Who I am
I came into college as a commuter with a head start and a plan to graduate in three years. That meant six classes a semester pulled from across the whole Penn State system, and a lot of teaching myself the things a compressed schedule couldn’t always cover.
I didn’t start out set on security. My early interest was broader computer science, and cybersecurity is where it settled once I found the part that pulled me in: figuring out what happened, where systems break, and how to protect the data that matters. On my professors’ advice I spent summers earning certifications alongside coursework, the same habit that has me working through CySA+ now.
Alongside school I’ve spent about three years growing into a cybersecurity role at an EdTech startup, from intern to specialist. That work is the governance and communication side of security, and it taught me that security is as much a people-and-process problem as a technical one. The thread through all of it is simple: learn something, use it, then relearn it when the ground shifts. This site is where I keep that in the open.
Off the clock
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