C.V.

C.V.

(Updated July 17, 2025)

Edward M. Christian

edward.m.christian@protonmail.com

Executive Summary

Cybersecurity professional with 15 years of experience in federal service and industry. Proven track record delivering cybersecurity services for public sector stakeholders, with a strong foundation in storytelling, enablement, and stakeholder engagement. Passionate about the intersection of cybersecurity, business, and national security.

NICE Framework Roles

  • Cybersecurity Policy and Planning (OG-WRL-002 / 752)
  • Secure Project Management (OG-WRL-011 / 802)
  • Technology Portfolio Management (OG-WRL-014 / 804)
  • Enterprise Architecture (DD-WRL-002 / 651)
  • Systems Requirements Planning (DD-WRL-006 / 641)
  • Defensive Cybersecurity (PD-WRL-001 / 511)

Professional Experience

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

IT Specialist (Infosec) – GS-12 | Jun 2022 – Present
IT Specialist (Infosec) Intern – GS-09 | Jun 2021 – May 2022

  • Led development of scalable shared services (Incident Response, Penetration Testing, and Cyber Assessments) as Project Manager, bringing projects to close and delivering operational products.
    • Impact: Smaller public organizations can close cyber gaps more affordably and with easier acquisition thanks to these services.
  • Authored CONOPs, SOPs, and contributed to functional engineering requirements, guided contractor teams and stakeholder outreach.
    • Impact: Able to go to market faster with new services possessing effective capabilities while providing enablement to stakeholders around those services which drives adoption and fills a critical market gap for small public organizations.
  • Conducted technical and market research around upcoming service areas, such as Secure Web Gateway, IDaaS, ZTA, and SOCaaS service development and acquisition planning as primary analyst.
    • Impact: Driving decision making clock speed to bring usable capabilities to stakeholders through effective scoping and resource planning for efforts on our service development roadmap.
  • Successfully managed stakeholder engagement for service development projects.
    • Impact: Able to conduct and complete projects within scope, on time, and according to stakeholder expectations.
  • Chairs Ambassadors program in my subdivision for staff engagement (2024 to Present)
    • Impact: Providing leadership with communication channels to staff, providing morale management and identifying ways to improve staff experience.

University at Buffalo – Buffalo, NY

Graduate Research Fellow | May 2020 – May 2022

  • Researched cybersecurity, online voting, blockchain trust models, and ML applications.
  • Participated in CPTC and UB Lockdown competitions; NetDef security operations coursework.

Ingram Micro – Buffalo, NY

Technical Account Manager – VMware Cloud | Apr 2017 – May 2020

  • Drove $27M growth in cloud revenue through consulting and enablement.
  • Earned 4 VMware certifications and led professional services and training.

Utilant, LLC – Buffalo, NY

Client Account Manager | Apr 2016 – Mar 2017

  • Onboarded major carriers; introduced Agile practices and client documentation.

Ingram Micro – Buffalo, NY

Market Development Specialist II – Lenovo Enterprise | Feb 2013 – Apr 2016

  • Increased Lenovo Enterprise revenue from $2M to $10M; closed $3M deal in 2016.

GEICO Insurance Agency – Buffalo, NY

Insurance Sales Representative | Oct 2010 – Feb 2013

  • Licensed in 40 states; 90%+ QA and 95%+ customer satisfaction scores.

Starbucks Coffee Co. – Buffalo, NY

Store Supervisor | Oct 2007 – Jun 2010

  • Promoted multiple times; led top-performing store operations.

Education

  • M.S. Computer Science & Engineering, University at Buffalo, 2022
  • B.S. Computer Information Systems, SUNY Buffalo State, 2019
  • M.A. Early American History, SUNY Brockport, 2009
  • B.S. Early American History, SUNY Brockport, 2004

Certifications

  • Project Management Professional (PMP) – 2025
  • Federal Cyber Skills Academy – Cyber Operations – 2023
  • CompTIA Security+, ISC² Certified in Cybersecurity (CC) – 2023
  • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) – 2020
  • VMware TSP: Datacenter, Networking, and Cloud – 2019
  • University at Buffalo Advanced Certificate in Information Assurance – 2022

Technical Skills

  • Frameworks: NIST CSF, MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, CIS Controls
  • Tools: Wireshark, Zeek, Suricata, Snort, Nmap, PfSense, ELK, Linux, Docker
  • Programming: Python, JavaScript, Java, C, Rust (basic)
  • Project Management: PMBOK, service development, stakeholder engagement, servant leadership, people management

Additional Information

  • Citizenship: United States
  • Clearance: REDACTED
  • Work Preference: Full-Time · Prefer Buffalo/Niagara or Remote