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CAREER SUMMARY

Cybersecurity Professional with an A.A.S degree in Cybersecurity and practical experience from a 12-month internship at a major healthcare organization. Proficient in threat hunting, automation, security data analysis, and defensive security engineering. Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree, set to graduate in May 2025. Committed to leveraging automation to solve security scaling challenges.

Career highlights include:

  • Proactive professional with 2 years of experience in security engineering, analysis, and threat hunting. Successfully developed an automated solution to standardize security testing, improving audit readiness.
  • Standardized the process of hunting indicators of compromise (IOCs) within Cyber Threat Intelligence, significantly enhancing the organization’s threat detection and response capabilities.
  • Leveraged automation (PowerShell, Blob Storage, MS Graph API & PowerBi) to solve retrospective threat hunting challenges and advance security maturity of DevSecOps.

EDUCATION

B.S. Cybersecurity | Lewis University | GPA: 3.60 | Expected May 2025
A.A.S Cybersecurity | College of DuPage | GPA: 3.75 | August 2024

WORK EXPERIENCE

Northwestern Medicine | Security Analyst Intern | May 2024 - Present

  • Helped migrate 80% of log sources and ingestion methods from Sentinel into Azure Data Explorer (ADX) by leveraging KQL and Microsoft docs, achieving $5,000 in quarterly savings.
  • Analyzed phishing trends and designed Microsoft Exchange mail flow rules, reducing monthly reconnaissance-related emails by 150.

Northwestern Medicine | Security Analyst Intern | May 2023 - December 2023

  • Automated the provisioning of Active Directory (AD) accounts by writing PowerShell scripts, reducing monthly manual account creation from 300 minutes to 75 minutes
  • Utilized Microsoft Graph API to identify and manage 1,000 inactive service accounts, disabling or vaulting within CyberArk, effectively reducing a significant threat vector by nearly 90%.

PROJECTS

Youtube Channel | March 2023 - Present | youtube.com/@homelabd

  • Launched a security-focused YouTube channel, independently recording and editing content, reaching over 20,000 viewers across 5 videos, and built a community on Discord.

Department of Energy CyberForce Program | September 2023 - October 2023 | Participant

  • Led the College of DuPage cyber team in the Department of Energy’s CyberForce competition, achieving 62nd out of 169 teams and ranking as the 3rd highest-scoring two-year institution.