Education

Bachelor of Science, Information Science August 2015 to May 2019

University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Skills

Certifications:

CISSP (In Progress)

Juniper Networks Certified Associate JNCIA-Junos (December 2019)

CompTIA Security+ (August 2019) (ID: YRVG35P97ZLLV254)

Cisco CCNA Cyber Ops (July 2018) (ID: 433034170449GOUK)

Cisco CCENT (similar to CompTIA Network+) (June 2017) (ID: 429166926959BQYI)

Lynda’s certification for IT Security Specialist. (July 2017)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign certification for “Cloud Networking” on Coursera. (July 2017) (ID: MYSQ5429BL2T)

CompTIA A+ (August 2016) (ID: F8096X9EG3VQQMZQ)

Microsoft Office Specialist

Computer: Familiar with MySQL, R, HTML5/CSS. Weka. Tableau.

Experience

Network Engineer, Verizon Ashburn, VA October 2019 – Present

Perform proactive network monitoring and follow established procedures when responding to network alarms and events.

Perform triage, end-to-end fault isolation, and remediation of network events on physical and logical layer services such as Cisco and Juniper routers

Provide technical assistance, trouble ticket management, outage communication management, and process escalations.

Generate, drive, and update problem-tracking tickets via multiple systems and continually improve business practices.

Cyber Intern, Centauri Corp Patuxent River, MD May 2019 – August 2019

Architected and prototyped an external Security Operations Center (SOC)

Used the requirements engineering process to research and develop a requirements specification document for an external SOC using NIST SP 800-171 and NIST SP 800-53 guidelines.

Conducted a market analysis of alternatives on Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) softwares and SOC tools.

Built Linux KVM server to host virtual machines and implement/configure McAfee Enterprise Security Manager SIEM

IT Pathways Intern, Hospital Corporation of America, Nashville, TN May 2018 – August 2018

Assisted with legal hold transfer process to Office 365. Gained an understanding of email legal hold and eDiscovery efforts within HCA

Assisted with operational service requests including Shared Mailbox and distribution group creation and permissions

Assisted with whitelist clean-up efforts. Gained an understanding of message hygiene functionality within HCA and the importance to protecting the company from compromise

Worked with Microsoft Exchange 2016, Office 365, and ProofPoint Protection Server

Yielded company an estimated $500,000 in expenses

Awards and Recognitions

Cisco Global Cyber Ops Scholarship Program (2018)

Co-authored paper with Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab about Analyzing a Fake News Authorship Network

Stanford’s statement of accomplishment for Computer Science 101

Eagle Scout in 2012 (Troop 152)

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