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Ashanti Mason
Information Security Officer, US Deptartment of Veteran Affairs
Location: Lexington, VA United States
Joined: Dec 30th, 2016

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- College Not Listed - class of 2002

Undergrad Major: Management Information Systems

Experience

I currently work with US Deptartment of Veteran Affairs as Information Security Officer
I have years of experience working in the Information Technology industry.

Information Security Officer | Department of Veteran Affairs
From July 2017 to Current • 9 year(s)
Serves as principal security advisor to management and system owners, managing information security program and assessing security controls based on VA 6500 and NIST 800-53 guidance.

CIO Cyber Security & Enterprise Infrastructure Engineering/Operations | Defense Intelligence Agency
From April 2015 to July 2015 • 0 year(s)
Oversaw global Server Computing Operations managing 30 administrators and over 4000 servers across 8 network enclaves, deployed 400+ new server builds.

European Server Operations Section Chief | Defense Intelligence Agency
From October 2010 to April 2015 • 5 year(s)
Oversaw operations of 262 Windows and 157 UNIX systems supporting AFRICOM and EUCOM commands, managing 7 military members and 15 contractors.

European UNIX Server Team Lead | Defense Intelligence Agency
From February 2010 to October 2010 • 0 year(s)
Led UNIX team operations and maintained server infrastructure between multiple network enclaves.

Information Security Engineer | Computer Sciences Corporation
From April 2008 to January 2010 • 2 year(s)
Implemented upgrades to network security management devices and over 300 globally deployed IPS/IDS systems, wrote custom security signatures.

Sr. Solaris Admin Consultant | Modis Inc.
From December 2007 to April 2008 • 1 year(s)
Provided Solaris support for over 40 SUN SPARC systems at Defense Supply Center Richmond, performed system installations and security administration.

Lead Systems Administrator | BAE Systems
From February 2004 to December 2007 • 3 year(s)
Provided Tier 3 support for Department of Justice Engineering Research Facility with over 70 Solaris and Windows servers, developed SQL and Unix scripts.

Assistant Unix / Linux System Administrator | University of Mary Washington
From April 2007 to November 2007 • 0 year(s)
Provided part-time system administration support maintaining Enterprise Application web servers and Computer Science Department servers.

Computer Systems Analyst | Raytheon Company
From February 2003 to February 2004 • 1 year(s)
Monitored operations within Digital Processing Group and provided first-line investigation and troubleshooting of UNIX system resource problems.

Application Administrator co-op | Northrop Grumman IT
From December 2001 to December 2002 • 1 year(s)
Provided IT support to Newport News Shipbuilding Shared Data Environment and Engineering Applications, monitored trouble ticket queues.

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