About Me

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Experience

With 5 years of experience in cybersecurity I have experienced most of what the industry has to offer

Education

I have received a Bachelors in Business Administration and a Bachelors in Information Technology.

Certification

I currently hold the Certified Ethical Hacker certification and I plan on attaining my OSCP and CISSP in 2021.

CTF

I am very active in the CTF community (especially Hack The Box). My blog contains details of my recent exploits.

Experience

Avista Corporation

**Cyber Threat Hunter (Jul 2019 - Present)**
-Perform hunting exercises using threat intelligence, analysis of anomalous log data and results of historical events and data to detect and respond to threats
-Correlate data from intrusion detection and prevention systems with data from other sources such as firewall, web server, vulnerability, proxy, endpoint, email and DNS logs
-Create and add custom signatures to mitigate highly dynamic threats to the enterprise using the latest threat information obtained from multiple sources
-Collect and deploy threat intelligence to detect, respond, and defeat advanced persistent threats -Maintain knowledge of the current security threat level by monitoring related Internet postings, Intelligence reports, and other related documents as necessary
-Develop and produce reports on all activities and incidents to help maintain day to day status, develop and report on trends, and provide focus and situational awareness on all issues

Roundtower Technologies

**Cybersecurity Engineer (Aug 2018 – Jul 2019)**
-Drive monitoring of security events using a SIEM and other feeds, looking for significant events, and processing reports of unexpected network activity
-Manage a team of 10 analysts who review, assess, and triage security events and guide the management events escalating into incidents
-Write custom rules to track specific activity and security events proactively or as requested by our clients
-Respond to inbound phone and electronic requests for technical assistance from customers
-Work closely with our client's Incident Response Teams to analyze and resolve security incidents
-Work with new clients to install the SIEM and configure syslog from all security/network devices

**Cybersecurity Analyst (Aug 2017 – Aug 2018)**
-Perform real-time proactive security monitoring, detection and response to security events and incidents within client networks.
-Investigate potential cyber-attacks and intrusion attempts, and lead containment, eradication, recovery, and lessons learned analysis of actual incidents.
-Analyze a variety of network and host-based security appliance logs (Firewalls, NIDS, HIDS, etc.) to determine the correct remediation actions and escalation paths for each incident.
-Backup of firewalls, Alien Vault security appliances, and other security devices.
-Provide information regarding intrusion events, security incidents, and other threat indications and warning information to the client.
-Utilize advanced network and host forensic tools in order to triage and scope an incident.
-Maintain situational awareness of latest cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies.

**Cybersecurity Analyst Co-op (Apr 2017 – Aug 2018)**

Core Skills

Threat Hunting

Ethical Hacking

Vulnerability Management

Networking

Threat Intelligence

Network Security

Identity Management

Physical Security

Technologies

SIEM

(Splunk, Alienvault, and McAfee)

Cloud

(Azure and AWS)

Firewall

(Pfsense, Palo Alto, Sofos, and Fortinet)

Linux

(Kali, Debian, Ubuntu, and Parrot)

Vulnerability Scanner

(Tenable Nessus, Rapid 7, and OpenVAS)

Windows

(Windows Server 2003-2019, Windows 7-10)

Anti Virus

(Crowdstrike, Carbon Black, and McAfee)

Scripting

(Powershell, Bash, and Java)

Education

University of Cincinnati, School of Information Technology
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Major: Cybersecurity
Cumulative GPA: 3.5/4.0 Relevant Coursework: Programming, Networking, System Administration, and Security

College of Mount Saint Joseph, School of Business
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Major: Business Administration
Cumulative GPA: 3.0/4.0 Relevant Coursework: Accounting, Economics, Marketing, and Finance