Cyber Ready

Undergraduate Research Assistant --> Currently doing research under Dr. Fonseca

• Optical Character Recognition and developing a plugin to read, parse, and analyze data on a webapp.
• Social Distancing detector using Deep Learning, OpenCV, and YOLOv3 with a paper to be published by The University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
• A polaroid filter extraction application using Conditional Adversarial Networks and OpenCV. Paper to be published by ITNG.

Information Technology Specialist --> Currently working part-time for the Deptartment of Engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

• Monitor internal subnet for intrusions and develop documentation and procedures for incident response.
• Develop new web-apps for monitoring and logging and automate processes and procedures.
• Assess and troubleshoot computer problems brought by students, faculty and staff.
• Maintain and monitor workstations, labs, student-facing servers, faculty-facing servers, and networks.

Cybersecurity Intern --> Currently interning for Maryland Innovation and Security Institute, in the Cyber Education Diversity Cybership as part of the Cybersecurity Education Diversity Initiative (CEDI), a DoD initiative. The CEDI Project is a collaboration between National Security Agency’s National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-E) Program Management Office and the DoD’s Office of Industrial Policy, Small Business Program’s (OSBP) Mentor Protégé Program(MPP), to expand national access to cyber education.

• Completed the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification CMMC - as a Registered Practitioner. Credentials are publicly available in the CMMC-AB marketplace
• Building skills and hands-on experience with CMMC assesments in the Jensie Platform.
• Building skills in network and log analysis using Elastic traningns for Elastic Stack.
• Training & compliance -> NIST SP 800-171.
• Training & compliance -> NIST SP 800-53.

Cybersecurity Club Officer --> Currently an officer of the University of Nevada Las Vegas' cybersecurity club layer zero where I manage the website and write cybersecurity blog posts.

• Compete in CTFs both individually and in team games with layer-zero membeers.
• Spinned-up, configured, and set up an instance of Security Shepherd, a training platform developed by OWASP for club triniing sessions.
• Organize cybersecurity conferences and trainings for the club.
• Train new members on introductory subjects to cybersecurity, linux, and networking.

Volunteer --> Currently volunteer for Cimarron Memorial High School through Layer-Zero in a program were we mentor and guide their newly formed cybersecurity club.

Volunteer --> Currently volunteer for my local OWASP chapter in Las Vegas, where I help set up the quaterly member meetings and got sponsored by them to attend Black Hat.

Flix-iOS app ->Flix is an app that allows users to browse movies from the The Movie Database API. This was developed as a POC to learn:

• Swift
• UIkit
• Cocoapods
• web APIs

Home-Lab I build my network infrastructure and homelab to practice cybersecurity concepts in a safee and secure way, while implementing and testing many tools.

• Unbound DNS
• OpenVPN
• pfsense virtual machine-network
• Virtual pfSense routers
• Puppet CMS
• Elastic stack
• QRadar Community Edition
• PiHole DNS blocker
• Local Instance of Security Shepherd
• VSCode Server

WIP: As an exercise in completeness, I decided to write documentation to simulate an Organization Seeking Certification (OSC), so I am currently writing a System Security Plan in according to CMMC requirements, along with NIST SP 800-171, and NIST SP 800-53

Experience with several programming languages, tools, frameworks, and libraries.

Currently being migrated from the layer-zero website but you can check it out here:

• layer-zero homepage
• layer-zero blog

Do you have any questions or comments? Feel free to reach out!