Richard P. Dissell

Security Analyst | Systems Architect | Infrastructure Engineer

Cleveland, Ohio • iamrp.dev • LinkedIn • GitHub • 📄 Official PDF Resume

⚡ Track Record: 20+ Years Applied Systems Engineering
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🛡️ Fleet Resilience: 99.999% Production HA
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📋 Governance: 18 Modernized NIST CSF / ISO Policies
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🔐 Roots: Hardware-Attested FIDO2 & PGP Keys
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🌐 Network: 10 Sovereign Web Portals

Executive Summary

Over two decades of technical mastery spanning Zero Trust Architecture, Containerized Infrastructure, Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR), Local AI/LLM Integration, and Bare-Metal Electronics Diagnostics. From mission-critical enterprise manufacturing environments to distributed edge compute clusters — I architect resilient, automated, and immutable systems.


◈ Professional Availability & Advisory Practice

  • Full-Time Opportunities: Information Security Officer / Architect • Senior Systems & Infrastructure Architect • Lead DevSecOps / SecOps Engineer.
  • Consulting & Practice Retainers (RPDevs Consulting & Architecture):
    • Zero Trust & Network Architecture: Decoupled Layer 2 (macvlan/ipvlan) microservice fabrics, edge routing, and Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels.
    • Enterprise Disaster Recovery & Air-Gaps: Immutable backup pipelines, multi-site Veeam topologies, and cold-recovery validation with <15m RPO.
    • Local AI & Sovereign Infrastructure: Private Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool gateways, GPU-accelerated local inference (Ollama), and vector datastores.
    • Threat Modeling & Governance Audits: NIST CSF 2.0 / ISO 27001:2022 policy drafting, host-hardening verification, and incident response runbooks.
  • Location Preference: Remote or Hybrid (Greater Cleveland, OH Area).

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