Aliso Niguel High School

2009 - 2014

• AP Computer Science (Java)
• Web Design
• Computer Graphics & Illustrator
• Digital Photography & Photoshop

Cal State University Fullerton

2014 - 2019

• BS in Computer Science
• Focus on cyber security
• C/C++ Programming
• Operating Systems
• Databases
• x86 Assembly
• Computer Architechture (MIPS)

Student Assistant Lead - CSUF IT HelpDesk

July 2015 - August 2017

• Supported over 5,000 faculty/staff members
• Everything from supporting Xerox printers to planning deployment for classroom labs
• Call center experience
• Experience in Active Directory at full enterprise scale
• Developed programs to aid re-imaging of computers to reduce load on field techs

Student Assistant - CSUF Information Security Office

August 2017 - August 2019

• Web design and accessibility compliance
• Vulnerability scanning and remediation
• Data analysis of vulnerability scan results with Python
• Coordinated rollout of DLP solutions
• Identifying and securing sensitive data
• PCI and HIPPA compliance

Systems Engineer - DigitalScepter

August 2019 - Present

• Palo Alto firewall configuration and administration
• In-house workflow automation with Python
• Developed a firewall auditing webapp with Ruby on Rails

Freelance Computer Repair & Troubleshooting

2012 - present

Provided comprehensive computer service including removing viruses, installing software, changing operating systems, troubleshooting network connectivity issues, etc.

Your Company Here!

present - ????

Looking for a dedicated, enthusiastic employee to help achieve your companies' goals? I'm an incredibly fast learner and am always up for a challenge. Feel free to use any of the contact methods on the contact page, though email is preferred.

Programming and Scripting

• sh and Bash
• C and C++
• Python 3
• Powershell
• HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• PHP and SQL
• R
• x86 Assembly

Windows

• Active Directory
• Group Policy
• Windows Server (full & core)
• Microsoft Office

Linux / Unix

• Familiarity with all major distros
• IPTables
• WordPress, MySQL
• Apache, nginx, lighttpd
• Configuration management with Ansible

Networking

• Planning and deploying network topologies
• Network security analysis
• Full stack knowledge of network technologies
• Firewall management and auditing

Security

• Firewall management and auditing
• Access Control Best Practices
• Knowledge of current CVEs
• Network security analysis

Homelab/Other Projects

• Monitoring dashboard for entire lab
• Data ingested with collectd, send to InfluxDB, then displayed in Grafana
• Router and switch monitoring via SNMP
• Indoor, outdoor and spot probe temperature monitoring via GPIO on a RaspberryPi
• Power usage monitoring via apcupsd and Sonoff Pow over MQTT
• CPU load monitoring across all machines
• Palo Alto Firewall at the edge
• Two virtualized domain controllers running off separate UPS’s on separate circuits for redundancy
• Virtual machine hosts running Debian with KVM, managed with VirtManager/virsh
• ZFS storage server
• Weekly pool scrubbing
• Network bonding to allow up to 3GBps throughput
• SSD backed ZIL and L2ARC
• SMS alert for data errors using Twilio Python API
• Pool geometry designed for max data throughput with 2 drive failure tolerance
• Nightly snapshotting
• Secure NFS exports for Linux clients, Samba shares for Windows clients
• Personal blog
• Hosted with Linode
• Running nginx with http2 support
• Hand-tuned firewall with IPTables
• Continuous integration, built from Git repo using Jekyll
• Automatic SSL certificate renewal via LetsEncrypt
• Designed to be ultra-lightweight, all pages under 100KB
• A+ on the Mozilla Observatory
• A+ on Qualys SSL Server Test
• A on the Pingdom Website Speed Test
• A on the GTmetrix Speed Test
• 100% on Google PageSpeed Insights
• Unifi Access Points provisioned with a Unifi Controller running on a RaspberryPi
• Ansible playbooks to quickly provision a new machine, setup monitoring with collectd
• Desktop workstation running Arch Linux with custom kernel compiled weekly
• Home automation and presence detection with HomeAssistant
• Electronics
• Heavily modded CR-10S 3D printer
• Various Arduino projects
• Basic electronics repair