DIT • CISSP • E-8 Retired, WYANG
Network architect and cybersecurity consultant with 28+ years leading enterprise-scale technology programs across Federal, DoD, and Defense Industrial Base environments.
Technical Domains
Technical depth across cloud, network, identity, and compliance architectures, applied at enterprise scale in Federal and DoD environments.
Enterprise cloud design and migration across hyperscalers, with deep experience in sovereign and impact-level environments. Led 20+ cloud instance migrations at USDA and executed GCC-High transitions for DIB clients.
Directed enterprise security operations for 100,000+ endpoints across the Air National Guard, receiving national recognition for endpoint management optimization. Experienced with Zero Trust architectures and next-generation firewall platforms.
Authored SSPs, COOP plans, and DR frameworks for classified and unclassified environments. Remediated 79 NIST 800-171 controls to restore DoD contract eligibility for a Defense Industrial Base client.
Enterprise SME for USDA-wide SD-WAN covering thousands of sites. Experienced with BGP routing, MTIPS planning, DNS/IPAM management, and network performance monitoring at federal scale.
Designed and operated hybrid Azure Active Directory and on-premises domain linkage for multi-site environments. Experienced with federated identity, conditional access policies, and privileged access management in DoD contexts.
Extensive experience bridging IT and operational technology in military and critical infrastructure settings. Designed and executed the ROSC 31A data center build-out with under three hours of downtime across 15 ANG units.
Career
Selected programs and leadership roles, and what they delivered.
USDA
Served as enterprise SME for USDA-wide SD-WAN deployment. Managed the migration of 20+ cloud instances to the Lumen CSG platform, coordinating across agency stakeholders and vendor teams.
Wyoming Air National Guard
Designed and executed a full data center build-out and migration with less than three hours of downtime across 15 ANG units, keeping every unit operational through the transition.
Celerium / DIB Client
Remediated 79 NIST 800-171 controls to restore DoD contract eligibility for a Defense Industrial Base client facing compliance risk. Managed subsequent migration to GCC-High to align with CMMC 2.0 requirements.
Air National Guard, National Level
Received national recognition from Air National Guard leadership for designing and optimizing the ANG's SCCM solution, driving enterprise-wide improvements to patch compliance and endpoint visibility across 50,000+ devices.
Wyoming Air National Guard
Served as a branch chief, responsible for planning the work, setting priorities, and answering to unit leadership for the results, while keeping the people in the branch trained and growing into the next level of responsibility.
Wyoming Air National Guard
Retired at the rank of Senior Master Sergeant after 22 years of service, 1997 to 2019, with duties across cyber systems operations, personnel, and first sergeant functions. At that level the job is as much about people as technology, which meant advising commanders, mentoring airmen and junior NCOs, and holding the standard for the whole section.
Numerica
Ran operations for a defense industrial base contractor and served as its Facility Security Officer, with security compliance, IT, and the business side of the house all landing on the same desk. Led the NIST 800-171 remediation and the GCC High migration, and built the cloud security architecture that aligned the company's posture with NIST 800-53 controls and FedRAMP authorization boundaries.
Academic
Active adjunct faculty member teaching IT and cybersecurity courses, bringing Federal and DoD operational experience into the classroom.
Qualifications
Certification
CISSP
Education
Doctorate in IT (DIT)
Military Service
E-8, SMSgt (Ret.), WYANG
Experience
24+ Years Federal/DoD
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Frameworks
NIST · FedRAMP · CMMC · RMF
Publication
Applied research on NIST 800-171 compliance in the Defense Industrial Base.
Doctoral capstone research examining the application and practical challenges of NIST 800-171 across Defense Industrial Base organizations, with analysis of control implementation gaps and remediation strategies.
Download PDFEngagement
Available for Director, C-Suite, and senior cross-functional leadership engagements in Federal, DoD, and adjacent sectors.