About

Education

Louisiana Tech University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Cyber Engineering
Minor in Mathematics

Certifications

  • CompTIA Security+
  • Microsoft Azure Admin
  • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
  • Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals
  • Microsoft Azure Artifical Intelligence Fundamentals
  • Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals

Skills

  • Windows 10,11
  • Ubuntu
  • Github
  • Git
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • SQL

Programming Languages

  • Python
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JS

Besides my education and certifications, I have experience in I.T. help desk, retail and customer service. If you want to know more about my professional carrer, check out my Linkedln, and feel free to send me a connection request.

Projects

Homelab

    Software

    Service Description
    pfSense Open Source firewall and router software. Manages my network's DNS server, DHCP server and VPN tunnels.
    VMware ESXi vSphere bare-metal hypervisor that hosts my Windows Server VMs to manage my Active Directory and ISS
    Proxmox Open Source alternative to ESXi, hosts my Docker containers and Linux Servers
    TrueNAS NAS OS that hosts my file shares, media server and data backups
    Docker Containers Ubuntu Server with Docker Engine hosting various useful containers like Heimdall, Portainer, Home Assistant and Grafana

    Network Diagrams

Senior Capstone Project

Replicated Louisiana Tech University’s Email Server on AWS and determined the best countermeasures of phishing and spear-phishing attacks vectors

Raspberry Pi Projects

  • NGINX/PHP Webserver currently hosting this website
  • motionEyeOS for video surveillance system using pi cameras and 3-D printed enclosures
  • PiHole for ad blocking, domain white/black listing and query logs
  • Google Coral USB Accelerator for an extra Edge TPU coprocessor with OpenCV for facial recognition and Tensorflow Lite
  • OctoPrint as a 3-D printing web interface for remote printing and monitoring

    • "Cyber Storm” Hackathon

    Participated in Louisiana Tech’s cybersecurity competition that assessed skills in network defense, cryptography, steganography, and server security

    Barcode Scanner with Python

    Developed a Python program to use a phone camera for scanning 2D and QR barcodes using libraries like Tkinter for GUI development and OpenCV for camera stream and analysis

    Activities

    Besides cybersecurity and other I.T. things, I actively indulge myself in my additional passions, which include custom keyboards, 3-D printing, soldering and exploring the latest technology advancements. I'm also a big fan of the NBA and various Esports leagues.