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CHAVEAL R. SIMMONS

Phone:719-***-**** Email: **************@******.*** LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/chaveal-simmons/61/261/592

CLEARANCE

Secret Clearance

SELECTED CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Research & Reporting Cyber Security Programming Information Assurance Technical Writing System Troubleshooting Lean Six Sigma Training

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Currently enrolled in a 36-week immersive cyber security technical bootcamp: SecureSet Cyber Academy.

Team based capstone focused on building a virtual testing environment with RedHat Linux and VyOS virtual routing software to exploit vulnerabilities and explore the relationship between vulnerabilities and security.

Extensive virtualization using VMware and Oracle’s VirtualBox.

Netcat, OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite, intercept traffic to analyze and/or modify traffic to gain a technical understanding of attack vectors and how they are utilized in the real world.

Completed 16-week Department of Veteran Affairs Advance Learning Program (ALP), True IA Cyber Security Academy.

Proficient at conducting extensive research and providing a thorough report of findings and solutions.

Strategic Analyst research/presentation on Russian cyber capabilities.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

SecureSet Cyber Security Academy – 36 week immersive core cyber security technical boot camp (In Progress: Expected graduation - December 2017)

Coursework :

Application Security – Defense against buffer overflow, XSS, XSRF, SQLi, command injection

Cryptography – Certificates and signatures, PKI, RSA, DHE, AES, DES, 3DES, SSL, TLS

Operational Security – Access control, password policy, physical security, configuration management

Networking – Packet structure, encapsulation, addressing schemes, hardware

Network Security – Firewalls, IDS/IPS, routers, routing protocols

System Administration – Windows and Linux system administration

System Security – Group Policy Object, Change Management: Heavy overlap with operational security

TCP/IP – OSI and DoD models, ICMP, SNMP, DNS, FTP, SSH, Telnet, RDP, Syslog, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, HTTP, HTTPS, SQL, LDAP

Department of Veteran Affairs Advanced Learning Program (ALP), True IA Cyber Academy Body of Knowledge (CABoK), 16-week Cyber Security training program.

Bachelor of Science, Biological Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK (Completed -2010)

Bachelor of Science, Cyber Security, concentration in Information Assurance, Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs, CO (8 credit hours left to complete)

Master’s, Environmental Studies/Intelligence, American Public University, Charles Town, WV (15 graduate hours completed)

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE

Software Languages

Proficient in Python 2/3 and supporting libraries – IPython, NumPy, Pygame, Twisted

Familiar with the following languages – Bash, variations of C (C++, C#), Java, MATLAB, PHP, Perl, Ruby, SH

Operating System Experience

Windows – 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Server2003R2

Apple – macOS Sierra

Linux – CentOS 6, Kali, Mint, Rasbpian, TAILS, Ubuntu 16.04LTS, VyOS, Mint

Mobile – Android, iOS, Windows Phone,

SOFTWARE AND ANALYST TOOLS

NMAP, Wireshark, Microsoft Security Essentials, VMWare, VirtualBox, Cisco Packet Tracer, GNS3, Burpsuite, OWASP Zap, Metasploit Framework, OpenSSL, Apache, SysInternals, Snort, SSH, GCC, GDB, John the Ripper, Hashcat, Curl, SSLStrip, SQLmap, exploitDB, BeEF, Cowrie, DIRB, DirBuster, Microsoft Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Voucher Examiner

Department of Veteran Affairs, Denver, CO 09/2014-PRESENT

Classify accounting transactions, maintain and reconcile accounts, prepare reports and statements, and analyze accounting data.

Communicate with medical providers, banks, educational institutions and other organizations to confirm and process voucher payments.

Verify accuracy and completeness of accounting data, interfacing with a medical claims processing system that includes an Internet authorization application, document processing function, optical character recognition (OCR) scanning process, and Plexis Claims Manager (PCM) claims processing software application.

Ensure that all claims for vouchers adhere to government regulations and protocols.

Chemistry Laboratory Technician

Halliburton Chemistry Lab Department, Duncan, OK 12/2010-08/2014

Tested specimens collected from worldwide sites. Submit fluids or sands to analytical lab for further microbe analysis. Monitored chemical processes and tested products as part of quality assurance.

Interpreted and analyzed data, compiled results, prepared reports, and presented conclusions.

Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Reconnaissance

U.S. Army, Fort Carson, CO 03/2011-08/2014

Protected the country from the threat of weapons of mass destruction and any weapon of a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear type. By planning, employing and coordinating defense systems against these weapon agents in support of joint and combined arms operations. These systems include:

CBRN reconnaissance systems

Biological agent detection systems (BIDS)

Obscurant systems that hide movements or defeat enemy targeting

CBRN decontamination systems

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