Melanie Weaver

Background

About Melanie Weaver

After 14 years serving federal agencies as a contractor, I finally became a federal employee 5 years ago and serve as an IT Security specialist. Prior to this I spent a year as an IA Trainer and Xacta Course Developer for Telos which was a great fit for my background with the Xacta software and Risk Management Framework. The 12 years before that, I worked in the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Compliance and Risk Management Framework (RMF) arena at the United States Coast Guard and Department of Veteran Affairs. I served as Project Manager and Service Line Manager for 4 years, as Team Lead 4 years before that, and as Assistant Information System Security Officer and Security Analyst prior to that. In addition to my field experience, I have an A.A.S Degree in business, a Governance, Risk, and Compliance (CGRC) ISC2 certification, and a Security+ certification. I am excellent at building a team and motivating professionals to share the knowledge and expertise they have gained with each other to improve overall team proficiency. I enjoy constantly improving current processes and have participated in 2 organizational wide Continual Process improvement events where we utilized the Six Sigma and Lean principles to improve the overall processes throughout the organization.