Professional Experience
My experience combines hands on security operations, enterprise IT support, cybersecurity education, public sector IT, and high pressure decision making through soccer officiating.
Level 1 IT Technician
CarShield · Full time · On site
St. Peters, Missouri
Feb 2026 to Present
- Perform vulnerability scans across endpoints supporting three affiliated companies, identifying, documenting, and communicating security findings for remediation using Forta.
- Triage and investigate SentinelOne EDR alerts involving malicious endpoint activity, phishing, and vulnerability related events, validating affected systems, documenting findings, and escalating higher risk incidents.
- Administer IAM lifecycle and access control tasks including user onboarding and offboarding, account provisioning and deprovisioning, permission changes, MFA, and Microsoft Entra PIM to support least privilege access.
- Resolve approximately 15 daily IT support tickets involving account access, endpoint and software troubleshooting, VPN connectivity, hardware, and user system issues.
- Support day to day enterprise technology operations using tools including Jira, NinjaOne, LogicMonitor, Active Directory, Quick Assist, Cisco networking technologies, Veeam, and workstation imaging processes.
- Maintained a 5.0/5.0 customer satisfaction rating across 100+ support reviews through clear communication, professional follow up, and reliable resolution.
Cybersecurity Content Creator
DonkeySec · Self employed · Remote
United States
Mar 2025 to Present
- Create educational cybersecurity content for 3,500+ learners, reaching approximately 20,000 impressions per month across YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, and Facebook.
- Develop hands on labs and tutorials focused on SOC analysis, digital forensics, incident response, threat hunting, malware analysis, vulnerability management, detection engineering, AI security, and certification preparation.
- Analyze realistic scenarios from Hack The Box, TryHackMe, CyberDefenders, CompTIA, and Blue Team Labs Online and translate advanced security concepts into accessible learning content.
- Provide guidance to aspiring analysts working to bridge the gap between cybersecurity theory, certifications, and practical defensive skills.
Socials: https://linktr.ee/DonkeySec
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DonkeySec
Info Security Intern
Ascend Learning · Internship · Remote
Leawood, Kansas
May 2025 to Aug 2025
- Investigated suspicious emails and analyzed malicious attachments using ANY.RUN and VirusTotal, contributing to the identification and blocking of 50+ credential harvesting attempts.
- Triaged and investigated 10+ security alerts daily within a SIEM, classified events by severity, documented findings, and escalated verified high risk incidents to senior analysts.
- Analyzed high volume false positive alerts to identify tuning opportunities, reducing alert fatigue by 15% and saving approximately 5 analyst hours per week.
- Designed a MITRE ATT&CK coverage matrix mapping available organizational telemetry to relevant tactics, techniques, and sub techniques.
- Developed detection logic across two SIEM platforms and one EDR solution to reduce blind spots in defensive coverage.
- Validated detection logic through simulated adversary emulation, confirming alert generation across mapped ATT&CK techniques and strengthening coverage for multiple threat behaviors.
Information Systems Skilled Support
St. Charles County Government · Internship · On site
Saint Charles, Missouri
Aug 2024 to Oct 2024
- Provided first level technical support across a 10,000+ user base, achieving an 80% first contact resolution rate while escalating complex issues and reducing user downtime across departments.
- Assessed workstation security configurations, identified configuration gaps, and supported policy updates that improved compliance by 20%.
- Supported IT asset inventory tracking for over $1M in hardware and software, improving asset organization, inventory accuracy, and operational visibility.
U.S. Soccer Federation
Soccer Referee · Contract · On site
United States
Jul 2022 to Present
Semi Professional Soccer Referee
Jun 2023 to Present
- Officiate competitive matches across semi professional environments, making real time decisions under pressure while managing communication between players, coaches, and referee crews.
- Lead pre match briefings and coordinate in game communication to maintain consistency, reduce confusion, and support accurate decision making.
- Have officiated leagues including USL League Two, USL W League, NPSL, WPSL, MWPL, and UPSL.
Youth Soccer Referee
Jul 2022 to Jun 2023
- Refereed competitive youth leagues including MLS NEXT, MLS NEXT 2, GA, ECNL, ECNL RL, EAL, NAL, Elite 64, MWC, NPL, DPL, ODP, Aspire, Missouri State Cup, and Missouri Presidents Cup.
- Attended major regional events including Midwest Regional Championships, Midwest Regional Presidents Cup, and Midwest Conference Showcase.
- Earned Young Missouri Referee of the Year for 2022 to 2023.
College Soccer Referee
National Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association · Contract · On site
United States
Aug 2024 to Present
- Officiate Division II, Division III, NAIA, and JUCO college soccer matches.
- Apply consistent judgment, positioning, communication, and game management across competitive college environments.
- Work with referee crews to support accurate decisions, professional match control, and effective team communication.