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Knoxville, TN, US

San Francisco, CA, US

• Deployment of endpoint security telemetry system (osquery and FleetDM) across 10k hosts
• Led vendor consolidation efforts, decreasing security tooling spend by $750,000 annually
• Redesigned Kubernetes threat detection tooling with Falco across the Fastly control plane: 12 EKS and GKE clusters, 660 nodes, and 250 production workloads.
• Led migration effort off legacy cloud security platform saving $250,000 annually
• Drove migration to new observability tooling for system monitoring, alerting, visualization, and response using Splunk, Prometheus, Alert Manager, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana. Redefined response processes resulting in.
• Wrote custom Flask API to integrate desperate vulnerability management systems. Instrumented logging and Prometheus metrics using the RED method to make service observable

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, US

• In my role I support the mission of the Y-12 National Security Complex and Pantex Plant by providing strategic guidance and systems design across many aspects of mission. I provide innovative, cutting edge, and secure.
• Architecture Review Board member: analyze proposed system architecture
• Consult with stakeholders to ensure security is built into each phase of the SDLC
• Systems design
• Develop strategic enterprise gap analysis of existing security capabilities
• Redesigning enterprise IAM/PAM/SSO strategy

Oak Ridge, TN, US

• I worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS)/Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF). I was a cyber security engineer supporting Summit, Frontier, and Titan.
• Led two incident response efforts against sophisticated and motivated threat actors
• Led federated identity management initiative: including policy, architecture, systems engineering, and software development
• Build and maintain security services: Splunk, Bro/Zeek, Nessus, osquery
• Design and deploy 100 Gbps Bro network monitoring cluster
• Deployed endpoint detection and response tool osquery

Los Alamos, NM, US

• I worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), a contractor to The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). I worked in the Office of the CIO and provided support to LANL's.
• Manage System Change Process: work with information security officers to analyze proposed changes, assess risk/vulnerabilities, and develop/recommend alternative architectures
• Develop and update Security Plans
• Security testing and evaluation
• Serve as LANL’s technical evaluator for the NNSA’s deployment of a common Archer deployment. Collaborated with DoE sites including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory, National Security.
• Serve the cyber security technical advisor on the advisory committee for LANL’s nuclear and hazardous waste tracking system

Rolla, Missouri, US

• I was the Systems Administrator at The Community Partnership (TCP), a non profit SMB. During that time I had full responsibility for all IT Operations, implemented a variety of enterprise technologies (including an.
• Implement, maintain, and support server, desktop, and network infrastructure
• Led security initiatives
• Project management
• End user support
• IT and information security training

Rolla, MO, US

• I served as the Teaching Assistant for my department's advanced networking class, IST 3321, Network Performance Design And Management.This class covers the exam objectives for the CCNA Composite (200-120) exam.
• TCP/IP
• Subnetting, VLSMs, and Supernetting
• Cisco IOS
• IP Routing: Static Routes, RIPv1/v2, OSPF, and EIGRP
• STP

US

• I consulted for Your Community Health Center (YCHC), a brand new Federally Qualified Health Center aiming to provide high quality medical care to underserved members of Phelps County, Missouri. I assisted YCHC with.
• Deploy and maintain desktop infrastructure
• Configure and maintain email services
• Information security training
• Led technical aspects of transition to managed service provider
• Served as the clinic’s technical lead on electronic medical records system implementation for initial project phases

Rolla, MO, US

• Dating back to high school, I was an undergraduate Research Assistant at Missouri S&T's Rock Mechanics and Explosives Research Center. In this time I was able to experience state of the art research in a variety of.
• Member of research teams investigating: waterjet controlled cut penetration, waterjet assisted milling, and waterjet composite cutting
• Operate and maintain PaR Systems 5 axis CNC waterjet cutting system for experimentation
• Sample processing including digital measurement and digital image analysis

Master Of Science - Ms, Cybersecurity

Master Of Science - Ms, Cybersecurity

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Information Science And Technology