Dave Bares (Past Speaker)

Proven leader and results-driven performer with over 20 years of experience in complex operating environments. Adept at initiating positive change, training personnel, and forging successful teams focused on business operations and technology improvements:
• 15 years of technical management melding IT processes and security into military operations
• Highly versed in network design, system integration, layered defense, information assurance
• Supervised enclave accreditation, LAN sustainment, and cyber/security incident response teams
• PMP plus CISSP and CNSSI 4012 (Senior System Manager) information technology certifications
• M.S. in Cyber Operations & Computer Engineering with graduate certificate in Business Foundations
• Previous Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearance
• Exceptionally organized leader and accomplished communicator with keen attention to detail.

Experienced implementing/testing systems utilizing various applications/software/tools/protocols:
• Host platforms: Windows, OS X, Ubuntu, CentOS, VMWare, Parallels, VirtualBox
• Secure infrastructure: Firewall, Proxy, DMZ, Intrusion Detection System, Web/Email/File server, VPN
• Office suites: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, Visio, Project, Acrobat, LaTeX
• Network & cryptography standards: TCP/IP, UDP, TLS, SSL, IPsec, PKI, RSA, MD5, SHA, others
• Vulnerability assessment: WireShark, Nessus, NMap, Backtrack/Kali, NetCat, Metasploit, Cain, others

Professional expertise developing/integrating/sustaining critical national programs:
• Nuclear command and control to include systems, processes, and training/validation
• Cyber security for on orbit satellites and national satellite imagery processing and transmission
• Unclassified, Secret, and Top Secret computer networks for situational awareness, 
geographically separated unit collaboration, and mission execution