Faisal D’Souza
Technical Coordinator
Mr. D’Souza is a Technical Coordinator for the NCO and the NITRD Program. He provides subject matter expertise, meeting coordination, and facilitation, in support of the Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Systems R&D Interagency Working Groups. In addition, Mr. D’Souza provides technical writing and editorial support for various federal plans, technical documents, and other reports related to his areas of expertise, including NITRD’s Annual Supplements to the President’s Budget.
Prior to joining the NCO, Mr. D’Souza supported USDA and GSA. He was responsible for the management of FISMA Compliance, C&A activities, Risk Management, Security Test & Evaluation, Disaster Recovery, Intrusion Detection & Prevention, and Vulnerability Scanning and Remediation. In addition, he was responsible for network design architecture, configuration, management and maintenance of Information Systems from medium to large scale enterprises.
Mr. D’Souza is a Microsoft Certified System Engineer and holds compliance certification in ITIL v2 and v3.