About Shawn
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Network Systems Architect and Engineer, IT Managed Services, Security Consulting for
Data Forensic and Electronic Discovery and Data Recovery Specialist CJA Expert Panel – Federal Public Defenders Offices
Qualified Expert Witness, Digital Forensics under Military Rules of Evidence (MRE), County, State and Federal Courts.
Subject Matter Expert – Network Threat Attribution & Remediation Special Master: SEC panel FINRA appointment
Privately Retained to investigate network breaches, computer systems abuse, electronic fraud, and intellectual property theft
Contracted Digital Forensic Expert – Aurelius Investigation and Consulting
Contracted Digital Forensic Expert – 12 Points Technologies
Extensive consulting for Barry Law Firm, Doman Law Team, Parrish Law Firm and Koley Jessen
PRESENTATIONS
Nebraska State Bar Association – 2019 Annual Meeting, Nebraska Criminal Defense Attorney’s Association Seminar: “Digital Forensics: Context and Correlation”
Nebraska Association of Licensed Private Investigators, First Quarter Meeting 2020, “Forensics for Private Investigators”
Kutak Rock Special Guest Speaker: “Digital Forensics in Legal Legislations”
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Returning Guest Lecturer, DFIR/SIGINT/OSINT as applied to Military Intelligence and Diplomatic Digital Security – Institute of World Politics
Adjunct Instructor, Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity – University of Nebraska Kearney
Cyber Camp Instructor, NSA funded by INQTEL – University Nebraska Kearney
Law Enforcement only Digital Forensic Training, Co-Instructor – University of Nebraska Kearney
TRAINING & CERTIFICATION
CompTIA A+ Linux+ Network+ Security+ Server+
Microsoft MCP NT 4 MCSE for Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012
Network attribution on Darknets (tor) (p2p) (VPN) (network obfuscation methods)
OSINT, SOCMINT, and other Identity Mapping and Correlation methods
SIGNIT, focus on Cellula, ISP broadband. Wireless and Fiber Technologies
Building Network Compliance Policy and Security
Auditing CIS Standards
(CEH) EC-Council’s Certified Ethical Hacker v8 Courseware Training
Cellebrite Advanced Smartphone Analysis Training
Oxygen and Magnet Forensics Smartphone collection and Methodologies
CCDA (Cisco Certified Design Associate)
CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Analyst) – Security
CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) – Wireless
CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) – Routing and Switching
FORENSIC TOOLS & SOFTWARE QUALIFICATIONS
Cell Hawk: Hawk Analytics PCMD CDR data GEO-Locational Analysis of Subscriber Data
CSI Linux – Contributor and OS engineer volunteer.
SANS Digital Forensics Incident Response: Advanced Smartphone Forensics
SANS webinar training: Volatility Memory Forensics Tools and Methods Cellebrite Universal Forensics Extraction Device (UFED) and related software
MOBLedit Forensic Capture Methodology SANS Investigative Forensic Toolkit (SIFT) Access Data’s Forensic Tool Kit (FTK)
HP MicroFocus’ ArcSight Logger Guidance Software’s EnCase Forensics
Cellebrite > BlackBag’s Mobilyze (mobile phone forensics) Cellebrite > BlackBag’s Macquisition Mac OS drive acquisition tool
BlackBag’s BlackLight Mac OS and Microsoft Windows forensic toolkit Oxygen Forensic Suite
Magnet Axiom Cloud, IEF, DVR Examiner, Acquire, Web Page Capture White Glove Linux by Fred Cohen
CAINE (Computer Aided Investigative Environment) HELIX3 – live CD-based digital forensic suite SleuthKit;’s Autopsy – Open Source Digital Forensics Katana Forensics (Linux) and Lantern (Mac) PassMark’s OSForensics (PC) Windows
Paraben’s P2X forensic mount tool and E3DS mobile device tool X-Ways Forensics, WinHex
Email Investigations (MS Exchange and Unix MTA’s)
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions – Alien Vault, Splunk, Security Onion, Wazuh
Open Source Intelligence Techniques (OSINT)
Basic Investigations of Windows Unix and Mac InDepth Investigations of Windows Unix and Mac Reverse Engineering Malware (NIT)
MetaSploit by Rapid7
Nessus Security Scanner by Tenable
Investigating Linux from a Forensic and Incident Response Perspective MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr Investigations
Grindr, Snapchat, Tinder and similar mobile chat apps Cyber Child Exploitation – Investigations in the Workplace Digital Forensics Framework – Unix
Open Computer Forensics Architecture (OCFA) Xplico – open source network forensic analysis tool Volatility – memory forensics framework
Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor or COFEE – toolkit developed for forensic experts by Microsoft
Case StudyFirefox, Google Chrome Artifacts and Unallocated Space Technical Profiling for Intelligence (metadata foot printing) Online Identity Profile
Malicious Artifacts Identification and Analysis Essential Macintosh Forensics Mac OS X 10 to 10.13 IOS Forensics – A Comprehensive Approach
Android Forensics – A Comprehensive Approach
SELECTED BUSINESSES & ORGANIZATIONS SERVED
(NC4) CyberCop Consultant and Intel Analyst (OSINT SOCMINT SIGNT research)
US Air Force 16 AF/JA – Digital Forensic Expert for Prosecution and Defense Trial Counsel
Ankura Consulting, Washington DC – Contractor for Digital Incident and Response support including OSINT mapping of geo-political threats, Due Diligence Risk Mitigation in Mergers and Acquisitions
Kutak Rock, Arkansas, Nebraska – Digital Forensics and Incident Response and Expert Witness Data Collections Specialist
Koley Jessen, Nebraska – Digital Forensics and Incident Response and E-Discovery, Data Collections Specialist
Digital Forensic Expert – Aurelius Investigation and Consulting Digital Forensic Expert – 12 Points Technologies
Federal Public Defender’s Office, Omaha, NE, Des Moines, IA, Tacoma, WA, Rochester NY – Appointed and Privately Retained Digital Forensics Expert Witness
Public Defenders Offices in Sarpy County, Otoe County, Hall County, NE and Polk County, IA – Digital Forensics Investigator and Expert Witness
General Motors – Network Security Consultant and Incident Response Ford Motor Corporation – Network Security Consultant
Daimler Benz – Network Security Consultant
Sid Dillon Chevrolet Buick GMC Cadillac Mazda Nissan Hyundai – Systems Engineer
Dillon Brothers’ Harley-Davidson – Systems Engineer Plaza Buick GMC – Systems Engineer
Woodhouse Auto Group – Outside Consulting Systems Engineer Wicks Truck Trailers – Systems Engineer
Personalized Computer Services – Sales, Consulting, Network Deployment Specialist
Connecting Point Internet Services – ISP Network Admin, Sales, Consulting, Business Technology Integrator.
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