Bio
I was born and raised in Michigan, and have fond memories of the first computer I ever used: an HP Pavilion 6736 running Windows 98. I was gifted with computers as a child, and my curiosity drove me to learn more about them. I discovered my first vulnerability as an elementary school student, though I did not fully understand it at the time, and dove further into cyber when I took a web design class as a high school student where I earned my hacker handle: Spoutingwhale. I love everything cybersecurity, I work on lots of projects in my spare time and have experience with many IT and Cyber products, and hope to one day serve as a CISO for a corporation. Below you will find experiences that make me unique as well as my resume.
Career Experience
My experiences are more detailed in my formal resume (At the bottom of this page)
- SOC Intern - Auto Owners Insurance Company
- BYU Cybersecurity Research Lab System Administrator
- Home Server Lab
- BYU Cybersecurity Department Teaching Assistant
- BYU Cybersecurity Student Association Presidency Member and Instructor
- BYU Network Engineering Association Presidency Member
Certifications
- CompTIA Security+ - September 2023
- CompTIA PenTest+ - October 2023
- CompTIA CySa+ - January 2024
Competitions
I participate in (and live for) all types of cyber competitions, here are some I have been involved in:
- Assisted and/or hosted 5 CTFs
- 2024 BYU NCAE Cyber Games coach
- 2-time national finalist - NCAE Cyber Games
- National Runner Up - 2023 NCAE Cyber Games
- Spring 2023 National Cyber League Experienced Students Bracket: 3rd Place Team
- Fall 2023 National Cyber League Experienced Students Bracket: 4th Place Team
- Competed in countless public CTFs
Project Related Experience and Products Used:
- Incident Response
- Penetration Testing
- System Hardening
- System Administration
- Digital Forensics
- Splunk
- Python
- Script Automation
- Docker
- ESXI
- Proxmox Virtualization
- Opnsense Firewall
- phpIPAM
- iDrac
- Cisco IOS
- Linux
- TrueNAS
- Snort
- Coraza WAF
- Bind9 DNS