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Washington, Dc, Us

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Description:- Assist Huron in compliance with CMMC 2.0 by performing gap analysis, remediation, and assessments.- Consult Huron's Federal Practice to ensure ongoing compliance with industry-standard frameworks.- Conduct enterprise risk assessments, business impact analyses, and business continuity activities for Huron. - Manage Huron’s third-party risk by conducting vendor risk assessments, audits, and questionnaires. - Ensure Huron’s adherence to regulations such as FedRAMP, CMMC, NIST 800-171, ISO27001, ISO22301, EU-US Privacy Shield, HIPAA, and Sarbanes Oxley by participating in annual updates of Huron policies.

Leesburg, Virginia, United States

Description:- Developed a recruiting system and database structure for Eighty20Collective (E20C).- Communicated and managed potential candidates for positions on Indeed and other platforms.- Reviewed applicants’ resumes and discerned if the applicant is a good match for open positions.- Screened candidates to determine eligibility for the position and overall company culture fit.- Organized and scheduled interviews between candidates and the internal E20C team.- Trained new employees and internal recruiting team on recruiting processes and procedures.- Shared E20C open jobs in different platforms and avenues to successfully reach potential hires.

Leesburg, Virginia, United States

Reston, Virginia, United States

Description:- Awarded Top Rookie CT of the Year for being one of the company's best-performing employees in 2023. - Acted as a technical point of contact between enterprise clients, partners, and business units within Darktrace.- Delivered Proof of Value engagement from end to end consisting of presentations and demonstrations.- Presented Threat Intelligence Reports, acted as a cybersecurity consultant and analyst, leveraging company products, and advised accordingly to various audiences from technical audiences to C-level executives.- Be the customer's contact and technical authority for architecture, integration, and incident response decisions.- Educated internal team on core cybersecurity, network, and security analysis to promote cybersecurity.

Reston, Virginia, United States

Dunn Loring, Virginia, United States

Description:- Configured and installed an ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) to detect threats and vulnerabilities.- Performed maintenance on the stack by archiving and removing indices to ensure proper ingest of data.- Optimized analytic capabilities by creating dashboards on Kibana, used MISP to create a threat feed to check if detected threats are legitimate, and performed audits using The Hive.- Improved AUI’s internal cyber policy, governance, and controls using various frameworks such as CMMC. - Designed workflows and automation processes using Microsoft Visio and Power Automate.- Recorded and created an eLearning course on risk management processes for NISRU and CMMC-AB 1.0.- Created and designed websites using WP Engine, Colibri, and Divi.

Description:- Won the Andrew Sage Memorial Senior Design Competition in the Cybersecurity - Communications and Networks category by unanimous decision for best paper, best project, and best presentation. - Developed a risk-scoring methodology for telecommunication companies within the FCC supply chain.- Provided FCC with formal written documentation of various policies consolidating CMMC, NIST, and CISA.- Used Python (i.e., Pandas) to ingest data from a risk assessment spreadsheet to calculate a risk score. - Created a GUI and visualization for the FCC to use to manage and review risk assessment results.

Description:- Have taught concert percussion and marching percussion to high school students. - Have performed in various percussion styles including fife & drum, indoor drumline, jazz, and gospel.- Extensive experience fixing drum hardware as well as offering tutoring sessions to students privately.- Was a guest drummer for AJ Rafael for an event sponsored by GMU APAC.

Fairfax, Va

Description:- Played drums for special events such as George Mason University’s graduation within the George Mason's Ceremonial Fife and Drum Corps.

Master Of Science - Ms, Cybersecurity

Excited to say I've been accepted into Georgia Tech's Master of Science in Cybersecurity Program with a concentration in Policy!

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Cyber Security Engineering - Minor In Data Analysis

Activities and Societies: GMU Indoor Drumline, Mason Ceremonial Fife and Drum Corps, Mason Jazz Workshop, Taiwanese Hong Konger Student.

Advanced High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society, Tri-M Music Honor Society (Vice President), Marching Band, Indoor Drumline, Jazz.