SKILLS
SECURITY ARCHITECTURE & ENGINEERING
SECURITY ASSESSMENT & COMPLIANCE
NETWORK SECURITY & ENGINEERING
SECURITY OPERATIONS (BLUE TEAM)
CLOUD SECURITY & ENGINEERING
IDENTITY & ACCESS MANAGEMENT
EXPERIENCE
VPLS
Sr. Security Engineer | July 2020 – Present
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
SEMINOLE ELECTRIC
System Operations Intern | May 2012 – May 2013
CERTIFICATIONS
ISC2
FORTINET
CISCO
AWS
COMPTIA
Let's collaborate
If you’d like to discuss an idea or project you are working on, have a question related to cybersecurity, or just want to connect over common interests, please reach out to me and get the conversation started.
PROJECTS
VULNERABILITY DISCOVERY (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
ITT TECH INSTRUCTOR (2015)
- Hired by the now-defunct ITT Technical Institute as an Adjunct Instructor, I taught a software development course on social networking
- 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
