Seth Benson Email & Phone Number

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.

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.

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.