Amanda L. Swanner

Bossier City, LA • 318-***-**** • ad1hph@r.postjobfree.com • LinkedIn

Seeking an entry-level Analyst role after spending five years in the nonprofit sector and eight years in the United States Senate. Security+ certified graduate of LSU’s Cyber Bootcamp with two degrees. Security risks and safety solutions have the ability to influence all aspects of a company or organization. This is what drives my fascination with IT Security. Eager to apply my cybersecurity, communication, collaboration, and adaptability skills to a hardworking team

Technical Skills

Linux command line, Wireshark, Burp Suite, nmap, Snort, Network Security, Metasploit, Windows, Firewalls, Splunk

Core Skills: Written and verbal communication, quick learner, ability to handle sensitive and confidential matters, information, and data, follow complex instructions, collaboration, adaptability, multi-tasking, and can work under pressure and tight deadlines.

Certifications: CompTia Security+

Professional Experience

Northwest Louisiana Family Justice Center March 2017–Present Assistant Director/Outreach Coordinator Bossier City, Louisiana

● Collaborate with staff and partner organizations to identify resources for the benefit of the NWLFJC clients. This includes grant writing as well as private fundraising through events, special projects, campaigns and private giving.

● Promote the NWLFJC both statewide and locally in the 9 parish communities that we serve to build relationships with both public and private agencies and officials. United States Senate January 2009 – February 2017

Community Liaison Baton Rouge, Louisiana

● Represented the Senator within the community at events and speaking engagements acting as his “eyes and ears” by meeting with his constituents as well as public and private community leaders on issues of concern to them.

● Demonstrated team leadership in the planning, location scouting and staffing of public events such as speaking engagements, public forums, town hall meetings, etc.

● Managed case files involving the following Federal Agencies and issue areas: Department of Veterans Affairs, United States Postal Service, Corps of Engineers, Federal Communications Commission, Office of Personnel Management, FEMA, and the Department of Agriculture. EDUCATION & TRAINING

Definitive GRC Analyst Master Class Dr. Gerald Auger, Simply Cyber December 2022

● Prepared, executed and reported on audit of subset of NIST SP 800-53 cybersecurity controls to include interview, document review and testing of systems to support compliance audit activities.

● Knowledgeable of NIST Cybersecurity Framework and how the Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover categories comprise and facilitate an information security program.

● Developed concise cybersecurity awareness content, improving targeted end-user base cyber hygiene.

● Developed Just-In-Time cyber awareness content for emerging threats to reduce operational risk.

● Semi-quantitatively analyzed cybersecurity risk using NIST SP 800-30 methodology to identify highest risk weaknesses for a system.

● Executed threat modeling exercise to determine higher likelihood threat events to inform cybersecurity risk modeling.

Louisiana State University

Cybersecurity Program Powered by Fullstack Academy February 2022

Intensive, instructor-led training in computer networking fundamentals, red and blue team practices/tools, and scripting.

● Formed a solid foundation of computer knowledge; including Windows OS and Linux OS Mastered common CLI for Linux through Fullstack’s CTF challenges.

● Practiced offensive techniques and how to mitigate these threats using industry blue team tools to align with cybersecurity frameworks such as NIST, ISO-27001 and MITRE ATT&CK.

● Wrote and modified rules for IPS, IDS such as Snort and ACLs for firewalls/routers based on parameters provided.

● Used packet capture tools such as Wireshark and TCPDump to investigate traffic for IOCs (Indicators of Compromise)

● Executed basic incident response procedures and gained familiarity with forensics tools, PCI-DSS and FISMA.

● Performed simulated threat hunting by analyzing logs in the SIEM Splunk.

● Gained familiarity with a variety of tools including: Snort, Splunk, Wireshark, Burpsuite, Metasploit, Nessus, Nmap.

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana June 2007 Master of Arts – Political Science Graduate Thesis: “Multidimensionality and Party Identification” Member of Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society

Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana May 2003 Bachelor of Arts – Political Science Academic Dean's List

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