Jason D. Meisels

• Providing Subject Matter Expertise and guidance of various efforts for the US Department of Homeland Security on a TS/SCI G/HCS/SI/TK protected system that provides defense of cyber and infrastructure security for the United States Government and it's citizens. 

• Providing Subject Matter Expertise and guidance of various efforts for the Technical Director of ManTech Federal Civilian Agencies business sector, in the areas of Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) and Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA).
• Provided Subject Matter Expertise and guidance of various efforts for the Mission/Enterprise IT Technical Focus Area group of ManTech's Innovation and Capabilities Office (ICO) under the Chief Technology Office.
• Developed and implemented ICO Labs, a multi-cloud/hybrid cloud development, testing, and demonstration environment  for use of the ICO, in order to consolidate development environments and reduce cloud sprawl and costs. ICO Labs implemented containerization orchestration as well as Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to automate deployments and enforce baseline compliance and upgrades/patching. 
• Developed the cloud infrastructure architecture on Microsoft Azure for Government for ManTech Enterprise Smart Assistant (MESA), ManTech's internal AI tool, available to all 10,000 ManTech employees and contractors.
• Also developed the necessary CMMC documentation package and implemented the required CIS Baseline hardening for the MESA environment in order to all the system to contain CUI data and pass auditor review.
• Took over development and program management for ManTech's Secure Tactical Edge Platform (ST3P) program, which provided Data at the Edge support of various applications with DDIL (denied, disrupted, intermittent, and limited impact) support for fully connected, partially connected, and fully disconnected operations, utilizing ManTech's Infinistructure (formerly ATLAS) Hypervisor technology, which was recently released after the original ATLAS product was re-written in the RUST programming language.
• Additional responsibilities are the participation in an ICO Cross-TFA working group developing a multi-disciplinary solution framework for delivering Zero Trust (including reference architecture(s), governance, tools, and consultative services) supporting NIST Special Publication 800-207 and the government directives of OMB M-22-09, DoD's Zero Trust Reference Architecture, and DHS CISA's Zero Trust Maturity Model into a single tailorable platform for delivering ZTA/ZTN technologies and services for the company's client organizations.
• Provided subject matter expertise and high level architecture on numerous ICAM RFPs, including VA, EPA, and USAF.
• Facilitated various training sessions including a one-day Rancher Rodeo, with courseware provided by Rancher Government Services, which covered all of their product lines, including Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2 (RKE2), Rancher UI, Rancher Longhorn, Rancher K3S, and Rancher Harvester HCI, for all of ManTech's ICO teams, as well as various customer-facing program teams.

• Supporting the Defense Chief Technology Officer, providing subject matter expertise and thought leadership for the Digital Services Infrastructure & Integrated Innovation Center (IIC) group, as part of corporate reach-back for GDIT Defense's business sector organizations, supporting the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, as well as NATO and any other intelligence community efforts that IIC supports.

• Supporting the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO), providing subject matter expertise and thought leadership for the Cloud Services team as part of the Digital Consulting & Solutions (DCS) group, as part of corporate reach-back for Defense, Intel/Homeland Security, and FedCiv business sector organizations.
• Developed the GDIT exclusive DoD DISA STIG hardened version of Corent Technologies' SurPaaS MaaS (Migration-as-a-Service) Appliances that was successfully used at US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Library of Medicine, which is currently being used to analyze cloud economics for cloud spend and build the playbooks to automate the migration of physical and virtual machine workloads to FedRAMP'ed cloud service offerings (AWS GovCloud, Microsoft Azure for Government (MAG), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Supported DHS (DHS HQ, DHS DC1, ICE OBIM, and DHS HSIN), Navy (SSC PAC/SPAWAR and NAVSEA/NUWC), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), and DISA milCloud 2.0. Also provided various ad-hoc support of other federal agencies and organizations such as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
• As part of the role, is the Chief Architect for the GDIT Growth Cloud Labs (part of GDIT's Emerge Labs), which showcased various on-prem and off-prem cloud technologies in an $10 million lab environment using Dell PowerEdge MX 7000, HPE Synergy, Nutanix, HPE Nimble, HPE 3PAR, HPE Apollo, Pure Storage FlashBlade and FlashArray, Dell EMC VNX 5300, Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus 7000, Cisco ACI, and Dell PowerConnect Z9100 (100GbE), Rubrik, Cohesity, VMware, Amazon AWS Commercial, Amazon AWS GovCloud, Microsoft Azure Commercial (MAC), Microsoft Azure for Government (MAG), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and GDIT milCloud 2.0.

• Providing expert-level Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) and thought leadership to government, federal system integrators, and commercial clientele, including a global customer which does $1 Billion in yearly revenue and is publicly traded.
• Providing enterprise architecture (theoretical planning) and engineering (hands-on implementation and demonstrations) of hybrid clouds environments using various cloud technologies, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure & Office 365, and VMware.
• Providing consulting services for various federal system integrators for subject matter expertise (SME) on various U.S. Federal Government RFP/RFI efforts, as well as the development of several technical whitepapers documenting on-going projects for the U.S. Federal Government.
• Providing consulting services for Prism, Inc.'s Engineering-On-Demand (EOD) program on an ad-hoc basis.

• Provided Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) and thought leadership as a Cloud and Identity Management Security Architect to the US Department of Labor OASAM OCIO’s Chief Technology Officer, in both the DOL’s Identity Management efforts and Cloud Computing efforts, and is responsible for finalizing the DOL’s Functional Requirements Document (FRD) and developed the High Level Architecture (HLA) for the DOL OCIO’s CISO Identity Management project that drove the recent Identity Management product and integrator procurements just put out to bid through the US Department of Homeland Security’s (US DHS) Continuous Diagnostic and Monitoring (CDM) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA). Final architecture was based upon RadiantLogic RadiantOne FID Virtual Directory Services (VDS), SailPoint IdentityIQ, PingIdentity PingFederate (SSO) Server, CyberArk Privileged Identity Management, and Axiomatics Policy Server (APS).
• Developed the DOL OCIO’s Functional Requirements Document (FRD) for private, public, and hybrid cloud Common Operating Environment (COE) initiative to transform an earlier datacenter consolidation effort (DOL DCCI) using virtualization into a FedRAMP-compliant business model for the department in order to reign in cloud sprawl by various agencies procuring cloud services outside of the department’s formalized management goals. 
• Responsible for Subject Matter Expertise for various commercial and government customer efforts, including development efforts for DoD DIA, DoD DISA, DOI USBR, DOL, DoS, HHS, and USDA.

• Managed the development of a cloud computing platform to provide the U.S. Federal Government cloud computing services via a $5 Billion Dollar Blanket Purchase Agreement for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), including all awarded lots of Cloud Storage (Lot 1), Virtual Machine (Lot 2), and Web Hosting (Lot 3).
• Assessed a FedRAMP compliant System Security Plan (SSP) which aligns to the technical architecture and business processes required to achieve FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board (JAB) Provisional Authority To Operate (P-ATO) authorization, which also achieved a Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Provisional Authority as well.
• Created the architecture of the FedRAMP NIST Rev 3 to NIST Rev 4 transition, which includes application whitelisting, PKI infrastructure using SafeNet Hardware Security Modules (HSM), HSPD-12 PIV/CAC/CIV support using ActivIdentity, Identity Federation using RadiantLogc VDS, and designing and implementing other security technologies including McAfee Network Security Platform with VMware NSX. Responsible for the transition to additional technologies include VMware vCloud Director 8, VMware vCenter 6, vRealize Operations (vROPS), and VMware vSphere ESXi 6.0.
• Wrote for VMware, Inc., the VMware Product Applicability Guide (PAG) for FedRAMP 2.0, as well as a VMware, Inc. internally distributed document titled VMware Architectural Design Guide (ADG) for FedRAMP 2.0.

• Technical Lead for SRA's Leveraged IT Services (LITS), providing architectural engineering for the deployment of Microsoft PKI Services, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2010, and Lync 2010 for the entire corporate infrastructure, providing IT support of over 7,900 employees, and 4,500 contractors.
• Technical Lead for the U.S. Army National Guard Bureau EOSS NOSC and Chief Architect for the U.S. Army PEO EIS/PM P2E Enterprise Service Desk (AESD), acting in the capacity of the chief architect for the prime contractor on the AESD project, in coordination with the other prime and subcontractors on the project, with the responsibilities for the DoDAF referenced development of the NIPRnet-hosted virtualized private cloud infrastructure (Enterprise Support Management System (ESMS)) based upon VMware vSphere 4.x to host the development, test, and production environments for the toolsets used by both of the service desks including BMC Software's Remedy ITSM 7.6 and supporting platform components (such as ProAnalytics, BladeLogic, etc.), CA Unicenter, and NetCracker J2EE OSS Framework, which was fully compliant with DoD DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) in order to achieve Authority To Operate (ATO). Design elements of the ESMS virtualized private cloud infrastructure were also used by U.S. Army's Information Technology Agency (ITA) in the Pentagon to deploy ESMS on SIPRNet. Additionally, was managing a team of up to 12 subcontractors and interfaced with their management chain at one point on this effort.
• Was involved with engineering and architecture tasks for SRA's Information Assurance Training Development team, implementing the virtualization of the entire development, quality assurance, and production environments utilizing VMware vSphere 4.x.
• Successfully completed engineering and architecture tasks for U.S. Department of Homeland Security's SCVAM First Responder Credential Verification (FRCV) demonstration project which was based upon Microsoft Identity LifeCycle Management Server 2007 (ILM 2007) and Active Directory for Application Management (ADAM), implementing virtualization of the development and product demonstration environments on both VMware Server and VMware ACE infrastructures.
• Key contributor in development of various RFI and RFP documents (both IdM/IAM related and non-IdM/IAM related) to federal client agencies and organizations, including the Federal Aviation Administration, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the Executive Office of the President.
• Achieved on time architecture tasks for U.S. Department of Justice's Justice Management Division (JMD) Justice Consolidated Office Network's (JCON) Enterprise-Wide Infrastructure Architecture (EIA) part of the JCOnext service delivery platform.
• Diagnosed Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) 2003 metadirectory service synchronization issues with Microsoft Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM), which was used to synchronize both native Microsoft Exchange Server Global Address Lists (GAL) and other mail server platforms from various US DOJ components to other government agencies.
• Responsible for development of the interim U.S. Department of Justice's Justice Management Division (JMD) Justice Consolidated Office Network's (JCON) Enterprise-Wide Infrastructure Architecture (EIA) Patching Solution utilizing Microsoft Windows Software Update Service (WSUS) to operate in a strict controlled secure environment. Researched and developed strategies for future EIA Patching Solution's requirements to implement NIST Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) based processes and tools for FISMA compliance.
• Developed and maintained a US DOJ EIA Lab environment using Windows Server 2003 R2 development servers virtualized on a VMware Infrastructure 3.0 platform running on HP blade and rack servers utilizing dual and quad core 64-bit CPUs attached via iSCSI to Network Appliance (NetApp) storage with various Microsoft technologies such as Exchange 2007 Server and SQL 2005 Server. Configured and managed both the USDOJ EIA Production and Lab environments.

• Responsible for the development, implementation, and operations of a new security architecture front-ended with Cisco PIX Firewall Appliances, utilizing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and CentOS Linux.
• Responsible for the development, implementation, and operations of an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system developed on the Asterisk/Trixbox CE platform which was designed to do data collection of alternative fuel use of government agency employees as mandated by executive order. First customer to use the system was the U.S. General Services Administration.
• This site provides hosting for several federal interagency database applications, including a project status database that requires every head of every federal agency or department to enter project status details weekly, which then produces a weekly report that is inspected by the President (POTUS), The White House staff and Congress.

• Responsible for heading up the consulting services group of an internationally recognized mail server software developer.
• Responsible for developing consulting services best practices, contracts, and business development for new and existing customers with emphasis on migration of internet service providers and enterprise customers from Microsoft Exchange Server and other mail platforms to IceWarp Merak Mail Server.
• Responsible for creating new Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 infrastructure and network management to replace existing Windows 2000 insecure infrastructure. Responsible for implementing new VPN and network infrastructure.

• Was a subcontractor for Microsoft Consulting Services, was responsible for designing and implementing Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 metadirectory service in a 22,000 employee client firm, which is one of the nation's largest sporting goods retailers. Designed and implemented a multi-factor challenge/response password reset process that replaced the Microsoft-provided MIIS 2003 Password Management service.
• Created an application availability and performance monitoring model which tracks over 250+ applications, for one of the largest international pharmaceutical companies.

• Was responsible for research and engineering support of new Microsoft and related technologies, which are targeted to the objective of developing high availability/scalability infrastructure design for both internal and customer-facing projects. Involved in technologies such as Active Directory, Microsoft Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM), Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003, Microsoft Exchange 2000 Instant Messaging, Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005, and Oracle Internet Directory (OID).
• Responsibilities also include providing third tier engineering support for the internal company multimaster Microsoft Windows Active Directory architecture comprised of 40,000 (approx.) workstations and 9,000 (approx.) servers, and was one of five enterprise administrators in the company, providing oversight and guidance to the four IT Theater organizations supporting North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, and Europe, Africa, & Middle East (EAME).

• Was responsible for engineering support, system integration, and high availability/scalability infrastructure designed for both internal and external projects.
• Responsibilities also included the development and management of Unisys's e-Zone demonstration systems and the Application Development Center of Excellence in Blue Bell, PA, which demonstrated Unisys product integration with Siebel eBusiness Customer Relations Management systems. Was responsible for system maintenance and configuration of the Application Development Center of Excellence's ES7000 32-way server running Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Datacenter Edition.
• Was responsible for the development and demonstration of the world's largest biometrically-enhanced Windows 2000 Active Directory (50+/- Million Objects) for Unisys's Data Center of The Next Millennium demonstration at COMDEX/Fall 1999 in Las Vegas, NV (see link). Presented a seminar to over 400 attendees on the topic of Deploying Windows 2000 Professional at COMDEX/Fall 1999 in Las Vegas, NV (see link.
• Was responsible for the high availability/scalability infrastructure design and capacity planning for Unisys's e-@ction Community Helper/LocalLife seed project initially for the city of West Chester, PA (see link), but to be deployed nationwide.
• Was responsible for the initial consultation for Active Directory deployment by the Republic of France's Ministry of Finance.
• Was primarily responsible for the integration of Unisys's e-@ction Customer Profitability Solution with Siebel eFinance 2000 Customer Relations Management system, for resale to client organizations.
• Developed storage system performance benchmarking, and developed several whitepapers and presentation to developers on security technologies and other services and technologies provided within Microsoft Windows 2000.
• Developed experience on Microsoft .NET technologies for the ability to support internal product development and integration.

Good-for-Life (GFL) Certification

Official VMware Training delivered to U.S. Army National Guard Bureau provided by VMware Education

Advanced Computer Architecture, Compiler Development & Lexical Analysis, Set Theory Mathematics.