Mohammad Shojaeshafiei, Ph.D.

Huntsville, Alabama (willing to relocate)

US Permanent Resident

256-***-**** adjoa4@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

Highly motivated Cybersecurity Analyst with 6 years of experience in Computer Science and Cybersecurity and vulnerability measurement methodologies resulting in 16 publications in peer-reviewed scientific conferences and journals, and several presentations at international conferences.

Cross-functional collaborator as demonstrated by merging Cybersecurity and Secure System Integration and System Vulnerabilities including Network Security, Web Applications, Mobile Devices, Physical Security, and Third-party resulted to create a standard Cybersecurity framework for the Department of Transportation

(DOT) with $200,000 grant funding.

System security and organizational level knowledge with experience developing creative security factors and sub-factors for Cybersecurity requirements’ elicitation which are being incorporated into Multi-layered Fuzzy Logic to measure the system’s vulnerability.

Work Experience

Graduate Research and Teacher Assistant Aug 2015 – Dec 2020 The University of Alabama in Huntsville

Fostered cross-functional collaborator in Internet of Things (IoT) vulnerability measurement by merging Mobile Devices and Network Security resulted in the best paper publication of novel ideas in the International Network and Communication Conference and selected speaker among 200 presenters.

Directed research program as evidenced by devising and implementing Web Applications vulnerability measurement through investigation of Runtime security resulting in vulnerability quantification without relying on National Vulnerability Database (NVD) for the first time and 1 first-author journal publication.

Identified appropriate resources from different disciplines utilizing the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) crisp input to Multi-layered Fuzzy Logic (MFL) processes resulted in security sub-factors’ prioritization and 1 presentation at an international conference.

Diagnosed and presented problems to upper management for network system vulnerability by addressing Availability, Integrity, and Confidentiality in the Department of Transportation resulted in implementing Cybersecurity quantification measures and two presentations at National Cybersecurity conferences.

Synthesized ideas and developed organizational-level evaluation strategies to conduct the project for Cybersecurity framework requirements and vulnerability quantification by addressing the early stage security issues resulted in $200,000 grant funding and construction of a standard security map for organizations.

Excellent data and metrics interpreting skills in the traffic safety between the US and Canada in partnership with governmental and non-governmental organizations as a foundation for road assessment program resulted in a $500,000 sponsorship by American Automobile Association (AAA) club. Mohammad Shojaeshafiei

VB Instructor in Lab as Graduate Teaching Assistant Aug 2015 – Dec 2017 The University of Alabama in Huntsville

Strong communicator and educator as demonstrated by teaching Visual Basic programming to >200 students in total plus more than 300 office hours helped students separately.

Conflict solution and action planning as a selected Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Computer Science department and Graduate Research Assistant of the Civil Engineering department simultaneously to be on call as the substitution of absent instructors in emergency cases. Commercial Management Mar 2011 – Dec 2012

Small Industries and Industrial Organization, Mabna, Salmanshahr, Iran

Coordinated and developed programs in SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) resulted in 10% manufacturing development of packaging system optimization and cost-saving package design.

Communicated a clear, strategic sales vision with experience in ordering, testing, and qualifying new vendors and packing machine supply resulted in effectively training almost 40 new employees for business development. Project Manager as Undergrad Researcher Sep 2006 – Sep 2010 Azad University, Lahijan, Iran

An autodidactic researcher with a broad Computer Science background in Information Retrieval, Visualization, E-learning, and Digital Library resulted in 10 publications in peer-reviewed scientific conferences.

Managing group and delegating responsibilities of the project with multiple categorization support in a Conceptual File Manager (CFM) design resulted in 1 international Computer Science conference.

Creative thinking as demonstrated by a universal collaborative and competitive proposal for deployment of digital collections regarding future education systems resulted in 1 international Computer Science publication. Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, University of Alabama in Huntsville, AL, USA 2017 – 2020 M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Alabama in Huntsville, AL, USA 2015 – 2017 B.Sc. in Software Engineering, Azad University, Lahijan, Iran 2006 – 2010 Techniques& Skills

Cyber Research & Development

Python, Visual Basic

Metasploit

Nessus, CVSS

NIST, ISO

Linux, Windows

Network Scanner (Nmap)

Packet Level Analysis

(Wireshark)

MITRE ATT&CK Framework

Risk Management Framework

Physical Security

Network access & identity

TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS

OSI, ITIL

Buffer overflow, XSS

System Diagnostic Tools

Incident Response

Host/Network Access Control

Intrusion Detection (Snort)

CIA, IPS, IDS

Vulnerability Prioritization

Data Asset Characterization

SIEM (Splunk)

Mobile Devices’ Security

Prepare and Deliver Reports

Network+, Security+, CEH

Selected Awards, Honors & Volunteer Works

Recipient of several travel awards granted by University of Alabama in Huntsville, AL, 2017-2020 Volunteer grad student for judging a formal engineering presentation for 5 different student teams, University of Alabama in Huntsville, AL, 2019.

Financial aid award from the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT), 2018. Mobile App help desk volunteer at National Cyber Summit in Huntsville, AL, 2018. Direct Ph.D. program admission from B.Sc. with the highest GRE scores (Math:162/170, Verbal:151/170), 2015.

Executive manager of the first Computer Science national conference at Azad University of Lahijan, 2011.

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