Curran C. Higgins Email & Phone Number

Oak Brook, Illinois, United States

Spokane, Washington Area

Lead API / Middle Tier developer managing over 30 services that are utilized on schedule / on demand to generate various outputs and complete various tasks. Architect and implement customizable and configurable services for school districts across the United States. Developed full stack applications using Angular, C# ASP.NET, Transact-SQL and Amazon Web Services (S3/Elasticache/Pinpoint/SNS). Take management and leadership roles in cybersecurity and configuration teams to design cybersecurity awareness programs and incident response plans (guided by NIST CSF and CSC8), analyze vulnerability assessments, communicate threats and security goals to stakeholders, and collaborate with other teams on secure code reviews and planning big-picture projects. Manage a team of 7-10 software engineers to connect our rapid agile development workflow with business goals. I typically offer guidance on a weekly basis, help plan solutions for complex problems, and reallocating resources based on customer needs and team member availability.

Spokane, Washington Area

Collaborated with lead developers daily to develop single page web applications that interface with Student Information Systems (Synergy, Skyward) to provide thousands of educators with insights of hundreds of thousands of students; Optimized code to better scale systems and improve user experience; Lead a documentation effort to reduce knowledge silos via Confluence and facilitated quality assurance with end-to-end testing using Selenium; Established CI/CD with Jenkins, AWS Code Deploy, Bitbucket Pipelines, and Ansible; Conducted authorized penetration tests against the company and responded to security incidents within school districts.

I have volunteered at multiple high schools since 2012 to educate students about cyber security and prepare them to compete on a blue team. During this time, I have assisted approximately 200 students with threat intelligence, network security, incident response, vulnerability management, and security awareness.In 2015, I received the Career and Technical Education Recognition award for leading students toward STEM careers and teaching them about cyber defense.

Spokane, Washington Area

Started a business whose goal was to provide functional web applications to users on a budget. Most of the work was volunteer work for public institutions and schools, including: East Region EMS & Trauma Care Council, Joel E. Ferris High School, and Friends of Ferris.Some of the paid projects included work for a video production company and making a custom blog for a poet (custom CMS from the ground up).

Started an organization called ExploitNation that was a community dedicated to advancing knowledge surrounding hacking and cyber security. Our community focused on learning together and publishing papers to PacketStorm Security, before we rebranded and created HaxMe in 2009. One of the community's core accomplishments was building a tool called Hackers Toolkit, which was a GUI for an offensive penetration testing framework.After rebranding to HaxMe, we focused on training users how to recognize and defend against common web application vulnerabilities and insecure coding practices (OWASP Top 10). Users gained access to a "hands on" training environment where they could see the vulnerabilities first-hand, exploit them, and learn how to patch them and prevent such attacks in the future. We turned this into a community of hackers and cyber security enthusiasts who built an informational network and helped one another learn.Hosted bulletin boards and IRC servers that housed thousands of active members and 100,000 unique posts over its time. Many posts were converted to publications hosted on Packet Storm Security.

E 8Th Ave & S Custer Rd, Spokane Valley, Wa 99212

Technical support internship for Spokane Public Schools. Setup close to 1,000 desktop computers, 20 computer labs, and successfully imaged all the systems with ghost casting and setting up security software. Created a master image with the appropriate applications, software configurations, and security policies and then casted clones to other computers on the network using Norton Ghost.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, 3.89/4.00

Activities and Societies: ACM programming competition, Cyber Security Club- Magna cum laude - Computer Science department outstanding.

Associate'S Degree