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California, United States

• Responsible for security event monitoring, triage, response, and escalation of incidents and reports collected from a global fleet of employees, as part of the 24/7 security incident response operations shift.
• Prioritized and escalated incidents impacting critical business operations across a global infrastructure and fleet encompassing
• Executed rapid containment protocols, isolating affected systems, blocking malicious IPs, and neutralizing threats in real-time while collaborating with engineering and security teams globally.
• Coordinated with global IT and engineering teams across regions to ensure effective and timely response to security incidents through root cause analysis efforts, identifying systemic vulnerabilities and working with.
• Commanded vulnerability management incident response efforts in conjunction with cross-team partners.
• Reduced Mean Time to Detection (MTTD) and Mean Time to Containment (MTTC) as part of continuous efforts to reduce overall Mean Time to Triage (MTTT) across all case and incident work. Highlighted various aspects of.

• Collaborated in team of cybersecurity analysts to conduct a comprehensive web application vulnerability assessment for three of the University’s IT Departments live applications using BurpSuite and additional security.
• Identified findings affecting critical university systems potentially impacting employees, faculty, students, third-party vendors, and customers.
• Developed and presented recommendations for risk mitigation and management to application owners and administrators of the UC Berkeley IT Department.
• Honored with letter of appreciation from Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of UC Berkeley.

Remote

Responsible for one-on-one instructional sessions with cybersecurity students from Trilogy Cybersecurity Bootcamps. Primarily concerned with student success in relation to the topics covered by the 24 week intensive course such as CLI and Linux administration, Kali Linux and penetration testing, cloud and physical network security implementation and best.

United States

Responsible for teaching, grading, as well as outside student support and maintenance of gitlab/github file repositories as part of the instructional team covering a wide range of topics and skills pertaining to cybersecurity for classes of over 30 students.

Los Angeles, CA

Facilitated one-on-one collaborative sessions on a variety of topics ranging from essays across all academic disciplines, to graduate school applications and personal resumes.

El Cerrito, CA, USA

Master'S Degree, Information And Cybersecurity

Relevant Coursework: Security Operations, Cryptography for Cyber and Network Security, Beyond the Code: Cybersecurity in Context, Software.

Certificate, Cybersecurity

An intensive, practical, hands-on program with a multifaceted approach to cultivating technical competency, including networking.

Bachelor'S Degree, History

Activities and Societies: Tau Sigma Honor Society, Undergraduate Writing CenterStudied History and Anthropology coursework across a wide.

Associate'S Degree, History

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa Honor SocietyStudied a variety of topics in the Social Sciences, primarily in History.

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