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Lynnwood, Wa, Us

Costa Mesa, Ca, Us

Taking care of my health/wellbeing.Pursuing personal aspirations.Learning new skills, keeping old skills sharp.Seeing the world, and living life.

New York, Us

• Delivered expert consultative services to CISOs, CIOs, and Risk Managers of over 30 clients to improve their cyber defense posture, from technological solutioning to security design and governance, leading to increased cyber insurance policy limits.• Developed and delivered interactive cyber tabletop exercises for cross-functional teams, simulating real-world cyber threats and enhancing incident response capabilities.• Provided cybersecurity advice and training to Resilience underwriters, brokers, and policyholders to enable more intelligent risk selection and improve loss ratios., leading to lowest claims rates in industry.• Collaborated with the Data Science team in creating machine learning models to help automate and improve cyber risk quantification efforts necessary for determining insurance limits.

New York, Ny, Us

• Developed operational threat modeling processes that analyze the firm’s ability to mitigate cyber attacks across business and technology environments.• Leveraged MITRE’s ATT&CK Framework to identify network/host/application level attacks and security issues as they relate to threats and vulnerabilities, supplemented by threat intelligence vendor sources, red team operations, SOC alerting, and the open source community.• Engaged with peer groups and information security circles across various Lines of Business (LoBs) regarding cyber threats, to address events such as intrusions, malware, unauthorized access, insider attacks, and loss of proprietary information.

Bethesda, Md, Us

• Developed strategies and scripts that probed customer's Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 storage environment for potential data spillage.• Performed penetration and exfiltration engagements against customer's Cross-Domain infrastructure using easily compromised passwords and obscuring file transfers.• Penetrated customer-premise network defense mechanisms using a variety of commercial toolkits, including Kali Linux, Cobalt Strike, and Core Impact.• Conduct internal penetration assessments from an insider threat perspective, utilizing minimal Windows resources in PowerShell, CMD, and scripts written on the fly to achieve maximal compromise in the customer domain.• Participated in collaborative "Purple Team" engagement where step-by-step attack sequences were executed with the purpose of assessing detection and incident response capabilities from defense teams at each stage of the process.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Planned and guided Computer Network Exploitation operations on foreign counterterrorism and nation-state targets of interest, focusing heavily on network scanning, enumeration, forensics, and penetration techniques against adversary computer networks.• Provided technical assessments for several well-known anonymizing networks and overall “darknet” characteristics and behaviors.• Researched and identified network- and protocol-based vulnerabilities to enable access into high priority networks.• Analyzed foreign satellite communications infrastructure, radio signal characteristics, and modem capabilities which enable adversarial communications.

Great Neck, Ny, Us

Partnered with project manager on the development of a website health check program using C++. Execute code maintenance, development and debugging on web-based SQL application programs.

Holmdel, New Jersey, Us

Collaborated closely with in-house senior engineers on multiple short-term projects surrounding communication device applications.• Independently built data spreadsheets that enabled the effective classification of devices that either passed or failed quality standards.• Documented test data and wrote analytics that determined which system configurations were sufficient for assembly and market distribution.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical/Computer Engineering

Master Of Science - Ms, Cybersecurity