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Featured Work

Featured Work

This section is organized by professional relevance rather than course number.

The goal is to show how my professional experience, ServiceNow SecOps focus, cybersecurity education, and technical projects connect together.

Browse the themed sections below, or open the complete project directory for every published academic case study, professional case study, lab, checklist, and concept.

How to use this page: Start with ServiceNow SecOps, Incident Response, Digital Forensics, Malware Analysis, and Governance. The remaining projects provide supporting technical foundation.


Primary Technical Evidence
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ServiceNow SecOps & Vulnerability Response
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My primary technical focus area.

Covers Vulnerability Response workflow design, ownership, remediation tracking, validation, exception handling, closure, and security operations process improvement.

Primary Focus ServiceNow SecOps

Incident Response Investigation & Forensics
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Capstone incident investigation involving phishing, malware activity, forensic evidence, memory artifacts, logs, timelines, impact assessment, and remediation planning.

CYBER 440 Capstone

Malware Analysis & Reverse Engineering
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Hands-on malware analysis covering static analysis, dynamic analysis, UPX unpacking, strings analysis, ProcMon, RegShot, IDA Pro, Ghidra, Binary Ninja, and reverse engineering concepts.

CYBER 366 Malware Analysis

Digital Forensics Investigation
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Forensic imaging, hash verification, registry analysis, deleted-file recovery, evidence handling, data carving, and AI/IoT forensic research.

IST 454 Digital Forensics

Governance, Risk & Privacy
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Security management, ransomware response, compromised credentials, risk treatment, policy development, contingency planning, governance, and compliance-aware decision making.

IST 456 GRC

Network Security Internship Experience
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Professional internship experience involving networking labs, technical validation, documentation, research, troubleshooting, and academic technology support.

IST 495 Internship

Security Operations & Incident Response Foundation
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Project
Focus
Course
NIST 800-61, CSIRT structure, communication planning, containment, recovery, disaster recovery, business continuity, and post-incident lessons learned.
CYBER 342W
Firewall review, packet captures, suspicious traffic, containment decisions, process identification, and defensive investigation workflow.
IST 451
Service identification, OpenVAS, SQL injection concepts, IDS concepts, malware analysis, Apache hardening, and wireless security.
IST 451
Linux logs, Wazuh, Snort, Splunk, Python parsing, host defense, 2FA concepts, and buffer overflow exposure.
CYBER 262
Packet analysis, Splunk review, clustering, supervised learning, anomaly detection, and traffic investigation concepts.
CYBER 362
Wireshark, OWASP ZAP, pfSense, Active Directory, file system forensics, and Splunk log analysis across foundational security labs.
SRA 221

Governance, Risk & Decision Making
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Project
Focus
Course
Privacy, cybercrime, surveillance, governance, compliance, legal considerations, and cybersecurity policy analysis.
IST 432
Threat modeling, risk treatment, confidence analysis, risk matrices, weighted ranking, and organizational risk maturity.
SRA 311
Decision trees, expected value, decisions under uncertainty, group decisions, and structured security reasoning.
SRA 231

OT/ICS, Cloud & Software Foundations
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Project
Focus
Course
SCADA visibility disruption, application-level DoS behavior, operational impact, availability concerns, and recovery validation.
IST 451
Docker, OpenStack, Hyper-V, SECaaS, zero trust concepts, cloud architecture, workflow design, and secure deployment thinking.
IST 402
User research, workflow design, Figma, usability testing, prototyping, accessibility awareness, and interface improvement.
IST 331
Requirements analysis, object-oriented design, persistence, MVC concepts, GUI workflows, and testing.
IST 261
Inheritance, polymorphism, abstract classes, interfaces, Swing applications, validation, and software structure.
IST 242
Java fundamentals, control flow, methods, classes, object-oriented programming, and progressive programming lab practice.
IST 240
Lists, queues, trees, graphs, Big-O analysis, UML and CRC modeling, JUnit, debugging, and Git workflow practice.
IST 311
Multi-page website design using HTML and CSS, navigation structure, layout, styling, and front-end development practice.
IST 250

Portfolio Engineering
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Design and development of this public portfolio, including Hugo, Cloudflare Pages, GitHub, navigation, and privacy-conscious publishing.
Personal Project

Complete Project Directory
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This directory is generated from the published portfolio pages. Academic work remains separate from professional experience, personal labs, and concept proposals.

Browse all 31 entries: 22 academic and 9 professional, lab, and concept pages

Academic Projects & Course Labs

Professional Experience, Personal Labs & Concepts

These pages describe different types of work; each page identifies its own context and status.


Where I Am Headed
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My professional direction is centered around:

  • ServiceNow SecOps
  • Vulnerability Response
  • Security Operations
  • Cybersecurity Consulting
  • Client-Facing Delivery
  • OT/ICS Security

The projects above show the technical foundation supporting that path.