Richard Worthy
CrowdStrike
Austin,TX
1
Certification
4
years of professional experience
Cybersecurity professional with 5 years of Air Force cyber operations experience, specializing in threat hunting, incident response, and leading hunt teams; skilled in endpoint and network telemetry analysis, malware analysis, threat intelligence platforms, and EDR, with a track record of producing actionable reports and executive briefings.
Full time employment eligible - December 1, 2026
Security Clearance - TS/SCI w/ Poly
Work History
Security Analyst
2 MonthsManager, Threat Hunting and Response
1 Year- Directed teams of 10+ in proactive threat hunting across environments supporting 2,000+ endpoints and petabytes of telemetry, uncovering novel adversary TTPs that informed containment and disruption actions against APT activity.
- Authored technical threat intelligence reports and network security assessments aligned to NIST SP 800-53, producing prioritized mitigation plans that reduced attack surface and strengthened defenses.
- Briefed executive stakeholders and presented to 100+ live attendees on global hunt operations, communicating complex methodologies and coordinating multi-organization responses to enable mission success.
Threat Hunting AI Integration Lead
1 Year- Led a 10-person team integrating AI-driven analytics and agentic workflows into detection and response operations, improving planner and analyst throughput by 50% during a critical planning phase under a $2M investment.
- Owned delivery of AI-enabled security initiatives by running nationwide hackathons and coordinating 30+ experienced operators to pressure-test detections, validate indicators, and feed findings back into iterative improvements.
Director of Training
3 Years 2 Months- Led a 20-member training cohort and aligned 50+ hours of cyber operator curriculum to four USCYBERCOM work-role requirements; improved training efficiency by 50% and saved 100+ hours annually, earning formal recognition for three consecutive quarters.
- Postured two organizations to execute an AI strategy supporting cyber operations by curating 45+ hours of AI-focused content for 130+ analysts; selected for a 2-star General Officer-led AI Operational Planning Team to identify practical AI integration opportunities across the Air Force.
- Owned a $400K training budget and authored policy to improve student progress; integrated automation and Power BI reporting to strengthen training outcomes and increase SANS certification pass rates by 75%.
Endpoint Security Analyst
3 Years 5 Months- Produced customer-ready threat hunting reporting by co-authoring a comprehensive assessment of partner network, documenting key indicators and gaps and driving 17 targeted improvements to strengthen the partner’s security posture.
- Improved detection engineering workflow through automation by writing Python and PowerShell scripts to collect, normalize, and search large datasets for IOCs, increasing hunt speed and expanding novel findings across multiple missions.
Education
M.S. - Information Security
B.S. - Cyber Science
Graduated with Academic Distinction
Skills
SIEM (Kibana and Splunk)
EDR/MDR (Falcon
Elastic Agent)
Host-Based Forensics (Autopsy
FTK Imager)
Reverse Engineering (Ghidra)
Memory Forensics (Volatility)
Detection Engineering (Yara
Suricata
Snort)
Certification
- GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA) Expires 2028
- GIAC Defending Advanced Threats (GDAT) Expires 2029
- GIAC Machine Learning Engineer (GMLE) Expires 2030
- GIAC Offensive AI Analyst (GOAA) Expires 2030
- Associate of ISC2
Timeline
Security Analyst
CrowdStrike
06.2026 - CurrentRead More
Manager, Threat Hunting and Response
United States Air Force
06.2025 - 06.2026Read More
Threat Hunting AI Integration Lead
United States Air Force
06.2025 - 06.2026Read More
Director of Training
United States Air Force
04.2023 - 06.2026Read More
Endpoint Security Analyst
United States Air Force
01.2023 - 06.2026Read More
United States Air Force Academy
B.S. from Cyber Science
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Carnegie Mellon University
M.S. from Information Security
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