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St Paul, Mn, Us

3M is a global leader in innovation, research and development, and manufacturing across dozens of product categories and thousands of solutions.I work on the offensive security team at 3M currently rebuilding processes related to penetration testing, red teaming, and security control validation.

St Paul, Mn, Us

In this role, I was an Engineer in the Attack Surface Reduction team. I owned the Vulnerability Discovery process and technology across the enterprise.Key Achievements:- Maintained enterprise scale Tenable environment solo for 8 months without a significant degradation in services. - Built out an internal knowledge repository to assist in on-boarding new resources.- Utilized data collected by the ASR team to bring new metrics and KPIs to drive prioritization of discovery and remediation initiatives.- Facilitated automated scanning process of migrating Infrastructure and 500+ Web Applications from on-prem datacenters to Amazon Web Services with 100% coverage of in-scope assets.- Implemented and operationalized a proof of concept container security program and processes to achieve MLPS compliance requirements to 100% of in-scope containers hosted in Azure China environment.- Conducted interviews and provided feedback on job candidates for the Attack Surface Reduction Team Manager position.- Managed a Summer Intern providing work direction, technical and career guidance, accountability, and provided feedback to ensure a smooth transition into a career in information security.- Mentored 3 Summer Interns providing growth opportunities, sharing previous experiences, and helping align their goals to positions within 3M.

St Paul, Mn, Us

I was an Intern in 2020 participating in the first remote internship class within 3M. I was working on projects alongside mentors from the Network Vulnerability Assessments Team, learned about other teams within IT Security, what they do, and how they function to help me align with a team if I were to join the company full time.Projects Include:- Laying the foundation for an inventory registry to kickstart External Attack Surface Management efforts- Identified and profiled unscanned assets, wrote automation to scan 15% of missed assets, implemented the change within standard processes to continually scan formerly missed assets.

St Cloud, Minnesota, Us

In this role, I served as one of the student leaders within St. Cloud State University's Helpdesk. We were tasked with overall management of day-to-day activities, systems maintenance across campus computer labs, training and development, and hiring. Key Accomplishments:- Interviewed, hired, and trained ~20 student workers. 4 of which went on to leadership roles within the organization either alongside me, or after I departed. - Assisted on the implementation of dashboards with status of campus workstations in computer labs across campus.

St Cloud, Minnesota, Us

In this role, I was responsible for leading the training and development of the Level 1 and Level 2 technicians, triaging, escalating, and solving more complex queries that entered into the helpdesk queue, and serving as the shift lead for shifts in which there was an absence of Lead Technicians.Key Accomplishments:- Overhauling training program for a more effective on boarding process. Reduced training time by 2 weeks, and saw a 15% reduction in additional after-the-fact training required to onboard technicians.- Re-organized and re-worded the knowledge base to reduce queries from Level 1 and Level 2 to leadership on how to perform tasks by 30% through more clear and effective communication.

St Cloud, Minnesota, Us

In this role, I took on ownership of moderate difficulty tickets in the helpdesk queue, opened campus computer labs, and expanded skillsets to ready myself for a leadership role.Key Accomplishments:- Fastest lab opening time out of the morning technicians. Finishing opening the 8 computer labs in about 40 minutes with a par time of about 65 minutes.- Lowest Mean Time to Resolution out of my cohort of 25 other helpdesk workers.

St Cloud, Minnesota, Us

In this role, I triaged tickets that came into the helpdesk queue, escalated where necessary, and resolved basic tickets such as password resets, and re-installation of software.Key Accomplishments:- Fastest promotion from Level 1 technician to Level 2 technician in organization history - 2 months.

St Paul, Mn, Us

In this role, I was working on implementation and maintenance of Cisco ASA and ISA firewalls within a manufacturing context, assisted with testing, design, and implementation of a new AAA infrastructure, assisted with piloting usage of Cisco Defense Orchestrator and FirePOWER devices.Key Accomplishments:- Assisted in the pilot of using Cisco FTD devices with Defense Orchestrator.- Winner of the Level Up! Award for the 3M Hackathon.- Worked with manufacturing and plant engineering to implement CPwE in one of the manufacturing plants.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

In this role, I was charged with ensuring swift and accurate product scanning and bagging services, pitching Target's REDCard to potential cardholders, and ensuring a high-quality customer service to all guests.Key Accomplishments:- Successfully cross trained in nearly every non-managerial role in the store: Cashier, Guest Services, Produce, Dairy, Grocery, Sales Floor, Electronics, and Cart Attendant.- Took on front end leadership position when Team Lead's were unavailable.- Top REDCard salesperson for 2 months.- 2 time employee appreciation award winner (store level).

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Cybersecurity

Associate’S Degree, Computer Networking And Telecommunications

High School, General Studies, Business