Tenable Security Center


Senior Vulnerability Management Engineer and Security Compliance professional with 9 years of experience securing large, regulated, DoD-aligned enterprise environments. Administers Tenable Security Center 6.8 and distributed Nessus infrastructure supporting 55,000 licensed IPs, 25,000+ Nessus Agents, 13 Managers, and 11 scanners. Leads credentialed, Agent-based, and compliance scanning; risk-based prioritization; remediation validation; POA&M and waiver support; and CMMC audit-evidence generation. Combines RHEL platform engineering, PKI/TLS, API automation, and stakeholder reporting with RMF, NIST SP 800-53/171, CMMC Level 2, DISA STIG, DFARS, and FISMA expertise.
Thousand licensed IPs supported in Tenable.sc
Thousand Nessus Agents supported
Scan Segmentation
DFARS
Tenablesc REST API Automation
CMMC Audit Evidence
Tenable Security Center
Nessus Scanners
Nessus Agents
Credentialed Scanning
Scan Policy Tuning
PowerShell
Windows Server
Linux
Active Directory
SSH
NIST SP 800-53
NIST SP 800-171
POA&M Support
Nessus Managers
Compliance Scanning
False-Positive Analysis
Risk-Based Prioritization
Vulnerability Exception Management
Compensating Controls
Post-Remediation Rescan Validation
Archer GRC
ServiceNow/SMAX
CMMC Level 2
Technical SOP Development
Stakeholder Reporting
Risk Acceptance
Waiver Lifecycle Management
CISA KEV Prioritization
CVE Analysis
Agent-Based Scanning
VPR Analysis
CVSS Analysis
RMF
DISA STIG
RHEL
SELinux
Bash
PKI/TLS
Tenablesc Query Development
Scan Scheduling
FISMA
NIST SP 800-40
Repository Management
Plugin Feed Management
Tenablesc Dashboards
Vulnerability Reporting
Nessus Agent Deployment
Agent Coverage Analysis
RHEL Troubleshooting
Certificate Lifecycle Management
Backup and Recovery Validation
Microsoft Planner
SharePoint
GitLab
Azure DevOps
Splunk
CompTIA Security+
Reduced overdue vulnerabilities by 87% through risk-based prioritization, ownership accountability, remediation tracking, and administrator follow-up.
Reduced average vulnerability-remediation time from 14.5 days to 5.6 days and lowered administrator triage effort from 3.4 hours to approximately 1 hour per week through automated reporting and workflow improvements.
Supported a 98% monthly remediation rate across enterprise vulnerability-management operations through Tenable.sc scanning, Archer GRC tracking, escalation, and post-remediation validation.
Supported enterprise Nessus Agent modernization across approximately 25,000 endpoints and 2,800 servers, including 12 Nessus Managers and 10 enclave deployments, to improve authenticated scanning coverage and reduce credential-management overhead.
Developed Tenable.sc host-level queries and audit evidence supporting CMMC requests, enterprise waiver documentation, vulnerability exceptions, POA&M workflows, and remediation governance.
Tenable Security Center
Nessus
Nessus Manager
Nessus Agent
Archer GRC
ServiceNow
PowerShell
Azure Devops
Microsoft Planner
Microsoft SharePoint
Splunk Enterprise
GitLab
SMAX
CompTIA SecurityX
CompTIA Security+
ITILv3