Who I am
I completed Penn State’s cybersecurity program in three years as a commuter, carrying six courses a semester across several campuses and the university’s online cooperative, and graduated summa cum laude within the honors program. A compressed schedule meant teaching myself whatever a term moved past quickly, which turned out to be useful practice in its own right.
Security was not the original plan. I came in for computer science broadly and narrowed once I found the part I kept returning to: establishing what actually happened after an incident. Coursework in digital forensics, incident response, and malware analysis confirmed the direction, and my professors encouraged me to spend the summers earning certifications rather than taking the time off.
Alongside school I progressed from intern to specialist at a startup, where the work centers on governance, privacy compliance, and communication, alongside the day-to-day technical support that keeps a small team running. It taught me that security is a people and process problem at least as often as a technical one. I built this site to keep a record of the work.
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