Wade Lyman

Information Security Engineer at Ampion, Inc.

Bar Harbor, ME, United States

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Education: Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Human Ecology

College of the Atlantic

2011 : 2015

Experience: I assumed this role to spearhead Ampion's efforts to attain ISO 27001 certification and build out our information security systems. Tasks have included :

- Building out an Information Security Management System.

- Building an incident tracker for logging and managing responses to info sec events in Google Suite.

- Developing a javascript web-application to aid with Document standardization in Google Drive.

- Building comparative reports on various technology vendors.

- Vetting, instrumenting and managing a web application vulnerability scanner.

- Setting up Single Sign On with multiple tools.

- DNS administation.

- Tool administation.

2019 : Present

Ampion, Inc.

Information Security Engineer

I was asked to take over management of part of the product with a focus on Data Acquisition and Performance Monitoring, API Integration, and Solar Asset Management features and services. Tasks include :

- Authoring, grooming, and implementing hundreds of cards with a diverse team of engineers, both domestic and overseas.

- Facilitating discussions with a large number of highly experienced and passionate stakeholders - both internal and external - with highly variable and conflicting visions for the product.

- SRUM master roles for both remote contractors and the local engineering team.

- Developing technical documentation, both sales material and user manuals.

- Market research and POC projects on topics such as methods for calculating ground-level irradiance based on satellite imagery, performance forecasting, predicting financial impacts of snow cover. interfacing with various incentive reporting agencies (PTS, PJM, NYGATS), and unique device implementation (such as Huawei IV curve monitoring).

2018 : 2019

Ampion, Inc.

Associate Product Manager

Responsibilities included :

- Design and commissioning of data acquisition systems (DAS),

- Developing installation manuals, overseeing in-field DAS installation,

- Configuring in-field hardware,

- Overseeing REC reporting to various APX systems and independent reporting entities,

- Authoring performance monitoring and asset management feature stories using the Atlassian suite (including a proprietary performance prediction algorithm),

- Authoring and presenting numerous technical manuals and business process documents.

- Monitoring a multi-megawatt solar portfolio on behalf of numerous clients.

2017 : 2018

Ampion, Inc.

Performance Monitoring and Asset Management Engineer

I joined an engineering team as an assistant to the Performance Monitoring Product Manager in a fast paced startup, developing an integrated software and hardware product for performance monitoring, asset management, and billing for distributed generation projects. Responsibilities included market research on integrating with devices, manually reporting to incentive agencies, creating technical line drawings and business process diagrams, giving product demos, and running manual capacity tests on active solar arrays.

2016 : 2017

Ampion, Inc.

Performance Monitoring and Asset Management Analyst

I was fortunate to be a member of a multidisciplinary course involving a group of College of the Atlantic students and faculty, Maine Island Institute members, and community members and faculty at the Energy Academy in Denmark. In Denmark, we studied low carbon economic systems and technologies and worked intensively in small groups to develop implementation plans for Hancock County. As my final thesis for the course, I developed a model for estimating heating requirements for buildings and used it to develop a written plan for implementing low carbon heating systems in Mount Desert Island High School.

2014 : 2014

College of the Atlantic

Energy Student

Company: Ampion, Inc.

Years of Experience: 10

Spoken Language: English, Spanish

Skills Agile Project Management, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CISA, Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, Cyber Threat Hunting (CTH), Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), Data Analysis, DLP, Ecological Research, Ethical Hacking, Firewalls, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), GIS, IDS/IPS, Incident Response, Information Security, Information Technology, Intrusion Detection, ISO 27001, JavaScript, Kubernetes, Linux, Malware/Antivirus, Microsoft Azure, Mobile Device Management, Networking, OWASP, Penetration Testing, Python (Programming Language), REST APIs, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Ruby on Rails, Secure Code Review, Security Event Management, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), SOC 2, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solar Asset Management, SQL, Sustainability, Technical Writing, Terraform, Visual Basic, Vulnerability Management, Vulnerability Scanning, Web Application Firewalls, Web Application Security

About Security Engineer with experience across the renewables and environment, and information security, and product management industries. Skilled in Solar PV Design and Data Acquisition, Statistical Data Analysis, Google Script, Technical Writing, Scrum, and Product Management tools. Experienced with information security standards including PCI, ISO27001, NIST SP 800-53. Strong product management professional with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) focused in Renewable Energy Engineering from College of the Atlantic.