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MICHAEL W. LOWERY

Annapolis

Summary

To obtain a leadership role where I can support various functions of the business and customers. Enabling others to perform their jobs securely and eliminating roadblocks. Improve Information Technology and cybersecurity posture by deploying advanced technologies and policies. Summary of Professional Experience Information Technology professional with vast experience in multiple areas including Systems Engineering, Software Development, Cybersecurity and networking. I have a Master's Degree in Information Technology Management and a Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems. I am always eager to face new challenges, learn new skills and technologies. Proven leader with years of experience in multiple environments looking to help grow the team's skill sets. Vast experience in architecting, implementing and protecting multiple environments.

Results-driven leader with strong background in strategic management and organizational growth. Skilled in developing and implementing effective business strategies, optimizing processes, and driving team performance. Known for adaptability, effective collaboration, and delivering measurable outcomes in dynamic environments. Strong communication and problem-solving abilities, coupled with focus on fostering productive and positive team culture.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Director of Enterprise Services

BlueHalo
01.2024 - Current
  • Leads the company’s Enterprise Services roadmap and implementation
  • Manage budget
  • Manage a team of engineers
  • Manage relationships with vendors
  • Architect solutions and processes
  • Evaluate solutions
  • Manage compliance configuration
  • Leading the macOS / JAMF CMMC level 2 deployment
  • Configured applications to be included in a self-service portal
  • Configured SAP Privileges/JAMF Connect to restrict local administrator
  • Re-vamped the enrollment process to demonstrate what is being configured and if there is an error in any step let the administrator know
  • Deployed Travel iPads that were secure for foreign countries
  • Restricted USB devices for laptops to only approved devices
  • Patching and maintenance
  • Multifactor authentication using DUO
  • Configured YubiKeys for device access
  • Manage Microsoft Intune configuration for the enterprise
  • Enforce conditional access
  • Enforce device configuration
  • Manage KACE for Windows management
  • Deploy configuration for devices
  • Self-service portal
  • Maintenance
  • License management for applications
  • Hardware inventory
  • Support Tier 2/3 issues
  • Providing Tier 1 staff with training and documentation on how to use tooling
  • Developed several automated workflows for Tier 1 staff to issue Token2 (MFA fobs)
  • Automated inventory reconciliation efforts
  • Administrate Okta for the enterprise
  • Deployed advanced application policies to restrict devices to only allow access to enterprise managed devices using Okta Verify/FastPass
  • Deployed Okta Workflows to automate operations
  • Leading Okta re-factoring projects
  • IT liaison with senior leadership for multiple departments and sectors
  • Eastern region IT leadership supporting efforts such as migration, integration and other duties
  • Manage BlueHalo’s DUO instance

Information Technology Director (IT)

BlueHalo
11.2021 - 01.2024
  • Leads the company’s IT and policy migration from heritage companies on the Eastern region
  • Migrating data from legacy file systems to Office 365 GCC High
  • Performed due diligence on newly acquired companies
  • Migrating legacy heritage systems to enterprise resources
  • Replaced legacy infrastructure to BlueHalo standards (Networks, printers, laptops and procedures)
  • Managed a team of 6, growing to 9 by the end of the year
  • Lead the deployment of JAMF MDM for the entire enterprise
  • NIST 800-171 deployment for macOS Sonoma
  • JAMF Connect using Okta
  • Manage O365 suite
  • Attended the BlueHalo Leadership Academy to help improve management skills
  • Manage Active Directory
  • Manage Okta
  • Created and managed IT/Cybersecurity budgets
  • Network team administrator, deploying Palo Alto and Cisco Meraki products to multiple sites
  • Mentor junior staff
  • Assist in Joint Change Control Boards and Eastern Change Control Board
  • Stood up a CoLo data center and multiple new offices
  • Supported Cyber on architecture decisions and other efforts
  • Manage procurement for the entire region
  • DeskPro help desk manager
  • Created onboarding videos

Information Technology Manager (IT)

Asymmetrik LTD.
05.2018 - 11.2021
  • Lead the company’s IT and Security Operations Center (SOC) operations
  • Carbon Black Defense administrator
  • Deployed Arkime full-packet capture server to monitor traffic
  • Deployed Splunk and integrated with multiple systems such as Rapid7, Carbon Black Defense, Threat Connect and Palo Alto
  • Configured Threat Connect to gather intelligence and use SOAR to deploy countermeasures
  • Configured Bricata NIDS to monitor traffic using ZEEK
  • Stood up two additional offices
  • Created and managed IT/Cybersecurity budgets
  • Recommended technology and security configuration to leadership
  • Deployed JAMF Mobile Device Management (MDM) infrastructure
  • Created internal phishing exercises and training
  • Maintained corporate infrastructure
  • Deployed oVirt virtualization platform
  • Collected various logs into Splunk
  • Created a new backup infrastructure
  • GSuite administrator
  • Troubleshoot infrastructure and customer issues

Director of Information Technology (IT)

BluVector, Inc.
04.2017 - 05.2018
  • Lead the company’s security monitoring and incident response organization
  • Carbon Black Protection/Incident Response administrator
  • Managed NTOP full-packet capture server
  • Utilized Splunk to monitor server and network health
  • Create and enforce IT policies such as network security and endpoint usages
  • Configured VMware AirWatch Mobile Device Management Software (MDM)
  • Utilized Apple’s DEP and VPP features
  • Oversaw configuration of cloud applications such as Office 365, Salesforce and Marketo
  • Cisco Spark and Cisco WebEx administrator
  • Supporting the research and development organization current and future infrastructure
  • Familiar with the Atlassian suite (Jira, Hipchat, Confluence and Service Desk)
  • Assisting in the design and build of a new headquarters
  • Lead other vendor product evaluations and technical recommendations
  • Leads manufacturing department
  • Provisioning customer systems
  • Logistics
  • Product liaison between manufacturing vendors
  • Coordinated IT automation using Ansible
  • Created and managed IT/Cybersecurity budgets
  • Helped configure cloud instances using Azure and AWS

Manager of Information Technology

BluVector, Inc.
05.2015 - 04.2017
  • Assisted in the due diligence process for our company’s sale from Northrop Grumman to LLR Partners
  • Data classification
  • License management
  • Led migration efforts for getting off of Northrop Grumman infrastructure
  • Data extraction
  • Closing actions (data sanitization)
  • Facility closure
  • Stood up two offices after the acquisition was finalized
  • Supported administration of virtualization software oVirt and other systems in the development environment
  • Co-architected and built a new datacenter

Cyber Systems Engineer III

Northrop Grumman
05.2013 - 05.2015
  • Developed an automated testing framework using Python, Selenium and Trac
  • Responsible for analyzing PCAPs for abnormal features
  • Created test datasets to ensure edge cases were covered in the testing framework
  • Temporarily served as the QA/Release engineer delivering every release on target
  • Created the documentation framework for the newly formed product
  • Infrastructure lead that would patch systems and deploy numerous new capabilities such as chat services, web servers and monitoring systems

Cyber Systems Engineer II

Northrop Grumman
02.2012 - 02.2013
  • Served as the lead Systems Engineer on a multi-million-dollar IR&D project based on cyber situational awareness and dynamic network defense
  • Regularly briefed Northrop Grumman leaders and customers on the team’s technology
  • Deployed software to customer locations
  • Documented system requirements and procedures

Cyber Systems Engineer I

Northrop Grumman
08.2011 - 02.2012
  • Followed all aspects of business requirements, engineering requirements, and designing, test and implementation phases
  • Responsible for testing and integration to verify the software was suitable to be presented to potential customers
  • Using agile development, served as the scrum master for the team
  • Managed Microsoft Active Directory Domains, DNS, VMware environments and physical assets
  • Maintained numerous networking devices including Cisco routers, Palo Alto Firewalls, hubs and switches (Demonstration and development environments)
  • Helped design and implement a new demonstration network and scenario
  • Created Visio and Excel documentation
  • Created reusable templates and deployed virtual machines using VMware best practices
  • Created and maintained backup procedure for the virtual environment
  • Performed updates to the blades and virtual machines
  • Attended the “Cyber Academy” to learn more about host and network security, networking, and ethical hacking
  • Ethical hacking to simulate real-life scenarios for the demonstration using Metasploit
  • Familiar with complex event processing (Streambase and Esper)
  • Created custom IP tables rules to set up custom routing of the network to prove dynamic network defense
  • Mr
  • Lowery would troubleshoot network issues, or any issues with the proprietary software as problems occurred
  • He set up a RemoteFX server so that the current demonstration scenario could be shown instead of shipping hardware to the offsite locations
  • Mentored junior team members
  • He was able to participate in a volunteer program called “Cyber Patriot” as a mentor to high school students interested in the Cyber field

Cyber Software Engineer I

Northrop Grumman
12.2010 - 08.2011
  • Mr. Lowery worked on a team of three other developers to develop a common operating picture dealing with network monitoring over two weeks using JavaFX, which he had never used before
  • Maintained source code repository

Software Engineer Intern

Northrop Grumman
05.2008 - 12.2010
  • Created a prototype that dealt with analysis of vulnerability/threat data and provided algorithms to display the data using PHP/HTML while querying a MySQL database
  • The database was populated by multiple sources
  • The prototype was the foundation that started another IR&D
  • Evaluated COTs products to see if they could be obtained and incorporated into the project’s applications
  • Interacted with customers to gather requirements and obtain feedback to ensure that he was developing what the customers needed

Education

BS - Information Systems

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY
Baltimore, MD
01.2010

Master of Science - Information Technology Management

WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY
10-2024

Skills

  • Relationship building
  • Strategic planning
  • Verbal and written communication
  • Decision-making
  • Team management
  • Organizational development
  • Staff development
  • Change management
  • Rules and regulations
  • Partnerships and alliances
  • Operations management
  • People management
  • Employee development
  • Strategies and goals
  • Creativity and innovation

Certification

  • Comp TIA Security+
  • Currently studying for CISSP
  • Currently enrolled in several Okta bootcamps
  • Rapid7 certified administrator
  • Google IT Automation with Python
  • Carbon Black certified administrator
  • MP101: Python Mongo DB developer’s certificate

Timeline

Director of Enterprise Services

BlueHalo
01.2024 - Current

Information Technology Director (IT)

BlueHalo
11.2021 - 01.2024

Information Technology Manager (IT)

Asymmetrik LTD.
05.2018 - 11.2021

Director of Information Technology (IT)

BluVector, Inc.
04.2017 - 05.2018

Manager of Information Technology

BluVector, Inc.
05.2015 - 04.2017

Cyber Systems Engineer III

Northrop Grumman
05.2013 - 05.2015

Cyber Systems Engineer II

Northrop Grumman
02.2012 - 02.2013

Cyber Systems Engineer I

Northrop Grumman
08.2011 - 02.2012

Cyber Software Engineer I

Northrop Grumman
12.2010 - 08.2011

Software Engineer Intern

Northrop Grumman
05.2008 - 12.2010

BS - Information Systems

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY

Master of Science - Information Technology Management

WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY

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