Cloud, security, and solutions professional finding success in providing customer service oriented solutions while maintaining a high level of technical ability. I am currently a cloud security engineer working on a variety of projects for multiple federal stakeholders. At heart I am a problem solver driven to make the most effective difference while managing cost and risk. In the future, I hope to use my skillset to design solutions and guide organizations to succeed in our quickly evolving industry.
Bachelors Degree, BIS IT Management & Intercultural Communication
Recently I was tasked with creating an environment for security operations users to test potentially or kown malicious links, files, and other artifacts. I facillitated this by designing a small system in Azure leveraging a DevTest Labs account, an Azure Bastion Host, a Logic App, and ARM Templates. This environment allowed security users to perform their analysis quickly and have VMs re-launched automatically after bein compromised. A contained network, use of Azure features such as Bastion, Network Security groups, and basic netwoking concepts provide an environment completly seperated from our client's infrastructure. The environment is relitively low cost and can be launched via ARM template on the fly.
As part of a client's Security Orchestration & Automated Response iniative, I identified automation use cases with the most beneficial impact to the organization. The result was a workflow utilizing a 3rd party ATP tool's API, Azure's automation capabilities, and the O365 suite which saved the SOC an estimated 30% of time spent on email related incidents.
During my later time working at Sodexo USA (Mason Dining) I took over management of all of our technology operations. I took this opportunity to implement several industry standard practices including a help desk ticketing system to better manage user requests and problems. This among other improvements greatly increased user/customer satisfaction. This system I put in place was easily transferable to new employees as well.