Marquel Waites
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolMarquel Waites is a cybersecurity professional and military veteran with over two decades of leadership experience and seven years focused on cyber operations, policy, and cloud security. He has led organizations of 100+ in high-pressure environments and managed risk for assets exceeding $256M, blending operational rigor from the U.S. Army with hands-on technical work across SIEM, vulnerability management, and cloud compliance. At Coalfire, Raytheon, and other contractors he has executed FedRAMP/NIST assessments, administered enterprise QRadar deployments, and translated audit findings into actionable remediation plans. His academic foundation includes a BS in IT Management and advanced degrees in Cybersecurity Policy and Cloud Security Architecture, complemented by CEH certification and practical scripting skills in Python/Bash/PowerShell. Ambitious to become a future CISO, he pairs policy-level thinking with day-to-day incident response and tooling experience across AWS, Azure, Splunk, and Security Onion. Less obvious: he combines budgetary and audit expertise from his Deputy Comptroller role with technical cyber assurance, making him effective at aligning security controls to organizational risk and funding realities.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Cybersecurity Policy, 3.8 GPA, Master's degree, Cybersecurity Policy, 3.8 GPA at Colorado Technical UniversityCybersecurity Specialist Training, Cybersecurity Specialist Training at LeaderQuest Colorado SpringsBachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology Managment, 3.5 GPA, Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology Managment, 3.5 GPA at Trident University InternationalDiploma, High School/Secondary Diploma Programs, Diploma, High School/Secondary Diploma Programs at David Starr Jordan High School Long BeachMasters of Cybersecurity, Cloud Security Architect, 3.67 GPA, Masters of Cybersecurity, Cloud Security Architect, 3.67 GPA at EC-Council University
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Github Skills (56)
monitoring10
docker10
searchguard10
endpoint-security10
docker-compose10
grafana10
hosts10
kibana10
compose10
elk10
prometheus10
logstash10
cadvisor10
elasticsearch10
network-security10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
waitesgithub/fleet
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
A flexible control server for osquery fleets
Contributions:8 PRs, 26 pushes, 24 branches in 2 years 3 months
osqueryflexible
waitesgithub/docker-elk
Feb 2021 - Dec 2023
The Elastic stack (ELK) powered by Docker and Compose.
Contributions:3 releases, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 2 years 10 months
elkelasticdockercomposekibana
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