Troy Edie
Sunderland
Summary
Fifteen years of SIGINT Analysis experience, eleven years of which on Operations floors of NSA field sites, has provided opportunities to amass a unique and valuable skills set. This broad range of knowledge is built upon years of multidisciplinary analytic and technical experience as a SIGINT Geospatial Analyst (SGA), Digital Network Intelligence (DNI) Analyst, Language Analyst, Mission Technical Lead, Collection Manager, and Subject Matter Expert for numerous missions. Experienced in geospatial analysis, traffic analysis, data-flow, and national/tactical collection management. Authored numerous training aids, mission guidelines, and informal technical notes. Experienced performing collaborative analysis and communicating daily analysis with forward deployed personnel in support of real-time missions and Counter-IED targeting. Skilled Marketing Manager with proven track record in developing and implementing strategic marketing plans that increase company visibility and revenue. Possess strong leadership abilities, creativity, and knowledge of market trends to effectively manage marketing teams and projects. Successfully increased market share by identifying customer needs and tailoring marketing strategies accordingly. Demonstrated ability to improve brand recognition through innovative campaigns and effective communication strategies. Innovative Director of Product Management with proven ability to enhance productivity and efficiently spearhead project completions. Specialize in strategic planning, market analysis, and user experience optimization. Excel in leadership, communication, and problem-solving to drive team success and product excellence. Forward-thinking professional with many years of experience developing and releasing stellar products. Seasoned expert at leading project planning, determining implementation methods, and achieving highest quality standards by working closely with engineers. Additional expertise supporting internal sales and marketing teams by contributing to brand strategy and messaging. Results-driven marketing leader born to build strategic, successful campaigns to drive profits, increase market share and cement industry dominance for demanding customers. Focused, performance-minded manager with proven skills in project management, team building, stakeholder relations and campaign optimization. Ready to offer several years of experience to new role dedicated to achieving exceptional results on tight timetables. Adaptable professional with a quick-learning ability and a talent for adjusting to new environments. Skilled in rapidly acquiring new knowledge and applying it effectively. Driven by a passion for continuous learning and successfully navigating change. Results-oriented individual with a passion for continuous learning and innovation. Known for leveraging analytical thinking and creativity to solve problems and deliver high-impact solutions in fast-paced environments.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Collection Manager
Virginia Systems & Technology, Inc.
06.2011 - Current
- Company Overview: NSA-G
- Collection Manager for a challenging and high priority Intelligence Community mission that requires daily utilization of a myriad of skills and experience to include collection, analysis, new mission development, data-flow, systems integration SIGINT tasking, processing, and exploitation
- Provide collection management at a strategic as well as system specific level, requiring knowledge of the national collection posture as well as specifics for each individual system such as tasking and data-flow
- Responsible for the management and authoring of collection requirements for both tactical and national systems covering all SIGINT disciplines
- Monitor the health of collection systems and release appropriate outage messages to the IC
- Integral part of daily support to military operations overseeing the execution of collection tasks and providing training to collection operators
- Performs daily collection management responsibilities for several national/tactical collection systems while leveraging numerous community databases including SURREY, YELLOWSTONE, GOLDPOINT, SAVANT, DOUBLEARROW, SEDB, ASSOCIATION, SIGNAV, METRICS, OCTAVE, CREST, ANCHORY, UIS, NUCLEON, Analyst Notebook, X-KEYSCORE, and PINWALE
- Pioneered the integration of geolocation into the mission by proving the intelligence value and then provided training and developed processes required for execution and reporting
- Utilizes detailed knowledge of existing architecture and system capabilities to provide direction for the development and integration of new capabilities and deployment of collection systems
- Ensure data produced by collection systems populates national databases for optimal consumption by analysts
- Provides training on tools and analytic techniques for one of the most challenging missions in the Intelligence Community, to include numerous aspects of mission such as analysis, collection, and data-flow
- NSA-G
Geo Specialist
Virginia Systems & Technology, Inc.
10.2010 - 06.2011
- Company Overview: NSA-G
- Provided support for all aspects of high priority Intelligence Community mission to include analysis, collection, new mission development, and systems integration
- Integral part of daily support to military operations providing quality control and senior analytic input into Informal Technical Notes and finished product reports
- Performs daily collection and geolocation from several national/tactical collection systems while leveraging numerous community databases including SEDB, METRICS, CREST, ANCHORY, UIS, NUCLEON
- Provides force protection and actionable intelligence for forward deployed units on a daily basis
- Collection resulting in hundreds of reports for numerous customers to include national decision makers
- NSA-G
SIGINT Geospatial Analyst (SGA)
Virginia Systems & Technology, Inc.
07.2006 - 10.2010
- Company Overview: NSA-W
- Subject Matter Expert for all aspects of two high priority Intelligence Community missions to include analysis, collection, new mission development, and systems integration
- Integral part of daily support to military operations providing quality control and senior analytic input into Informal Technical Notes and finished product reports
- Performs daily analysis from several national/tactical collection systems while leveraging numerous community databases including SEDB, RT-RG, ASSOCIATION, SIGNAV, METRICS, OCTAVE, CREST, ANCHORY, UIS, NUCLEON, Analyst Notebook, X-KEYSCORE, PINWALE and PALANTIR
- Pioneered an unprecedented capability, from inception to implementation that provides Counter-IED targeting, force protection, and actionable intelligence for forward deployed units on a daily basis
- Developed a unique analytic process, and worked to integrate this process into the daily mission resulting in hundreds of reports, and was the catalyst and primary source of intelligence for a recently established multi-agency working group
- Worked with FTM to develop new capabilities in support of the Counte-IED targeting mission
- Utilizes detailed knowledge of existing architecture and system capabilities to provide direction for the development and integration of new capabilities
- Ensure data produced by collection systems populates national databases for optimal consumption by analysts
- Provides training on tools and analytic techniques for one of the most challenging missions in the Intelligence Community, to include numerous aspects of mission such as analysis, collection, and dataflow
- NSA-W
SIGINT Geospatial Analyst (SGA)
Virginia Systems & Technology, Inc.
07.2004 - 06.2006
- Company Overview: Field site (UK)
- Evaluated a newly deployed state-of-the-art collection and processing system and developed new analytic techniques, which lead to significantly improved SIGINT production
- Performed daily analysis on several national/tactical collection systems while leveraging numerous community databases to include SEDB, ASSOCIATION, SIGNAV, METRICS, OCTAVE, CREST, ANCHORY Analyst Notebook, and X-KEYSCORE
- Collaborated with numerous multi-agency offices in the analysis and exploitation of new collection by providing analysis, training, and technical guidance for their finished reports
- Ensured finished analytic products were useful and met operational requirements
- Researched and coordinated implementation of new technologies that fulfills today's real world mission requirements
- Field site (UK)
Geospatial Metadata Analyst
US Army
01.2001 - 07.2004
- Company Overview: Field Site
- Pioneered prosecution of a new priority mission through detailed analysis and technical coordination with 3 sites and 4 agency offices
- Provided analytic support to coalition elements engaged in Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) from November 2001 through May 2002 and again during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)
- Performed daily analysis on data from a newly developed collection systems while leveraging numerous community databases to include SEDB, ASSOCIATION, SIGNAV, METRICS, OCTAVE, CREST, ANCHORY, Analyst Notebook, and X-KEYSCORE
- Expert in the operation of several national collection and processing systems, including geolocation
- Provided senior analytic support and development for the processing efforts of an 18-member joint military and Department of Defense team, which are recognized as the community-wide expert of a high priority and newly emerging technology
- Provided the user input from the senior analyst perspective for many software development processes, which greatly enhanced the community's analytic capabilities and mission execution
- Implemented team training requirements and authored a comprehensive team Job Qualification Standard (JQS), which decreased train up time by 50%
- Regularly coordinated with systems engineers to optimize productivity of prototype tools vital to team and community efforts
- Pioneered a cutting edge, high profile mission identified by DIRNSA as 'vital to the war on terrorism.'
- Developed creative approaches to source identification and prosecution, fine tuning analytic processes using multiple legacy and prototype tools, resulting in a source intelligence productivity increase of an estimated 500%
- Field Site
Cryptologic Intelligence Analyst
US Army
06.1996 - 01.2001
- Company Overview: Fort Hood, TX (overseas deployments)
- Deployed to Bosnia in support of operation SFOR as an all source analyst in support of the aviation Brigade S2
- Analyzed significant events from subordinate units throughout the entire SFOR area of operation for integration into daily intelligence briefings to the Brigade Commander
- Deployed twice to the National Training Center as the NCOIC of the Transcription and Analysis Cell, and was responsible for the analysis, planning, and execution of the Brigade level SIGINT mission
- Analyzed and processed tactical SIGINT reports providing entire Brigade level SIGINT picture of the battlefield for integration into the daily S2 intelligence summary
- Provided real time analytic support to maneuver commanders for two NTC rotations through the effective planning, analysis, and overall execution of the Brigade level SIGINT mission
- Fort Hood, TX (overseas deployments)
Education
Graduate of the Arabic Language Program -
Defense Language Institute
03.2003
BS - Computer and Information Science
University of Maryland University College
Skills
- Fifteen years of SIGINT Analysis experience, eleven years of which on Operations floors of NSA field sites
- Unique and valuable skills set built upon years of multidisciplinary analytic and technical experience
- Experienced in geospatial analysis, traffic analysis, data-flow, and national/tactical collection management
- Authored numerous training aids, mission guidelines, and informal technical notes
- Experienced performing collaborative analysis and communicating daily analysis with forward deployed personnel
- Data analysis
- Systems integration
- Database management
- Operational support
- Training development
- Team collaboration
- Process optimization
- Strategic planning
- Effective communication
- Legal compliance awareness
- Risk assessment capabilities
- Team leadership experience
- Professionalism and integrity
- Strategy development
- Customer relationship development
- Business intelligence
- Market trend analysis
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving aptitude
- SIGINT tasking
- Geolocation techniques
- Collection management
Education And Training History
- BS, Computer and Information Science, University of Maryland University College
- NETA1004, Overview of NSA Exploiting Net
- 0155, GSM Technical Overview
- 0134, IP Version 6
- 0125, Fundamentals of Location
- COMP3316, Perl Programming
- EA 40, Intro to Signal Processing MI
- Arabic Language Program, 3/3, Defense Language Institute, 03/01/03
- Primary Leadership Development Course
- Advanced Individual Training
Affiliations
- Intelligence Museum Scholarship winner
- Anti-human trafficking volunteer
Languages
Arabic
Full Professional
Certification
- SCRUM Product Owner Certification
Timeline
Collection Manager
Virginia Systems & Technology, Inc.
06.2011 - Current
Geo Specialist
Virginia Systems & Technology, Inc.
10.2010 - 06.2011
SIGINT Geospatial Analyst (SGA)
Virginia Systems & Technology, Inc.
07.2006 - 10.2010
SIGINT Geospatial Analyst (SGA)
Virginia Systems & Technology, Inc.
07.2004 - 06.2006
Geospatial Metadata Analyst
US Army
01.2001 - 07.2004
Cryptologic Intelligence Analyst
US Army
06.1996 - 01.2001
Graduate of the Arabic Language Program -
Defense Language Institute
BS - Computer and Information Science
University of Maryland University College
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