SUMMARY

Security Analyst and Computer Science student with a passion for Cybersecurity. I have practical knowledge and skills in both offensive and defensive methodologies. My professional interest include cloud security, automation, incident response, and application security. I am currently seeking a position to apply my knowledge and skills to solve complex real-world issues.

EXPERIENCE

ABC Security Operations Center

• Monitored, detect and respond to infrastructure threats and vulnerabilities.
• Detected and responded to phishing and spam email schemes.
• Performed threat hunting and threat analysis.

QRS Company

• Served as a project manager for emerging threat portfolios.
• Developed complex data analytics modules for fraud mitigation practices.
• Translated complex data models into plain language format.
• Researched and developed emerging threats using data exploration and analytical models.
• Designed and implemented automated solutions with code to increase efficiency.

XYZ Company

• Apply accounting principals, concepts and methodologies to the examination of accounting books, records and systems.
• Conduct independent examinations and investigations of a wide range of individual and business returns including but not limited to; sole proprietorships, C corporations, S corporations and partnerships.
• Research, interpret, apply and administer tax laws for individual, business and exempt organizations.
• Implement tax laws, accounting methods, court cases and other direct, indirect, and complex methodologies to propose significant adjustments to tax.
• Utilize knowledge of corporate financial transactions and financial management principals and practices to provide an analysis and evaluation of overall business operations and financial conditions.
• Communicate with internal and external individuals using various resources to negotiate a wide range of situations in dealing with; specialists in accounting, legal, tax and other business-related professions.

PROJECTS

Cloud Resume Project - AWS, Terraform, GitHub

• Successfully deployed a static HTML/CSS website by securely hosting the files in an S3 bucket, implementing a custom domain name through CloudFront, and ensuring encryption with an SSL certificate.
• Utilized Route53 to effectively route all user traffic to the custom domain name, ensuring seamless accessibility.
• Established a robust Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline using Git, GitHub and CodePipeline for efficient code management and streamlined updates to the website.
• Implemented automated processes where changes made to code in GitHub were automatically detected by CodePipeline, facilitating swift deployment to the S3 bucket and ensuring up-to-date website content.
• Implemented comprehensive infrastructure automation using Terraform, creating and managing all AWS services, including but not limited to; S3, CodePipeline, Route53.

Azure Honeypot - Azure Sentinel

• Used a custom PowerShell script to extract metadata from Windows Event Viewer to be forwarded to a third party API to derive geolocation of attackers.
• Configured Log Analytics Workspace in Azure to ingest custom logs containing geographic information (latitude, longitude, state/providence, and country).
• Configured Custom Fields in Log Analytics Workspace wit the intent of mapping geo data in Azure Sentinel.
• Configured Microsoft Sentinel workbook to display global attack data (RDP brute force attempts) on world map according to physical location and magnitude of attacks.

Vulnerability Management - Nessus, Windows 10

• Installed and configured Nessus Essentials to perform credentialed vulnerability scans on Windows 10 hosts. Discover, Prioritize, Assess, Report, Remediate, Verify.
• Conducted vulnerability assessments with Nessus; remediated vulnerabilities.
• Developed automated remediation processes to preemptively deal with vulnerabilities stemming from Windows updates and third-party software.

Small Shell - Custom shell in C++

• Created a shell similar to Bash. Supports comments.
• Allows redirection of standard input and output.
• Monitors and controls processes in background and foreground. Reports background process completion in-between foreground processes.
• Allows various commands to terminate any running processes via PID.
• Built-in processes include; exit, cd, and status. Other processes are forked off into child processes using system calls.
• Reject invalid commands. Allow toggling between disallowing/allowing background processes.

EDUCATION

Some State University

Another State University

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages

Tools

CERTIFICATIONS/EXTRACURRICULAR

• AWS Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Educate Badges x7 - Security, Compute, Databases, Storage, Operations, Networking, Cloud Computing
• Google IT Support Professional
• AWS Solutions Architect Associate (in progress)
• Comptia Security+ (in progress)
• CodePath Intermediate Cybersecurity - Alum
• TryHackMe - top 1%
• OSU Security Club - member
• OWASP - Chapter Member