sr. Systems Analyst

• Served as an Application Architect / Sr. System Analyst to capture and maintain business requirements for various segments of the judicial system using Requisite Pro, define functional specifications, and design target system business model for a .Net Framework prototype developed as the Pre-Trial Information System Management (PRISM) system.

6/1996 to 3/1998

Rollins Enterprises, LLC (Independent Consultant)

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Sr. Systems Analyst

• Served as a Sr. System Analyst to capture and maintain system requirements and conduct design analysis of the Grants Administration Tracking and Evaluation System (GATES). 8/1995 to 6/1996

Rollins Enterprises, LLC (Independent Consultant)

MCI Telecommunications

Sr. Business Analyst

• Served as a Sr. Business Analyst/Developer in a Team lead role for the design and development of the Fixed Assets Configuration System for MCI Property Accounting.



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