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Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

• Responsible for architecting, engineering, and administrating multiple Splunk SOAR clusters in a Secure FIPS compliant environment, as well as developing Splunk SOAR playbooks, apps, CICD pipelines, and administration.
• Created novel Splunk SOAR App development practices to that enables faster creation of fault resistant, highly scalable, and performant Splunk SOAR Apps that allows for rapid custom integrations in Splunk SOAR, meeting.
• Developed Splunk SOAR CICD content pipelines that allow for rapid development and deployment of new content and content updates to Splunk SOAR Playbooks, Apps, Custom Apps, Modified Apps, and custom administrative tools.
• Created custom administration troubleshooting command line tool to enable complete visibility and querying into Splunk SOAR servers and multiple cluster nodes log event timeline without the need for external.
• Deployed, debugged, and troubleshoot Splunk SOAR instances and clusters.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

• Responsible for compliance and vulnerability management on mission critical systems in use at Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station (CMSFS) through the technical engineering, development, and deployment of Assured.
• Developed a secure and robust Tenable.sc PowerShell module to allow for enhanced administration, reporting, as well automation capabilities in ACAS, allowing for quicker and more customizable reporting and analysis of.
• Led a comprehensive vulnerability scanning and risk assessment of multiple networks using Nessus Scanner and Tenable SecurityCenter to meet major program deliverables.
• Led the creation of ACAS Software Implementation Plan (SWIP), Quick response Guides, and internal best practices for ACAS deployments and implementation of said documents in CMSFS.
• Developed and led troubleshooting methodology successfully in the deployment of ACAS to CMSFS, allowing the team to meet project deadlines aligning with customer needs.
• Partnered with other engineers to provide technical 48 hours of ACAS training to Vandenburg SFB NISSC II personnel on ACAS architecture, deployment, configuration, and operations as well as Tenable, Government.

• Deploy/sustain/troubleshoot/repair $2.8M RF Transmission Equipment; performs maintenance activities—ensures equipment is Fully Mission Capable (FMC).
• Automated network configurations using PowerShell, reducing network downtime by at least 85% and at most 95%, assisting in providing customers with essential services for operations.
• Operates/sustains TDC iDirect SATCOM link; facilitates network vulnerability patching and supports the training of 100+ Personnel.
• Maintained control of Lorain Correctional Institution to maintain safety & Security of $35 million in assets, inmates, staff, and the general public by enforcing rules, regulations, policies, and procedures as part of.

Ohio, United States

• Automated Vulnerability Management reporting process using PowerShell, saving 20 hours a month, and allowing for supervisors and stakeholders to make timely security decisions based on the information provided.
• Responded to Log4J vulnerabilities across the organization by locating the sources of vulnerabilities and preforming emergency patching or compensating measures securing the Organization from possible threats.
• Assisted with the integration of Cisco Stealthwatch into Splunk which allowed for greater insight into the current status of the network by centralizing all alerts.
• Reorganized Cisco Stealthwatch groups using SolarWinds IPAM to allowing for an accurate location of alerts.

Akron, Ohio, United States

• Preformed and assisted with monitoring, detection, and mitigation of cyber security events for the UA network, assets, and resources though vulnerability scanning and reporting.
• Utilized PowerShell to administrate and automate Windows Servers 2016/2019, Microsoft Teams, and Azure.

United States

• Triaged over 2000 SIEM and EDR events, securing the organizations network from scanning, phishing, malware, and automating responses to common SIEM and EDR events.
• Created and tuned over 100 SIEM and EDR use cases, allowing for greater visibility over a wide range of possible attacks, mitigating organizational risk.
• Utilized SIEM REST APIs and Python for automated maintenance and threat intelligence integrations, bringing time spent with investigating SIEM events down by 90%, saving the organization 50 hours of manpower per week.
• Researched novel attacks by threat actors to then proactively hunt for said threats in SIEM and EDR, ensuring organizational security is up-to-date.
• Managed SIEM log sources to keep the organization of alert locations current, ensuring alerts are properly triaged.
• Assisted in the maintenance and patching using DISA STIGs for classified systems and equipment in a SCIF to ensure its secure and operational.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Cybersecurity And Information Assurance, Gpa: 3.35

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Cis: Cyber Security (Some Education), Gpa: 3.25