I am an IT and Cybersecurity practitioner focused on system security, network operations, and cloud defense. I pair an academic foundation with real-world hands-on lab environments to solve practical infrastructure and security challenges.
Objective Entry-level IT, SOC Analyst, Junior Pentester, or Cloud Security roles
Core Focus
Network Operations, System Administration, Cloud Security & Pentesting
My Practioner Approach
Continuous hands-on labs and practical infrastructure engineering. Continuously honing skills through active lab environments and custom infrastructure builds
Industry Certifications
- GIAC Foundational Cybersecurity Technologies (GFACT) — SANS
- GIAC Cloud Security Essentials (GCLD) — SANS
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Post-secondary Education
- B.S. Information Systems and Technology, Cybersecurity
- A.S. Cyber Defense
AWS Hacking Documentation | Contains hands-on experience and technical writeups covering cloud security challenges across Cybr, Pwned Labs, and Hack Smarter platforms. Highlights misconfiguration detection, identity management testing, and privilege escalation techniques.
Hands-on AWS cloud security environments focusing on IAM policies, S3 bucket security, and more.
- Key Concepts: S3 bucket enumeration, IAM role privilege escalation, and policy misconfiguration analysis.
- Highlights: Practical walkthroughs demonstrating enumeration vectors, and cloud attack paths.
VulnHub Machine Documentation | Personal documentation and walkthroughs for vulnerable virtual machines hosted on VulnHub, focusing on enumeration, exploitation, and privilege escalation.
Detailed technical post-mortems and write-ups for vulnerable target machines.
- Key Concepts: Host enumeration, web application scanning, and privilege escalation (SUID/Sudo/Cron).
- Highlights: Formatted like professional security reports covering both exploitation and mitigation.
Multi Tool USB Medicat Suite | A bootable Swiss Army knife USB built on Ventoy and MediCat v21.12. Includes diagnostic utilities, PortableApps platform, and multi-boot live operating systems (Ubuntu, Debian, Kali, Clonezilla).
A bootable diagnostic and triage environment built on Ventoy and MediCat v21.12.
- Key Concepts: Hardware diagnostics, offline system recovery, live Linux distributions (Kali, Clonezilla), and PortableApps setup.
- Highlights: Designed for field support, IT triage, and malware isolation.
Enterprise Network Lab with Cisco Devices | Contains hands-on learning experience with Cisco networking through college courses, lab simulations, and real hardware configurations.
Multi-floor enterprise network simulation utilizing Cisco IOS switches and routers.
- Key Concepts: VLAN trunking, inter-VLAN routing, OSPF, port security, and network topology design.
- Highlights: A group enterprise lab project where we configured a Switch dedicated to a specific floor.