Michael Swafford

Mike Swafford is a seasoned technical professional with over two decades of experience in Information Technology (IT) systems engineering, solutions consultation, project management, integration, and Operations & Maintenance (O&M) for U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) mission applications and programs.

His technical expertise spans a wide range of areas, including Infrastructure Service Provider / Application Service Provider (ISP/ASP) environments, Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud-computing (Commercial Cloud Services (C2S)), Purpose-built Engineered Systems for Infrastructure and Platform as a Service (IaaS / PaaS), Information Assurance (IA) NIST SP 800-53 and ICD 503 Risk Management Framework (RMF), Distributed / parallel and Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) file systems, Enterprise SPARC and commodity x86 compute platforms, Unix (Solaris & Linux) Operating System (OS) environments, Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI, and Infiniband (IB) Storage Area Networks (SAN), Enterprise and Mid-range block (SAN) and file (NAS) Disk Storage Systems, Enterprise and mid-range Automated Tape Library systems, and U.S. Air Force Intrusion Detection Physical Security Systems.