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University of Alabama in Huntsville, MS in Cybersecurity (Engineering track)

Jan 2025 – present

• Current GPA: 3.85; slated to obtain Summer 2026

University of Alabama in Huntsville, BS in Cybersecurity Engineering

Aug 2019 – Dec 2024

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Research Assistant II, The University of Alabama System Management and Production Center -- Huntsville, Alabama

June 2023 – July 2024

• Led Arduino programming for a project for City of Huntsville

• Developed enhancements for audio playback and improved kinetic movement of the truck by 60%

• Deployed Raspberry Pi for a PX 100 Robotic Arm for Jackson County Schools STEM project

Backy (https://backy.cybershell.xyz)

Sept 2022 – present

• Includes Go libraries to create a command execution tool

• Improves sever administration with 20% time saved

• Improves visibility into infrasture with notifications on completion and failure

Home server with remote access

Sept 2022 – present

• WireGuard to access home server from VPS

• Hosting web applications like Nextcloud

• Secured SSH access over VPN

Cloud Server Administration

Sept 2023 – present

• Hosting mail servers (https://stalw.art), FoundationDB as a backend

• Secured FoundationDB with TLS certificates

• Additional applications include Gitea, Linkwarden, and others using Docker

• Data backups are all secured using Restic/Autorestic

• Developed Proprietary System Backy to streamline and automate, ensuring uptime, safety, and compliance

Entropy Estimation

Jan 2026 – May 2026

• Graduate Capstone Project working with NIST and INSuRE.

• Resulted in estimation near 5% of NIST Standards.

• Estimated min-entropy using Python and provided graphs of results

• Administered team Gitlab.

Wallet Transformer Monitor

Sept 2023 – May 2024

• Senior Design Project monitoring a single-phase 120V transformer (ESP-32 and a web dashboard)

• Wrote ESP-32 code that interfaced with an energy sensing chip, temperature sensors, WiFi, and MQTT over SSL.

• Assembled voltage and current sensing, full-bridge rectifier circuits safely

Colaborator, Digital Telepresence (https://git.digitaltelepresence.com/digital-telepresence/)

Apr 2022 – Mar 2024

• DTP is an online application suite for the web

• Collaborated building a new system from the ground up

• Designed novel solutions

• Service-oriented MVVM development and separation of concerns

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Security+ Certified

Current 701

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• Linux, C/C++, Go, and JavaScript • Server Admin / Docker

• Git/Git and CI/CD • Embedded Systems - ESP-32, Arduino, and MSP430

• HTML • NodeJS • IDA Pro and Ghidra • IDS/IPS

• Kali, Wireshark, and metaspolit

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Ishella Fogle: Former Supervisor - 256-655-6642 - isf0001@uah.edu

Dr. Garry Maddux: Former Supervisor - 256-975-7936 - gary.maddux@uah.edu

Brian Cook: Personal - 423-276-8138 - bmcook017@gmail.com