Danai Tekle

About Danai Tekle

Passionate about learning and becoming a successful leader while having opportunities to display those qualities and being able to inspire those around me. I applied that passion in 5 years of experience offering insight and credentials in data analytics, regulatory compliance, risk analytics, and statistical analysis coupled with computer programming skills. With strengths in statistical and risk analytics coupled with emerging technologies, I’m recognized for being a key component in reaching companies goals while using different mechanisms/methods to ensure efficient results.

Experience

1. Risk Analyst

   Capital One

   Feb 2022 — Present · McLean, VA, US

   Responsible for reviewing and implementing systems/applications that will automate exercise requests from customers, data points from playbooks/processes, and scheduling exercise planning meetings with customers while reducing time and effort spent by the team. Ex. Immersive LabsIt is my responsibility to review customers\' playbooks/processes in order to identify potential risk scenarios for an exercise. Reviewing the playbooks helps develop and provide clarification for the purpose, goal, objectives, and the execution processes for conducting cyber exercises.Responsible for managing my team’s Jira Board and continuing to track customers recommendedactions to completion. It is my responsibility to track recommended actions to completion in order tomitigate risk from a cyber threat. Lead simulated cyber attack exercises that mimics real-world malicious actors aiming to test theeffectiveness of the organization’s defense mechanisms. If a risk was identified, based on theevidence, I provide the organization with a list of recommended next steps to improve the process.

Education

• University of Missouri-Columbia

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

  2014 — 2018

Skills

• Communication
• Biology
• Sports