Doug Nordwall

About Doug Nordwall

A network security and data analytics professional with a passion for defense design…

Experience

1. Principle Cyber Security Research Scientist

   Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

   Jun 1999 — Present · Richland/Kennewick/Pasco, WA, US

   Principle investigator for FLORIN project. As PI, I am responsible for directing the technical direction for twenty people including infrastructure management, analytic and data pipeline development, research paper publication, multiple sensoring efforts for international partners, and development of new tools and technologies to fulfill critical needs in high intensity environments. • Principle Investigator for the Cooperative Protection program (CPP). As PI and Deputy Manager, I was responsible for analytic support of a DOE-wide network monitoring over more than 80 DOE locations. This includes cyber analytics design and development, managing technical staff, collaborating with internal and external analysts, researchers, and developers to bring new capabilities forward into production, and bringing new technologies and methodologies to production.• Technical Team Lead for the Network Cybersecurity group, overseeing the career growth and wellbeing of expert cybersecurity professionals from diverse backgrounds and with diverse focuses. • Analytics team lead for the Cooperative Risk Information Sharing project. As team lead, I am responsible for managing a group of analysts, developers, and infrastructure specialists to construct a center for analytics specializing in cyber security for the energy sector. • Task lead for Cyber.gov architecture design at PNNL. As task lead, I guided a team of experienced technical professionals to develop the next generation security architecture for the civilian government space.• Liaison to another government agency for the DOE CPP for 2 years. As liaison, I was responsible for finding and bringing new capabilities for network security monitoring out of a classified environment in DoD and into an unclassified environment in DoE. As liaison I also collaborated in development, managed relationships, and found new applications for current technology.

Education

• New Mexico Highlands University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

  1996 — 1999

• New Mexico Highlands University

  BS, Computer Science

  1995 — 1999

Skills

• High Performance Computing
• Networking
• Computer Science
• Semantic Web
• Python
• Algorithms
• Computer Security
• Security
• Linux
• Programming
• Auditing
• Mpi
• Program Management
• Shell Scripting
• Data Mining
• Unix
• Bash
• Network Security
• C
• Distributed Systems
• Perl