SUMMARY:

Skilled Information Security Analyst with expertise in incident response, vulnerability management, and threat detection with language proficiency in Chinese (high-intermediate) and Japanese (low-intermediate). Well-versed in large data analysis, both remote and direct, with excellent critical thinking, communication, and interpersonal skills. Frequently perform risk assessments and able to present highly technical language in an easy to understand way.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY:

Coding Scripting (Java, C++, SQL, Python, PowerShell) ● Large Data Analysis

Windows, Mac OS, Linux ● Vulnerability Management

Splunk ● Threat Detection

Microsoft Office ● NIST

Identity Access Management ● Forensics

Incident Response ● Japanese (Low-Intermediate)

Cherwell, ServiceNow ● Chinese (High-Intermediate)

CERTIFICATIONS:

CISSP – (ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional

CompTIA A+, Network +, Security+ Certified Professional (A+, Net+, Sec+)

GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA) ● GIAC Penetration Tester (GPEN)

GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON) ● GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC)

GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH) ● SANS Security Awareness Professional (SSAP)

Jamf Certified Tech (Jamf Pro Version 10)

WORK EXPERIENCE:

King County, Seattle, WA 2019 – Present

IT Security Analyst

Monitor computer network for suspicious activity, investigate alerts, and quickly respond and remediate threats and incidents. Actively communicate, coordinate, track, and fix detected vulnerabilities to maintain a high-security standard across the IT environment. Deploy, configure, maintain, and support security software and certificates on network connected devices.

Review and implement frameworks and policies making sure they are closely aligned with SANS and NIST standards.

Assess current alerts and automatically generated tickets and looked for areas for process improvement.

Effectively follow Incident Response Framework to minimize downtime during security incidents.

Upgraded current multifactor environment to meet industry standard.

Designed and help implement a Security Awareness Program for the entire county

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 2018 – 2019

Security Analyst II

Review logs and actively search for threats in the environment and create security events/incidents upon discovery while following incident response frameworks. Perform security reviews of potential and existing IT products determining risk and vulnerabilities of systems

Closed over 160 firewall vulnerabilities over a period of 6 months.

Assist system owners in hardening endpoints and servers through vulnerability scanning, patching and enforcing best practices.

Assess current alerts and automatically generated tickets and looked for areas for process improvement.

Effectively follow Incident Response Framework to minimize downtime during security incidents.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 2017 – 2018

IT Service Desk Engineer

Support staff and researchers with their computing needs providing tier one to tier three support.

Incident Response coordinator for the Service Desk.

Manage 3200+ users in Active Directory enforcing policies and granting/removing group permissions.

Manage 1200+ users/computers in JAMF enrolling and pushing out updates to Apple devices.

Image, deploy, and monitor equipment in the field through SCCM providing full disk encryption on all Fred Hutch computers.

Columbia University, Teachers College, New York, NY 2014 – 2017

Service Desk Analyst II

Support faculty, staff, and students with a strong commitment to high-quality customer service and solid work ethic and provide basic user training on common tools and applications as needed.

Liaison between Security, Network, and Service Desk teams.

Act as Service Desk Team Lead while manager was out of the office.

Institute of Information Technology, New York, NY 2016 - 2017

Senior Instructor

Planned and taught technology based classes geared towards CompTIA certifications.

Taught testing skills needed for the CompTIA certifications.

Helped prepare students for jobs in the IT field.

Adjusted lessons and teaching methods to better meet the needs of the students.

EDUCATION:

Master of Science, Information Security Engineering (expected), SANS Technology Institute

Graduate Certificate, Computer Science Fundamentals, Seattle University, Seattle, WA

Master of Arts, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Columbia University, New York, NY

Bachelor of Arts, Asia Studies, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA

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