- IT professional passionate about security, software development, and system administration.
- Self taught skill seeker with broad technical expertise enhanced by advanced business education.
- Major accomplishments include leading technical side of a security risk assessment for a global, multimillion-dollar corporation, developing algorithms modeling flight computers on active NASA spacecraft, and modernization of processes used to control workstations in an academic lab setting.
University of Texas — San AntonioMay 2014
Masters of Science in Information Technology
4.0 GPA
University of ArizonaMay 2012
Bachelors of Science in Computer Science With Honors
Minor in Mathematics, 3.8 GPA
Education
Senior Manager, Security EngineeringApril 2022 – present
Manager, Security EngineeringJuly 2019 – April 2022
Senior Security EngineerJuly 2018 – July 2019
Security EngineerAugust 2015 – July 2018
Amazon Web Services (Herndon, VA)
Software Development AnalystMay 2013 – August 2015
Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, TX)
– Developed Java/Oracle web applications to support NASA/ESA missions and space science projects.
– Participated in entire software development life cycle from requirements through testing.
– Provided installation and maintenance support for 30+ internal physical and virtual servers.
Security Software/Ops EngineerDecember 2014 – April 2015
Definitive Data Security
– Designed and managed AWS-based infrastructure to support data protection product.
– Created and performed automated application load testing using Azure.
– Maintained internal support systems, including project management.
– Wrote product integration with industry-leading forensics software.
Experience
- Programming Languages: Java (4 yrs), C#, C
- Scripting Languages: Bash, PowerShell
- Web Frameworks: PHP (5 yrs), Java EE, ASP.NET
- Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX
- Database Systems: Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, MongoDB
- System Administration: CentOS 6/7, Solaris 10
- Application Security: Injection, XSS, CSRF, Hashing, CORS
- Web Services: SOAP, REST
- Network Protocols: IP, TCP, UDP, HTTP, DNS
- Development Tools: Eclipse, SVN, Git, Gradle
- Network Security: Software firewalls, packet analysis, vulnerability assessments
- Amazon Web Services: EC2, VPC, Route 53, ELB, S3, EBS, Glacier, CloudFront, SES
Skills
Cost Modeling in Scientific Cloud-based Computing
Advisor: John Hartman, University of Arizona
– Focused on the cost-time trade-off of storing/transferring scientific data across clouds.
– Partnered with iPlant Collaborative to understand methods to optimize cloud storage and computations.
A Field Guide for the Science of Computation
PI: Richard T. Snodgrass, University of Arizona
– Created interactive lab activities on CS theory for high school students. Lab activity produced focused on queuing theory.
– Worked in a team to design and program a real-time queuing theory simulation in Java.
Research
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