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Kane Kanagawa
Business Development Manager
Department/Agency: United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO)
Core Competencies leveraged
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Cyber Security
Work performed
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Cloud Systems Security
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Obsidian led the Cloud Systems Security team at USPTO through an agency-wide initiative to migrate systems and applications to AWS. Obsidian provided Security Architecture and oversight support to ensure that 3rd party vendors, including CSPs, are adhering to USPTO, NIST, and FISMA requirements. We ensured that all AWS services used by USPTO were FedRAMP compliant, ATO documentation was
maintained, and processes were developed for compliance scanning and review.
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Department/Agency: United States Census Bureau (USCB)
Core Competencies leveraged
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Agile Development
Work performed
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Java Development
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GIS Development
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Obsidian managed the US Census Bureau’s spatial applications, servers, and data infrastructures. Our GIS Engineers installed, updated, and deployed ArcGIS Enterprise Solutions across the enterprise and our application developer produced code for the spatial applications used by USCB.
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