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Custom manufacturing and research company specializing in high stress mechanical systems, custom robotic platforms, autonomous systems, commercial drone technology, and high performance automotive equipment.

Supporting the Chief Executive I am responsible for full system administrative duties across both internal and external networks. This includes: managing all internal and external systems; designing and building new systems; organising downtime, repairs & maintenance; providing input into key business decisions; full development of new tools & software; assuring network security; full scale cyber security services for both the company networks & client networks. My role occasionally requires me to fly to Baltimore, MD in the event of an emergency or for onsite work at a client’s location.My role also includes business duties and custom development. I have assisted in business strategies, press releases and interviews with well renowned media companies. At my time here I have designed and built custom cyber offensive drones with varying payloads. Many of these have had the capabilities of autonomous flight and swarm characteristics. Key achievements include…• Custom developed a CentOS based operating system for the LuciuOS Malware Development Framework;• Custom developed cyber offensive drone technology;• Complete network migration to a new office complex with minimal downtime;• Public relations through presentations, investor pitches and news interviews;• Management of multiple firewall networks using Palo Alto, ZyZel, PFsense & Sophos;• Given full budget control and responsibility over specific projects, all of which I have delivered on time and to budget;• Maintaining and optimizing open source software used by EduArmor.

Student at the South Dakota School of Mines, emphasizing research in the robotics, and embedded systems fields. Developing technologies, and experimenting in the field of robotics at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Areas of work include designing of the electrical system, mechanical system, and programing.

While at BHIS I worked on in house development for research projects and customer systems. During my full time employment I was traveling a fair amount of my time to do assessments on site at customer locations at times being the sole representative of BHIS. Key activities I performed at BHIS included:• Both intrusive and non-intrusive reconnaissance on client networks;• Internal network penetration tests & internal network pivot assessments;• External network penetration tests on clients public facing systems;• Wireless penetration tests of clients networks assessing rogue access points &overall security;• Web application penetration testing using automated tools & manual testing;• Command and Control & Data Exfiltration assessments testing systems for malwaredetection and exfiltration detection of sensitive company information;• Physical penetration testing of client’s facilities through social engineering,technology exploitation, and brute force;• Maintaining and upgrading open source software like ReconNG to supportmultithreading.