Thomas A. Anderson

Over 20 years of IT experience, with 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity as an individual contributor and as a cybersecurity manager.  Served non-government, commercial clients as well as the Customs and Border Protection agency, and Department of Defense customers, including Army, National Guard, and Army Reserve.

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Strong interest in reverse engineering, pentesting, red-teaming, and security research.

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Spearheaded web application penetration testing initiative using open source DevSecOps and penetration testing tools in Black-, Grey- and Crystal-Box security testing approaches.

 

Improved upon the Fortify continuous integration pipeline for static code analysis of over 40 applications.

 

Network analysis and incident response using IDS and SIEM tools to keep the program assets and data safe.

 

Skilled and proficient in a wide range of information security tools, scripting languages, and programming languages.

 

Exceptional development, testing and accreditation skills. Ability to lead and manage cybersecurity teams and develop solutions aligned with DoD, Army, CBP, and commercial cybersecurity regulations.

Proficient with information security tools including Kali Linux, Burp Suite, Wireshark, Nmap, Nessus, Metasploit, Netcat, and others 
 

Experienced with WinDbg, Immunity Debugger, OllyDbg, and Ghidra
 

Strengthened pentesting skills on OffSec’s Playground, HacktheBox, VulnHub, and OWASP Juice Shop vulnerable machines 
 

Maintained, updated, and administered Fortify continuous integration builds and scans
 

Implemented “security gates” in Gitlab Ultimate pipeline for CBP customer to prevent new critical and high vulnerabilities from being merged into codebases and deployed.
 

Led, mentored, and developed a strong cybersecurity team with varying skillsets, consisting of over 15 cyber professionals 
 

Applying Agile project management principles and practices
 

Experienced with Ansible, Docker, Grafana, PostgreSQL and various AWS and Azure cloud automation tools
 

Proficient with Python, PowerShell, C#, Java, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Oracle PL/SQL, Git, Team Foundation Server, Microsoft Test Manager, SourceTree, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OSX, iOS and the Microsoft Office suite
 

Experience with C++, Fortran, Pascal, ASM, AutoCAD, MATLAB, Mathematica, various Linux distributions and Unix (on Sun SPARCstations)