AZ ALBION ZEGLIN

Development ISSO & Security Manager · CISSP

SECURITY ISN'T
A CHECKBOX. IT'S
THE FOUNDATION.

I'm Albion Zeglin — a Development ISSO and Security Manager at REI Systems with 35+ years of engineering experience. I turn security into a force multiplier for government engineering teams, embedding it into the pipeline instead of bolting it on at the end.

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35+
Years in engineering
5+
Years as Development ISSO
CISSP
Certified professional
GSA
Federal customers served

About

BUILDING SYSTEMS
WHERE SECURITY ISN'T
A ROADBLOCK.

With over five years as a Development ISSO and Security Manager at REI Systems, I've spent my career proving that security and velocity are not enemies. Supporting GSA and other federal customers in a DevSecOps environment, I work shoulder-to-shoulder with developer teams on application modernization — treating security as an engineering discipline, not a gate at the end of the line.

I began my REI Systems engagement in April 2021 as a subcontractor through Advanced Software Development and GDIT, joining REI directly in January 2022. Across 35+ years in engineering, I've carried security responsibility for environments where failure is not an option — from classified defense systems at Raytheon to the Department of Energy's Office of the CIO to mission-critical weather infrastructure at NOAA.

Today my work sits at the intersection of security, DevOps, and pattern-driven architecture — the conviction that well-structured systems, like well-structured language, are built from reusable, proven ideas. That belief is what drives everything I build.

Recognition

A proven track record

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CISSP Certified

Certified Information Systems Security Professional — the gold standard for security leadership.

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35+ Years Engineering

Three-plus decades across defense, energy, and federal civilian systems where uptime is non-negotiable.

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DevSecOps Leadership

Five-plus years as Development ISSO, embedding security directly into modern delivery pipelines.

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Federal Service

Trusted across GSA, the Department of Energy, NOAA, and Raytheon defense programs.

Experience

Work history

A career built on systems where the stakes are real — and where security is the difference between mission success and mission failure.

Apr 2021 — Present
5+ years

Development ISSO / Security Manager

REI Systems·Sterling, Virginia

  • Lead security for GSA and other government customers in a fast-moving DevSecOps environment.
  • Work directly with developer teams on application modernization — translating security requirements into engineering practice.
  • Joined as a subcontractor through Advanced Software Development and GDIT; became a direct REI employee in January 2022.
  • Serve as a Level Manager within the Department of Project Management.
DevSecOps · ISSO · GSA
May 2018 — Jan 2021
2 yrs 9 mos

Security Officer

Raytheon·Silver Spring, Maryland

  • Security operations for defense and space manufacturing — environments where the margin for error is zero.
  • Operated as a Specialist within the Operations division.
  • Upheld rigorous security posture across classified and mission-critical programs.
Defense · Operations · Security
Jul 2016 — Apr 2018
1 yr 10 mos

ISSO — Office of the Chief Information Officer

ActioNet, Inc. · U.S. Department of Energy·Germantown, Maryland

  • Information systems security for the Department of Energy, delivered as an ActioNet contractor.
  • Supported cybersecurity, cloud, and managed-service initiatives within a federal CIO organization.
Federal · Cyber · Cloud
Mar 2015 — Jul 2016
1 yr 5 mos

AWIPS ISSO Support Staff

ITegrity, Inc. · DOC / NOAA / NWS / CP·Germantown, Maryland

  • Security support for the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System — mission-critical weather infrastructure for the National Weather Service.
  • Helped sustain the uptime and integrity of systems the public depends on every day.
NOAA · Mission-critical · ISSO

A passion for patterns

PATTERN-DRIVEN
ARCHITECTURE.

My interest in pattern-driven design goes beyond the day job. Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language — the idea that good design, whether buildings or software, is built from reusable, named solutions to recurring problems — is the lens through which I approach systems.

That conviction became the Pattern Foundry: a framework for publishing, validating, and reasoning about design patterns as structured artifacts. Each pattern card is a self-contained, machine-readable record — provenance-tracked with PROV-O, validated against SHACL shapes, and licensed explicitly. Not generated code. Design artifacts: the forces, the context, the trade-offs, and the reasoning that makes a pattern reusable.

The first pattern to ship from the Foundry is gao-clause-pattern-001: the GAO Green Book Control Activities Pattern, extracted from the GAO Standards for Internal Control (Green Book) and published as a design artifact with full provenance tracking, SHACL validation, and explicit CC BY-SA-4.0 licensing. It captures the authorization-to-operate (AO) control documentation case: documented evidence of control implementation and audit-ready audit trails for an agency operating system within two review cycles.

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PATTERN · 001

GAO Green Book Control Activities Pattern

Authorization-to-operate control documentation. Alexander's method grounded in the GAO Green Book framework — documented evidence of control implementation and audit-ready audit trails.

ID gao-clause-pattern-001
Status published
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PROVENANCE

PROV-O Chain

An 8-node provenance graph linking source → elicitation activity → pattern version → pattern card → evidence — so the lineage is auditable end to end.

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VALIDATION

SHACL Shapes

Patterns are checked against SHACL shapes before publication, so a pattern that doesn't conform never ships. Structure is enforced, not assumed.

📄 Pattern card (JSON) 🔗 Provenance (JSON-LD) 📋 Generative sequence (MD)

The publication pipeline

Author → Schema gate → SHACL conform → PROV-O → License → Publish

Design artifacts only — no unreviewed code generation. Method over material.

Skills

Technology & expertise

Security & Compliance

DevSecOps ISSO CISSP NIST 800-53 Risk Management Threat Modeling Security Testing Compliance Frameworks

Engineering

Application Modernization Cloud Solutions Agile Delivery AI / ML Systems Cybersecurity Operations Mission-Critical Infrastructure

Methods

Pattern Languages PROV-O Provenance SHACL Validation Government IT Architecture Design Reasoning QWAN
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Albion's diligence and security/technical skill are exceptional. He stays on top of security concerns and news, and his awareness surpasses my own. Working with him as a contractor at the U.S. EPA, he brought a level of security discipline that elevated the whole team.
WC
Wayne Counts
Colleague · U.S. EPA engagement

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Role Development ISSO & Security Manager · REI Systems
Location Brunswick, Maryland, United States
Credential CISSP — Certified Information Systems Security Professional
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