Mark Kern
Jackson,WI
Summary
Strategic and analytical Cybersecurity Engineer with 15+ years' experience in networking security, vulnerability assessment, and incident response. Highly proficient in risk assessment, security architecture, and penetration testing, creating resilient and compliant security infrastructure to safeguard critical information and promote secure digital environment. Effective communicator and dynamic team leader, consistently keen to collaborate seamlessly with teams.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Senior Principal Cyber Systems Engineer
NORTHROP GRUMMAN
01.2005 - Current
- Collaborated with US and International Governments by ensuring contract deliverable environments adhered to risk management frameworks, earning recognition for maintain high standards in Government contracts resulting in a 33% higher retention rate of contracts and re-engaging NGC for further related contract work
- Facilitated collaboration between international and domestic sites by fostering effective communications and resource sharing strategies among departments, streamlining access for engineering talents and enhancing operational efficiency by 40%
- Worked with International Governments where we have office sites and contract work to ensure our International locations are compliant with their local privacy and risk management regulations as well as maintaining the International standards for export control ensuring compliance
- Worked in Classified environments obtaining and maintaining authorizations to operate and ensure compliance with many levels of classified risk management frameworks
- Joined with the United States Government to move our Company toward DRM in order to prevent unauthorized document access and facilitate multi-agency/multi-security level collaboration securely
- Designed and built complex systems to achieve compliance with NIST 800-171/DFARs/FARs/CMMC
- Worked with our environments on the yearly self assessment, managed the environments to stand up to Corporate as well as Government audits (US and International Governments)
- Provided documentation to the US Government via the appropriate documentation reporting systems
- Worked the classified Risk Management Framework standards to prepare our classified areas for Government audits with 100% success rate on the contracts I assisted with.
Practice Manager - Security
EQUANT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
02.2002 - 01.2005
- Served as Practice Manager for the West Coast which included the Midwest client base
- Managed clients such as Targus, McDonald's, Goodyear, Cargill, 3M, Herbalife, Johnson and Johnson and many other fortune 100 companies
- As Practice Manager, worked with CIO's of corporations helping them to renegotiated their contract to use unused funds to drastically improve security with lower costs
- Provided a 50%-70% increased security visibility with the same amount of staff building ROI with either Managed Intrusion Detection services or Threat and Risk Assessments
- Worked with the SANS Institute as a technical editor to add to our Security Practice reputation
- Helped develop the GIAC certification exam question database.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Humanities -
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - IRVINE
Irvine, CASkills
- Network Security, Vulnerability Assessment, Penetration Testing, Incident Response, Endpoint Security, Cryptography, Security Architecture, Network Traffic Analysis, Risk Assessment, Interpersonal Communication, Problem Solving, Data Analysis, Change Management, Critical Thinking
Technical Skills
- Splunk, SNORT, Packeteer, SHADOW, Cisco IDS, Palo Alto, CIsco VPN, Cisco WAN Routers, TACLANE, Blue Coat Proxy, Squid, SIEM, Linux, Windows, HPUX, Red Hat, Solaris, HPC, LiveDVD creation, DMZ, Nessus, Kali, Forensics, DoD Wipe, Terminal Services, VMWare, VirtualBox, ESXi, MPLS, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud,
Timeline
Senior Principal Cyber Systems Engineer
NORTHROP GRUMMAN
01.2005 - Current
Practice Manager - Security
EQUANT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
02.2002 - 01.2005
Bachelor of Arts, Humanities -
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - IRVINE
Certification
CISSP, MCT, Solaris Engineer, HPUX10, Packeteer Level II Tech, CCNA, CCDA
Additional Information
- Extensive Cloud security and design skills for all levels of classification with the Government Customer as well as working with our International offices for their cloud usage in accordance with their Government privacy and Export Control requirements. Also evaluating security and design for moving support IT infrastructure to the cloud to reduce costs.
- Expert in Business Continuity including long term office/location outages, generators, data protection off-site and more.
- Have been in Military reserves since 1998 in a field hospital team as a Telecommunications Officer (Rank equivalence of Captain). Our mission over time has changed from supporting war fighter casualties at times of war to assisting in natural disaster medical support. In this capacity I work with many hospitals on their Business Continuity plans and the equipment to keep the hospitals running as well as our field hospital running in the field under austere conditions.
- Possess a Top Secret Security clearance and an Extended Special Background Investigation.
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