SKILLS
SECURITY ARCHITECTURE & ENGINEERING
SECURITY ASSESSMENT & COMPLIANCE
NETWORK SECURITY & ENGINEERING
SECURITY OPERATIONS (BLUE TEAM)
CLOUD SECURITY & ENGINEERING
IDENTITY & ACCESS MANAGEMENT
EXPERIENCE
FORTINET
Regional Systems Engineer Manager | June 2022 – Present
VPLS
SOC Manager & Head of Managed Security Services | Jan 2022 – June 2022
Senior Security Engineer | July 2020 – Dec 2021
Solutions Engineer | Nov 2018 – July 2020
FORTINET
Technical Account Manager | Sep 2018 – Nov 2018
Technical Support Engineer III | Feb 2018 – Sep 2018
Technical Support Engineer II | Mar 2017 – Feb 2018
Technical Support Engineer I | Sep 2015 – Mar 2017
GENERAL MOTORS
Data Center Network Engineer | June 2014 – Aug 2015
Network Operations (NOC) Engineer II | June 2013 – May 2014
CERTIFICATIONS
ISC2
FORTINET
CISCO
AWS
Security Blue Team
Let's collaborate
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PROJECTS
VULNERABILITY DISCOVERY #2 - CVE-2021-41019 (2021)
- Discovered and responsibly disclosed a Fortinet FortiGate firewall low/medium severity improper certificate validation vulnerability that became CVE-2021-41019
- This vulnerability is a continuation of CVE-2019-5591, which is one of the top routinely exploited vulnerabilities of 2021 according to CISA
- Fortinet acknowledges me in their official advisory FG-IR-21-974
VULNERABILITY DISCOVERY #1 (2019)
- Discovered and responsibly disclosed Fortinet FortiGate firewall medium severity bypass vulnerability
- This vulnerability allows an attacker to bypass FortiGate’s DNS filter by using DNS over HTTPS (DoH)
- Credit for the disclosure received in Fortinet KB article FD45370
PATCHBOX (2016)
- PatchBox, endorsed by the National Psoriasis Foundation, was a subscription box service my co-founder and I created to provide monthly non-prescription relief for psoriasis
- My co-founder and I bootstrapped PatchBox and were responsible for all aspects of the business until ultimately selling it via online auction
- Although the website is now gone, our archived interview with the National Psoriasis Foundation can be read here
TECHNICAL INSTRUCTOR (2015)
- Hired by the now-defunct ITT Technical Institute as an Adjunct Instructor, I taught a software development course on social networking on Saturdays for one semester
- I gave lectures, facilitated labs, conducted discussions, and assigned and graded assignments
- Students’ final project was building and hosting a blog using the WordPress platform that was required to interact with various social network APIs
