Certifications

A list of my official certifications & certificates of completion for training, research, and practice.

Professional Certifications

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

After participating in SecureIdeas' Professionally Evil CISSP Mentorship course, I was admittedly nervous to even think about taking the CISSP. On May 31st, 2024 (roughly a year and a half later!), I finally pushed off the self doubt and took my first stab at it. When I hit 100 questions and the exam stopped, I was sweating - this meant I either did really well or really bad since it didn't prompt me to answer the remaining 75 questions. A quick walk to the printer... I passed!

CISSP Passed: May 31, 2024
CISSP Certified:
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CompTIA Security+

I honestly should have gotten this way sooner, but finally decided to go get it this year since I had a long already had some PTO saved up and knew it would be good to add to the bag! Though I admittedly did sweat a little when I sat down and saw those extremely-CompTIA-specific questions...

Sec+ Certified: April 13, 2023
~verification: https://www.credly.com/badges/ff407c23-ed33-46fa-9ee1-98795fb95cbe

IBM Resilient SOAR Foundations

IBM Qradar Security SOAR (formerly Resilient SOAR) was one of the platforms that was instrumental to the development of my love for SOAR. Optimizing it through python scripts and custom workflows flows was crucial to ensuring our automated SOC responses were accurate, standardized, and timely.

Issued: June 30, 2022
~verification: https://www.credly.com/badges/2a6dcb0a-7c0f-4202-a1e2-b51ec1db9968

Continuous Training

SecureIdeas Professionally Evil CISSP Mentorship

This 2-and-a-half month course was one of the best training, mentorship, and cybersecurity opportunities I've had. It directly connected me with a wealth of knowledge, over 450 CISSP holders and previous attendees of the class collectively in one spot and able to be a resource while we walked through the ISC2 book. The next step will be obtaining my CISSP!

Completion: September - November, 2022

Wild West Hackin' Fest

WWHF is comprised of a large group of Security Professionals who invite well-known practitioners from the Cyber Security field to train, guide, and present on specialty topics. These topics are suited for listener's of all experience levels so that they may expand their skill-set.

Training: Making MITRE ATT&CK Actionable
~by Josh Rickard on January 12th, 2022

Training: Cloud Security: You're It!
~by Roger O'Farril on October 13th, 2021

Antisyphon Training

Antisyphon is an organized group of Cyber Security professionals who provide in-depth training in various specialties. These training sessions range from a couple hours to a week long and often involve participants following along a live demonstration with provided tools to get hands on experience.

Training: Applied Purple Teaming
~by Kent Ickler and Jordan Drysdale on February 22nd - 25th, 2022

Training: Hacker DevOps
~by Ralph May on February 8th - 11th, 2022

Training: Active Defense & Cyber Deception
~by John Strand on January 24th - 27th, 2022

Education

East Tennessee State University

Awarded: May 06, 2021 | Bachelor of Science in Computing, concentration in Information Technology

During highschool I took 3 advanced placement-style courses, staging me to transfer 9 credit hours into my freshman year. In 2017 I was named the DAR Good Citizen and President of the Student Council.

The majority of my collegiate studies focused on programming, ranging from Java, C# apps, to Advanced Web Design (HTML, CSS, MVC, Razor, etc.) and the accompanying data concepts. And amidst general studies, with a concentration in Information Technology, I took a number of courses related to unix, pc setup, sysadmin, and server side programming.

Towards the final year or two, as my course schedule opened itself up to electives, I opted to take a few new-to-me classes such as Ethical Hacking, Psychology, Sociology, and Information Security & Assurance. These specifically are what truly piqued my curiosity in the cyber world and educating people.

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