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CompTIA Security+ certified cybersecurity student (4.0 GPA) with hands-on experience in threat detection, phishing analysis, and cloud security automation in a regulated healthcare environment.

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

  • Uncovered a dangling DNS record exposing the production environment to subdomain takeover, by building an Azure Function App that ingests 51 Cloudflare security insight classes into Microsoft Sentinel through a webhook and a custom data collection rule.
  • Reduced phishing investigation turnaround by about 35% across 200+ monitored mailboxes by triaging and dispositioning suspicious email daily with Microsoft Defender XDR Threat Explorer, ANY.RUN, and VirusTotal.
  • Built a KnowBe4 phishing simulation analytics dashboard covering 40+ departments, presented to VP leadership and escalated to the executive leadership team.
  • Identified and blocked a cloud storage application posing a data exfiltration risk by auditing 200+ unsanctioned cloud apps with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps and McasShadowItReporting KQL queries.
  • Audited SSO configuration and authentication protocols (SAML and OIDC) across 335 Entra-integrated cloud applications, finding 4 apps with expired SAML certificates and 8 operating without SSO.

Shift leader

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

  • Cut new-hire ramp-up time by about half by designing and delivering structured onboarding for 13 rotating team members covering compliance, procedures, and performance standards.
  • Sustained 97% customer satisfaction across 500+ weekly interactions while running shift operations and resolving escalations.

Certifications

  • CompTIA Security+ · CompTIA · verify
    May 2026
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) · Microsoft · verify
    Aug 2026
  • TestOut Ethical Hacker Pro · TestOut
  • TestOut Hybrid Server Pro: Core · TestOut

Projects

Azure Sentinel honeypot

Jun 2026

  • Captured 3,500+ brute-force authentication attempts from 8 countries within 24 hours by deploying an exposed Azure VM and ingesting its logs into Microsoft Sentinel.
  • Built a live attacker geolocation map in a Sentinel workbook using KQL enrichment.

Pi-hole DNS server

Mar 2026

  • Self-hosted Pi-hole on an Ubuntu Server VM to filter ad and tracker traffic for every device on the home network.
  • Gained DNS-level filtering, real-time query logging, and traffic visibility across the network.

Python document processing automation

Dec 2025

  • Cut document processing time by 80% for a small insurance business with a custom Python script.
  • Parsed and extracted data from 1,000+ insurance documents.

Education

B.S. Cybersecurity

University of Cincinnati · Expected summer 2028

GPA 4.00. Dean's list, all semesters.

Coursework: Network security, Database management, Network infrastructure management, System administration.

Skills

Security platforms
Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsoft Purview, Stellar Cyber, Zscaler, KnowBe4
Cloud and identity
Microsoft Azure, Entra ID, Identity and access management, Cloudflare
Analysis
ANY.RUN, VirusTotal, SIEM, log analysis
Languages and APIs
KQL, PowerShell, Python, Microsoft Graph API
Systems and networking
Linux/Unix, Windows Server administration, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SSL/TLS
Practices
incident response, threat detection, phishing analysis, risk assessment, compliance