Shannon Marsh

Supply Chain Risk Management Lead

Senior-level strategic business/all-source intelligence and risk analyst with expert experience in third party risk management (TPRM), supply chain risk management (SCRM) and resiliency strategist with expertise in SCRM framework development, enterprise SCRM integration, risk identification and prioritization strategy, supply chain quality program development, program management, and business development.  Areas of expertise include policy and geopolitical impacts on space and aerospace supply chains, SWOT and PESTLE Analysis, business intelligence, due diligence, cyber threat analysis, homeland security & critical infrastructure protection programs, and SCRM business development.

Ten years of progressive experience consulting on and performing supply chain risk and resilience strategy development and risk analysis for aerospace organizations.  Over 25 years’ experience as a formally trained all-source intelligence and risk analyst with practical and lead experience across multiple portfolios. Certified lead aerospace auditor.

Career Details:

2017 - Present

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Supply Chain Risk Management Lead

  • Deputy program manager, project manager, and lead supply chain risk and resilience program strategist and analyst providing full time support to the NASA Headquarters Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA) and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate
  • Certified lead aerospace auditor
  • Strategic support to NASA includes the development of SCRM frameworks and supply chain risk and resilience strategy as well as risk development and prioritization
  • Efforts are focused on developing efficient, integrated, and results-driven SCRM solutions
  • Lead SCRM program strategist supporting the NASA GSFC supply chain quality manager on the development of the supply chain quality program to include development of SCRM information sharing initiatives, SCRM information and resource identification, risk initiatives gap analysis, alignment with aerospace industry standards such as AS9100, management of supply chain quality assessment (audit) documentation, and development of directives and guidance documents
  • Conduct supply chain quality assessments (audits)
  • NASA OSMA efforts include performing strategic business analysis using a suite of analytic tradecraft to include business intelligence analysis, third-party risk analysis, SWOT and PESTLE methodologies
  • Program development efforts include advising client on innovative strategies to improve risk identification and mitigation strategies
  • Analysis and program initiatives are designed to assist management and senior leadership in validation or adjustment of risk perceptions
  • Assist client in developing risk appetite within PESTLE risk factors
  • Development of qualitative analysis tools customized to the client to include the development of supplier research and analysis processes and reports focused on analytic factors to include business enterprise management, quality, product and services, counterfeit parts activity, contractual customers of the organization, market analysis, financial analysis, security risks, and research and development efforts
  • Development of continuous monitoring tools for incorporation into client’s information dashboard, development of agency-specific supplier case studies and supply chain risk failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA)

2017

Eagle Ray

Senior Associate SCRM Analyst

  • Full-time client support at the Defense Intelligence Agency working as a supply chain risk management/strategic business analyst in the rapid assessment cell

  • Utilized PESTLE analytic framework

  • Research included all available resources on multiple government systems

  • The mission required the analyst to accept an assignment, research, and prepare a comprehensive due diligence report in three business days

  • Reports are used by senior leadership to help make determinations of risk in information technology procurements

  • Assigned as lead analyst for a specialized program responsible for the procurement of equipment for sensitive government property

2015 - 2017

KPMG

Senior Associate Federal Forensics

  • Founding member of the KPMG Federal Forensics practice focused on the development of third-party risk management offerings

  • Efforts included developing offering concepts and product lines for federal clients, developing contacts and liaising with potential clients in the federal marketspace, researching and gaining in-depth knowledge of evolving SCRM legislation and regulations, and developing a marketing program

  • Client support included PESTLE and SWOT analysis to conduct research and authoring of third-party risk management investigative reports (rapid due diligence assessments) in support of commercial clients and on-site support to the Defense Intelligence Agency’s SCRM program

2014 - 2015

Interos

Deputy Program Lead SCRM PMO

  • Developed and implemented a strategy for the NASA GSFC Information Technology Directorate SCRM Program Management Office
  • The program was developed in accordance with public law which required the client to have a SCRM analytic program to assess and review information technology purchases and assess risk and threats to information technology throughout its lifecycle
  • Developed interview strategy to best understand and define client risk appetite and hone risk analysis to focus on risks specific to the organization
  • Utilizing PESTLE and SWOT analysis frameworks, this position required in-depth analysis which covered ten customized risk factor categories
  • Authored and co-authored eighteen reports, which assisted the client in determining acquisition approaches for sensitive government missions
  • Created training modules designed to educate the agency on the best SCRM practices.

2013 - 2014

L-SINC

SCRM & Cyber Threat Analyst

  • Supported a project in the Office of Counterintelligence at Missile Defense Agency funded by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) to develop and provide summaries of best practices for SCRM threat analysis
  • Served as the lead cyber threat analyst and supported the government through a change of leadership and program direction in the cyber threat portfolio
  • Collaborated with the United States Strategic Command to implement a similar program at the Missile Defense Agency

2009 - 2013

Booz Allen Hamilton

2012 - 2013

Lead Cyber Threat Analyst

  • Assigned to the Missile Defense Agency Intelligence Requirements Division as the primary cyber threat analyst
  • Led an effort to respond to Senate tasking requiring a quick turn, in-depth, analytic review of large amounts of data
  • Developed a cyber analytic program and worked with all cyber threat elements throughout the agency to build cohesive working groups, and coordinated product delivery
  • Worked side-by-side with client to develop a unifying strategy for cyber security (a blue print for how cyber threat analysis will be conducted in the agency)
  • Ensured that the supply chain risk management team was an integral part of all cyber threat-related working groups
  • Responded to Senate committee taskings on the cyber threat to the agency, and developed and implemented programs that improved information sharing and analytic processes
  • Efforts focused on thwarting cyber threats from penetrating the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense System

2010 - 2012

SCADA Network Analyst, Electric Power

  • Assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency Infrastructure Analysis Branch, analysis was primarily comprised of geospatial techniques and required the use of advanced geospatial software suites against assigned targets
  • Developed the program of analysis to ensure the clients expectations were met ahead of schedule
  • The SCADA infrastructure analysis effort has been labeled as the first concentrated effort of its kind

2009 - 2010

Energy Threat Analyst, Dams & Electric Power

  • Utilized experience as an infrastructure analyst to support the electric power, oil and natural gas, chemical, and nuclear sectors

  • Assigned as the electric power and dams analyst at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

  • Produced assessments and briefings at the lowest possible classification level, a necessary skill when providing support to a diverse and unique customer set, to include the private sector and other federal and state infrastructure owners and operators, to include the Tennessee Valley Authority, Department of Interior, US Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)

  • Served as a primary briefer to senior government and private sector leadership

  • Member of the Dams Sector working group that developed and implemented a sector Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) portal pilot program, which resides on DHS HSIN-CS

  • Developed an infrastructure-specific analytic chat group comprised of private and government sector intelligence analysts, DHS IP analysts, and FBI infrastructure analysts

2005 - 2009

SAIC

Homeland Security Intelligence Analyst Lead

  • Provided all-source intelligence support and managed two analysts as the team lead of the homeland security cell at a customer site focusing on counterterrorism and counter-intelligence analysis

  • Managed major projects to include annual threat assessments, suspicious activity and threat training, and the population of the USACE Global Situation Map—a GIS platform designed to provide both project and threat information in a visual format

  • Researched and prepared information for daily intelligence exchange utilizing all levels of available intelligence resources

  • Prepared and conducted weekly current intelligence briefings to senior leadership and was chosen as primary briefer for delivering briefing to the Department of Homeland Security focusing on threats to critical infrastructure

  • Developed and executed a first-ever effort to exercise emergency response efforts and information flow between a privately-held dam and a federal dam located along the same river system (Dam Security and Safety Exercise 2008: Bagnell/Truman (DSES 2008)) as a key member of the exercise design and planning team, drafted the exercise scenario, and developed and managed the Master Sequence of Events List

  • Coordinated efforts between all involved agencies, to include DHS, FERC, USACE, private, state, and local entities

  • Developed a security tabletop exercise which enabled a forum of experts throughout the dams sector to discuss suspicious activity reporting procedures and identify gaps in reporting

1997 - 2005

USAF

NCOIC Intelligence Operations

  • Provided all-source intelligence support to Air Force pilots and aircrew, focusing on counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and force protection
  • Responsible for maintaining up-to-date knowledge on political/military and force-protection issues worldwide
  • Researched, prepared, and conducted pre-mission threat assessments and pre-deployment briefings for Military District of Washington personnel
  • Developed and briefed current intelligence briefings to senior-level leadership
  • Created databases to organize, track, and update essential mission information

Education:

Johns Hopkins University, Advanced Academics Program
MA, Global Security Studies

Excelsior College, New York
BS, Liberal Studies (cum laude)

USAF Airman Leadership School, Osan AB, S. Korea
Management/Leadership

USAF Intelligence School, Goodfellow AFB, TX
Intelligence Applications

Honors, Awards & Certifications

2023 – Leadership Training for Managers
2020 – NASA STD-8739.6 Workmanship Training
2020 – NASA Supply Chain Risk Management Training
2020 – NASA Quality Engineering Professional Development and Resources Training
2020 – NASA FAR Supplement Requirements for Counterfeit Avoidance Training
2020 – NASA Printed Wiring Board Technology Infusion and Supplier Capability Overview Training
2020 – NASA Building Supply Chain Visibility for Risk Management: Illuminating the Covid-19 Pandemic Impact Training
2017 – AS9100 Omnex Lead Auditor Training (Gold Seal)
2016 – Counterintelligence Polygraph
2016 – Defense Intelligence Agency – Mandated curriculum
2016 – CISSP Bootcamp Course
2011 – Booz Allen Hamilton – Cyber Security Curriculum
2011 – Booz Allen Hamilton – Project Management
2010 – Defense Intelligence Agency – Fundamentals of Electric Power
2009 – Homeland Defense Journal – Homeland Security Analysis Training
2007 – Federal Energy Regulatory Commission – Emergency Management Exercise Training
2007 – Maryland Emergency Management Agency – Critical Thinking: Competing Hypothesis
2007 – I2 Inc. – Analyst Notebook II
2006 – I2 Inc. – Analyst Notebook I
2006 – Maryland Emergency Management Agency – DHS Surveillance Detection Course
2005 – Higgins Institute – Islamism 101
2004 – United States Air Force/SAIC – Air Operations Center Introduction Training
2003 – United States Air Force Special Operations School – Dynamics of International Terrorism
2002 – Central Intelligence Agency – African Divisions Course
2002 – United States Air Force Air Mobility Command – Weapons and Tactics Training Course

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