Damian Watkins
Chief Research Officer at Aperio Global, LLC
- Role
- Chief Research Officer (CRO) at Aperio Global
- Location
- Aberdeen, MD, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Damian Watkins
Damian Watkins is currently Chief of Research and Innovation for Aperio Global. He is a recognized expert in network protocol processing and analytic development for Department of Defense (DOD) agencies. His software development background includes over 15 year experience in Java and C++ development of data driven analytics. He also provides consulting to the development of requirements of analytics and provides analysis of network protocols. He has written custom algorithms on live data to analyze network protocol behavior. He has also written Hadoop Map-Reduce based analytics to support customer questions. He possesses a Cyber Security Analysis (CySA+) Certification as well as hands on experience with Malware analysis, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Cyber Metadata generation and processing. He is currently developing Artificial intelligence applications on SIGINT data using TensorFlow for Intelligence/DOD customers. Watkins was awarded Patent No. 11••••73, “Data Analysis System Using Artificial Intelligence.” He was also a finalist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Science Mission Directorate Entrepreneurs Challenge in the area of Quantum Sensing for Dark Energy. Watkins received his doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Morgan State University.
Experience
Chief Research Officer (CRO)
Jul 2024 — Present
Education
Morgan State University
BSEE, ME, DE, Electrical and Computer Engineering
1995 — 2004
Skills
- Sdlc
- Program Management
- System Architecture
- Data Center
- Security
- Enterprise Architecture
- Data Mining
- Requirements Analysis
- Firewalls
- Cloud Computing
- Information Security Management
- Software Engineering
- Networking
- Computer Security
- Programming
- Dod
- Network Architecture
- Systems Engineering
- Saas
- Software Design
- Switches
- Security+
- Linux
- Network Security
- Technical Leadership
- System Administration
- Software Development
- Python
- Information Assurance
- Wireless Networking
- Dns
- Integration
- Software Project Management
- System Deployment
- Testing
- Unix
- Information Security
- Hardware
- Configuration Management
- Tcp/Ip
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