Alexander Indihar Phone: 256-***-****

Email: adiu95@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

• A highly advanced, accomplished, skilled, and talented cyber security and computer science professional. Has undergone several years of cyber security and computer science coursework, job experience, and project experience. Seeking an advanced, senior, or even higher career opportunity in cyber security to utilize his vast skills and knowledge to solve problems for renowned organizations that are heavily involved in cyber. SKILLS AND SPECIAL TRAINING

• Coursework and/or experience in computer/network/web security, exploit mitigation, forensics, malware science, virtualization, reverse engineering, ethical hacking, operating systems, pentesting, threat hunting

• Programming languages: PHP, SQL, JavaScript, Python, PowerShell, Assembly, Bash, C#, C++, C, Java

• Operating system proficiencies: Linux (Red Hat, Kali, Ubuntu, Centos), Windows (10 Home/Pro, Server)

• Tool proficiencies: Nmap, WireShark, Autopsy, FTK Imager, Magnet Axiom, Burp Suite, Nikto, Metasploit, etc.

• Virtualization proficiencies: VMware Workstation, vSphere/vCenter, VirtualBox, Hyper-V

• Regex and tools (grep, sed, etc.) / IDEs (VS Code, Notepad++, Visual Studio, Sublime Text, PyCharm, etc.)

• Agile/Scrum experience and training

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS, AND CLEARANCES

• B.S. in Computer Science with a Math Minor at University of Alabama in Huntsville Dec 2017

• M.S. in Cyber Security with CS focus at University of Alabama in Huntsville Dec 2018

• CompTIA Security+ Certification May 2018

• CompTIA CySA+ Certification Feb 2020

• Top Secret Clearance Feb 2019

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Cyber Forensic Analyst – NCSOC – Quantum Research International (Huntsville, AL) Jun 2020 – present o Responding to incidents with DoD clients and perform data acquisition and imaging of suspect devices o Analyzing forensic images of mobile, desktop, and laptop devices for signs of compromise, insider threat, etc. o Developing a LAMP stack solution for checking out, viewing, and managing evidence o Reversing/testing extracted malware to study behavior and how it affected client’s system/network

• Cyber Threat Hunter – MDA/CAT – nou Systems (Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, AL) Sep 2019 – Jun 2020 o Performed threat hunting on government client networks and systems o Used SIEM tools (Security Onion, Splunk, Kibana, Squert, Bro, etc.) to analyze traffic to and from client networks o Automated functionality of threat hunt APIs (FireEye, Recorded Future, etc.) and integrated it in the SIEM tools o Tested limits of threat hunt tools such as restrictions on the number of allowed API calls to the hosting server o Performed network/computer forensic analysis on acquired network capture and operating system image files

• Cyber Software Engineer – Northrop Grumman (Huntsville, AL) Apr 2018 – Sep 2019 o Led the automation effort for Northrop Grumman’s software modernization team o Automated the enforcement of various NIST STIGs for applications, virtualization, and operating systems o Automated the PKI infrastructure of the internal system o Automated install/deployment/configuration of the virtualization platforms, applications, operating systems, etc.

• Cyber Psychology Researcher – ITSC (UAH, Huntsville, AL) Sep 2017 – Dec 2017 o Researched psychology behind social engineers, hackers, and human behaviors and tendencies o Developed modules to help prevent people from falling victim to social engineering and cyber attacks

• Cyber Security Intern – CGI Federal (Huntsville, AL) Jun 2017 – Aug 2017 o Setup, monitored, and hardened a network using software including OPNsense, AlienVault, and Splunk o Performed malware analysis on selected malware samples and forensic analysis on infected hard drives o Coded script to get the latest IOC report from a sandbox and setup an email server to send the report out

• Licensing/.NET Developer Co-op – Intergraph PP&M (Madison, AL) May 2016 – Dec 2016 o Coded system tests to test the resilience of newly written code and did .NET development for CAD software

• IT Specialist – CSPAR (UAH, Huntsville, AL) Aug 2015 – Apr 2016 o Web maintenance, website content editing, and IT for NASA and UAH under CSPAR

• Software Developer Intern – GLD Solutions (Huntsville, AL) Jun 2015 – Aug 2015 o Programmed the software behind the logistics and shipping solutions PROJECT EXPERIENCE

• 2019 Global Cyberlympics Finalist (Oshawa, Ontario, Canada) Oct 2019 o https://www.cyberlympics.org/portfolio/team-yegsec/

• Cyber Security / Ethical Hacking Oct 2013 – present o Capture the Flag (CTF): competitions where different cyber security and ethical hacking techniques and skills are used to solve challenges and gain points against other teams worldwide o Skills used: crypto, RE, exploit mitigation, programming/scripting, stego, recon, SE, forensics, pentesting, etc.

• Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms Jan 2018 – May 2018 o Researched the performance/accuracy of quantum encryption algorithms proposed by NIST for the NSA

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