(504) 338-6485 ·

Justin Townsend

2819 South Gaines St, Little Rock, AR 72206·(504) 338-6485·
Justin Townsend

Objective

To guide organizations through the information security process, balancing security and business requirements in a manner that preserves integrity while forwarding business objectives.

Experience

12/2006-Present / I-Assure, LLC / Mandeville, LA

Senior Security Consultant

Responsible for overseeing employees and sub-contractors in commercial customers' certification and accreditation efforts for products and systems used by the Department of Defense. Provides pre-sales support for cost estimation planning and post-sales support for task scheduling, creation and maintenance of project plans, and technical and policy consultation and guidance. Certification and Accreditation types included DITSCAP, DIACAP, and Certificates of Networthiness. Aids in the development of DIACAP certification strategies and translates DIACAP policy, guidance, and requirements specifications into concrete project plans.
12/2005-12/2006 / Acxiom, Inc / Conway, AR

Security Specialist

Firewall and Web Proxy Design and Architecture-Tasks included communication with customers/functional business units for collecting requirements, sizing and selection of hardware/network equipment, final design and documentation of solution, and solution implementation.
Network Risk Assessments-Responsible for assessing the risk involved with ports/protocols in an enterprise network and providing risk mitigation strategies.
Policy/procedure development for security functions-Responsible for communicating with policy assurance group to determine needed policies/procedures for network security infrastructure, as well as the development of these policies and procedures with an eye towards SOX and VISA security compliance.
09/2001-12/2005 / Apogen Technologies/Science and Engineering Associates / New Orleans, LA

Lead Security Engineer

Contracted to Department of Navy and Department of Energy
Responsible for guiding multiple projects through Certification and Accreditation efforts in both technical and policy-level roles. Provided technical design and guidance for firewalls, intrusion detection, audit, PKI, VPN, and OS security. Developed security policies and processes for secure system design. Performed risk assessments and developed mitigation strategies. Developed testable requirements from high-level policies. Performed security audits and developed security metrics for tracking effectiveness of security programs.
11/2000-07/2001 / OpenCola Inc. / Toronto, Canada

Project manager

Project manager for dot-com developing second-generation peer to peer technologies. Created functional and technical requirements for defining applications built on existing architecture. Interpreted requirements and coordinated activities for a nine member programming team.
04/1999-11/2000 / ACS-GSG / New Orleans, LA
Information Security Engineer
Performed security design and engineering for Department of Defense programs. Specialized in middleware, PKI, and requirements development.
07/1997-04/1999 / TC Computers / New Orleans, LA
Senior System/Network Administrator
Managed and developed technical infrastructure for e-commerce retailer. Duties included design and implementation of networks, Linux and Windows servers, and e-commerce and warehouse applications.
06/1996-06/1997 / Nortel / Austin, TX
System Administrator
System administrator for Solaris systems in support of Nortel CDMA engineering effort.

Certifications

CISSP
Rational Fundamentals of RUP
Rational Object Oriented Analysis
Rational Object Oriented Design
Information Resource Management (Defense Acquisition University)

References

References are available on request.