Cybersecurity and AI engineer

JavierFlores

Cybersecurity Manager and AI Engineer at Beacon Industries. Co-founder of NJ Developments. Based in Glastonbury, Connecticut.

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110

of 110

All controls met

 

110 blades, one for each NIST SP 800-171 control. Click a blade to fail it. Drag to spin.

I run cybersecurity for a manufacturer that makes turbine engine parts for the U.S. government. I keep it ready for DoD assessors, and I build the AI systems I demo to NASA, U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy leaders every week.

DIBCAC
Led readiness for a successful DoD assessment
4
AI initiatives I own end to end
30+
Production sites and apps shipped
Weekly
Demos to NASA, U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy technical leaders

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Work

2026/Now

May 2026 to now

Beacon Industries

Cybersecurity Manager, IT Engineer and AI Engineer Defense manufacturer in Newington, CT.

  • Led readiness for a successful DoD DIBCAC assessment with the ISSO and assessment team: updated the SSP, wrote and reviewed policies and procedures, drove remediation and walked the government auditors through the evidence.
  • Own CMMC and NIST SP 800-171 control implementation: the risk assessment, the identity, endpoint and network changes that satisfy each control, and the evidence that proves it at audit.
  • Cleared the enterprise vulnerability backlog, criticals first, with scripted remediation, patching, policy changes and compensating controls on legacy equipment that can't be patched. Built monitoring in Python, PowerShell, Intune and Defender XDR that catches recurring vulnerabilities and configuration drift.
  • Own four AI and software initiatives start to finish, built on RAG, embeddings and agentic workflows with tool calling and structured outputs. I demo the work every week to NASA, U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy technical and program leaders and turn their feedback into the next release.
  • Built an engineering-simulation surrogate model end to end, from simulation-data preparation through model development and evaluation, and presented the finished work.
  • One direct report. I give technical direction to the offshore offices and work directly with the ISSO and the Software Chief.

2022/26

Jan 2022 to Jun 2026

NJ Developments

Co-founder, Technical Lead Web and AI agency for Connecticut service businesses.

  • Co-founded the company with two partners. Led engineering and also handled outreach, discovery, proposals, pricing, demos and support across a seven-client portfolio.
  • Delivered 30+ production sites and applications supporting 1,000+ users. Hand-coded, mobile-first HTML, CSS and JavaScript on Firebase by default, and WordPress, Wix, Squarespace or Elementor when the client was already on one.
  • Built and self-hosted an internal AI knowledge assistant over the company's documents and operational data (LLM APIs, RAG, MCP tools), running 24/7 on a Linux VPS.
  • Built AI voice agents for 24/7 call answering, plus review and follow-up SMS automation for client lead capture.

2025/26

Jun 2025 to May 2026

Access Health CT

Information Technology Intern Hartford, CT.

  • Ran control analysis in RSA Archer against MARSE and ARC AMPE, documented the gaps, tracked remediation and worked the on-site security audits.
  • Administered an IT environment of 300+ users, produced evidence for a SOC 2 audit and ran access reviews.
  • Scored 9+ asset management platforms through vendor demos, presented the pick to IT, Finance and leadership, and helped lead the reconciliation of 2,000+ hardware assets into one inventory.

2024

May to Aug 2024

Connecticut Judicial Branch

Endpoint Management Intern East Hartford, CT.

  • Deployed and secured endpoints statewide with SCCM, Intune, Defender and PowerShell, and packaged and tested applications for the move from SCCM to Intune.
  • Wrote the statewide deployment documentation the team worked from. Hunted threats in Defender and triaged alerts.

2024

Apr to Aug 2024

theCoderSchool

Computer Science Instructor Glastonbury, CT.

  • Taught computer science to students ages 8 to 16, one on one and in larger classes.

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Builds

Terminal Phone voice Telegram AgentClaude / Codex GUARD ToolsMCP, shell Memoryfiles, logs BLOCKED: rm -rf /

In daily use

Knox

My personal AI agent. It keeps memory and context across sessions, reaches Gmail, Calendar, GitHub and internal APIs through MCP tools, runs scheduled jobs, and talks over a real-time voice interface with cost-based routing between local and frontier models. A guard checks every tool call and blocks the catastrophic ones, like wiping a disk or killing the session it runs in.

Python / Node / Claude API / MCP / Playwright / systemd / Linux

In production

CBNA member and event platform

Client platform built through NJ Developments. I led technical delivery: member and nonmember registration, event payments, QR check-in with duplicate-scan protection, digital membership passes, attendee rosters and CSV exports, and an AI assistant on the public site.

Next.js / Firebase App Hosting / AI assistant

ACIAAU a person decides

In progress

Evidence validation with specialist agents

Team capstone for my MS in Cybersecurity. Agents that each know one NIST SP 800-171 control family check submitted evidence against the requirement's assessment objectives, and a person makes the call. Write-up and code after December 2026.

NIST SP 800-171A / Agents / Evaluation

risk guardrisk guard

Research

btcv2

Trading research platform. A transformer forecasting model plus technical analysis across FX, crypto and equities, with broker API integration and eleven independent risk guards on execution, including drawdown limits, ATR position sizing and permanent safeguards against real-money orders.

Python / MetaTrader 5 API / CCXT / pandas

Tool

papercheck

Python web app for checking documents in batches, with a forensics module for authorship and integrity analysis.

Python

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The 110

110

of 110

All controls met

 

Every DoD contractor that handles CUI posts a score to SPRS. You start at 110 and lose 5, 3 or 1 point for each requirement that isn't met, down to a floor of −203. Mark what's missing here or on the turbine. The score, the CMMC Level 2 status and the POA&M list update together.

All 110 requirements met.

How it's scored: 3.5.3 and 3.13.11 cost 3 points instead of 5 in their partial states. 3.12.4 has no point value, but without a current SSP there is no score at all. Conditional Level 2 status takes 88 or better, and the POA&M can only hold 1-point requirements (never 3.1.20, 3.1.22, 3.10.3, 3.10.4 or 3.10.5) plus 3.13.11 when encryption is in place but not FIPS-validated. Every POA&M item has to close within 180 days. This is self-assessment math: a real assessment checks each requirement against its objectives in NIST SP 800-171A. Sources: NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 2, DoD Assessment Methodology v1.2.1, 32 CFR 170.24, 32 CFR 170.21.

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Training

Expected May 2027

Master of Science, Cybersecurity

Quinnipiac University. Cloud security, Risk management (NIST SP 800-30, 800-39), Capstone.

May 2026

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Quinnipiac University. Minors in Criminal Justice and Management.

Security and GRC

CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, NIST 800-53, NIST CSF, RMF, CUI, SSPs and audit evidence, RSA Archer, SOC 2 evidence, Vulnerability management, Incident response, Threat hunting

Platforms and cloud

Intune, Entra ID, Defender XDR, Purview, Sentinel, Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, Tenable, UniFi

Applied AI

RAG, Embeddings, Agents and tool calling, Structured outputs, Evaluation, MCP servers, Claude, OpenAI and Azure OpenAI

Software

Python, TypeScript, PowerShell, Bash, SQL, React, Node, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Firebase, Docker, HTML and CSS

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Let's talk.

javflores.ct@gmail.com