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Penrose, Colorado, United States

• Developed web scrapers and spiders using Selenium to perform automated data extraction, work with authentication, bypass filters, investigate IP geopricing, and mine unexplored public sources of data• Extracted Walmart, DoD Approved 8570, Consumer Reports, Google Scholar, Dell, Lenovo, HP, Raspbery Pi Foundation, S&P 500, Realtor, and Zillow data for groceries, products, appliances, equipment, specifications, standards, research papers, economic habits, and properties analysis•… Show more • Developed web scrapers and spiders using Selenium to perform automated data extraction, work with authentication, bypass filters, investigate IP geopricing, and mine unexplored public sources of data• Extracted Walmart, DoD Approved 8570, Consumer Reports, Google Scholar, Dell, Lenovo, HP, Raspbery Pi Foundation, S&P 500, Realtor, and Zillow data for groceries, products, appliances, equipment, specifications, standards, research papers, economic habits, and properties analysis• Performed full stack development to create a web application (A) for restaurants and volunteer organizations to scrape data fresh data from Walmart and competitors, such as Kroger and Target, build a list from eligible products, blacklist products, determine the average and median prices of products in different categories• Performed full stack development to create a web application (B) for students, instructors, advisors, and other Cyber Security professionals, allowing for analysis of the DoD Approved 8570, baseline certifications in Cyber Security, which includes the prices, versions, and the average number of positions eligible with a certification, along with the value of a certification by dividing the cost of the cert by its total cost of time and money• Performed full stack development to create a web application (C) for nieghbors, mentors, students, and other friends and family to analyze Consumer Reports data on appliances, optionally removes survey bias columns, allows for different selections of filters, to be applied to the data in python from within the DataFrame, to then sort, or aggregate the value of each make and model of appliance type based on user requirements (noise, number of RPMs, and cost) Show less

Pueblo, Colorado, United States

• Received a Commitment to Excellence Award (May 2023)• Achieved improvements in student enrollment of the joint program pathways, after two years of teaching, advising, and coordinating, recognized an increase of 33% for Fall, and 12% for Spring• Taught classes in-person, virtual synchronously, and virtual asynchronously• Classes included Database Management Systems (teaching SQL, MySQL, forward and reverse engineering, views, stored procedures, and introductory analytics), Cyber… Show more • Received a Commitment to Excellence Award (May 2023)• Achieved improvements in student enrollment of the joint program pathways, after two years of teaching, advising, and coordinating, recognized an increase of 33% for Fall, and 12% for Spring• Taught classes in-person, virtual synchronously, and virtual asynchronously• Classes included Database Management Systems (teaching SQL, MySQL, forward and reverse engineering, views, stored procedures, and introductory analytics), Cyber Security and Defense, Network Systems Administration, Computer Forensics, Linux Fundamentals, and IT Security Risk Management• Assisted in the coordination of the Arapahoe Community College (Sturm Collaboration Campus) joint program• Served as the CSU Pueblo full-time student advisor during the Summer and Fall breaks• Designed, developed, and maintained a FERPA compliant, joint information system using XAMPP, PHP, and MySQL, comprised of 185 webpages, 40 tables, and over 100 student records in my spare time, to streamline my advising role• This joint information systems performed data analysis, visualizations, and reports on over a dozen KPIs instantly, including admission statuses, registration statuses, class occupancy/vacancy counts, student withdraw risk levels (based on number of obstacles/steps to complete), and stored key notes on specific student situations for student to advisor migrations with retention of personalized service• Communicated and collaborated in speeches, presentations, marketing campaigns, CIS Faculty, CIS Board, and Joint meetings• Included labs for Structured Query Language Injection (SQLi), Cross Site Scripting (XSS), alternate web application security, backup methods, write-protection, compression, and encryption• Chaired the Search and Screen Committee for the replacement Transfer Advisor, assisted in the training of the new instructor for all of my classes Show less

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Assisted in the creation of a database for analysis of unsolicited calls to consumers• Preprocessed the data for future data science operations• Developed tools to correct errors in large datasets• Made use of Python, SQL, and Microsoft SQL Server• Migrated all programs, documentation, and provided detailed workflows to transition the project

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computer Science

6 Credits toward a PhD in Computer Science & Research.

Master'S Degree, Information Systems And Assurance

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Information Systems

Associate'S Degree, General Studies

Obtained my degree through the Colorado Reverse Transfer program in August of 2019.

High School Diploma, General Studies