Carlos' technical expertise and program management support, as Technical Director, have been instrumental in the success of the NSA 3G program. His professionalism, motivation, and determination to the Firm and the client are to be commended.
— Ralph W. Shrader, Chairman & CEO, Booz Allen Hamilton —
With his depth and breadth of Information Assurance and Cyber Security experience paired with his entrepreneurial mindset, Carlos brings a fresh perspective to our Cyber Security space.
— Bill Parker, COO, Salient Federal Solutions —
Your individual contribution to the DISA DISN contract was exemplary. Our team would have failed in its mission if you had not volunteered to deploy on short notice to the Middle East and Europe. The high stress environment you put yourself into on behalf of your teammates, SAIC, and our client demonstrated your championship level work ethic and professionalism.
— SAIC Task Manager —
Carlos fosters teamwork with his upbeat and enthusiastic attitude while leading junior security engineers towards a positive teamwork climate. We have come to rely on Carlos' clear vision of how to make progress in challenging environments. He always promotes and demonstrates diversity through the recruitment and training of senior and junior staff at all levels and from all backgrounds.
— GeoScout DST Security Engineering Team Lead —
Carlos Fernandes is an impressive professional! An exceptional leader and workforce manager, Carlos understands the client and what is possible. In a new environment, Carlos sees the requirements before most others - focusing on what needs to be done to achieve the trusted environment to support corporate business functions. Relationship building is one of Carlos's many talents. He knows a positive approach and listening creates the successful team. Having worked with Mr. Carlos Fernandes in the corporate world - he is a team-player and can-do leader that I want to work with again. Any corporation that is wise enough to bring forward the services of Carlos Fernandes will be committed to success. And if that corporation wants to expand their world market share and new green opportunities - Carlos is the dynamic force to make it happen.
— Bob Wyman, CEO, Industrial Cybersecurity, LLC —
I worked with Carlos on a Security and Privacy team where he demonstrated significant technical information assurance skills along with an ability to engage with clients and leadership to present recommendations for security improvements.
— Daryl Eckard, Cybersecurity Trusted Advisor —
Carlos has been a thought leader in the Cyber Security field for many years. While at Booz Allen he provided expertise in the wireless security field to include contributing to some of the early NIST wireless security special publications. He also supported intelligence community clients with their information security projects and programs. The results of Carlos' work at Booz Allen was robust solutions and satisfied clients. Since working at Booz Allen I have watched Carlos continue to provide executive leadership in his field continuing the track record of success.
— Brian Miller, CISO, Healthfirst —
Carlos is everything you want in a colleague; smart, capable, serious and self-motivated. He's able to assess complex tasks, break them into manageable segments and get the job done in a highly professional manner. He'll get the job done.
— Stanford Crane, Founder, Silicon Valley Incubator —
Our mission has always been to offer our customers solutions and services that can enable business growth, provide improvements in productivity and efficiency, and help protect information as it flows both inside and outside of an organization. Working with ACS, our abilities enter into a new dimension of customer service that can have a profound effect on the welfare of our customers.
— Peter Kowalczuk, President, Canon Solutions America —
Carlos is a mission focused, information security professional, working closely with his loyal customers to solve challenging problems in the cyber world.
— Gwyn Whittaker, CEO, GreenFare Organic Cafe —