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Jupiter, Fl, Us

Jupiter, Fl, Us

New York , Ny, Us

Specialty: Endpoint Security, Security Automation● Develop and maintain SOAR automation playbooks, achieving an annual ROI of $180,000+ by automating 2,300+ work hours.● Evaluate and prioritize MITRE tactics, techniques, and procedures to engineer adequate EDR and SIEM controls and procedures.● Oversee the complete lifecycle management, including deployment, configuration, maintenance, and optimization of EDR technology across 25,000 endpoints, ensuring maximum protection and efficiency.● Collaborate with security operations, vulnerability management, governance, and architecture teams to identify risks and execute comprehensive strategies for risk mitigation.● Coordinate with management to operationalize Agile-based project management via Jira and Jira Align.● Implemented a secrets management automation process for Bitbucket, remediating 99% of secrets detected within 30 days, saving an estimated 150 hours on average per year.● Presented a research-based technical and cost-benefit analysis of the top EDR vendors in the market to security executive leadership.

New York , Ny, Us

● Built automated workflows for endpoint security agent health monitoring and remediation, averaging a cost avoidance amount of $47,500, saving 1600 hours per year.● Standardized a threat intelligence process, streamlining how IOC data is processed into network and host defensive controls.● Lead troubleshooting efforts toward optimizing EDR configuration for critical Windows and Linux applications.● Established executive-level SIEM dashboards to monitor cyber threat activity in the following domains: endpoint security, email security, and identity security.

New York , Ny, Us

● Implemented a Splunk solution to reduce false-positive DLP alerts by 56%, saving 1080 working hours per year, equating to an average annual cost avoidance of $19,500.● Performed quality assurance of network and host-based attack response procedures, identifying gaps to implementing improvements.● Utilized SIEM, EDR, WAF, and web proxy solutions to investigate data exfiltration, malicious traffic, and malware executions.

Fairfield, Ct, Us

Course: Cybersecurity Explorations● Assisted the professor in developing and instructing weekly course modules.● Provided guidance to students relating to career development, presentation skills, course material, and hands-on labs.

Fairfield, Ct, Us

● Developed and coordinated operational procedures for a residential area consisting of over 300 residents and five buildings.● Co-led the Spring and Winter training of over 100 Resident Success Assistants through presentations, workshops, and mentorship.● Managed the weekly work schedule for eleven staff members.

Fairfield, Ct, Us

● Collaborated with the not-for-profit organization, Protect Our Power to submit a paper outlining best distributed denial-of-service defensive practices and a comparative analysis of top DDoS vendor solutions for electrical critical infrastructure in the United States.

Fairfield, Ct, Us

● Managed administrative duties including program planning and implementation, incident reports, duty logs, documenting violations in University or Residential Life policy.● Counseled and providing individual support to over 60 sophomore residential students involving academic concerns, residential needs, campus involvement and resources, and independent living adjustments. ● Implemented residential programs addressing social media and job searching, extracurricular involvement, beneficial sleep habits, and cybersecurity awareness.

Fairfield, Ct, Us

● Assisted cybersecurity first-year students with their integration into campus involvement, academics, and course planning.● Served as a liaison between freshman undergraduate students and the Undergraduate Director of Cybersecurity.

New York , Ny, Us

● Determined the capabilities and drafted remediation workflows for endpoint security with Trend Micro and Symantec products.● Investigated security events from data loss prevention, endpoint security, and endpoint intrusion technologies.● Conducted initial event discovery, triage, and response as per standard operating procedures.

Columbia, Maryland, Us

● Assessed MQTT and AMQP IoT protocols and their capabilities through one-way, hardware-enforced environments.● Improved engineering prototypes into functional proof of concepts for customers, presented such ideas at SANSFIRE 2019.● Wrote detailed documentation in support of the execution, replicability, and scalability of technical proof of concepts.