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Ray Beecham (Veteran🎖️)

raybeecham2009@gmail.com
GitHub @raybeecham 🐉
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Work Experience

Quantum Security Crypto-Agility Engineer

Accenture Federal Services

November 2023 - Present

  • Led collaborative efforts with vendors to evaluate and integrate their cryptographic inventory processes, effectively mitigating vulnerabilities related to post-quantum cryptography (PQC)
  • Maintained up-to-date knowledge of new FIPS standards issues by NIST like FIPS 203, 204, and 205 to ensure compliance and enhance cryptographic security measures.
  • Developed and implemented comprehensive strategies to address PQC-associated cryptographic vulnerabilities.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align and elevate security protocols in line with evolving PIV and SPKI standards, ensuring strong cryptographic practices and full compliance.

Graduate Research Assistant

Texas A&M University - Central Texas

May 2023 - August 2023

  • Conducted research on lightweight block cipher algorithms and their implications in relation to cybersecurity.
  • Conducted Research on smart contracts and different machine-learning techniques and models for vulnerability detection.
  • Assisted in peer review of research papers including a summarization, comments on soundness, significance, novelty, verifiability & transparency, presentation, strengths, weaknesses, minor issues.
  • Conducted Research on Hyperledger-Fabric and its potential use cases for IoT network security.

Software Product and Platform Engineer Senior Analyst

Accenture Federal Services

August 2021 - November 2022

  • Devised strategic placement of stories within sprints based on successors, predecessors, dependencies, and team member velocity and capacity.
  • Led and coordinated a diverse team of 10, including developers, business analysts, product owners, automated testers, a UX designer, and a solution architect.
  • Resolved conflicts, communicated blocking issues, removed impediments, and predicted future complications through scrum of scrums, release planning, and inter-team communication.
  • Delivered over 50+ key system features for a brand new completely reimagined contact center application that successfully went live on 6/1/22.

System Developer Analyst

Accenture Federal Services

August 2020 - August 2021

  • Developed coding and testing solutions that would automatically trigger events such as email reminders within flows and process builder in Salesforce, using HTML, CSS, Java, JavaScript, and Lightning Web Components.
  • Created mobile test plans including test scripts and scenarios involving iOS and Android.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams such as Human Resources and Finance to create, update, or delete acceptance criteria for upcoming stories in sprints.

Test Engineer Associate

Accenture Federal Services

September 2020 - August 2020

  • Updated the traceability matrix to include 40+ stories associated with business processes and rules.
  • Created test cases to include test case ID, description, dependencies, and requirements
  • Assisted military team members with test scenarios that included allowances such as basic allowance for housing (BAH), special and incentive pays, and reenlistment pays.

Education

Texas A&M University - Central Texas 🛡️

Information Systems (Cybersecurity), Master of Science

Micro-Credential: Data Analytics Causal Analytics & Big Data (CABD) Certificate

GPA 4.0

Spring 2022 - May 2024

Coursework:

  • Advanced Database Management
  • Enterprise Security
  • Telecommunications for Managers
  • Foundations of Information Security
  • Digital Forensics
  • Management Information Systems
  • Technical Project Management
  • Visual Analytics (In Progress)
  • Data Analytics and Management (In Progress)
  • Adv Syst Analysis and Design (In Progress)
  • Causal Analytics (In Progress)

Organizations:

  • Student Government Association - Graduate Senator

Awards:

  • College of Business Administration Scholarship Recipient 2022-2023
  • Mary Yeaman Memorial Endowed Scholarship 2023

Texas State University ⭐

Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Business Administration

Fall 2015 - Spring 2019

Coursework:

  • Data Mining and Visualization
  • Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Team Building
  • Mobile Application Development for Android
  • System Analysis and Design
  • Topics in Data Analytics
  • Visual Programming I
  • Visual Programming II
  • Web Applications Design and Development
  • Introduction to Microcomputer Applications
  • The Legal Environment of Business
  • Starting IT Business
  • Agile Project Management
  • Computer Database Systems
  • Enterprise Information Technology and Business Intelligence

Organizations:

  • Association of Information Technology Professionals
  • Veterans Association
  • Honors College
  • Non-Traditional Student Organization
  • Student Leadership Board

Certifications

  • GIAC Intrusion Analyst (GCIA) (In Progress)
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (In Progress)
  • Casual Analytics and Big Data Certification - Distinguished Graduate (Texas A&M)
  • Data Analytics Micro-Credential (Texas A&M)
  • Quantum Programming - Core (D-Wave)
  • Cryptocurrency Fundamentals Certification (Chainalaysis)
  • ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity
  • ISC2 System Security Certified Practitioner
  • CompTIA Security+
  • Chainalysis Cryptocurrency Fundamentals Certification (CCFC)
  • Google IT Automation with Python
  • ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Coaching
  • ICAgile Team Facilitation
  • Salesforce Certified Administrator (SCA)
  • ITIL 4 Foundation CPD
  • ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP)
  • ICAgile Certified Professional - Foundations of DevOps
  • ICAgile Certified Professional - Implementing DevOps

Technical Skills

General Front-End Back-End Other
Python, C#, Java, JavaScript, APEX HTML, CSS, jQuery, SQL, SOQL Git, Linux numpy, tensorflow, scikit-learn, jupyter, Agile, Scrum

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  1. Semester-Project Semester-Project Public

    Python

  2. HyperLedgerFabric HyperLedgerFabric Public

    This Repo was created with the purpose of demonstrating how to bring up a test network in Hyperledger Fabric and how to run the explorer

  3. TheGIFT TheGIFT Public

    This repo was created in order to recreate the GIFT cipher in C++ to Python for the purpose of research and development

    Python

  4. google-it-automation-with-python google-it-automation-with-python Public

    Forked from jeremymaya/google-it-automation-with-python

    Repository to keep track of Google IT Automation with Python provided by Coursera

    Python