RedTale Communications, LLC

Seeing your story, concepts, ideas, and work come to life through visual communications is the best way to understand one another and make things happen. RedTale Communications offers graphic recording, sketchnoting, tailored illustration, narration, visual communications and more to present your information in new and exciting ways. If you are looking for more ways to tell your story, we should chat.

Chief Illustration/Hope Officer

Redtale Communications LLC

Curated my daily illustrated quotes during the pandemic and shared 90 of them in four seasonal journals that can be purchased on https://shopccmd.com/product-category/redtale-communications/

Book Author, "90 Days To Write Your Way to (Winter, Spring, Summer, & Fall)"

MBO Partners

Created storyboards, illustrations, graphic recording charts, and rich pictures to represent organizational capabilities in a way that demonstrates value, bonded teams together, generated strategic discussions, and helped unify companies and their customers so they can all speak the same way about what is going on around them. Deliverables included rich pictures spread across shorter reports to help explain what was going on, how we got here, and how things worked.

Sketchnoting | Red Teaming | Design Thinking

Noblis

•	Supported military planners, strategists, and policy makers to represent enemy and alternative perspectives towards developing plans, strategy, lines of efforts, and Commander's end states;
•	Co-facilitated and participating in operational design (developing shared understanding, group learning, problem framing) workshops (20+) to aid planners, operators, analysts, and strategists in developing appropriate and necessary steps, uncover faulty logic, and explore alternative futures, establishing current and future frames, providing expert problem solving;
•	Tailored Red Team (alternative analysis, devil’s advocacy, and enemy perspectives) support to Campaign planners, cyber strategists, and policy makers;
•	Conducted intelligence support to planning and strategic development by refining and discussing meaningful priority cyber intelligence requirements;
•	Represented enemy, friendly, or competitor perspectives with specific emphasis on enemy control, communications, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR), operations, planning, and training efforts;
•	Analyzed platform IT (PIT) industry norms, cyber incident reports and mitigations, policies, and plans to support kick off of DoD-wide working group and PIT strategy development;
•	Provided unorthodox and non-traditional approaches to elusive cyber issues;

Red Teaming | Cyber Threat Intelligence | Design Thinking

Sally Daniel Training Company

•	Delivered (25+) presentation and communication skills courses to strategic consultants; 
•	Provided in depth training, guidance, and consultation to improve briefing presence; 
•	Generated critical assessments and feedback for students in simulated briefing modules

Corporate Training Specialist

Summit Solutions

* Conducted root cause analysis for business processes, communications, and technical tools/training;
* Recommended changes to improve organizational effectiveness and efficiency based on strategic
objectives and organizational strategy;
* Developed visually appealing information graphics to present organization statistics, metrics, and emerging topics that required additional focus and addressed future planning objectives.

Intelligence Analyst, Strategic Consultant

BCT LLC

* Designed and hosted ten unique 'Ask the Hacker' sessions with certification and accreditation professionals;
* Conducted network defense and trending analysis to influence future defense strategies;
* Designed and delivered open source research plan for obtaining emerging threat and technology
information on information assurance and information security issues from industry sources;
* Coordinated network defense mission areas to aide in efficiency across incident response teams;
* Researched network events to propose policy updates and network defense investments;
* Developed table tops and training for information assurance and information security issues;
* Populated intelligence for attack trees, attacker's goals, network defense capabilities, recovery costs, and notional probabilities of attack and defense successes for strategic decision makers;
* Conducted extended enterprise information assurance assessments for maturing the capabilities and improvement strategies;
* Delivered all customer strategic communications: briefings, white papers, website content, ghost written correspondence to stakeholders, partners and leaders throughout government;
* Developed and provided communication skill curriculum for senior executives for more effective briefing and communication techniques.

Cyber Intelligence Analyst, Corporate Communications Specialist

Booz Allen Hamilton

Worked with Special Projects to identify critical information for high priority targets;
* Identified to work with analytic cell on emerging hostile groups, individuals and websites;
* Created analytic profiles to substantiate ongoing operations against high value targets, authored
analytic standard operating procedures (SOP) for cyber analysts;
* Developed sharable network defense resources between customers and mission partners;
* Provided open source analysis on electrical power grid and Supervisory Control and Data
Acquisition (SCADA) systems for ongoing modeling and simulation efforts;
* Researched and examined specifications, user behavior, and critical infrastructure by exploring
the unclassified web, trade magazines, blogs, social networking sites, and technical journals;
* Designed and delivered an extensive analysis and production training plan for more than sixty
inbound military, contractor, and government civilians;
* Briefed senior military leaders on high priority intelligence targets/centers of gravity;
* Co-authored SOP for open source research lab to initiate and maintain best practices.

Intelligence Analyst

Researched, compiled, and authored vendor profiles for clients using market research databases,
open source, industry journals, and conference materials to initiate vendor identification and
proposal efforts;
* Created vendor profiles for client selection for major IT outsourcing and offshoring engagements;
* Planned, organized, and implemented professional conferences and recruiting events.

Commercial Competitive Intelligence Researcher

Sheppard Pratt

Taught fifth and sixth grade students with learning disabilities and emotional disorders,
ultimately leading to creative problem solving skills and a wealth of patience
* Created daily lesson plans and Individualized Education Plans (IEP) to correspond with regulated
educational goals, social skill recommendations, and curriculums
* Developed curriculum enhancement tools to encourage the application of social skills with adults
and peers in the forms of tailored cartoons coupled with specific behavior management plans
* Co-chaired weekly family counseling sessions for students and family members and provided daily
crisis counseling and emotional support

Special Education Elementary School Teacher & Adjunct Family Therapist

A Thinker Who Draws, Illustrator, Sketchnote Artist, Graphic Recorder: Focused on spreading hope using #graphicrecording #sketchnoting #illustration #art #emotionalintelligence

I'm a thinker who draws, and you'll often find me with pen in hand, drawing while listening.  Illustrating concepts helps me understand information in a far greater way than just hearing or reading whatever content I'm learning. 

Throughout my life, I always found that I would remember pictures better than words alone. After nearly 20 years on a winding path of experience, I decided that this valuable skill could be used to help others understand better, too. Now I spend my days bringing conversations to life and creating art for clients of all kinds. Whether I am drawing live for your event, creating a tailored illustration for your story or book, or just drawing a daily quote about hope, I'm visualizing everything.

I believe that in a world filled with words, more pictures will always do. I've found that starting small and working your way is always best. Bring me your stories and watch them come to life in a new way.

RedTale Communications was founded in February 2020 to help people tell their stories through visuals and narration. If you are finding yourself in the same meetings over and over again or stuck in a project that lacks the creative influence and flow you desire, contact us to hear more about how we can help.

Wade Forbes

Sierra Nevada Corporation

Senior IT Project Manager

The Goal

Provides independent, unbiased, mature, and leading edge consultation services to review the current state of business processes and cyber security practices and, based on analysis, creates support plans for management, operations and technical  areas.

Cyber Security Management Specialist III

Chickasaw Nation Industries, Inc.

Responsible for overseeing IT Security personnel and daily operations within the IT Security department. Duties included, but were not limited to: creating job posts, interviewing and hiring qualified candidates, training and mentoring staff, relaying information between upper management and department employees and managing the department budget.

Continued all duties as NIST/CMMC Program Manager, as well as:
 
Identified, managed and reported on CNI’s compliance of regulatory, legislative, and contractual requirements to support the company’s risk posture as they relate to its information assets. 

Performed reviews, assessments, and audits, conducted research, and facilitated communication to internal and external stakeholders when necessary. 

Monitored, coordinated, and implemented policies, standards, procedures, controls, and guidelines to support security, compliance, and audit requirements.

Continued to lead Cyber Incident Response Team(s), member of the Corporate Risk Management Team, and participated in the development of COOP test plans/events, as needed.

Took the IT Risk Management process and turned it into an actionable program, integrating it with the Corporate Risk Management program. 
Created, implemented, and maintained the IT Incident Response plan/process.
Created, implemented, and maintained the IT Vendor Security Review process. 
Solutioned and communicated security based changes affecting employee processes.

Information Security Compliance Manager

Addressed leadership concerns, led risk assessments and gap analysis, led tools/processes scoping and implementation, created and maintained pols/pros, led outreach and awareness for internal and external peers. Led incident response and reporting process.

DoD NIST/CMMC Program Manager
Ensured the organization's operations, technologies, plans, policies, and procedures met government and industry compliance standards. 
SME for NIST 800-53, 800-171, RMF, and other NIST standards and CMMC, and led teams to compliance, implementing sufficient processes and documentation.
Assisted with audits, implemented company policies and procedures, and created and managed associated plan of actions and milestone documentation.
Reviewed contracts to ensure accuracy and negotiated terms as necessary: looked for cybersecurity regulation language and requirements.
Attended industry led webinars, meetings, and town halls for better understanding of cybersecurity threats, CMMC requirements, and supply chain management safeguards to then flow out to the Enterprise when relevant. 
Led all tool implementation projects. 

Acquisitions and Mergers Integration Project Manager
Led kick off meetings so that  functional integration leaders understood their roles and responsibilities during the transition period.
Assisted with the launch of functional integration teams so they understood their charters and were organized for success.
Briefed the acquired management team and employees so they understand the integration processes and potential impacts.
Escalated issues requiring senior-level input .
Managed the interdependencies between functions so activities were prioritized and sequenced correctly.
Evaluated the risks associated with an integration and mitigated them to the most reasonable extent possible.
Ensured exit criteria were met.
Documented any handoffs to business line leaders at the end of the transition period.
Captured lessons learned and recommendations for future acquisitions.

Focused Area (not limited to):  Led teams through network infrastructure and information security driven projects. Examples: multi-factor authentication (MFA) tool implementation, Voice Over IP (VOIP) upgrades, VPN upgrades/modifications, Data Loss Prevention (DLP) tool implementation, and more.

Highlights: Led cross-functional teams in the successful acquisition of a manufacturing company including the timely completion of legal, human resources, payroll, and financial tasks, software purchases and implementations, software licensing and maintenance  conversions, and hardware asset relocations, as well as onboarding 30+ employees, within 8 weeks.

Led the DoD NIST/Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) technology readiness efforts for the Enterprise.

IT Project Manager

Paycom

Assisted the IT Department with creating and implementing a Program Management Office function and proper project process based on PMI standards.

Researched, evaluated and implemented various on-prem and cloud vendor solutions for Banking, Marketing, Information Technology, Legal, and other Enterprise teams. 

Identified the tools/services needed, explored and evaluated various vendor solutions, and presented each selected solution to an Executive committee for approval to purchase. I would then fulfill all procurement process tasks: initiated risk review of all vendor solutions, negotiated contract pricing and assisted legal with review of terms, created purchase orders, and managed the receipt and inspection of purchases.

Managed multiple vendor relationships and evaluated all software renewals.

Excelled in:
>> BA/PM Technical Knowledge
>> Vendor Management
>> Business Process Review
>> Requirements Elicitation
>> Stakeholder Management
>> Resource Management
>> Budgeting
>> Scheduling
>> Project Documentation
>> Project Monitoring and Controlling
>> Presentations to Executive Management

IT Business Analyst V/Project Manager

Boeing

Managed projects for weapons integration on the B-52 fleet.
 
Excelled in: 
>> Task Management
>> Project Documentation
>> Stakeholder Management
>> Resource Management
>> Budgeting
>> Scheduling
>> Project Monitoring and Controlling
>> Change Management Lifecycle
>> Earned Value Management
>> Presentations to Executive Management

Bombers (B-52) Project Management Specialist

Led the development of strategies focused on evaluating and driving service investment decisions for the site. Integrated technical capabilities, business opportunities and risks, constraints and company goals to develop strategies for change.

Participated in the planning, implementation and coordination of events and activities that support the site including one or more of the following areas: advertising and promotional programs, marketing campaigns, events, trade shows and public relations, including Internet based communications.  Continuously analyzed the impact of employee events to ensure optimal value was reached for each investment.

Business Process Analyst

MidFirst Bank

Led the analysis of over 60 enterprise-wide business process/system deficiencies developing and implementing solutions consisting of new software design  and development and/or researching and purchasing third party vendor solutions. Project types included, but were not limited to: regulatory/compliance, research and recommend, operational enhancements, acquisitions and mergers, system conversions, and system design.

Excelled in: 
>> Product Ownership
>> Requirements Elicitation
>> Project Documentation
>> Stakeholder Management
>> Resource Management
>> Budgeting
>> Scheduling
>> Project Monitoring and Controlling
>> Presentations to Executive Management
>> Technical Knowledge
>> System Design
>> Technical Writing/Documentation
>> Business Process Review
>> Vendor Management

Senior IT Business Analyst/Project Manager

DISA

>> Project Documentation
>> Stakeholder Management
>> Scheduling
>> Resource Management
>> Project Monitoring and Controlling
>> Presentations to Executive Management
>> Technical Knowledge
>> Technical Writing/Documentation

IT Project Coordinator

>> Change Control
>> Scheduling
>> Asset Management
>> Process Creation and Improvement

Change Manager

>> Scheduling Downtime for Servers
>> Process Trainer
>> Process Creation and Improvement
>> Procedure Documentation

I was part of a Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Green Belt candidate's team. As a team member, I was involved in research and evaluation of critical processes at DISA Oklahoma City. As part of the LSS team, I conducted trend analysis and used the results to develop graphs, charts, and documentation which helped provide a better idea of how to train others as Customer Support Specialists on technical issues and new customer support technologies. I verbally presented the information found to my team leader and assisted my team leader in determining better time and cost efficient practices for DISA and assisted in developing specifications for user instruction manuals and defining procedures for providing post-implementation support based upon customer needs.

Service Interruption Coordinator

IT Customer Support Professional

Experience: IT Security Regulation Comprehension  and Compliance • Consulting and Solutioning •  Software Implementations • System Conversions • Acquisitions & Mergers Integration • NIST/ISCM/RMF/CMMC

Proficient Skills: Process Improvement • Communication • Enterprise Team Management •  Eliciting Information • Requirements Documentation  • Business Process Documentation • Emotional Intelligence • Relationship Management • Change Management

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