Summary
Xavier Pedraza is an Incident Response Handler and IT specialist with 8 years of experience combining DoD cyber operations and hands-on systems administration, backed by a Top Secret (SCI) clearance and service in the U.S. Army Reserves. He has led incident response and SIEM monitoring (Splunk, TRELLIX, Varonis), coordinated with Federal/DoD CIRTs, and implemented STIGs and vulnerability remediation across classified networks. His background spans tactical SATCOM and JBLOX networking to enterprise HBSS/ACAS/Hardened-Config roles, giving him a rare blend of field-deployable communications and enterprise security engineering. Xavier has managed risk for multi-million-dollar assets, overseen firewall and HIDS/HIPS operations, and driven compliance and POAM processes for DOJ and DoD environments. Known for calm, clear stakeholder communication during major outages, he pairs military discipline with pragmatic technical troubleshooting.
8 years of coding experience
Northern Virginia Community College
English, Spanish