Mohammad A. Hluchan

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Description of duties and accomplishments:

• Conducting continuous live internet monitoring searches for a broad spectrum of hostile cyber activities, including mass data dumps, leaks of credentials, postings of significant vulnerabilities, DDoS attacks, and open declarations of intent to launch cyber-attacks.

• Performing manual targeted internet searches according to specific cyber intelligence requirements specified by clients, especially SCADA attacks.

• Answering client-specific RFIs ("requests for intel") on a wide range of cyber security-related topics, including the impact of newly released cyber security legislation in various countries on clients' global business activities, predicted consequences of major vulnerabilities being leaked, and the impact of various political developments, upheaval incidents, etc. on client business interests.

• Monitoring, surveying, and conducting comparative analysis of forums frequented by Russian, Turkish, Azeri, Arab, Iranian, Israeli, South Asian, Central Asian, and Southeast Asian hackers.

• Identifying, profiling, and analyzing the skill levels, motivations, strategies, and operational methods of key malicious actors in various hacker communities, with particular focus on wider Middle Eastern, Russian, Indian Subcontinent, and Central Asian hacker communities, and publishing findings in the form of special reports.

• Assisting in the translation of documents, training materials, and other project-specific documentation for a variety of wider Booz Allen Hamilton clients from English into Arabic, including clients receiving other services tangentially related to Cyber4Sight tactical cyber security services. Materials handled include high-importance contracts between Booz Allen Hamilton and a wide variety of globally active third parties.

• Translation, interpreting, desktop publishing, audio-video production, proofreading, and editing material for a vast number of commercial translation companies in the United States, the Middle East, and Europe. Materials covered include general documents (birth certificates, passports, etc.), patent applications, instruction manuals, contracts, insurance policies, maps, telephone recordings, minutes of meetings, dictionaries and glossaries, medical records, audio transcriptions and translations, commercial captions, subtitles, and many other items, in the following language combinations:

Arabic / Farsi / Dari / Tajik / Urdu / Hindi / German / Turkish / Azeri into English

English / Farsi / Dari / Tajik / Urdu / Hindi / German / Turkish / Azeri into Arabic

English / Arabic / Farsi / Dari / Tajik / Hindi / Urdu / Turkish / Azeri into German

• Long-term commercial legal translation provider for some of the world’s largest and most complex legal disputes over the last two decades, including the Ahmed Hamad AlGosaibi case in Saudi Arabia, the Volkswagen and Audi diesel scandal, the Siemens scandal, and the Libyan Investment Authority case.
• Senior linguist & analyst translating tens of thousands of documents from Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Urdu, and Pashto into English, holding final QC authority over all documents translated from Middle Eastern and South Asian languages into English, while working as a consultant with SM Consulting, Inc. from October 2004 to December 2005. Also assisted other analysts speaking only English in data mining, information collection, assembly, and review, and drafting written analyses and reports.
• Provided exclusive translation support for a large and highly technical mixed Tajik-Arabic document involving chemistry and physics, while working as a consultant with SM Consulting, Inc.
• Translating training materials from English into Arabic while working as FBIS consultant with STG, Inc. from February 2004 to October 2004. Subjects covered included everything from explosive ordinance disposal and computer forensic analysis to legal guidelines for setting up military and civilian IG offices. Also reviewed and analyzed various Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Tajik, Urdu, and German web news outlets, discussion forums and web broadcasters, providing translations, summaries, and detailed news and analysis reports on various current events and developments in the Middle East, Europe, Central Asia, and the Indian Subcontinent.
• Provided extensive Arabic-English classroom and in-the-field interpreting services to Saudi Arabian, UAE, and Kuwaiti government personnel attending various training courses in the United States, as well as Arabic-English translation and interpreting services at the US Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as a consultant for IntelData, Inc. from February 2003 to February 2004.
• Translating numerous attorney-client letters, memoranda and legal briefs, and providing telephone interpreting services to leading international law firms, including Pepper Hamilton LLP, Spears & Imes LLP, and Hunton & Williams LLP.
• Providing Arabic language web site maintenance and content authoring as consultant for PR firm Fleishman Hillard, Inc., including creation and editing of Arabic graphics in Adobe CS3 ME and Flash.
• Composed Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Tajik, and Urdu language lesson modules for SCOLA, Inc., which included verbatim video transcriptions and translations, vocabulary lists, and test questions, for use in universities throughout the United States and abroad, from November 2004 through March 2006. Materials covered include detailed local news reports and documentaries from Central Asia and the Arab world.
• Providing verbatim transcriptions in Arabic and verbatim translations of sessions of the Iraqi Special Tribunal trial of Saddam Hussein and the former Iraqi leadership for the Regime Crimes Liaison Office.
• Providing written Arabic translations of briefing materials designed to introduce visiting dignitaries from Arab countries to the workings of Congress and the Supreme Court for ASET, Inc.
• Marketing services, finding new clients, and developing and maintaining business relationships through a broad range of contacts in the translation industry developed via membership in the Arab Translators Network and the American Translators Network.
• Organizing, prioritizing, and distributing project work among collaboration team members, and conducting follow-up and supervision until completion of tasks.
• Exercising strong oral and written communication skills as a supervisor, instructor, and interpreter, advising clients on project progress, explaining problems, and proposing solutions, and maintaining cooperative working relationships between collaboration team members, both in-office and remotely.
• Maintaining MS Access, Oracle, and MS Excel spreadsheets for tracking projects, billing, invoices sent, payments received, and designing timelines and plans of operation for completing tasks and projects.
• Extensive experience in digital AV re-mastering and production using Sound Forge and Vegas Video.

Description of duties and accomplishments:

• Evaluating the overall defensive cybersecurity posture of client organizations, and comparing it against the offensive cybersecurity posture of various cyber-threat actors from around the world as based on their skill and resource levels in developing novel types of malware (ransomware, Trojans, etc.), their motivations (e.g. political, "traditional cyber-crime," etc.), and any other cybersecurity-relevant factors.

• Participating in the formulation of client organizational cybersecurity strategy and defensive cybersecurity posture, including specific IT risk cyber threat management policies, and ISMSs in a broader sense.

• Identifying international cyber threat actor communities in various online venues and participating in the formulation of operational strategies to monitor these threat actor communities, particularly for use by client Security Operations Centers.

• Participating in post-attack cyber investigations, including digital forensics analysis (from targeted systems, honeypots, etc.), and network traffic analysis, with the goal of assessing the scale / extent of compromise (how much data compromised, which data, location of data, and otherwise reconstructing the details of the entire attack evolution as much as possible, for analysis and cybersecurity strategy improvement purposes.

• Monitoring, surveying, and conducting threat assessment analysis of forums, chat room channels, and other online venues frequented by Russian, Turkish, Azeri, Arab, Iranian, Israeli, South Asian, Central Asian, and Southeast Asian hackers.

• Identifying, profiling, and analyzing the skill levels, motivations, strategies, and operational methods of key malicious actors in various hacker communities, with particular focus on wider Middle Eastern, Russian, Indian Subcontinent, and Central Asian hacker communities, and publishing findings in the form of special reports.

• Authoring strategic reports on international cyber security developments, with particular focus on the wider Middle East, Central Asia, and the Indian Subcontinent.

Description of duties and accomplishments:

• Monitoring, surveying, and conducting comparative analysis of forums frequented by Turkish, Azeri, Arab, Iranian, Israeli, South Asian, Central Asia, and Southeast Asian hackers.

• Identifying, profiling, and analyzing the skill levels, motivations, strategies, and operational methods of key malicious actors in various hacker communities from Morocco to the Indian Subcontinent.

• Collecting and analyzing hacking tools and malware created by these hackers, in collaboration with malcode, vulnerability aggregation, reverse engineering, and other iDefense specialist teams as needed.

• Authoring regular Weekly Threat Report and News in Brief contributions on cyber-security events in Europe, the wider Middle East, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, and Southeast Asia.

• Authoring cyber security-focused Global Threat Research Reports on Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, UAE, Egypt, and other countries throughout Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, and Europe, and assisting in preparing similar reports for China and other regions within the specialty of fellow analysts.

• Authoring broad nodal analysis study of militant Islamist and jihadist websites, with emphasis on the "cyber-jihad" sub-community frequenting these forums, analyzing their capabilities, trends, and skill levels.

• Authoring urgent request for intel responses to leading global private sector clients.

• Attending and presenting at national and international conferences on behalf of iDefense as required.

• Interviewing, hiring, and managing in-country information contributors to assist in research on evolving cyber security landscape in their respective areas of expertise.

Description of duties and accomplishments:

• Coordinating various machine translation, automated audio search, voice recognition, and OCR experiments with other companies involved in language research, including MITRE, BBN Technologies, and Sakhr Egypt.

• Designing flowcharts for automated input, OCR, and machine-translation process for millions of documents in Arabic, Farsi, and other languages, in close collaboration with programming and senior management staff.

• Designing flowcharts for semi-automatic and automatic digital audio cleanup processes used to automatically identify the language and transcribe the contents of audio files.

• Evaluating various machine translation and OCR software systems, including Sakhr OCR, Sakhr Enterprise Translation 5.0, Sakhr Johaina automated internet news collection and machine translation software suite, LanguageWeaver machine translation software, NovoDynamics OCR, Ciyasoft OCR, and other programs.

• Selecting Arabic-language documents and compiling Arabic transcriptions with English translations of them to be used as test corpora for experimental machine translation software.

• Acting as final quality control authority for all machine translation and OCR test corpora.

• Authoring detailed performance metrics and testing procedures to evaluate OCR/OWR/OPR, machine translation, grammatical/morphological analysis, entity extraction, and automatic audio language ID transcription systems, as well as designing test corpora for software testing evaluation.

• Assisting in operation of language research lab in Tyson's Corner, VA, including setting up and configuring HP blade servers and Cisco switches, maintaining a log book of switch configurations and drop locations, and configuring specialized software and hardware used to conduct machine language processing experiments.

January 2002 - July 2004

Master of Science in Information Technology, with coursework in Cisco networking, Oracle DBA, JAVA programming, network security, and IT project management.

September 1999 - July 2001

Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts, with concentration in Arabic, Farsi, and German.

February 1996 - June 1997

Degree with honors in Arabic language; graduated with highest class GPA.

August 1994 - May 1995

Foundation coursework in Computer Science and Computer Engineering.