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San Francisco, California, US

• Serve as a key intelligence liaison to Threat Detection and Data Science, Offensive Security, Threat and Vulnerability Management, GRC, and Enterprise Security
• Lead in building Salesforce's strategic and tactical Top Threats program, including analysis and tracking of threats, collections of metrics, prioritization of detection and response efforts across the company
• Perform executive-facing threat intelligence assessments to inform and guide security planning efforts

San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

• Engaging in the intelligence processing and dissemination of threat information after reviewing incidents and alerts to identify tactics, techniques, and procedures used by adversaries.
• Partaking in collaborative efforts to dig through networks and system data with the help of research, data analytics, and forensic skills to hunt for breadcrumbs indicating potential malicious activity.

West Lafayette, IN, US

• Spring 2019: Vulnerability Analysis and Penetration Testing
• Assisted in creating and conducting an undergraduate lab course focused on developing penetration testing competencies among undergraduates
• Topics taught included information gathering and reconnaissance, wireless pen testing, web app hacking, vulnerability exploitation in Windows and Linux, and others. Fall 2018: Research Methods in Cybersecurity
• Developed and taught an undergraduate course on Research Methods in Cybersecurity
• Assessed peer-reviewed and industry-supported offensive and defensive methodologies and created activities to help students conduct scientific research studies

San Francisco, California, US

• Reviewed incidents and alerts to identify tactics, techniques, and procedures used by adversaries and developed a Python-based paste scraper to help with information gathering.
• Collaborated with professionals to identify potential malicious activity on internal and customer networks and systems through research, data analytics, and forensic skills.

West Lafayette, IN, US

• Collaborated with Dr. Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar, Professor Raymond Hansen, Dr. Marcus Rogers, Dr. Baijian Yang, and Dr. John Springer on a project funded by the National Institute of Justice.
• The research project involved the development of a toolkit for selective analysis and reconstruction of digital information in large-scale computer network environments.

• Worked in alliance with LPD detectives to assist in active investigations involving cybercrime and those involving digital evidence in the form of as mobile devices, laptops, and other electronic media.
• Assisted in creating reports to submit to the judicial system, as well as in researching advancements to digital forensic tools to benefit law enforcement.

West Lafayette, IN, US

• Worked alongside Dr. Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar, Dr. Marcus Rogers, and a fellow student to conduct a meta-analysis on hacker personality profiles to identify traits unique to the hacker subgroup.
• The research project included the collection of data, performing data entry, creating coding schemes, performing statistical analysis, and writing a formal research paper.

Worldwide, OO

• Partnered with some of the firm’s leading technology clients to design and implement business-aligned vulnerability management solutions that integrate security into their processes.
• Concepts used include web application security, system and software vulnerabilities, and establishing cyber crisis management capabilities

West Lafayette, IN, US

• Cooperated with the program directors and lead 6 counselors in order to create the GenCyber Cybersecurity Camp at Purdue University for 40 leading high school students.
• Helped faculty at Purdue teach concepts and practical applications of Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity.

• Formulated a business marketing plan alongside three other student consultants and the owner of the financial planning company.
• The consulting project includes selecting and analyzing an optimal target market, performing primary and secondary data discovery and developing implementable marketing recommendations.

West Lafayette, IN, US

• Worked with Prof. Melissa Dark, a technical director from Oakridge National Labs and two graduate students from Northeastern University to analyze cyber security problems with the internet of things.
• The project included enumerating detectable Wi-Fi based attacks, developing an automated detection method and creating a monolithic physical device that will signal the presence of the attack

Master’S Degree, Cyberforensics And Information Security

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science And Information Technology