IT & Cybersecurity student @ Kean University ('27) · SOC & DFIR · NSF CAHSI undergraduate researcher · President of NextGen Cyber & VP of Kean ACM
🎯 Seeking Summer 2027 cybersecurity internships (SOC, detection engineering, DFIR, cloud security)
- B.S. Information Technology, Cybersecurity concentration, Kean University. GPA 3.9, graduating May 2027
- Cybersecurity Analyst @ Digital Team Six (Jan 2026–present): triage 250+ alerts a week on an AI-assisted investigation platform, enrich IOCs, and tune alerts
- Digital Forensics Incident Response Investigator @ Bytehounds LLC (Apr 2024–present): device imaging, sign-in log analysis, chain of custody, and MITRE ATT&CK mapping
- First-author researcher, NSF CAHSI LREU (abstract at GMiS 2026): testing whether LLMs actually compute ciphers or just pattern-match
- Organizer, KeanUHackThis hackathon · CTFs and mentoring through Kean ACM, NextGen Cyber, and WiCyS
- 📜 Google Cybersecurity Certificate · Computer Forensics Specialization · studying for Security+ (SY0-701) and Network+ (N10-009)
| Project | What it is | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| 🤖 ACM Job Radar | Serverless Discord bot that posts ~100 CS/IT internships and new-grad roles a day for Kean ACM, routed by degree level | Python · GitHub Actions · Discord webhooks |
| 🔬 LLMs vs. Cryptography | 600-case NSF-funded study of Claude Sonnet 4.6: fixed-shift Caesar solved 38/40 in English but 0/40 on pseudowords, evidence of pattern-matching over computation | Python · React · experiment design |
| 🚨 Python IDS | Live packet-capture IDS: SYN-flood and port-scan signatures plus IsolationForest anomaly detection | Python · Scapy · scikit-learn |
| 🎣 PhishGuard | Full-stack phishing email scanner with risk scores, evidence, incident triage, and a retraining loop | FastAPI · scikit-learn · React |
| ☁️ AWS Cloud SOC Lab | Exposed EC2 target monitored by GuardDuty. 364 findings triaged in Security Hub | AWS · GuardDuty · Security Hub |
| 🌍 Azure Sentinel SIEM | Geolocates failed RDP logons with PowerShell and maps attacks live with KQL workbooks | Azure · Sentinel · KQL · PowerShell |
More projects
- 🔐 Password Breach Detection: checks passwords against Have I Been Pwned using k-anonymity
- 🏢 Active Directory Homelab: Windows Server DC, DNS/DHCP, RAS/NAT, PowerShell user provisioning
- 📹 AI Surveillance Lab: rack build, PoE, NVR, and AI-tracking IP cameras
- 🏆 PhishBait: KeanUHackThis 2025 phishing-awareness chatbot (React + Vite)
- 🌱 EarthWise: Princeton hackathon 2025 team project, an AI sustainability coach
- ⏱️ Time Clock: iPhone clock-in app that generates Word/PDF invoices
Investigations (write-ups coming soon): endpoint compromise and ransomware forensics (Procmon, PowerShell logs, WMI) · email and network forensics of a BEC case (Wireshark: SMTP, DNS, DHCP) · Snort IDS in Docker · pfSense + Splunk monitoring lab
| Area | Tools |
|---|---|
| SecOps & threat intel | Splunk · Microsoft Sentinel · M365 Defender · Check Point Harmony · VirusTotal · AbuseIPDB · OTX |
| DFIR | Magnet AXIOM · Cellebrite UFED · Procmon · Windows Event Logs · WMI · chain of custody |
| Network | Wireshark · Snort · Scapy · pfSense · network segmentation |
| Cloud | AWS (EC2, GuardDuty, Security Hub) · Azure (Log Analytics, Sentinel) |
| Frameworks | MITRE ATT&CK · NIST CSF · incident classification and escalation |
| Code | Python · PowerShell · Bash · SQL · KQL · JavaScript |
Always happy to talk security, research, or hackathons. Reach out!