Welcome to my home on the web. This page is dedicated to my professional work. If you are looking for my personal pages, head over here.
About Me
A Salt Lake City based Cybersecurity professional, I love learning about, working with, and hacking on computers. I’m fascinated by all things cybersecurity. I’m passionate about free and open source software. You can contact me at email or through LinkedIn.
Recent Experience
Castle & Cooke Mortgage
IT Security Administrator – 2023-Present I’m now primarily involved in managing and running our IT security program. I maintain our written information security program documents and policies and procedures, and work with regulators and auditors to provide documentation of security controls in place. I perform user security awareness training, phishing susceptibility assessments, and respond to suspected and reported phishing emails. I also manage our Tenable vulnerability management suite, performing regular scans, tracking and remediating known vulnerabilities. I manage our CrowdStrike products, mainly MDR and their SIEM offering. Through the CrowdStrike next-gen SIEM, I monitor and respond to alerts from all of our security solutions including our network IDS, email gateway, EDR software, vulnerability scans, IDP logs, and Microsoft 365.
Systems Administrator – 2022-2023 A little of everything! VSphere administration, managing Nimble storage appliances, Windows and Linux server administration, backup management with Veeam, and of course, acting as our resident PowerShell guy. I performed regular work to improve the security of all this infrastructure, such as routine patching. I designed and enforced software and file ACL’s through Active Directory.
IT Support Technician – 2021-2022 My responsibilities included resolving user tickets, installing hardware, imaging devices, managing physical access control systems, Active Directory user administration, Exchange server administration, software license provisioning, and VOIP system administration.
PlanSource
EDI Analyst – 2019-2020 At PlanSource I built and managed healthcare insurance eligibility file feeds sent to leading insurance carriers. Most integration’s used the industry standard ANSI 834A 5010 format and were transmitted over SFTP. Sometimes PGP encryption was also used. My work orders were tracked and managed in Salesforce.
Education
B.S. Cybersecurity & Information Assurance - 2023 Western Governors University
Certifications
- ISC2 SSCP - Member ID 1474998
- CompTIA PenTest+
- CompTIA CySA+
- CompTIA Security+
- CompTIA A+
- CompTIA Network+
- CompTIA Project+
- LPI Linux Essentials
- ITIL 4 Foundations - GR671381647JB
- Microsoft MTA - Database Administration Fundamentals
- Microsoft MTA - Networking Fundamentals
Skills
Check out my GitHub!
Technologies: A sample of what I work with
- Security Tools
- Okta
- Mimecast Email Security
- CrowdStrike, MDR & SIEM
- Tenable Vulnerability Management (& Nessus)
- DevOps
- Ansible
- Docker (& Compose)
- Linux
- Arch btw (Artix actually, but who’s checking.)
- Debian <3
- Various other distros
- Microsoft
- Active Directory
- Entra ID
- Exchange (Online & 2016)
- Microsoft 365
- Intune
- Windows 10/11
- Windows Server 2003-2022
- IIS
- Virtualization Stack
- VMWare vSphere
- Cisco UCS
- HPE Nimble
- Veeam Backup & Replication
- Zerto
- Citrix VDI
- Networking
- Cisco Meraki
- Palo Alto Networks appliances
Languages
- Rust
- Python
- PowerShell 🧙
- Bash
- SQL
Tools I Love
- vim
- llm
- ripgrep
- fzf
- Anki
- Zim wiki