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Experienced security and software engineer with with a history of technical and architectural leadership. Diversified skillset involving information security administration, software development, and system administration. Enthusiastic problem solver with a proven track record of technical growth and engagement.

Work Experience

Network Security Engineer (Qualtrics)

  • Designed and implemented automation to rotate TLS certificates in critical infrastructure equipment
  • Designed and implemented software IPSec VPN solutions for professional services customers
  • Designed and lead implementation of corporate Physical Two-factor Authentication (P2FA) strategy
  • Participated in security engineering hiring committees
  • Trained security engineers on various security tools and procedures

Infrastructure Security Engineer (SlingTV)

  • Designed, implemented and maintained network SIEM to monitor multiple datacenter infrastructures
  • Triaged, investigated and remediated network security incidents
  • Designed, implemented and demonstrated software PoCs for application vulnerabilities
  • Automated responses for common incidents and requests
  • Created and directed patch management program

Security Specialist III (Utah Valley University)

  • Maintained workstation antivirus, PSI detection and Two-Factor Authentication on campus-owned computers
  • Created a PHP web frontend for Palo Alto’s IP list API
  • Conducted and reported vulnerability assessments

Education

Personal Projects

Self Hosting

  • Currently maintaining over 50 virtualized and containerized application services orchestrated using Hashicorp tools. Example services include Git, VSCode, and Jenkins servers.
  • cronocide.com - hosting summary available with Google login.

Security Conferences

  • An active participant in local and global security and software development conferences, including UtahSAINT’s SaintCon, BSides SLC, BlackHat and Defcon.
  • Presented at SAINTCON on Elasticsearch’s SIEM technologies, becoming the conference’s most popular tutorial: https://crono.link/sc19

UVU Cyber Security Club

  • While Vice President, designed, implemented, and managed enterprise training environments for students to exercise network security practices.
  • 2x 1st Place Competitor at Rocky Mountain Collegiate Cyber Defense competition.
  • 1st Place Competitor at NIATEC Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.

Certificates

  • CompTIA Network+
  • CompTIA Security+
  • CompTIA CySA+
  • CompTIA Pentest+