Thomas Albrecht, CISSP GPEN

Current

Information Assurance Engineer Staff at Lockheed Martin
Information Assurance Officer at Lockheed Martin

Past

Senior Software Integration Engineer at Lockheed Martin
Software Integration Engineer at Lockheed Martin
Applications Programmer at Specialized Computing Systems

Systems Administrator at West Chester University
Internet Systems Support at Alliance Consulting

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Education

West Chester University of Pennsylvania

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Defense & Space

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Thomas Albrecht, CISSP GPEN’s Summary

For the last few years, I've been working as a systems integrator with a focus on computer systems security, and have recently transferred to a full-time information assurance engineer in order to apply my technical knowledge to information security and assurance.

Thomas Albrecht, CISSP GPEN’s Specialties:

I'm an excellent problem solver, and love to take on challenges. I love security design, implementation and testing on computer systems, and see my goal as designing systems where security complements and promotes usability, rather than hindering it.

Thomas Albrecht, CISSP GPEN’s Experience

Information Assurance Engineer Staff

Lockheed Martin

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LMT; Defense & Space industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

Responsible for security implementation and application of security policies to a remote DOD system in Japan.
Information Assurance Officer

Lockheed Martin

(Public Company; LMT; Defense & Space industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

Onsite Information Assurance Officer for the United States Missile Defense Agency at the Shariki Communications Site in Aomori, Japan.

Responsible for the security position of the mission system from both the accreditation and technical perspective to ensure compliance with DIACAP and MDA directives.

Verified on a regular basis that all Information Assurance software, hardware, and firmware complied with security configuration guidelines.

Performed vulnerability scans using network-based scans (Nessus, eEye Retina) and host-based scans (DISA IASE Security Readiness Review) and recommended baseline changes from those scans.

Organized the resolution of a number of real-world security incidents, including technical remediation, implementing protective measures, and managing communications with the program management team and incident response team in the U.S.
Senior Software Integration Engineer

Lockheed Martin

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LMT; Defense & Space industry)

March 2008 — September 2008 (7 months)

Responsible for running automated Information Security Tools sets and producing output to include reports and data files.

Responsible for hardening of systems based on industry standards to include NIST, DCID, FIPS, and others.

Knowledge in Information Security Settings for most operating systems to include UNIX, Windows, LINUX, and others.

Assist in Certification and Accreditation (C&A) efforts and various audits (internal, FISMA) through coordination with Information Security Teams.
Software Integration Engineer

Lockheed Martin

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LMT; Defense & Space industry)

March 2003 — March 2008 (5 years 1 month)

Enterprise Management Engineer - Designed and implemented a full enterprise maintenance system on a U.S. Government system using HP OpenView Network Node Manager (NNM) in a virtualized VMWare environment.

Software Environment Lead - Led a team of up to five people in designing and integrating computer systems, including system functionality, maintenance, security and reliability using COTS and GOTS software.
Applications Programmer

Specialized Computing Systems

(Computer Software industry)

August 2001 — January 2003 (1 year 6 months)

Applications programming on CoreFlex, our flagship warehouse management program, including both human interface programming, and hardware driver programming in C++.

Designed, wrote, and supported Crystal Reports interface applications.

Created drivers for Kyocera and PCL printers, and interfaces for Crystal Reports Print Engine.

Created drivers to interface CoreFlex with IBM DB2, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server Databases using Microsoft Visual C++.
Systems Administrator

West Chester University

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

August 2000 — December 2001 (1 year 5 months)

Volunteer System Administrator for West Chester University's Computer Science Linux and Solaris lab, supporting two servers, 30 workstations, and over 80 students and professors.
Responsible for installing, upgraded, and maintaining all OS and applications on the servers and workstations, including email, web server (Apache), office software (StarOffice, OpenOffice), Web browsers (Netscape, Mozilla, Opera), and programming environments (Forte).
Provided students with administrative services, including password resets, disk quota management, process monitoring, account creations, and root privileges.
Internet Systems Support

Alliance Consulting

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; SFE; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2000 — August 2001 (1 year 1 month)

Provided second level support to the Internet commerce site for First USA Bank in Wilmington, Delaware. Part of team that provided 24 hours support for the online web service by monitoring the three-tier web application.

Responsible for diagnosing and fixing issues on front end Solaris web servers and back end Windows CORBA servers. After troubleshooting and fixing all minor problems, we would determine which group we would escalate the ticket to.

Thomas Albrecht, CISSP GPEN’s Education

West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Bachelor of Science , Computer Science , 1995 — 2001

Volunteered in the Computer Science computer lab as a systems administrator. Learned a lot in that lab that wasn't taught in the classes.