Rachel Smith Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON, CA

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Developing the cross-team “Dark Space” project to locate scanners and threats on the web
• Developed enhancements for a ML-based phishing URL algorithm using Python
• Designed, developed, and modified XSOAR automation playbooks to increase reliability and vulnerability management
• Leading threat intelligence research activities, publishing bulletins, and providing response plans for emerging threats, directly responsible for TELUS’ largest security client. Supervising the work of 4 security.
• Leading vulnerability management programs for all TELUS Corporate applications and subsidiaries. Performing analysis, risk scoring, and patch planning

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Founder of the Be Safe team at TELUS, with two main goals: first, educating all team members on what domestic violence is, and what to do if they, or a friend, experiences it. Secondly, the team works to increase.
• Managed a virtual team of 12 members, creating and hosting multiple events to fulfill our mission statement, with over 800 registrants.
• Working with executive leadership to ensure resources are abundant for anyone who needs them.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Designed and implemented ML feature extraction component to capture network phishing traffic by detecting phishing URLs, using Python
• Implemented new ML features into a big-data pipeline (hundreds of thousands of events per second) using Apache Spark & Python
• Designed and developed a bad-block IP classification system that is capable of processing 5000 IPs in 1 minute, using Python
• Primed a chapter of Connections, TELUS's Women's resource group. Responsible for leading a team of 5, hosting events, mentorship, driving inclusivity and success for women at all levels, and ensuring women retention

Queen’s University

• Directed a team of 20+ individuals to drive Science Day for elementary school girls to promote women in STEM.

Queen’s University

Queen’s University

• Creating and leading workshops for elementary school girls, teaching them how to code.

Cayuga, Ontario, Canada

• Lead developer, building a new intranet. The intranet hosted a knowledgebase, news, events calendar, forms, and information.

• Launched and managed a new lock down policy on company mobile devices for increased security. Managing over 100 devices.
• Primed and developed new training program for all employees on Microsoft Office products.

Caledonia, ON