Education

• Metropolitan Community College (In progress)

  • Associates, Computer Science and Information Technologies;
  • Current cumulative GPA: 3.56, current quarterly standard is 3.6 - 4.0
  • Deans List: Fall 2020 quarter - Fall 2021 quarter

• Certifications

  • INE Security (FKA eLearnSecurity) Junior Penetration Tester
    • Date achieved: 10th of August 2022
    • ID: 1505075
    • Verification

• Non-professional Certifications of Completion

  • TryHackMe Introduction to CyberSecurity Learning Path
    • Date: 10th June 2023
  • TryHackMe Jr Penetration Tester Learning Path
    • Date: 13th June 2022

Professional Experience

• Career Break

  • Intentional career break to focus on education, and personal growth to be best prepared to bring value to my future careers
  • Gained some work experience as needed to allow for my continued education. Began teaching myself cybersecurity using the TryHackMe, HackTheBox, and INE Security platforms, where I heavily invested in gaining the necessary skills to earn professional certifications. Succeeded in earning the INE Security(eLearnSecurity) Junior Penetration Tester Certification, and began working towards the Comptia A+, Security+, and Linux+ certifications as well as the INE Security Certified Professional Penetration Tester Certification.
  • It is during this period where I met my wife, and travelled out of the country to be with her, and get married.

• Lockbox Specialist

  First National Bank of Omaha - June 2019 to March 2020

  Responsibilities:

  • Collect and process trays from mail room
  • Insure scanner is set to proper mode inline with mail type standards and requirements
  • Organized and labeled scanned mail to be further processed elsewhere.
  • Maintained a minimal error rate less than 1/month after first few months
  • Correct scan misreads utilizing 10-key to input relevant data, maintaining maximum throughput
  • Assisted in working overtime whenever needed
  • Yearly compliance and safety tests
  • Achieved average scan rate required to rise from T1 to T2 within the first 6 months

• Warehouse Associate

  Amazon.com, Inc, Seattle, WA - August 2018 to March 2019

  Responsibilities:

  • Process incoming high volume of packages in time sensitive environment
  • Sort incoming packages into delivery bags assigned to respective delivery route
  • Full bags moved to zones assigned to proper route.
  • Assist drivers in quickly loading packages onto vehicle.
  • Follow and maintain safety standards and procedures. Insuring a safe and effective work environment for all employees.

• Checker/Stocker

  Hy-Vee Drug store - July 2017 to August 2018

  • Greeted all incoming customers with a smile, leading to items as requested.
  • Handled customer checkout process quickly and carefully, ensuring proper bagging to maintain product integrity.
  • Process customer payment utilizing point of sale system, following company standards.
  • Maintained a clean and professional work environment, giving a safe and welcoming space for all customers and employees

• Customer Service

  Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium - May 2016 to February 2017

  Responsibilities:

  • Greet and allow entry to guests, checking to ensure tickets or memberships have been obtained.
  • Assist in directing to desired exhibits, answering questions and reconciling concerns within my abilities
  • Kept clean and appealing work environment, keeping the Zoo safe for guests and animals cared for by the zoo
  • Give guests information about exhibits, and ensure the number of guests in the exhibit does not exceed the maximum set to protect guest and animal safety.
  • Keep professional and approachable appearance and attitude in a high-volume environment

Technical Experience

• My Current Projects:

  • My Hugo Website is built using the Hugo static site generator that uses markdown files to generate HTML, utilizing templates to keep a cohesive appearance. The site uses the Tailbliss theme, which uses Alpine.js and TailwindCSS to give an aesthetic appearance. As well as the Decap-CMS that makes use of a self-hosted OAuth server to restrict access, allowing me to make edits to the site, on the site.
  • Personal SearXNG Instance uses docker to run a personal instance of the SearXNG MetaSearch engine on a self maintained Linode cloud server.
  • Linode server, as previously mentioned, hosts my instance of SearXNG, as well as a private VPN using WireGuard on a docker container, and a private VS-Code server. Set up to require ssh key pair for ssh authentication, and utilizes 2 Factor-Authentication, keeping the server relatively secure as well as minimizing access to the VS-Code server as ssh port forwarding is required for access.
  • C/C++ Projects:
    • Tic-Tac-Toe using the mini-max algorithm to with adjustable search depth, to give a variable difficulty from hard to lose - impossible to win. Game board is stored in two separate unsigned integer variables assigned to both players, and uses bitwise operations to validate legal moves, set the bit that corresponds to the board locations, as well as to check if the board is currently in a win-state or a draw-state.
    • Conway’s Game of Life, built using both the NCurses library for terminal applications, and the SFML graphical library. Uses a single Cell class that inherits from the sf::RectangleShape SFML class. The Cell class uses a bool variable to track if it is live or dead, and a count of the neighboring live cells, and due to the class extending the sf::RectangleShape class, it allows for smoother updating of cell status and the graphical representation.
    • Several others, linked-list, stack, and other data structures, implementation of the kilo text editor, and networking projects using the standard unix socket libraries, as well as using the standalone Asio library.
  • 4–5 years of using Manjaro Linux as my primary OS. Manjaro is a distribution based off of Arch Linux, with an automated simple installer. Set up several Linux Kernel Virtual Machines (KVM) using the qemu/kvm virtual machine manager. Created a Windows Kernel Virtual Machine that made use of GPU passthrough, the GPU would be disconnected from the host operating system by unhooking the GPU drivers which would then give the virtual machine access to reserving the GPU to be used without emulation, as a gaming system under the Linux OS. Using virtual machines, I manually installed Arch Linux.
  • Personally manage DNS for my domain name via Cloudflare, and utilize Cloudflare pages to host the Hugo website ‘serverlessly’, with all website data stored and updated using GitHub.

• Programming Languages

  • 1–2 years learning C/C++ working on several personal projects
  • Java: A little over 1 year of working on personal projects, with college courses.
  • C#: about 1 year of building personal projects.
  • Some basic knowledge of Python, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

• CyberSecurity

  • TryHackMe: Completed several learning paths, and CTFs.
  • HackTheBox Learning paths, primarily CTFs and other challenges.
  • INE Security: Where I earned my certification, as well as began on further education.
  • Hardening my personal linode server. Restricting SSH access, utilized UFW to manage firewall, as well as Linode managed firewall as a second level. ClamAV for periodic malware scans, with occasional Lynis Auditing cli tool scans to gain an estimate on relative security. Setting up remote logging to keep an audit of server logs.

Some Extra Information

• Languages
  • Native English
  • Thai Language: 1 year in Thailand on an Education Visa to learn the language. Some ability to read, write and speak.