Jesse Jones

Jesse Jones is currently the COO at Beacon Cloud Solutions. Prior to that, they were with Brandon Technology Consulting, Inc. from February 2005 to March 2013 where they were a Team Lead / Security Engineer. In that role, they were responsible for managing two TMA Information Assurance (IA) Teams during Approval to Operate (ATO), Interim Approval to Operate (IATO), Interim Approval to Test (IATT) and Annual Review (AR) efforts. Jesse developed ATO, IATO, IATT and AR timelines to ensure accreditation for client sites adhere to certification requirements.

Jesse also conducted weekly and monthly meetings between the TMA IA Team, TMA, and client sites to review status of effort and ensure milestones are met. Jesse interfaced directly with client sites throughout the Certification and Accreditation (C&A) process facilitating client understanding of DITSCAP / DIACAP. Jesse also conducted whiteboard sessions with client sites and TMA IA Team to determine Certification and Accreditation Boundary in order to create Letter of Agreement (LOA) and Memorandum of Agreement (MOA).

In addition, they performed Engineer duties as needed which entailed ascertaining risks associated with client networks processing public health information (PHI) for HA/TMA. Jesse also performed baseline and mitigation visit testing, utilizing both automated and manual checklist scans, to ensure DISA requirements are implemented. Automated/manual scans were done using network and operating system scanning tool (eEye Retina), database scanning tool (AppDectivePro), PGD, SRRs, manual checklist, and STIGs.

Jesse maintained DITSCAP/DIACAP documentation required for Information System accreditation, ensuring documentation requirements, development and security requirements required by DITSCAP/DIACAP were met. Jesse effectively communicated goals and responsibility to client sites and MHS/TMA (IA) Team during ATO, IATO, IATT and AR efforts. Jesse attended weekly and monthly meetings between the MHS/TMA IA Team, TMA, and client sites to review status of efforts and milestones are met.

Jesse Jones is a criminal justice and law enforcement professional who has been educated at George Mason University. Jesse has also received certification from Cloud School in cloud computing technology and from ISC2 in CISSP.

They are on a team with Robin St Cyr - Office Administrator, Larry Galang - Customer Success Manager, and Edel Marcelino - Security Engineer & Developer. Their manager is Jason Young, CEO.