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Ryan Newell, PMP
Cybersecurity POA&M Team Lead at Leidos
Fort Washington Forest, MD, United States
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Experience:
Reviewed vulnerability scans, system assessments, risk analysis, and technical recommendations to validate compliance.
Assists technical staffs with development of plans of action and milestones (POAM) and tracks progress to project/task completion.
Provide monthly POAM metrics for Information System Owner (ISO) internal assessments.
Manage remediation efforts and report on the status of control deficiencies
Responsible for creating, updating, and maintaining five (5) Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M).
Worked with security engineering team to use the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) to conduct assessments, measure the effectiveness of controls, and identify security-related gaps.
2016 : Present
Leidos
Cybersecurity POA&M Team Lead
Served as the lead test manager for Global Command & Control System – Joint (GCCS-J) releases by developing test plans, overseeing test execution, and generating test and evaluation reports.
Developed test strategies to improve test processes to ensure complete functional, integration, and regression testing for the system and individual applications.
Responsible for providing test status in both verbal and written communications
Originated a comprehensive daily report to support multiple GCCS-J JOPES stakeholders during development test activities. This daily report provided PMO leadership daily status for multiple development test phases across the PMO and various combatant commands.
Introduced a revised test readiness review (TRR) presentation template to succinctly document test plan, method, scope, procedures for multiple development test events. This TRR template was adopted as a model for future TRRs.
Monitored test process to ensure compliance with established test procedures such as artifact completion and peer review of test cases.
Developed the tasks, dependencies, and participations required to complete test plans, assigned tasks appropriately to test team members.
2010 : 2016
Leidos
Software Test Manager
Led and chaired an Integrated Product Team (IPT) that was responsible for providing collective management and prioritization of Program Management Office (PMO) resources to maintain software development, testing, and fielding activities within the documented PMO acquisition program baseline.
Assisted in coordinating a System Acceptance Test (SAT)/Operational Assessment (OA) for Joint Operation Planning and Execution Segments (JOPES) versions 4.1.1 and 4.2 with multiple combatant commands (COCOMS) to ensure the test plan was executed in accordance with cost and schedule requirements.
Maintained vigorous, formal control over tests, discrepancies, reporting, technical evaluation, and closure disposition for the Joint Operation Planning and Execution Segments (JOPES) versions 4.1.1 and 4.2 releases to the Department of Defense (DoD) Command & Control (C2) community.
Proactively managed programmatic risks, taking steps as part of the GCCS-J Program Management Office (PMO) risk management process to rectify problem’s root cause for various GCCS-J releases.
2008 : 2010
Leidos
Senior Software Release Manager
Provided Department of Defense procurement expertise automated financial system development effort.
2008 : 2008
Independant Consultant
Independant Consultant
Responsible for reconciling United States Marine Corps (USMC) Approved Acquisition Objectives (AAO) for Marine Corps Combat Development Command (MCCDC) by developing Abbreviated Concept of Employments (ACOE) for Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) requirements and acquisition programs.
2007 : 2008
DST Inc
Senior Analyst
Assists technical staffs with development of plans of action and milestones (POAM) and tracks progress to project/task completion.
Provide monthly POAM metrics for Information System Owner (ISO) internal assessments.
Manage remediation efforts and report on the status of control deficiencies
Responsible for creating, updating, and maintaining five (5) Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M).
Worked with security engineering team to use the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) to conduct assessments, measure the effectiveness of controls, and identify security-related gaps.
2016 : Present
Leidos
Cybersecurity POA&M Team Lead
Served as the lead test manager for Global Command & Control System – Joint (GCCS-J) releases by developing test plans, overseeing test execution, and generating test and evaluation reports.
Developed test strategies to improve test processes to ensure complete functional, integration, and regression testing for the system and individual applications.
Responsible for providing test status in both verbal and written communications
Originated a comprehensive daily report to support multiple GCCS-J JOPES stakeholders during development test activities. This daily report provided PMO leadership daily status for multiple development test phases across the PMO and various combatant commands.
Introduced a revised test readiness review (TRR) presentation template to succinctly document test plan, method, scope, procedures for multiple development test events. This TRR template was adopted as a model for future TRRs.
Monitored test process to ensure compliance with established test procedures such as artifact completion and peer review of test cases.
Developed the tasks, dependencies, and participations required to complete test plans, assigned tasks appropriately to test team members.
2010 : 2016
Leidos
Software Test Manager
Led and chaired an Integrated Product Team (IPT) that was responsible for providing collective management and prioritization of Program Management Office (PMO) resources to maintain software development, testing, and fielding activities within the documented PMO acquisition program baseline.
Assisted in coordinating a System Acceptance Test (SAT)/Operational Assessment (OA) for Joint Operation Planning and Execution Segments (JOPES) versions 4.1.1 and 4.2 with multiple combatant commands (COCOMS) to ensure the test plan was executed in accordance with cost and schedule requirements.
Maintained vigorous, formal control over tests, discrepancies, reporting, technical evaluation, and closure disposition for the Joint Operation Planning and Execution Segments (JOPES) versions 4.1.1 and 4.2 releases to the Department of Defense (DoD) Command & Control (C2) community.
Proactively managed programmatic risks, taking steps as part of the GCCS-J Program Management Office (PMO) risk management process to rectify problem’s root cause for various GCCS-J releases.
2008 : 2010
Leidos
Senior Software Release Manager
Provided Department of Defense procurement expertise automated financial system development effort.
2008 : 2008
Independant Consultant
Independant Consultant
Responsible for reconciling United States Marine Corps (USMC) Approved Acquisition Objectives (AAO) for Marine Corps Combat Development Command (MCCDC) by developing Abbreviated Concept of Employments (ACOE) for Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) requirements and acquisition programs.
2007 : 2008
DST Inc
Senior Analyst
Company:
Leidos
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Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition, Foreign Military Sales, DoD Test and Evaluation (T&E), Financial Managment
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