Nathan Putzier - PMP, CSPO

Experience

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  US Navy

  Jun 2004 - Dec 2011

  Led the effort to obtain legal certifications for consent-to-monitoring of tactical assets in coordination with the NSA Office of General Counsel. Coordinated the installation and tasking of collection assets. Oversaw the analysis of raw traffic at both JCMA headquarters and the Regional COMSEC Monitoring Center. Created enterprise-wide terminology that enabled previously impossible trend analysis. Provided daily reports and training to deployed US Naval assets regarding COMSEC disclosures, ensuring the safety of ships and key leadership. Show less Led 10 signals analysts, 5 imagery analysts, and 6 linguists in the collection, transcription, and analysis of high-priority intelligence. Managed an $8.9 million budget encompassing a network upgrade, system installation, renovation of 25 offices, and lifecycle upgrade for 75 workstations. Management activities included: bartering with local merchants, overseeing shipments of supplies and classified equipment through a 3rd world country's customs office, and developing robust inventory and property control tracking spreadsheets. Conducted daily mission briefings for target packages. Constructed proposals and briefings integral to increasing collection assets, allowing the JIC to fulfill previously impossible critical intelligence requirements. Show less Led a joint team on the National Security Operations Center watch floor. Managed the daily operation, health and safety, and emergent tasking of more than $5 billion of United States Intelligence assets. Provided technical advice to senior executives and other team members. Recognized as a subject matter expert for issues involving overhead Signals Intelligence. Earned an award for exceptional initiative and effort in support of a high profile mission. Presented more than 700 staff briefings to senior executives including the Director of NSA, Join Chiefs of Staff, CIA, DIA, ONI, and the Director of National Intelligence.Created and maintained a training manual to efficiently train future mission directors, reducing training time from 8 to 4 weeks.Managed the physical relocation of two critical watch positions during a facility upgrade, ensuring mission-critical systems maintained 100 percent up-time. Show less

  • Testing and Exercise Lead

    Nov 2008 - Dec 2011

  • Mission Manager, Assistant Collection Manager

    May 2008 - Nov 2008

  • Collection Manager, Tactical Signals Intelligence

    Sept 2007 - May 2008

  • Program Manager

    Mar 2007 - Aug 2007

  • Mission Director, Overhead Collection Management Center

    Mar 2005 - Feb 2007

  • Division Officer

    Nov 2004 - Feb 2005

  • Deputy Personnel Officer

    Jun 2004 - Oct 2004
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  IKANOW

  Oct 2011 - Nov 2013

  Solutions Architect

  Managed collaboration between federal clients and Ikanow developers to create a multi-database query solution with latent semantic capability for a U.S. federal government agency. Implemented Agile development best practices during the planning, installation, and modification of an open source platform designed to enable the fusion and analysis of big data. Organized and facilitated multiple business requirements gathering sessions with numerous stakeholders, led requirements prioritization sessions, led client demos and integrated client feedback into the platform. Authored whitepapers and blog posts on topics such as structured data analysis and the use of social media, web content, and other unstructured data sources in conjunction with traditional structured data to answer challenging questions. Show less

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  US Navy Reserve

  Oct 2011 - Feb 2014

  Operations Officer

  Led a 5-8 person team responsible for the defense and monitoring of critical national information systems. Conducted daily briefings of system status, potential threats, and risk assessment to senior military and government officials.Assisted in creating a training program for new watch-center personnel to ensure rapid onboarding and consistency. Oversaw the training and qualification of more than 50 new watch-center personnel in a variety of specialties.

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  Sila Solutions Group

  Mar 2014 - Apr 2014

  Senior Project Manager

  Managed security accreditation processes for multiple federal clients. Mentored team members in the use of XACTA, an industry accreditation management tool used to manage conformity to security regulations. Authored multiple proposals for the expansion of SILA’s intelligence community footprint.

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  Emerald Resource Group

  May 2014 - Jun 2014

  Senior Project Manager

  Managed a short-term engagement for Progressive Insurance in Mayfield, OH as a contractor within the Project Management Office. Coordinated 18 enterprise-level activities essential for the budgeting, planning, and launch of a major program.

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  Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

  Dec 2014 - now

  • Product Owner

    Sept 2018 - now

  • Project Manager

    Dec 2014 - Sept 2018