University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI

B.S., Computer Science - Security Science (expected Spring, 2024)

2023 - Present

Saddleback Community College

A.S., Computer Science/Physics/Cybersecurity/Mathematics

2020 - 2022

Orange Coast College

A.S., Computer Science/Mathematics

2021 - 2022

Irvine Valley College

A.S., Computer Science/Mathematics

2022 - 2022

Student teacher, Keiki Coders

• Work as a student teacher, aiding in programming classes that introduce sicth graders at Kaimuki Middle School to coding. Introduce programming and python topics to middle schoolers through lessons and demos. Provide and help students with their own python projects that help them practice and establish the skills taught. Fill in where needed on materials or resources for the weekly lessons.

2023 - Present

Student employee, UH Manoa Cybersecurity Training

• On campus job that focused on investigating WiFi security. Research and experiment with various WiFi protocols to test the potential security and vulnerabilities. Different tasks include deauthenticating a user off of a network, cracking WEP and WPA protocols, experimenting with a smart lightbulb to learn and exploit the bulb over the network, and eventually creating python scripts that use tools like Scapy to automate these processes.

2023 - 2023

GRC (Governance Risk and Compliance) intern, Reyes Holdings LLC.

• Serve as the Governance, Risk, and Compliance Intern, working with the Red Team, Third Party Risk Management and Exceptions Team, and the Compliance Team. Shadowed meetings and worked on various tasks with each department. Created a remediation dashboard in PowerBI for the Red Team while also training alongside to learn about Microsoft AD misconfiguration exploits. Attended webinars and completed a third party risk assessment for Third Party Risk management department through analyzing SOC 2 Type 2 documents. Created a process for the Compliance Team on how to handle potential unauthorized servers on the network that skipped approval. Worked with security services in experimenting with network security and assessment tools to determine how the department can better use and configure their network analysis tools.

2023 - 2023

Physical Sciences Computer Support Group (PSCSG) student intern, University of California, Irvine

• Work as a student intern in the Physical Sciences Computer Support Group (PSCSG) completing various IT tasks for the department. Tasks ranged from developing LAMP stacks, assisting faculty with their webpages, setting up and fixing WiFi, monitoring network activity, and setting up machines and servers for the department or faculty. Learned to be adaptable when given an array of tasks from using Wireshark for investigating network anomalies for faculty to learning to use recovery tools when deleted or damaged hard drives were brought in.

2021 - 2022

Private Tutor, Self Employed Tutoring

• Serve as a private tutor for physics, math, computer science, and chemistry from elementary school up to college. Handle scheduling and communication with clients. At the peak when tutoring for up to 30 hours a week, utilized Calendly for scheduling of appointments. Learned to assist students in the structure that best supports them as I help them gain confidence and skills in their capabilities.

2021 - 2022

CTF (Capture the Flag) Competition Participant, National Cyber League

Compete in the National Cyber League Capture the Flag competitions with the individual and team game.

Competition Participant, NSA Codebreakers Challege

Complete as many of the nine tasks released each year in the NSA Codebreakers challenge.

Hivestorm Competition Participant, Hivestorm

Secure various systems such as Ubuntu machines or Windows servers to the highest degree possible in the alotted four hour time frame.

Most Distinguished College Project, Phi Theta Kappa Nevada/California

Served as the lead for Saddleback's Phi Theta Kappa College Project, a service project meant to serve the college administration. For our project we created a series of tour videos for the campus. We received Most Distinguished College Project for the Nevada California region and on a national level were recongnized as a Distinguished Chapter Project.

2022-04-11