Stephen M Dye

MOBILITY SECURITY, ENGINEERING & BUSINESS PROFESSIONAL

Stephen M Dye C.E.H, is a technology and business professional with both managerial and hands-on

experience in IT Security, Mobile Application and Network Security Architecture, IT, IA and

communications system design and implementation. Mr. Dye has a strong record of creating robust IT

and Communication Solutions through 28 years of strong engineering and management experience:

• Strategic Analysis & Creative thinking

• IT Policy Development

• Technology Architecture and Integration

• Network Security, Vulnerability management

• Proposal, Books and Papers Writing

• Briefing and Presenting

• Budget Management and Cost Control

• Wireless device and network Security

• Staff Management and Team Development

• Business Development

Mr. Dye earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bromley College of

Technology in Kent, England in 1987, is C|EH, CompTIA Security+, ITIL V3 certified, and PMI trained.

Mr. Dye also graduated from the Johnson school of business at Cornell with a Certificate in Executive

Leadership in 2011.

Tapestry Technologies. Dulles, VA

Professional Experience

Senior Information Assurance Architect

June 2012 to present

Mr. Dye co-authored the Mobile Application, Operating System and Mobile Device Manager Security

Requirements Guide (SRG) for the DoD and continues to support the policies through interfacing with

multiple government departments, and companies in the mobile eco system and application testing space.

Mr. Dye supports the Government client by evangelizing the security policies to multiple government

agencies, presenting at summits and hosted technical exchange meetings. Mr. Dye sits on two panels for

the furtherance of mobile adoption through secure implementation, and regularly interfaces with multiple

US Government entities to create the baseline security architecture for the Government’s Digital Strategy.

Mr. Dye manages multiple commercial companies who desire to implement the policies he has created in

their commercial products and oversees the implementation of these policies known as Secure Technical

Implementation Guides (STIGs) that will allow the many Tier 1 companies Mr. Dye manages to serve the

DoD’s IA needs.

LightSquared. Reston, VA

Director of Business Development and Technology

Mr. Dye managed accounts and developed business for LightSquared, engaging with regional ILECs,

CLECs and wireless carriers. During his tenure, Mr. Dye developed the strategy for managing

LightSquared customers, overseeing the development of the project plan for on-boarding all customers

from a business and network perspective. As a technologist, Mr. Dye provided oversight to vendor

testing, test plan development, and testing logistics for a dual-mode terrestrial LTE/Satellite

Communications network being built by LightSquared. Mr. Dye was involved in multiple duties to

include requirements management, vendor management, and Change Control Board & operations liaison.

Mr. Dye reviewed all legal documents concerning SOWs and work plan proposal documents from

vendors for accuracy and content. Mr. Dye was involved in the development of a filing with the FCC in

June 2011 and regularly liaised with the leadership in the company, NASA, DoD, GPS, and cellular

network industry representatives to develop material to support the technical, engineering-based

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arguments concerning GPS spectrum contention. Mr. Dye architected and wrote many sections of the

document and performed reviews of peer authors’ sections.

Booz Allen Hamilton. McLean, VA

Lead Associate

Mr. Dye led several Projects for multiple Government enterprise IT customers, wrote numerous proposal

sections and volumes and marketing material, managed clients and multi-million dollar budgets on a

continual basis. Mr. Dye and the teams he led achieved the following:

• Design, build and delivery of a secure wireless deployable solution for DHS FEMA and DOD.

• Design and implementation of a complete and on-time, deployable secure communications solution to

a DoD customer which involved a holistic product development lifecycle approach from creation of

user and stakeholder requirements, functional requirements through to alternatives analysis, critical

design and implementation, Government Security requirements compliancy, training and customer

hand off.

• Delivered two projects for two DoD customers requiring WLAN, deployable communications with

secure and global operating requirements.

o Oversaw the development of a laboratory testing environment for the system prior to

implementation and received a performance award.

• Business and Grant Recipient Assistance services to the Department of Commerce-NTIA for the

Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP) that Booz Allen primed.

o Co-created the technical and grant support framework for $4.7B worth of broadband network,

facility and public safety funding across the nation.

o Responsible for the due diligence of broadband grant applications, evaluating them for fiscal

reasonableness, engineering, programmatic and business viability.

o Recommended the award of over $100 million in grants to the applicants.

IntelliNet Technologies. Melbourne, FL

Senior Director Product Development & Management

Mr. Dye created an IP Multimedia subsystem (IMS) product roadmap for IMS modules to be licensed to

tier one and two infrastructure vendors. Mr. Dye performed market research and risk assessment for these

products interviewing the tier one and two wireless carriers and vendors with a focus on VoIP, Voice Call

Continuity, policy and service orchestration network components. Mr. Dye was also the product manager

for the Diameter Stack product, which was licensed to multiple customers across a broad array of

business models he devised. Mr. Dye also supported corporate development activities during IntelliNet’s

M&A pursuits.

Syniverse Technologies. Tampa, FL

Director, Business Development and Strategy

Mr. Dye led a team of four managers and was responsible for new technology initiatives that generated

new revenue streams. Mr. Dye led the initial concept and viability evaluation of an end-to-end voice/data

MVNE service, Global IP peering network for carriers and an IMS network core-hosting solution. Mr.

Dye developed the business case and sales & marketing strategies for the new products.

Esemde, Inc. Boca Raton, FL

Chief Executive

Mr. Dye raised over one million dollars of venture capital and created the first North American MVNO

that provided wireless data (SMS) services to M2M, utility and telematics companies. Mr. Dye created

the technology and business model that allowed such clients as Motorola, Nokia, Axiom, mFormation,

Verisign and Teleglobe to use the company’s product and services. Specifically, Mr. Dye designed and

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developed an SMS gateway, billing platform, user interface, SIM card activator and web-based account

that allowed users to very quickly develop and roll out their M2M solution.

LCC, Inc. Germany, VA, IL, GA, FL

Principal Engineer.

Design and optimization of GSM and iDEN networks of various markets in Germany and the USA.

Ministry of Defence. UK, Germany

Professional Technology Officer.

Radio Frequency Lab-based QA measurements on RF microwave components. (UK). Design, build and

implementation of peacetime comms network stretching from London to Berlin with SatCom, PtP and

Tropscatter (Germany).

Education and Certification

• Bachelors Electrical and Electronic Engineering Bromley College of Technology 1987

• Certificate in Executive Leadership: Johnson School of Management: Cornell University 2011

• C|EH Certified Ethical Hacker August 2013

• ITIL V3. Foundational Certificate. 2010

• CompTIA Security + 2012

Publications

• A Standard for Mobile Application Development, June 2013.

• The GPS Manual, Editions, 1, 2 and 3 1999-2003

• End-to-End M2M 2005

• Instant Messaging Strategies for Business 2001

• Numerous White papers and magazine columns on GPS, M2M and Cellular Engineering

Languages

• Native Language English

• Fluent in German: advanced verbal; intermediate written

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