Edwin Hiciano-Ortiz
Bel Air,MD
Summary
Dynamic professional with a proven track record at Accenture Federal Services, excelling in compliance risk management and strategic communication. Expert in leveraging audit management and fostering client relationships to enhance security postures and operational efficiency. Achieved significant improvements in compliance processes, demonstrating a keen ability to manage change and drive performance. Skilled in synthesizing and analyzing complex information to provide actionable intelligence. Background includes working closely with other intelligence agencies and security teams to identify, assess, and mitigate potential threats. Strong analytical, critical thinking, and communication skills enable effective collaboration across departments. Contributed to enhancing organizational security posture through proactive threat identification and strategic recommendations.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Security Compliance Associate Manager
Accenture Federal Services
06.2023 - Current
- This entails providing support for a range of security factors, including staff, security measures, averting security incidents, and maintaining business operations
- As a Subject Matter Expert, I give stakeholders security briefings, act as a resource for advice and assistance, and conduct CCOP training to guarantee adherence to pertinent regulations
- In addition to coordinating security enablement duties and maintaining client contacts to handle compliance issues, I support NSP staff members who are traveling overseas
- Maintaining records of logs, are part of the developmental stage for foreign travel within NSP
- Facilitate and participate in monthly meetings with multiple departments within AFS such as, Senior PMO staff, Secure +, Info-Sec, Global Mobility Team (GMS), IT departments: (LTS and NJX)
- Finally, I monitor security issues, oversee training completion for audits, help produce training materials, and oversee efforts to maintain compliance with CDP, CCOP, and CMMC criteria
- Ensuring that delivery teams can continue to meet and provide client delivery needs, while maintaining AFS’s security posture
Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
U. S. Coast Guard Cyber Command Reserve
DC, USA
06.2022 - Current
- Providing support in critical infrastructure, national defense, and interconnected information technologies for all operational units
- Assisting in threat analysis for maritime critical infrastructures, by delivering effects and capabilities in and through cyberspace
- Developed and produced cyber threat framework analysis on joint DHS office of Intelligence and Analysis with an Intelligence Support plan
- Support Cyber teams with data and trend analysis and reporting using MITRE techniques
- Analyze, develop trend analysis and incident response plans for operational teams and management to assist on investigative security issues
Strategic communications & knowledge management lead
Accenture Federal Services
07.2022 - 06.2023
- Managed strategic communications for the Chief Information officer, both internal and external audiences, ensuring successful implementation and delivery of complex financial management information into high-level talking points and presentations
- Served as a strategic partner to internal clients to assess needs and deliver impactful communications
- Facilitated, built, and maintained high level briefings, visuals, communications, and design for executive level PowerPoint presentations for over 15 briefs, backlogs, white papers, Department of Defense (DOD) Memorandums, and IT concept guides
- Assisted with executive level business writing and editing regarding strategy, policy, and DOD governance
- Provided editorial oversight and strategic direction to major content distribution vehicles within multiple government agencies
- Designed and maintained a cadence of internal communications that supported defined initiatives necessary to further organizational objectives, meet project demands, and facilitated monthly financial budget meetings with the respective board members and partners for the Chief Information officer
- Maintained and managed Knowledge Management of SharePoint sites for the Chief Information Officer and respective partners, ensuring timely and successful delivery of SharePoint migration, site hierarchy structure, backlog matrix, SharePoint design, IT concepts for publishing documents and maintained the security of contents by monitoring and updating permissions
- Cyber Crisis Action Team Member, providing insight on critical cyber threat intelligence through strategic impact articles and analysis
- Provided excellent communication skills, knowledge, cybersecurity intelligence and open-source research methodologies for federal incident reporting requirements
Lead Intelligence analyst
U. S. Coast Guard Ninth District Intelligence Staff
05.2019 - 07.2022
- Lead Analyst to Ninth District Intelligence shop, this was a joint operational center where the mission involved processing, dissemination, collection, and analysis of the intelligence to multiple different phases of the intelligence process
- This also included daily program oversight and professional management, intelligence support to deployed units, planning, training, and interagency liaison
- Guaranteeing timely, accurate flow of tactical intelligence between field elements and Coast Guard Intelligence Program
- Worked with Geospatial partners such as NGA on 40 different products for high value customers
- Served as the Ninth District Commander’s principal advisor on all intelligence matters and provided field as well as staff level training, to include Law Enforcement Intelligence Collection techniques
- Conducted countless hours of data collection, analysis, interpretation, open source, and all-source intelligence to support field operations with dissemination of over 50 products with an impact of District Nine Area of Operations
Lead SIGINT analyst and linguist Reporter
U.S. Coast Guard Cryptologist Unit
San Antonio, USA
04.2015 - 05.2019
- Worked in a Joint Operational Center identifying and producing intelligence from raw information; assembling and analyzing multi-source operational intelligence; collecting and analyzing communication signals using sophisticated computer technology; providing input to and receiving data from multiple computerized intelligence systems; preparing and presenting intelligence briefings; preparing planning materials for operational missions, conducting mission briefings/debriefings for high ranking members, analyzing results, and preparing reports; preparing graphics, overlays, and photo/map composites using Geospatial analysis tools; plotting imagery data using maps and charts; and maintaining intelligence databases, libraries, and files
- Managed communication signals intelligence research and analysis for mission directives and deployed to produce tactical and operational SIGINT products that dealt with smuggling cases that resulted in over a $1billion dollars of seized narcotics
- Briefed the Director of the National Security Agency on accomplished live operational missions and successes for our area of operations
- Evaluated and interpreted over 100+ SIGINT records, technical reports, linguistics and overlayed with Geo-spatial tools for analysis and briefings
- Conducted raw and combined SIGINT analysis, data, for live operations being conducted out at sea and gathered information to brief the Intelligence director of live critical operations
- Reported and analyzed all SIGINT data to be put into multinational agency databases to be accessed and used by IC partners
- Conducted daily briefings to a 24 manned rotating watch floor to both high-level commands and deploying teams
- Developed recommendations to assist clients and agencies with efforts to advance intelligence gathering and interpretation in multiple theaters of operation
- Supervised gathering, review, and dissemination of intelligence information from human sources, electronic sources, and counterintelligence
- Produced multi-source intelligence reports and products for different agency customers
- Organized collection, analysis, and dissemination of raw SIGINT between multiple intelligence organizations during multiple deployments out at sea
- Oversaw physical security of classified materials and facilities while deployed
- Used multi-source intelligence applications and linguistic abilities to interpret raw data and turn it into actionable intelligence
- Briefed upper-level personnel on emerging threats
- Applied new and advanced tools and techniques to intelligence cycle, addressing complex challenges with emphasis on big data analytics and data visualization
- Facilitated communication between law enforcement personnel and individuals involved in crimes such as witnesses, persons of interest and suspects
Education
Bachelors - International Relations and Affairs
American Military University
06-2019
Skills
- Audit management
- Compliance Risk Specialist
- Change Management Processes
- Client Relationship Management
- Research Analysis
- Risk Analysis and Mitigation
- Cyber Threat Intelligence
- Knowledge Management
- DoD/Military Management
- Change Management
- Training and performance support
- Strategic Communication
- Identity Access Management (IAM)
- Computer Security Incident Response
- Process Improvements
- Security Administration
- Strategic Portfolio Management
- Product Management
- SharePoint Site Collection Administration
- Trend Analysis
- Data Management
- Synchronized Pre-Deployment Operational Tracker and Company Administrator
Languages
Spanish
Native/ Bilingual
Certification
- Anticipated completion of PMP License certification at the end of the year.
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Security Compliance Associate Manager
Accenture Federal Services
06.2023 - Current
Strategic communications & knowledge management lead
Accenture Federal Services
07.2022 - 06.2023
Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
U. S. Coast Guard Cyber Command Reserve
06.2022 - Current
Lead Intelligence analyst
U. S. Coast Guard Ninth District Intelligence Staff
05.2019 - 07.2022
Lead SIGINT analyst and linguist Reporter
U.S. Coast Guard Cryptologist Unit
04.2015 - 05.2019
Bachelors - International Relations and Affairs
American Military University
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