Cybersecurity student and practitioner focused on understanding how systems are built, secured, and exploited.
My work spans network infrastructure, systems administration, penetration testing, security research, and security automation. I build and expand controlled environments to explore real-world security concepts, investigate attack paths, and document technical findings.
My interests include adversarial security, threat intelligence, network defense, and the intersection of offensive research and defensive engineering.
I believe effective security requires understanding both sides of the problem: how systems are designed to operate and how they can be abused when assumptions fail. My projects reflect that philosophy through practical lab work, technical documentation, and tools designed to improve security analysis.
- Network Engineering: Network architecture, VLAN segmentation, routing, switching, and firewall configuration.
- Systems and Identity: Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, authentication, and access control.
- Offensive Security: Reconnaissance, enumeration, vulnerability analysis, exploitation, and privilege escalation.
- Security Operations: Log analysis, security event classification, detection engineering concepts, and digital forensics.
- Security Research and Automation: Python tooling, scripting, technical analysis, and reproducible security experiments.
- Cloud Security: AWS infrastructure, identity and access management, and cloud networking.
I maintain a home lab for exploring network infrastructure, security configuration, and controlled experimentation.
- Built a physically segregated test network using pfSense and HP managed switches.
- Implemented VLAN segmentation (VLANs 10–50) to isolate systems and control traffic between lab environments.
- Configured network infrastructure to support isolated security testing and infrastructure experimentation.
The following projects represent areas of ongoing development and planned expansion of my home lab.
- Deploy and configure Active Directory to study authentication, Group Policy, access control, and privilege escalation paths.
- Explore how identity and configuration weaknesses can affect enterprise security.
- Develop penetration testing labs focused on reconnaissance, enumeration, initial access, and privilege escalation.
- Document exploitation workflows and technical findings across Hack The Box environments.
- Study attack paths and the relationship between misconfiguration, access, and system compromise.
A locally hosted LLM-driven companion for my daughter, built with Ollama and Gemma. Includes age-appropriate interactions and a dynamic aging system.
A Python tool designed to extract, validate, and classify security events from syslog data to support security analysis and identification of suspicious activity.
Technical documentation covering the design and implementation of my home lab, from physical network configuration to firewall rules and security segmentation.
- A.A.S in Information Systems Security | Expected Graduation: December 2026 | GPA: 3.87
- President, Collin College ISSA Student Chapter
- CompTIA Security+
- CompTIA Network+
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- Cybersecurity Infrastructure Technology
- Network Support Occupational Skills Award
- Networking: pfSense, VLANs, Cisco IOS, EtherChannel, DHCP, HSRP, SSH tunneling
- Security: Nmap, Metasploit, Burp Suite, Wireshark, Gobuster, Hashcat, Splunk
- Development: Python, Git, JavaScript, Node.js, React
- Systems: Linux Mint, Windows Server, Active Directory
- Cloud: AWS IAM, EC2, S3, VPC
- HTB Write-ups (Others can be found in profile)
Continuously expanding my understanding of enterprise security, penetration testing, network defense, and security research through hands-on labs, coursework, and independent projects.