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SAMUEL CLEMENS

Dayton,OH

Summary

Experienced Cyber Security Leader holding an active Secret Clearance leveraging 6+ years in the Federal Government and Cybersecurity industries. I Leverage many management level cyber security certifications including ISC2 CISSP, SSCP, CYSA+ and Pentest+. I excel under pressure and am adept at leading teams.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead Cyber Security Analyst

HPCMP CSSP
12.2023 - Current
  • Lead a team of Analysts to Detect Cyber Incidents when they occur and respond to those incidents.
  • Mentor and train the analyst's on my shift.
  • Improve processes and work flows.
  • Analyze logs in many different formats to identify nefarious activity.
  • Process alerts through our SIEM.
  • Identify false positive indicators and tuning them within our SIEM
  • Monitoring threats identified by HIPS/NIPS
  • Communicate with and Assist ISSO/ISSMs with remediating cyber threats at a local level
  • Orders management – Processing Cyber Tasking Orders.
  • Block IPs/Domains/ASNs at the firewall based off of real time cyber analysis
  • Performed risk analyses to identify appropriate security countermeasures.

Communication Security Officer /Desktop Support Network Administrator

United States Air Force
02.2023 - 12.2023
  • While deployed to Iraq I filled the role of COMSEC Officer, responsible for protecting secret key cryptography used for battle field operations.
  • Kept strict inventory of crypto keys.
  • Transferred crypto keys to radios, MRAPs, and other battle field equipment.
  • Provision accounts for new users in Active Directory
  • Repair and trouble shoot Desktops/Laptops
  • Inventory and safely stow over $250,000 worth of IT equipment.
  • Escorted and Assisted local contractors in maintaining our Wireless LAN.
  • Ran/terminated Fiber optics cable and ethernet cable.
  • Perform guard duty during emergency situation when Security Forces required help.

System Administrator

United States Air Force
12.2019 - 02.2023


  • Troubleshoot and maintained IT service desk for 31K Department of Defense (DoD) personnel across 740 Local Area Networks (LAN)
  • Led a 5-man team, oversaw 2,000 service desk tickets, and expedited 82 VIPS
  • Sanitized IT assets and secured classified data worth $350 million
  • Managed team for printer outage affecting 500 Multi-Function Devices (MFD) in less than 24 hours.
  • Lead for Safety Program protecting 440 personnel
  • Wrote PowerShell script that restored printing capabilities to over 2000 users
  • Inventoried and kept track of $140,000 worth of IT equipment.
  • Implemented STIG configurations on MFDs, client systems
  • IAM provisioned user accounts within active directory
  • Mobile Device Management
  • Ran/terminated ethernet cable.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Cyber Security

Western Governors University
Salt Lake City, UT
05-2023

Associate of Science - Information Technology

Community College of The Air Force
Montgomery, AL
04-2021

Skills

  • Active Directory management
  • Risk assessment in vulnerability management
  • Network Security
  • Kibana data visualization
  • Script development
  • Knowledge of OWASP Top 10 security risks
  • Team leadership
  • NIST Compliance
  • Network Protocols
  • Penetration Testing
  • Data management
  • Risk Management Frameworks
  • Data encryption techniques
  • IDS integration
  • Firewall management
  • Threat modeling
  • Intrusion detection
  • Data encryption
  • Disaster recovery
  • Cybersecurity frameworks

Certification

  • ISC2 CISSP | 2025
  • CompTIA A+ | 2020
  • CompTIA Network+ | 2020
  • CompTIA Security+ | 2020
  • CompTIA CYSA+ | 2023
  • CompTIA Pentest+ | 2022
  • ISC2 SSCP | 2023

Awards

  • Senior Airman Below the Zone Recipient
  • Excellence award for stellar academic performance
  • Combat Device Service Medal

Timeline

Lead Cyber Security Analyst

HPCMP CSSP
12.2023 - Current

Communication Security Officer /Desktop Support Network Administrator

United States Air Force
02.2023 - 12.2023

System Administrator

United States Air Force
12.2019 - 02.2023

Bachelor of Science - Cyber Security

Western Governors University

Associate of Science - Information Technology

Community College of The Air Force

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