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Baltimore, Md, Us

• Organization’s first IT staff, built secure infrastructure and improved organizational security posture after a major cyberattack.• Zero successful cyberattacks during tenure.• Oversee a department of 5 staff.• Serve on Leadership Team, assisting in organization quadrupling in size.• Manage a $600,000 budget.• Moved the entire organization on to the Okta identity and access management platform, configuring SAML SSO and SCIM account provisioning.• Designed and wrote a zero-trust key management application for encrypting Salesforce data, protecting information of thousands of patients.• Perform secure code review and fix vulnerabilities in vendor-provided custom code.• Build and maintain custom microservices, automations, and website plugins.• Maintain an infrastructure-as-code approach by keeping all server and application configurations in Ansible playbooks and Git version control.• Keep servers and websites online in the face of significantly increased traffic and cyberattacks, including after the overturn of Roe v. Wade.• Converted Wordpress website to a CDN-hosted static site architecture, reducing our public-facing attack surface and ensuring global availability and uptime.• Train dozens of staff and board members on digital security best practices and phishing awareness.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Led security assessments of enterprise software for client companies, including vulnerability discovery, reverse engineering, proof-of-concept exploit development, report writing, and customer interfacing.• Created internal presentations and software reverse engineering challenges for peer and junior analysts.• Published blog posts on various security topics for both technical and general audiences.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Led penetration tests for clients in a variety of industries, including finance, aerospace engineering, and satellite communications.• Performed application security assessments for web apps, security appliances, and desktop and server software.• Researched advanced malware techniques and built custom tools and rootkits for use on penetration testing engagements.• Wrote driver software for a quantum random number generator developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Core developer on the Commotion Wireless Project mesh networking platform.• Designed and wrote low-level networking and router management software in C, including APIs and foreign function interface language bindings.• Led the team's research on mobile GSM integration with IP-based mesh networking.• Trained and worked with communities domestically and outside the U.S. to build and maintain neighborhood-scale wireless networks.• Published articles and presented at conferences domestically and internationally to audiences with varying levels of technical expertise.• Consulted with policy team to draft recommendations related to E.U. privacy initiatives and the Wassenaar Arrangement on export controls of dual-use technologies.

Master Of Science - Ms, Women'S And Gender Studies

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Physics