Elizabeth Agapios
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Liberty Mutual Insurance
Hiring our Heroes Fellow - Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
Expertly planned, coordinated and executed a portfolio of 20+ domestic and international travel engagements DISA director’s strategic engagements that built stronger stakeholder relations and furthered DISA’s situational awareness of stakeholder needs and challenges.
Primary advisor and technical expert on administrative functions, including advising the Change Management Process Reform Committee in identifying inefficiencies in the network and services maintenance procedures for the enterprise; identification led to future working groups to tackle each issues.
Synchronized strategic engagement for the director with multiple organizations to clearly communicate business objectives with supporting stakeholders leading to an increase of engagements and partnerships with multiple agencies.
2022 :
US Army
Senior Project Manager, Director’s Strategic Engagements
Primary advisor and administrative manager overseeing an engagements portfolio for high visibility executive and partners across the Department of Defense (DoD), industry, government agencies, and federal government that improved relationships, partnerships and customer relations between the agency and its stakeholders.
Provided expert counsel on strategies to improve stakeholder relationships, resulting in 100% increase in engagement and discussion of important topics and issues of mutual need and interest.
Noted by Major General, “Agapios managed and coordinated with joint staff of 18,000 joint, global government, contractor, and military personnel, eight special staff sections, five mission support entities, four directorates, and over seven administrative control support agencies to ensure all directives were accomplished. She is talented in simplifying complex situations and ranks in the top 1% of officers I have served with in 35 years of service.”
2021 : 2022
US Army
Executive Officer, Assistant to the Director
Built complex partnership between scientists and future concept writers in the information domain to better align long-term research to the Army’s Deep Future Strategic Vision with minimal guidance.
Directed nine strategic Scrum sprints per director’s request over a 45-day period with deliverable produced on-time, resulting in creation of collaboration framework between scientists and future concept writers.
Administered three workshops joining scientists and future concept writers to learn each other’s lexicon, build trust among each community, and integrated the “art of possible” with the future vision of defense, resulting in the creation of use cases for infant research and capabilities desired that require new research.
Oversaw administrative, budget, training, and personnel to contribute operational expertise to the office’s unique perspective in the nexus of science and concepts by providing operational context and recommending opportunities for applied research.
Commended by ranking Colonel, “Superb performance by the finest signal officer I have served with in my 28 years of service. A talented leader and successful team builder with refined critical thinking skills and creative solutions.
2019 : 2021
US Army
Military Research Advisor
2019 : 2019
US Army
Senior Research Fellow
About
I'm an Army veteran, ballroom dancer, and senior IT professional with proven expertise in technical support, leadership, client relations, cybersecurity, and project management. I'm passionate about bridging the gap between problems and solutions to help clients achieve their business goals. My aim is harmony between people, processes, technology, and knowledge. Similar to ballroom dancing, it's about coordinating and synchronizing multiple pieces and parts to work together to perform a beautiful dance routine!
I'm passionate about protecting information, networks, and systems from malicious actors and intent to help make the internet a better place to do business and interact! As new cyber threats emerge, I love helping people design solutions that balance usability and security.
I have proven experience supervising installation and maintenance programs for communications equipment. Performed efficient workflows and consistently maintained order. Adept in technical documentation, security compliance, audit compliance, customer service, and managing processes.
Able to seamlessly multi-task long and short-term priorities to generate desired results. Followed policies, procedures, and guidelines to assure consistent quality. Strong leadership skills: able to prioritize, delegate tasks, and make sound decisions quickly while maintaining focus on the mission to effectively implement program goals.