Emmanuel Addo

About Emmanuel Addo

Honorably Discharged U.S. Navy Veteran with over 10 years of experience in information security and information technology domains. Active Security Clearance. Knowledge in critical analysis, risk management, compliance, policy design and cross team coordination. Skilled in cross-team coordination and business partnering. An experienced Information Security and Compliance analyst with strong background in RMF Analysis, Risk Assessment, SOC and FISMA/FedRAMP and NIST framework such as 800-53, 800-53A, 800-18, 800-60, and FIPS 199 & 200 publications etc. Subject matter expert with capabilities of leading a diverse team to exceed business goals. Experience with reviewing Nessus vulnerability scan reports. Creative and resourceful in generating new ideas using SOAR framework and solving complex problems. • Collaborate with senior leadership to develop and implement policies, programs, strategies, and technology to identify and reduce cybersecurity risks. • Outstanding leadership abilities; able to coordinate and direct all phases of project-based efforts while managing, motivating, and leading project teams. • Maintain and distribute metrics on IT compliance and related control activities. • Provide oversight and monitoring for corporate compliance tasks. • Support the bi-annual global and ad-hoc divisional IT Risk Assessments. • Support systems which enable IT Compliance functions including but not limited to IT Policy Manual, Internal Review, and Application Inventory. • Provide guidance to management and staff on external requirements, audit concerns, and internal control best practices. • Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and technology staff to ensure that communication is open and ongoing. • Experience coordinating IT compliance and audit activities and supporting compliance requirements (e.g. SOX 404) in a large IT organization. • Familiarity with security and control standards, frameworks, and best practices (e.g. ISO 27001, NIST, COBIT, COSO)

Experience

1. Solution Lead

   Leidos

   Dec 2022 — Present · US

   Lead strategy sessions on assigned proposals Lead solution coordination, consolidation and reviews for proposals, ROMs and other responses to Government requests for standard complexity program modifications and projects as well as standard service orders. • Support efforts to enhance standard solution libraries in support of organization-wide solution and BOE/BOM definitions. • Support customer negotiations. • Work in partnership with internal teams to define a solution, proposal, and other required documentation. • Write proposal content outlining solutions that meet customer requirements and align with BOEs, BOMs, and ODCs. • Ensure solutions are properly scoped, evaluate assumptions, identify risks, evaluate cost, and ensure responses meet requirements. • Derive, decompose, and maintain technical, non-technical, functional, and non-functional requirements from an understanding of stakeholder needs, logical inference, and applicable policies. • Significant collaboration and coordination with external customers, management, subcontractors. • Collaborate with technical experts to synthesize solution architectures and designs from requirements and constraints. • Collaborate with customers to discuss requirements, solutions and plans with high level government customers. • Lead solution review meetings to ensure integration of all requirements. • Identify subject matter experts that can effectively contribute to responding to solution needs. • Develop BOMs as required to support defined solutions. • Other duties as required Interpret technical and management requirements of Federal Government solicitations (e.g, RFPs, RTEPs, RFIs). • Manage multiple solution requests with sometimes rapid turnaround deadlines. • Drives consensus around the business, technical, and functional components of the solution vision and roadmap with business stakeholders and technologists. • Ensures proposed solutions are executable and may be delivered efficiently and effectively.

Education

• University of Maryland Global Campus

  Bachelor of Science - BS

• University of Maryland Global Campus

  Master of Business Administration - MBA