CV
Experience
Responsibilities include maintaining the web presence, and submitting results and updates in a timely fashion. Primary timing system operator with in-depth understanding of multiple industry leading sports timing systems.
- Hosted using Oracle Linux 8.7 on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Website is maintained using DevOps approach utilizing GitLab CI
- Ability to focus when accurate decisions are required in high pressure situations
- Over 15 years experience timing USA Swimming competitions
- Regularly travel across the state and country to run events and provide training
Contract Position. Responsible for Linux system auditing, penetration testing, hardening, as well as various forms of evaluation to effectively secure system operation and align with industry standards, while striving to maintain maximum efficiency and performance.
- Leveraged Ansible to align client servers with industry starndard security baselines (CIS)
- Delivered reliable assessment data to clients with no impact to business operation
- Improved security assessment scores by more than double, from 34% to >80% passing
Responsible for assessing and resolving medical instrument interface issues for post-live (production) clients. Primarily this involved configuration of c applications in Unix environments. Frequently provided training to the broader SCC support teams, and would work with newly hired employees in training capacity within the Interfaces department.
- Supported critical Unix/Linux applications
- Recognized as a Subject Matter Expert for medical instrument interfaces
- Ability to work well with backend developers to quickly isolate and identify bugs
Education
3.8
- CGS2811 - Incident Response & Disaster Recovery
- CIS1358 - Operating System Security
- CIS2352 - Ethical Hacking
- CIS3083 - Cloud Computing Foundations
- CIS3661 - Security Architectures
- CIS4200 - Security Penetration Testing
- CIS4219 - Human Aspects of Cyber Security
- CIS4253 - Ethics for Information Technology
- CIS4776 - Cyber Warfare
- CTS1314 - Network Defense/Countermeasures
- CTS4124 - Threat Detection and Mitigation
- CNT3421 - Securing the Cloud
- ISM4321 - Strategic Cybersecurity Enforcement
- ISM4323 - Security Essentials
- ISM4329 - Incident Investigation and Forensics
- ISM4330 - Information Security Policy Administration & Management
- ISM4573 - Compliance and Data Governance
3.0
Volunteering
USA Swimming is the governing body of the sport of Swimming in the USA.
- Regularly trains officials seeking advancement/promotion
Awards
Placed 186th out of 6021 players in the 2022 Fall National Cyber League individual game.
Placed 184th out of 6021 players in the 2022 Spring National Cyber League individual game.
Certificates
Skills
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Linux System Administration (Master)
OpenZFS, BTRFS, RAID, Custom Kernel, Shell Scripting, Automation, Security, RHEL, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Slackware, Alpine, Gentoo, NixOS
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Cyber Security Engineering (Proficient)
TLS, IAM, PKI, PGP, GNUPG, Server, Endpoint, Network, BlueTeam, Assessment, Alignment, Monitoring, AlienVault, Wazuh, OSSEC, SCAP Profiles, RedTeam, Nessus, Metasploit, OWASP Zap, SecurityOnion, Kali
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Network Engineering (Competent)
OSI Layers, Subnetting, Routing, Switching, TCP/IP, BGP, STP, pfsense, OPNSense, Security
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DevOps Administration (Competent)
Git, Automation, Containerization, Rootless, Docker, Podman, k3s, CI/CD, GitLab, Ansible, Helm, Security
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Programming (Journeyman)
Python, JavaScript, Java, PHP, C#, Shell Scripting
Languages
- English — Native speaker
Interests
References
Projects
- Sophisticated Network design utilizing OPNSense firewall and network segmentation/isolation
- Currently exists as a cloud-hybrid design with NAS and several RaspberryPi4 on an overlay network with several cloud servers hosted at OCI
- Previously consisted of a Docker swarm cluster running on 6 RaspberryPi 4 B boards, powered thru PoE
- Previously consisted of two Dell PowerEdge R710 2U servers and spare PCs
Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Proxmox, FreeBSD, OPNSense, Containers, Docker, Podman, k3s, WebApp Services, ELK Stack, WAZUH
- Globally accessible private infrastructure designed for cost effectiveness and scalability
- Built using primarily Open Source software and technologies
- Seamless integration of endpoints, servers, and security controls that work in concert to deliver a host of resiliant services
Hybrid Cloud, Oracle Linux 8, DevOps, Web Hosting, GitLab, TailScale, Matrix
- Hosting federated services for the public for nearly a year
- Built an extensive infrastructure
- Re-organized and re-secured infrastructure as needs demand
Mastodon, Matrix, Fediverse