Richard Baray
San Diego,CA
Summary
Proven highly skilled Agile Product Owner, Scrum Master, Senior Systems Engineer, Instructor and Senior Intelligence Analyst with expertise in Signals Intelligence (SIGINT). Over Twelve years of unparalleled subject matter expertise in Engineering and Intelligence across multiple domains, theaters and platforms in country and abroad.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
System Engineer/ SIGINT Subject Matter Expert
Criterion Systems Inc.
05.2023 - 03.2024
- Unparalleled front-end systems engineer, capability developer with UI/UX enhancements for operational Intelligence software platforms that serve various Intelligence Community agencies and customers
- Seamless integration of UI/UX requirements with back-end database architecture, data pipeline and monitoring activities, and external APIs using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodologies
- Experienced in administration and support with the Atlassian Product Suite to include JIRA, Confluence and Bitbucket as well as DevOps related integration Tools (Jenkins)
- Provided Automated and Manual software testing integration for continuous release and customer deliveries
- As the only SIGINT Subject Matter Expert Coordinated with the customer end users as well as the User Experience team to capture operational needs, address performance discrepancies, and inform future capabilities in a continuous release delivery.
Senior Intelligence Subject Matter Expert/Instructor/System Engineer/SysAdmin
Epsilon Systems C5I
09.2022 - 05.2023
- Site Lead in the support of Information Warfare Training Group San Diego (IWTG SD) Lead System Engineer and System administrator of the SI-PEK Training Device
- Providing Train, the Trainer of SI-PEK Training device to IWTG SD Instructors
- Develop, Script, and deliver SI-PEK scenario training in support of fleet basic phase requirements to include Pacific Fleet FST events
- As Special Intelligence Portable Embarkable Kit (SI-PEK) Lead System Engineer and System Administrator to Linux based collection systems implemented and administered multiple virtual machines via VMware on a daily occurrence for running Redhat Linux servers for development and implementation
- Configured various services, devices as well as applications of UNIX servers to customize the environment
- Python Utilization to include using os, os.path, sys, pathlib standard libraries, writing multiple module programs, Writing basic unit tests, Writing basic documentation i.e
- Readme files etc., and Writing simple command line applications
- Provide Instruction to the Forward Deployed Naval Forces in Rota, Spain for SSES Team Trainer, ACAT, and ASAT courses of instruction representing the Center for Information Warfare Training
- SIGINT Subject Matter Expert consultant to Information Warfare Training Command San Diego for the following courses of instruction SSEE INC F/E Operator Training, AIWTT, SETT and FATT
- Supporting NAVIFOR and NIWC Pacific with the testing, integration, and execution of STS scenarios and hardware in the Navy Continuous Training Environment (NCTE) and Navy Information Warfare Development Center (NIWDC) Limited Objective Experimentations (LOE) and Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) training framework.
Senior Intelligence Instructor/Analyst/Scripter
Booz Allen Hamilton
01.2021 - 09.2022
- As Lead Intelligence Software Scripter and Scenario Developer utilized technical resources and research methods to create a comprehensive training scenario for United States Navy deployable intelligence teams to improve proficiencies with assessing and addressing threats to naval assets
- Evaluated existing training materials and resources, implementing progressive intelligence programs and systems that keep specialists, and the armed forces at large, at the forefront of the field
- Additionally, consulted with stakeholders to identify project targets as well as gather input from personnel regarding issues, presenting solutions that lead to objectives being fulfilled
- Demonstrated flexibility throughout the project life cycle by modifying plans and strategies based on performance to ensure goals are attained
- Lead System Engineer and System Administrator for the Special Intelligence Portable Embarkable Kit (SI-PEK)
- Provided hundreds of hours of SI-PEK training to Pacific Fleet units during their Basic Phase Training Cycle
- Constructed curriculum focused on the student’s ability to recognize, analyze, correlate signals of interest (SOI) to contacts of interest (COI) and fuse intelligence gained from the SOI to perform time-sensitive SIGINT reporting
- Developed academic training supporting the training and exercise events of the U.S
- Navy’s Optimized Fleet Response Plan (OFRP), Fleet Synthetic Training (FST), Information Warfare Training Center (IWTC), and Information Training Warfare Group (IWTG).
Senior Intelligence Instructor
Information Warfare Training Command (IWTC)
01.2016 - 01.2021
- Administered 5,950 instructional hours to 288 U.S
- Navy and U.S
- Coast Guard service members, with 100% graduation rate, to operate SSEE Increment F system and all subsystems along with first ever SSES Team Trainer level, and Advanced Cryptologic Afloat Trainer (ACAT) incorporating SSEE Increment F
- Hand-selected SSEE Subject Matter Expert to overhaul and modernize the U.S
- Navy’s SSEE Increment F course
- Identified 304 discrepancies; developed 55 enabling and terminal objectives; restructured 12 units and 38 topics of course material; and standardized 30 tests, which is now the most current curriculum for SIGINT, support of Information Warfare worldwide
- Executed key inputs to the modernization of the U.S Navy’s SSEE Increment F Operator and Supervisor Personal Qualification Standard (PQS) that contributed to the formation of the current product to SIGINT analysts
- Requested by name to provide input for the job, duty, task frontmatter for the next generation SPECTRAL System
- Directed training as IWTC San Diego SIGINT subject matter expert on SIGINT fundamentals to the International Maritime Intelligence Course (IMIC), a course with an annual throughput of 48 students from 14 countries around the world.
Lead Intelligence Analyst
USS Howard DDG83
01.2012 - 01.2016
- Provided over three years of experience as an onboard senior SIGINT analyst and Lead SSEE Increment F Supervisor for a team of 7 junior and senior ranking SIGINT analysts and maintainers on deployment to Seventh and Fifth fleets, RIMPAC, and Multiple exercises abroad
- Led the collection of 225,000 signals of interests that led to the production of 7,905 reports implementing adversarial campaigns, behaviors, tactics, capabilities, maneuvers, motives, and intentions as related to counterintelligence threats and vulnerabilities
- Reports distributed throughout the strategic, operational, and tactical communities
- Trained and led 7 SIGINT analysts and maintainers through a shipboard basic training cycle to complete all examinations and ensured all training requirements were met
- Cryptology was certified at 100% thus recognized as the number one Intelligence asset on the San Diego waterfront.
Education
Bachelors of Science - Cyber Security
DeVry University
12.2024
Associates of Science - Computer Information Systems - Networking Concentration
California Institute of Art & Technology
01.2022
Skills
- Agile Product Owner
- Scrum Master
- System Engineering
- Integration and Testing
- Signals Intelligence (SIGINT)
- Project Management
- Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT)
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) / Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV)
- Electronic Warfare (EW)
- Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR)
- Counterintelligence
- System Administration
Certification
CompTIA Security
Security Clearance
Active Top Secret / SCI with Counterintelligence Polygraph
Timeline
System Engineer/ SIGINT Subject Matter Expert
Criterion Systems Inc.
05.2023 - 03.2024
Senior Intelligence Subject Matter Expert/Instructor/System Engineer/SysAdmin
Epsilon Systems C5I
09.2022 - 05.2023
Senior Intelligence Instructor/Analyst/Scripter
Booz Allen Hamilton
01.2021 - 09.2022
Senior Intelligence Instructor
Information Warfare Training Command (IWTC)
01.2016 - 01.2021
Lead Intelligence Analyst
USS Howard DDG83
01.2012 - 01.2016
Bachelors of Science - Cyber Security
DeVry University
Associates of Science - Computer Information Systems - Networking Concentration
California Institute of Art & Technology
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