Personal lab environment used to gain practical hands-on experience with industry-standard cybersecurity technologies and IT infrastructure. Key learnings include:

• Installed and configured Proxmox VE, leveraging virtualization to better understand key IT infrastructure and technologies.
• Performed static and dynamic malware analysis in isolated virtualized environments, developing proficiency in disassembly, reverse engineering, network traffic monitoring, and system analysis.
• Recording hardware and software installations and system configurations, producing precise documentation.

Led a team of 4 to develop a comprehensive 30-page data infrastructure plan for a hypothetical local movie rental company pivoting to streaming, successfully meeting a 15-week deadline. Key deliverables include:

• Analyzed user roles and database access privileges for a system designed to support 50+ unique users, proposing backup and recovery strategies to ensure 99.9% data integrity.
• Designed a scalable database repository consisting of over 10 tables and created the associated ER diagram.
• Developed a dynamic dashboard using PowerBI, projecting a 20% improvement in report generation time.
• Facilitated 16 team meetings, monitored individual and team deliverables, and presented the final project to representative stakeholders, receiving a 90% approval rating and earning the highest grade in the class.