Sherman Vicks

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

• Provides a multi-faceted team with subject matter expertise in training curriculum development while leading the effort to conduct outreach to the military service and non-DoD intelligence schools to ensure continuity of MASINT training materials, content, and their delivery. Works closely with counterparts across the IC and DIE to help establish and maintain an IC-wide MASINT certification program.
• Prepares and presents briefing materials to audiences with a range of technical backgrounds from current MASINT practitioners to senior-level policy makers within the DoD and Intelligence Community.
• Utilizes significant current experience (i.e., within last 2 years) in MASINT analysis training/techniques/tools, producing MASINT exploitation and signature reports, products, and databases, creating data products to support/develop associated systems.
• Coordinate and manage intelligence community projects with current Collection Management (CM) Officers to optimize collection requirements by building relationships to understand customer intelligence needs and gaps, researching existing requirements, and then developing or updating and validating requirements by providing multi-intelligence Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (PED).
• Conduct continuous assessments for improvement of MASINT program areas by managing and tracking requirements in various systems and monitoring progress against intelligence gaps.

Integrated Operations Division (IOD)

CISA Intelligence Division

National Capital Region - Arlington, VA

02/2023-05/2023

GS Scale: GS-14/0132 (Supervisory)

• Acted as a direct CISA representative to DHS component, IC, and other federal agencies on collection and reporting issues. Gather and represent data and outputs via the Homeland Security Intelligence Council-Collection and Reporting Board, collection management working groups, and national level collection management meetings.
• Created detailed matrices representing DHS and IC collection to align leadership priorities, intelligence gaps, and all-source collection requirements with collection assets and activities.
• Developed strategies, plans, and postures to close intelligence gaps.
• Directed and coordinated collection management efforts as well as worked closely with I&A and DHS component collection managers and intelligence analysts as well as IC agencies to understand collection capabilities, priorities, accesses, and reporting streams.
• Served as a subject matter expert on collection and reporting of intelligence issues providing authoritative guidance on a broad knowledge of rules, regulations, and techniques used across the IC and DHS.
• Managed working groups and forums to create a transparent, data-sharing environment that coordinates DHS I&A, component, and IC members. Set goals, agendas, and conduct meetings and conferences.
• Assesses raw intelligence reporting and data to determine its responsiveness to collection requirements.
• Assisted the Associate Director of CISA Intel in ensuring CMD deliverables (such as, Collection Postures and Collection Requirement publications) align with CISA priorities and inform collection.

GS Scale: GS-15(A)/0132 (Supervisory)

• Acting Branch Chief of the Analysis Branch of CISA Intelligence Division responsible for providing all-source intelligence support and analysis on behalf of CISA headquarters elements, CISA Regional personnel, and CISA stakeholders.
• Manages a cadre of 12 experienced all-source intelligence specialists/cybersecurity intelligence analyst responsible for providing strategic and operational analytical support to a National critical infrastructure security and situational awareness.
• Responsible for providing direct intelligence support to the CISA Director, Deputy Assistant Director, Executive Assistant Director, and executive leadership on threats (foreign intelligence, foreign capabilities, terrorism, domestic extremism, and civil unrest), related to the CISA Critical Infrastructure mission.
• Serves as the Senior Intelligence Officer and final reviewer for all finished intelligence/analytical products while managing complex projects and high-level joint activities with select entities of the Intelligence community (IC).
• Serves as the senior intelligence liaison action officer (AO) during high level meetings, liaison activities, conferences, and engagements with representatives across the IC, to include AFOSI, CIA, DCSA, DHS, DIA, DOE, FBI, FEMA, NORTHCOM, NASIC, NGA, NSA, ODNI, STRATCOM, TRANSCOM, as well as other operational and private sector elements across the National Critical Infrastructure mission space.
• Works with more senior collection manager to advocate for validation and prioritization of high level collection requirements at Intelligence Community (IC)-wide and multi-national working groups, boards, or senior committees.
• Represents Associate Director of CISA Intel at joint security sessions and coordination groups related to terrorist activities, domestic extremists' movements, and possible civil unrest situations during all major world events.
• Represents the CISA Intelligence Division at private industry partnership engagements and meetings related to the mitigation and protection of national and partner nation, National Critical Infrastructure.

Supervisor: Zandreia Green, SES - Associate Director, CISA Intelligence Division (7032355019) Please contact me prior to reaching out to this person.

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

NARSIL PROGRAM

National Capital Region - Bethesda, MD

07/2022-02/2023

GS Scale: Contractor

• Provided dedicated support to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI's) training apparatus and integration policy division while providing general support to other DNI Directorates, Offices, and Intelligence Community (IC) information centers as required.
• Managed the administration aspects of the training from advertisement through record management, proper facility access, attendance, and post training evaluations, along with other administrative activities to ensure the training is conducted in the most efficient and effective manner.
• Facilitated the creation, processing, and dissemination comprehensive training surveys for over 500 IC personnel across multiple National-level Intelligence organizations.
• Ensured all logistical requirements and approvals are in place while providing guidance on arranges space for both classified and unclassified meeting spaces for trainings, workshops, and meetings for both DNI and IC personnel.

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

Joint Military Intelligence Training Center (JMITC)

Academy for Defense Intelligence (ADI)

National Capital Region - Washington, D.C.

09/2021-07/2022

GS Scale: Contractor

• Provided intelligence analysis, educational services, and operational support to federal agencies like the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community partners.
• Constantly established standardized, integrated, and synchronized training and education development programs tailored for Combatant Command personnel and IC partners specifically NSA, DIA, NRO, DHS, and CIA analyst working on complex and comprehensive regional threats/problem sets.
• Provided subject matter expertise on the collection management/collection requirement management process while coordinating with requestors to articulate their intelligence gaps and advise them on viable alternative and optimal collection techniques and practices.
• Course manager/SME for all DIA MASINT training courses. Supervised the development and revision of current curriculum and managed courses through the AGILE learning management system.
• Advocates for collection requirements to be incorporated into collection strategies and coordinates with requestors renew, update, close, and/or to solve untasked requirements.
• Responsible for teaching over 200 students/IC stakeholders alike Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) encompassing a deep dive into COMINT, ELINT, CYBER, and FISINT. Measurement and Signatures Intelligence (MASINT), Human Intelligence (HUMINT), and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) collection strategies.

Joint Special Operations Command

Joint Intelligence Brigade (JIB)

Fast Track Program (FTP)

Fort Bragg - Fayetteville, NC

07/2020-09/2021

GS Scale: Contractor

• Senior Intelligence Analyst supporting SOCOM, responsible for researching, developing, and presenting intelligence products at the operational/strategic level for senior leaders including Counter Terrorism and regional analysis, GEOINT, HUMINT, SIGINT, OSINT/PAI, political/military analysis and support to targeting world-wide neer peer threats..
• Consistently interfaced with intelligence community partners to fully prepare teams for digital network exploitation of enemy personnel devices, as well as prepare post screening analytical products and assessments supporting targeting efforts and strategic threat analysis.
• Responsible to produce intelligence assessments and products in support of CENTCOM/AFRICOM/INDO-PACOM deployed SOF Task Forces to enable the F3EAD targeting cycle.
• Instructs intelligence personnel on various intelligence processes, concepts, such as introductions to targeting, exploitation, HUMINT, SIGNT, OSINT/ISR, as well as tools commonly used throughout the community such as Analyst NoteBook(ANB), Chimera, Data Explorer, Voltron, NGT, and TIDE.
• Instructed well over 600 hours in intelligence SOI, POI, and AOI development, as well as exploitation and product development resulting the successful graduation and completion of over 125 students through the General Military Intelligence (GMI), Fast Track Program.

Marine Aircraft Group 31

• Analyzed and evaluated information to assess developments, trends, and threat implications associated with the Chinese and DPRK to prepare and present intelligence findings.
• Supported operational planning and execution of military information support operations (MISO), including liaising with other intelligence agencies and operational forces in contribution of future and daily operations against INDO-PACOM regional threat adversaries.
• In direct support of Pilot training, created numerous tailored Chinese threat briefings while forward deployed, directly contributing to the increased survivability of VMFA-224 Aircrew while flying missions along heavily contested Air Defense Identification Zones (ADIZ).

SPMAGTF-CR-CC Jordan

• Primarily served as the Senior Intelligence Analyst, MARCENT FORWARD-Jordan producing strategic, operational, and tactical intelligence products in support of CENTCOM operations throughout Southwest Asia; supporting 24 hour conventional and unconventional operations.
• Functioned as a Levant Region subject matter expert by preparing intelligence products from multiple intelligence disciplines in support of a general level organization influencing national and international leaders.

Advisor Training Group

• Trained 17 Advisor Teams of 479 personnel in ANSF Operations and AO Familiarization during 7 separate Advisor Training Group (ATG) rotations while serving as the lead Shadow (assessor) for 5 Advisor teams who served in Afghanistan as ANSF advisors.

3D Reconnaissance Battalion

• Supervised and coordinated over (100) production and analysis RFI's and TSR's in support of (1) service level, (1) Regimental, and (5) Battalion exercises.
• Provided direct support to tactical units forward deployed as a part of the Joint special Operations Task Force-Philippines, reach back element. Conducted threat analysis on Violent Extremist organizations (VEO)’s and INDO Pacific threats (CHINA/DPRK/RUSSIA).