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Cybersecurity student (4.00 GPA, Security+, AZ-900) with enterprise co-op experience in phishing investigation, identity and SSO auditing, Microsoft Sentinel log ingestion, cloud security, and Python security automation.

Security+ earned May 2026. Verify on Credly.

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Experience

IT security and infrastructure co-op

AtriCure, Mason, OH · May 2026 – Aug 2026

  • Triaged 294 user-reported emails in Defender XDR and PhishER using SPF/DKIM/DMARC, header, sandbox, and KQL analysis; remediated with deletions, quarantine decisions, and blocks.
  • Designed and built a production Python Azure Function that brings Cloudflare Security Insights notifications into Microsoft Sentinel through Azure Monitor data collection rules.
  • Audited single sign-on configuration, SAML/OIDC protocols, and certificate status across the company's Entra enterprise applications, and reported the results to security leadership.
  • Configured KnowBe4 executive phishing reports and presented phishing-trend data at SecOps meetings.
  • Investigated unsanctioned cloud application use with Defender for Cloud Apps and KQL, and escalated findings to security leadership.
  • Supported identity reviews in Entra ID, Microsoft Graph, and Purview, and investigated sign-in alerts.

Shift leader

Graeter's, West Chester, OH · Jul 2025 – present

  • Run store shifts as the on-site manager, directing two to three staff on weekdays and up to six at peak while prioritizing customer escalations, cash control, breaks, and real-time labor adjustments.

Certifications

  • CompTIA Security+ · CompTIA · verify
    May 2026
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) · Microsoft · verify
    Aug 2026

Projects

Azure Sentinel honeypot and live attack map

Jun 2026

  • Streamed Security Events from an exposed Azure Windows Server VM through Azure Monitor Agent and a DCR into Microsoft Sentinel; analyzed 3,500+ failed RDP logons in 24 hours with KQL geolocation, tracing 3,106 to one source.
  • Built a Sentinel workbook attack map and monitored Event ID 4624 for successful external logons; none were observed.

PhishTriage

Sep 2026

  • Chose an explainable rules-over-ML design and validated an AI-assisted Python CLI that scores .eml files on SPF/DKIM/DMARC alignment, header anomalies, and suspicious URLs/attachments.
  • On a small 33-message synthetic/sanitized test set, flagged 13 of 18 phishing emails with no false alarms on 15 benign; documented the five misses, mostly compromised-account scams.

COI date rollover and QA automation

Sep 2026

  • Directed and delivered a production date-rollover and independent QA workflow for 1,268 insurance certificates, reviewing automated reports and visual exceptions with the client.

Education

B.S. Cybersecurity

University of Cincinnati · Expected summer 2028

GPA 4.00. Choose Ohio First Scholar. Dean's List, Fall 2025 and Spring 2026.

Coursework: Information Security & Assurance; Network Infrastructure Management; Network Monitoring & IPS (in progress); Computer & Network Forensics (in progress).

Skills

Security
Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, PhishER, KnowBe4
Cloud and identity
Azure Functions, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Monitor / DCR / DCE, Cloudflare, Azure Log Analytics, SAML
Scripting and analysis
Python, KQL, Microsoft Graph API, PowerShell, SQL
Networking and systems
DNS, TCP/IP, Windows Server, Wireshark, Linux / Ubuntu, Nmap
Security concepts
Incident response, Network security, Access and authorization, Cryptography and PKI, Cloud computing