Tennisha Virginia Martin, MBA, PMP, GWAPT, GPEN, GCIH

Leads, coordinates, communicates, integrates and is accountable for the overall success of the National Cybersecurity Nonprofit organization

Manages team of 30 volunteers and executes decision-making authorities to establish vision and direction for organization’s cyber and cyber related resources and operations.

Coordinates with strategic partners and other for-profit and not-for-profit organizations to ensure continued success of organizational mission

Develops and maintains cybersecurity plans, strategy, and policy to support and align with organizational cybersecurity initiatives and regulatory compliance

Conduct long-range, strategic planning efforts with internal and external partners in cyber activities.

Manages 3 million dollar budget and international team of 50 FTE across four business units at Fortune 100 company

Develop and manage the UAT strategy and plan, ensuring that it aligns with project timelines, budget, and quality objectives.

Monitor UAT progress and provide regular updates to project stakeholders, including status reports, metrics, and risk assessments.

Develop and maintain UAT documentation, including UAT plans, test cases, and UAT summary reports.

Continuously improve the UAT process by identifying areas for improvement and implementing best practices, such as automation, and continuous integration and delivery.

Conducted penetration on mobile (Android), network and web applications for Fortune 100 clients

Served as technical lead for projects performing customer readouts and client facing reporting

Utilize security testing tools such as BurpSuite, Mimikatz, Ghidra, Metasploit, Nessus and Kali to assess security and information security risk or client infrastructures

Execute penetration testing, red team and adversary engagements using commercially and freely available offensive security tools

Partnered with security executives and stakeholders to define and analyze organization risk tolerance and assess risk exposure

Designed and implemented risk management framework including execute testing and develop a remediation plan to reduce defects

Led team to implement security testing framework and conduct testing for software packages for financial and purchasing systems

Leveraged ITIL, CMMI, ISO and NIST 800-53 cybersecurity frameworks to ensure system compliance

Re-engineered business processes to adopt SDLC lifecycle best practices and maximize development with efficiency

Led quarterly testing for financial controls and segregation of duties and verified controls were operating effectively, prepared evidentiary packages for financial and SOX audits and reduced audit risk exposure

Wrote and published policies, operating procedures, and training materials for automation and testing and led delivery to cross disciplinary audience of 200 team members

Designed and implemented security program including scope definition, identification of protocols, and protocol testing for the Defense Logistics Agency, and Oracle e-Business systems and solutions 

Led cross-functional team including technical testers, system administrators, and functional testers to execute testing for security program on a weekly basis 

Created security testing protocols and executed testing for all systems monthly, resulting in reduced defects 

Implemented dashboard for continuous monitoring of system security and presented results quarterly to senior management