Our passion is Resilient IT.

We design business systems to

Function well for your staff
Prevent cyber-attacks and outages
Rapidly recover from disasters

Kieri Solutions was founded in 2015 and is based out of Maryland.

We support businesses throughout the USA for CMMC compliance, NIST SP 800-171, and cybersecurity. Our clients include several Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies. They trust us because we are industry leaders in CMMC, DFARS 252.204-7012, and NIST SP 800-171 compliance, have an excellent track record for over-delivering, and are known for our well-reasoned and realistic approach to cybersecurity.

Kieri Solutions is listed on the CMMC-AB marketplace as an Authorized CMMC Certified Third Party Assessment Organization (C3PAO).

Working with Kieri has been a pleasure and sets the standard for other vendors.
A. Strzegowski, Ciena Corp.

Our Team

Amira Armond

Amira in 2014, performing a network migration at the NATO Role III hospital in Afghanistan

V. Amira Armond is the founder of Kieri Solutions LLC. She is a “Resilient IT” wonk, focusing on defensive cybersecurity and designing strong and functional networks throughout her career.

Amira supported the U.S. Navy and DISA secure networks for sixteen years and started Kieri Solutions in 2015. During her time with the Defense Department, Amira…

Designed and managed critical military networks
Integrated a new hospital system for the U.S. Navy (used on all ships and deployed hospitals)
Lead Change Management for NMCI – a 1 million seat network used by the Navy and Marine Corps
Architected a worldwide secure cloud services solution for DISA.

Amira has a Master of Business with a concentration in Project Management and holds industry certifications including Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Amira is a Certified Lead CMMC Assessor and CMMC Provisional Instructor. She led the CMMC compliance program within Kieri Solutions, which passed the DIBCAC assessment for CMMC Level 2. Amira has trained more than 400 CMMC assessment students and is a founder of the C3PAO Stakeholder Forum, an industry organization that promotes standardization of assessment.

Mark Hapeman

Mark brings to Kieri 30 years of experience working with consulting companies supporting their IT and cyber security initiatives. Mark has witnessed the technological advances brought by high-speed internet, virtualization, and IT outsourcing for small to medium businesses, such as those provided by Managed IT Services. Having served in operational, sales, and customer service leadership roles, Mark is able to approach customers with a comprehensive understanding of what challenges and solutions are impacting their businesses today.

Mark serves as the President of Kieri Solutions and is responsible for the health of our team and the satisfaction of our clients.

During his 30 years in the industry, Mark has held Microsoft, Cisco, Citrix, and ITIL certifications. He has also been a contributing team member in the achievement of COBIT and SOC2 certifications.

Logan Therrien

Logan brings a deep knowledge of Department of Defense policy, procedures, and cybersecurity standards to Kieri Solutions. As a Lieutenant Commander for the Navy, he was responsible for information security policies and procedures, incident response, risk management, change management, access control, and continuity of operations.

Logan is Kieri Solutions’ Operations Manager and serves as a CMMC assessor and consultant. He is a retired U.S. Navy Submarine Officer with over 24 years of experience in developing, protecting, and assessing information, personnel, and physical security programs in the Department of Defense. Logan holds a Master of Science in Information Assurance from Oklahoma State University and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Logan Therrien is a Certified CMMC Assessor and is leading content updates to Kieri Compliance Documentation. He is an Assessment and Gap Analysis lead, and acts in a Quality role for assessments performed by other team members.

Jonathan Weadon

Jonathan’s technical background extends back nearly 30 years, starting with token ring networks. Most of his experience is with municipal networks and ISPs, where he has experience gathering stakeholders from a wide variety of backgrounds and convincing them to work towards a common technical goal. Most recently he worked for the Navy monitoring and troubleshooting high security networks with DISA and the NNWC Battle Watch Captains as part of the Cyber Defense Operations command GNOC. In each of these roles, security has been of paramount importance, and insight into local and federal government thinking helps guide Jonathan’s understanding of CMMC’s goals. Jonathan has a Security+ (SEC+) and Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA) certification.

Jonathan Weadon is a Certified CMMC Assessor and specializes in cloud solutions and CMMC Reference Architectures. He is also the technical lead at Kieri Solutions, playing a primary role in keeping us CMMC Level 2 compliant.

Brian Hubbard

Brian is involved in the quality and oversight of our services, as well as performing as an Assessment Team Lead.

With 35+ years of cybersecurity experience, Brian is focused on developing and supporting cost-effective cybersecurity programs for small to medium sized businesses. Brian is also heavily involved in the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program as a certified Provisional Assessor and certified Provisional Instructor.

Brian is a strategic business leader with three decades of experience architecting, designing, and developing solutions to address some of the nation’s top cybersecurity challenges. Prior to starting with Kieri Solutions, Brian was the Director of Commercial and Cybersecurity at Edwards Performance Solutions, where he built the Edwards CMMC practice and achieved certifications in all aspects of the CMMC Ecosystem. Prior to Edwards, Brian was a primary author and led the contractor team supporting NIST in the development of the Cybersecurity Framework. Brian also supported Booz Allen Hamilton’s Information Assurance Directorate (IAD) at the National Security Agency (NSA) for 20 years, as a Principal.

Brian holds a Master of Science in Operations Research from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University. He is also a certified Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).

Brian is a Certified Lead CMMC Assessor and Provisional Instructor. Brian specializes in holistic compliance programs for medium and large business. Brian is an Assessment Team Lead for Kieri Solutions and has experience leading official Joint Surveillance assessments of 800-171 and CMMC compliance.

Vincent “Vince” Scott

Vince has 30 years of experience leading local and globally dispersed teams to accomplish challenging objectives in government and industry. Vince earned his Bachelor’s in Computer Science from the US Naval Academy, has completed DoD Acquisition Level II qualification, earned his MS in Management Information Systems from the University of Maryland while in the UK, and has earned a graduate certificate in Information Security from the University of Fairfax. He previously served as a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Law and Cyber Warfare.

After his Navy career, Vince accepted a position with Oklahoma State University’s Multispectral Laboratory (UML) as Chief Information Officer and the Director of C5ISR. In that role he also led the UML Security organization. Following his work with Oklahoma State, Vince held positions with Procter and Gamble as their global leader of cyber incident response and threat intelligence, served as a Director in PwC’s Cybersecurity and Privacy practice, and led PwC’s national cyber threat intelligence organization. He currently serves as the founder of Defense Cybersecurity Group and Chief Security Officer for STI-TEC.

Vince is a U.S. Navy certified subject matter expert in Information Warfare and Cryptology, a DoD/CNSS certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISSP), Incident Handler Engineer (IHE), certified Senior Systems Manager (SSM), and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).

Vince Scott is a Certified CMMC Assessor and CMMC Provisional Instructor. He specializes in program-level CMMC compliance for medium and large business. Vince is an Assessment Team Lead for Kieri Solutions.

BTW, I’m really enjoying working with Vince. I think we’re making a great team.
Mike, Solutions3

Thad Wellin

Thad Wellin is Kieri Solution’s Chief Information Officer and is a Certified CMMC Professional and consultant for Kieri Solutions. Thad has hands-on experience configuring systems for CMMC compliance with a specialty in Microsoft 365 GCC and GCC High, Azure Government engineering, and secure tenant design. He is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in information and communications security with more than 30 years’ experience. Thad has served as an Information Assurance Manager (IAM) III with a focus on Risk Management Framework, Government Accreditation and Authorization. Thad is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and holds an MS in Information Security & Assurance from Norwich University.

Thad Wellin is a Certified Lead CMMC Assessor and specializes in compliant systems design and architecture.

Linda Rust

Linda Rust specializes in mission-critical projects which require both technical skill and business savvy. Clients praise her deep insight, flexible strategy, tact, and skill in working from front line employees to the C-suite, while smoothing the way for new habits that mean real change for an organization and its culture. Linda has orchestrated initiatives in enterprises of over 50,000 employees, led project teams of over 250 people, and managed budgets up to $34 million.
Among the first certified Project Management Professionals (PMP), she specialized in crisis management and mission-critical programs. Seeing that technology projects often forced business to change, Linda studied best practices in large-scale business transformation. Creativity in business alignment across silos comes from 25+ years of experience in product development, product life-cycle maintenance, large-scale IT infrastructure, training, marketing, sales, and Fortune 500 P&L responsibility. Linda Rust has passed the CMMC Certified Assessor training and exam and holds CISSP, CISM, ISO/IEC 2000 Lead Auditor, and PMP certifications.

Linda Rust is a Certified CMMC Assessor. She specializes in program management for enterprise cybersecurity initiatives, and is exceptional at working with executives and IT teams to accomplish big things.

Lia Davis

Lia Davis brings four years of experience securing small businesses to NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC Level 2 in a practical yet compliant way. Her experience spans cloud environments, including Microsoft GCC-High and AWS GovCloud, wired and wireless networking, Windows 10 and Windows Server administration, endpoint detection and response, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platform management, backups, and physical access control systems. She knows what starting at step zero feels like and leads with compassion and vigor. At Kieri, Lia is working to maintain Kieri’s CMMC Level 2 compliant information system and further develop the Kieri Reference Architecture.

Erik Gifford

Erik comes to Kieri with over 30 years of IT experience in the engineering and manufacturing realm. For the first half of that time, his focus with product development for systems ranging from automotive to military and aerospace applications. During that time he always had some IT-related responsibilities, starting back with maintaining Sun Solaris systems through managing Product Lifecycle Management systems. This led to his transition fully to IT and the last eight years focusing on information security and cybersecurity aligned with driving compliance to relevant DFARS clauses and other requirements commonly expected of a manufacturer operating across multiple industry verticals. At Kieri, Erik specializes in assisting manufacturing clients with implementing NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC compliance.

And more…!

We have several more highly-experienced cybersecurity and compliance consultants on the team. Our consultants have an average of 21 years experience in cybersecurity and highly secure networking, and hold an average of 3 industry certifications each.

Our Kieri Solutions consultants are all Certified CMMC Assessors. Between this formal training and our internal CMMC training program, we are industry leaders in our understanding of the CMMC.

If you have registered for CMMC Certified Assessor and are looking for a C3PAO to sponsor you, drop us a line. We are ramping up to meet industry demand.