Security Status: HSPD-12 / Public Trust Eligible (Investigation in Progress / Letter of Advisory Granted)
Hiring Eligibility: Schedule A (5 CFR 213.3102(u)) – Non-Competitive Hiring Eligible
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Dual Master's level Cybersecurity and Software Engineering
professional with over 20 years of experience in high-stakes
industrial systems and federal IT infrastructure. Expert in
Security Architecture, Zero Trust frameworks, and virtualized
system design. Specializing in bridging the gap between legacy
industrial environments and modern, secure software ecosystems.
Proven track record of managing complex logical systems where
system integrity and uptime are mission-critical.
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Professional Experience
DecisionPoint Corporation (Federal Contractor) - Heyburn, Idaho
(Dec 2025 - Present)
- Security Governance: Implement and enforce federal security baselines across a complex enterprise network, ensuring all endpoints meet strict compliance standards.
- Identity Management: Administer user permissions and security groups within Active Directory, enforcing the Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP) to reduce the agency's attack surface.
- Virtual Systems Support: Manage and troubleshoot virtualized environments and secure remote access protocols for a federal workforce.
- Compliance: Maintaining active Public Trust suitability with an investigation currently in progress and a Letter of Advisory granted.
Amalgamated Sugar Company — Nampa, Idaho
(Oct 2002 - Sep 2024) Control Room / Assistant Chemist
- Critical Infrastructure Management: Managed the monitoring of 200+ SCADA/ICS logical system screens, ensuring 24/7 operational continuity of complex industrial control systems.
- Logic-Based Troubleshooting: Diagnosed and resolved systemic failures in high-pressure environments, maintaining system integrity through rigorous data analysis and technical precision
- Regulatory Compliance: Conducted high-precision auditing and laboratory testing to ensure system outputs met federal and state safety regulations.
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TECHNICAL PROJECTS & LAB RESEARCH
- Enterprise-Scale Virtualization Lab (In Development)
- Designing a high-performance 128GB RAM virtualization environment to simulate complex federal "Zero Trust" network architectures.
- Utilizing the lab for auditing Active Directory vulnerabilities, testing secure code deployments, and practicing network segmentation within isolated virtual subnets.
- Secure Portfolio Architecture (jonfenn.com)
- Infrastructure: Architected and deployed a professional web presence using Nginx as a secure reverse proxy and Certbot for automated SSL/TLS certificate management.
- Security Control: Configured automated HTTPS enforcement and encryption headers to ensure 100% encrypted traffic and protection against man-in-the-middle attacks.
- Management: Implements version-controlled documentation management to demonstrate technical transparency and system organization.
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