career
Cybersecurity engineer and data analyst, working from both a defensive and a data-driven angle.
latest
work
Security Engineer
Arlington County Government · Arlington, VA
Jun 2025 – Sep 2026certifications
- CompTIA Security+verify ↗
- Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
skills
security operations
- Microsoft Sentinel
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Palo Alto firewalls
- Prisma Access
- Microsoft Azure
- SolarWinds
- BlueCat
- ServiceNow
- Jira
- Active Directory
- CISA NCSR
- SCADA systems
data analytics
- SQL
- Python (NumPy, Pandas)
- Power BI
- Tableau
- KPI reporting
- AWS Redshift
office & productivity
- Excel
- Word
- PowerPoint
- Outlook
- Adobe Acrobat
experience
Arlington County Government
Arlington, VA · Aug 2024 – Sep 2026
Security Engineer
Jun 2025 – Sep 2026- Managed enterprise firewall operations across 16 Palo Alto firewalls, collaborating with network, server, and application teams to onboard devices and maintain secure, reliable connectivity for county systems and users.
- Maintained security infrastructure by applying vendor security patches aligned with published CVE vulnerability releases, reducing exposure to known vulnerabilities.
- Supported migration of on-premises applications and infrastructure to Microsoft Azure, gaining hands-on experience with cloud platforms, services, networking, and security controls.
- Conducted an organization-wide cybersecurity risk self-assessment using the CISA NCSR framework, analyzing maturity data across security domains to identify control gaps and provide prioritized, data-driven remediation recommendations to leadership.
IT Analyst
Aug 2024 – Jun 2025- Diagnosed and resolved hardware, software, connectivity, and system access issues across Windows, macOS, and mobile devices for 3,000+ end users; documented and tracked all work through ServiceNow ticketing system.
- Managed device compliance and lifecycle using Microsoft Intune, including endpoint provisioning via Autopilot deployment, policy enforcement, and mobile device setup/configuration across a large-scale enterprise environment.
- Built a Power BI reporting solution integrating Intune data to track hardware age and replacement eligibility, supporting procurement and asset lifecycle planning.
education
M.S. Data Analytics
Western Governors University
2023 – 2024
B.S. Information Technology (Cybersecurity)
George Mason University
2018 – 2021