Kevin Schaaff is a cybersecurity professional with an extensive background in both information security, training, and education. As a Principal Systems Engineer with over 24 years of cybersecurity experience supporting the Intelligence Community, he has experience working with a variety of frameworks including the CERT® Resilience Management Model (CERT-RMM), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Risk Management Framework (RMF), NISCAP, DCID 6/3, NISPOM, ISO 9001, ISO 27001, CMMI, and DIACAP. Kevin has assessed over 100 systems as a Certified High Maturity Lead Appraiser, and dozens of organizations as an ISO Lead Auditor. As a Principal Systems Engineer, he has helped designed and build numerous information systems for DoD and the Intelligence Community in cloud, hybrid, and traditional on-premises configurations including command and control and combat systems.
Kevin’s teaching experience includes over 30 years of developing curriculum and teaching courses in Agile, Project Management, CMMI, and IT Security for several DoD prime contractors, DoD and Civil Agencies and the Intelligence Community. Currently, he is also a Certified CMMI Instructor and supports the development of ISACA training courses. He has also assisted with test development for the CCA and CCP certifications. His work experience includes 24 years in the US Navy, the Software Engineering Institute, Booz Allen Hamilton, Northrop Grumman, CMMI Institute, and ISACA.
Kevin earned a Master of Science in Engineering Acoustics and a Master of Science in Applied Science from the Naval Postgraduate School. He also earned a Bachelor of Science from the United States Naval Academy. His relevant industry certifications include CISSP, PMP, CCA, CHMLA, and CCP.
As part of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) ecosystem, Kevin was one of the first group of people to achieve both CMMC Provisional Instructor and Provisional Assessor status. Kevin was the ISACA representative on the panel that provided initial recommendations to the Government team who created the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). He was also a member of the initial industrial group that authored the first version of the CMMC Assessment Process.
Kevin and his wife reside in Jacksonville, FL, and have two sons that are security engineers; one supporting the Intelligence Community and one supporting a global technology company. Kevin has worked in or traveled to over 68 countries.
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Business Transformation Institute, Inc. (BTI) joined in partnership with Raytheon SAS to help us bring together many diverse business units and to stabilize and improve our performance. Throughout the years we have worked together and achieved CMMI Maturity Level 5 while bringing together geographically and process diverse units. This has allowed us to have a much higher fluidity in our staff and contract execution locations without suffering performance degradation. Also, BTI has led the way in choreographing novel appraisal methodologies that have significantly reduced the cost of maintaining CMMI certification and ensuring that the programs do not suffer “set-back” during the gap between certification renewals.
CNI was going to graduate from the federal government’s 8(a) program. We had to be prepared to compete. Part of this is having good processes. BTI helped us to do it.
I was fortunate to work with the BTI team on deploying the CMMI Level 2 practice at Western Union. There were a number of obstacles in garnering top-down changes and support everyone that the team was able to work through and make it successful.
Implementing CMMI practices and procedures in an unstructured environment is surely difficult, but the BTI team was able to see the big picture and also make sure that the details were correctly addressed and implemented.
I highly recommend the BTI team!
