Resume

Professional Experience

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1. Lead Security Analyst

   Oct 2023 - Present

   Oregon State University

   • Acted as a tier 2 escalation path for security alerts and served as a certified incident commander for the university
   • Spearheaded major alert automation and enrichment projects, reducing our queue noise by 80%, leading to faster triage times
   • Supervised and mentored student analysts, providing training on security processes and procedures
   • Helped foster a strong cybersecurity culture across the organization through outreach events and presentations
   • Covered all Security Analyst duties as needed
2. Security Analyst

   Jun 2021 - Jun 2022 / Sep 2022 - Oct 2023

   Oregon State University

   • Performed network and endpoint monitoring using tools such as Azure Sentinel + Defender, Splunk, Zeek, and Nessus
   • Engaged in proactive threat hunting to help protect the university from emerging threats
   • Active in the incident response process by analyzing logs and performing forensics on compromised machines
   • Investigated and responded to phishing emails targeting end-users
3. Technical Intelligence Analyst Intern

   Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

   Mandiant (part of Google Cloud)

   • Analyzed, processed, and created techincal intelligence on financial crime activity
   • Wrote finished intelligence reports on various topics for customers
   • Worked on a large research project modelling clients of a popular underground bulletproof hosting service
   • Contributed to the internal tracking of threat actors, malicious infrastructure, malware samples/families, and TTPs
   • Conducted malware analysis on samples from various sources to support intelligence efforts

Activities

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1. President

   Apr 2022 - Jun 2023

   OSU Security Club

   • Led a nationally recognized cybersecurity club with over 700 members, creating new opportunities for students and in-depth cybersecurity education
   • Worked with industry partners to bring presentations and workshops to club members
   • Acted as the official club spokesperson, representing OSUSEC to the College of Engineering and other partners
   • Structured, planned, and led most general meetings
2. Lab Manager

   Mar 2021 - Apr 2022

   OSU Security Club

   • Created a mock Cyber Defense Competition (CDC) network, allowing members to practice blue teaming operations in an enterprise environment
   • Created and provided resources for learning CTFs, including deployable tooling VMs and practice ranges for hacking
   • Managed access control for OSUSEC lab services, ensuring secure operations
   • Organizer for DamCTF 2021 and 2022, focusing on forensic and OSINT themed challenges
3. Member/Coach

   Sep 2019 - Apr 2022

   OSU Security Club

   • Coached several hundred members every week in the basics of CTF through OSUSEC’s CTF League
   • Delivered presentations on open source intelligence and binary exploitation
   • Regularly attended all meetings and competed in CTF + CDC competitions

Education

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1. B.S. Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics

   Sep 2019 - Jun 2023

   Oregon State University - Summa Cum Laude

   Key Courses:

   • Cyber Attacks and Defenses, Cryptography, Digital Forensics, Computer Architecture and Assembly, Network Security, Technical Writing, Operating Systems I and II, Numerical Analysis, Computational Number Theory, Cybersecurity Operations Practicum I, II and III

   Senior Project:

   • Worked in the Oregon Research & Teaching Security Operations Center (ORTSOC), an experiential learning SOC that employs students to monitor underserved organizations' networks and defend against threats
   • Built monitoring dashboards, wrote weekly threat intelligence reports, performed benchmarking assessments, responded to incidents, and helped maintain our ELK stack infrastructure
   • Featured as a speaker in Oregon Public Broadcasting's "Think Out Loud"

Accomplishments

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