Professional profile

Cybersecurity governance, risk, program leadership, and education.

A fast, web-native view of the experience and capabilities I bring to senior cybersecurity and AI-governance work. A role-specific résumé accompanies formal applications.

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Tim Testa

Cybersecurity Governance, Risk, and Program Leadership

Orlando, Florida
Remote / Orlando-hybrid

Profile

Cybersecurity leader, instructor, and program builder with more than eight years across cyber operations, intelligence, workforce development, technical training, and leadership. Translates technical risk into practical programs, measurable readiness, structured evaluation, and clear stakeholder decisions.

Selected scope

  • Cyber operations and intelligence analysis in high-accountability environments.
  • Leadership and coordination of technical personnel, qualification standards, and readiness.
  • Recurring technical course delivery, lab environments, curriculum quality, assessment, and learner support.
  • Cybersecurity governance research spanning NIST CSF, RMF, incident response, human risk, privacy, and AI governance.
  • Independent development of a governed professional research system with a public source library.

Core strengths

Cybersecurity governance · risk assessment · program leadership · incident response and resilience · workforce development · technical instruction · structured evaluation · executive communication · NIST CSF and RMF · controls and remediation · knowledge management · emerging AI governance

Experience

Senior Network Analyst Instructor · Amentum / Jacobs

Coordinated recurring technical training delivery, course readiness, scheduling, labs, instructor support, documentation, curriculum, assessments, student resources, issue tracking, and VMware vSphere training environments.

Cyber Operations, Intelligence, and Leadership · U.S. Navy

Performed technical cyber and intelligence work, led personnel, supported qualification and readiness systems, and translated complex operational information into usable reporting and decisions.

Education

M.S. Cybersecurity Management and Policy

University of Maryland Global Campus · in progress · projected May 2027

B.S. Computer Networks and Cybersecurity

University of Maryland Global Campus · December 2021