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Roy, Ut, Us

Roy, Ut, Us

Pocatello, Idaho Area

• With team members built and configured infrastructure and systems that controlled Red and Blue Team exercises.• Knowledgeable and experienced with routers, physical switches, virtual switches, Hyper-V, VMWare, cluster configuration, domain configuration, Active Directory, MySQL and Windows Server 2012 R2.• Specified and added known vulnerabilities to virtual machines which were used by contestants participating in the NIATEC Invitational Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NICCDC).• Worked with various departments across Idaho State University Campus to ensure all necessary accommodations were organized prior to NICCDC.• Negotiated food pricing with local vendors to ensure competition budget was not compromised.• Ensured teams were on schedule to complete assignments with enough time to test, troubleshoot, and rectify any outstanding issues encountered prior to start of NICCDC.• Organized and managed on site Red Team throughout NICCDC to ensure competition infrastructure and network was not compromised through the enforcement of competition rules.• Engaged in weekly review of Federal Policy including but not limited to; Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA 2014), Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) standards, National Institution of Standards and Technology (NIST), SP 800-30, 800-37, NIST 800-53, 800-64, 800-80, National Initiative for Cyber Security Education (NICE) standards and Risk Management Framework (RMF).• Vulnerability Assessment Lab Team Member• Used various penetration testing tools such as Kali 2.0, NMap, Zenmap, Metasploit, Wireshark, Armitage, and Autopsy to discover vulnerabilities within internal network.• Analyzed and discussed Red Team methodologies and their purpose within the Cyber Security industry.

Chubbuck, Idaho

• Created and analyzed Splunk queries that are used on a regular bases.• Wrote risk assessments for different vendors that got approved by the CIO and Director of IT.• Heavily involved in coordinating, updating and creating the Change Control Policy, Change Control Procedure and other documents that everyone in IT at Idaho Central Credit Union uses.• Gathered research on security mitigations for Splunk, Hunk, Carbon Black Defense, EMET, and Symantec Endpoint Protection to determine the techniques they use.• Gathered and prepared IT documentation for NCUA audit.• Followed up with team members phishing threat trainings.

• Responsible for a pilot program to help improve the quality and efficiency in course support.• Receive numerous emergency and high level tasks, while completing in a timely manner.• Fix and improve hundreds of online courses by setting discussion boards, fixing links, troubleshooting student's errors, and perform key maintenance for student access to courses.• Communicate clearly to the Course Council in order to generate a complete project.

• Gained strong understanding of Oracle tables and structures. • Demonstrated complex ideas in simplified terms to over 12 students.

• Performed outstanding flexibility with my schedule to help team members.• Communicated to customers their warranty coverage. • Memorized and had a clear understanding of coverage details.• Communicated calmly and efficiently with customers to deescalate their frustrations. • Carried out detailed processes for setting up renewals for customers.• Created and set up work orders to send to contractors.• Communicated goals and ideas for my personal improvement and company improvement.

Master'S Degree, Business Administration With An Emphasis In Information Assurance

National Science Foundation Scholarship for Service recipient

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer/Information Technology Administration And Management

Activities and Societies: • Volunteered in I-Team to introduce new students to BYU-I and what we offer. • Competitive Swimmer for 3.