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An IT professional with years of experience in Linux system administration. I have graduated with a Bachelor of IT majoring in the Network Security stream. I have interest in DevOps, Infrastructure, Linux, databases, networking firewalls and VPNs, software, and web development. I was a HD student, and my transcript can be produced on request. IT has always excited me, and I have a passion for using computers. I am currently on a self-learning journey, and I would love the opportunity to learn more. Letters of Commendation can be produced on request
Education
2020 Bachelor of Information Technology at Melbourne Polytechnic
Employment
Pronto Software · Full-time
- Apart of after hours on-call roster to be point of contact engineer for all technical issues
Professional Skills
While in a different industry, experience in previous managerial positions:
- Vendor interactions and price negotiations.
- People networking and strong social skills.
- Conflict resolution.
- Hiring and firing.
- Rostering and management of wage cost.
- Maintaining safety programs.
Technical Skills
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Technologies used and experience gained from Time in industry:
- Linux System Administration (redhat, ubuntu)
- Vmware, NSX Edge CLI, vSphere, vCloud management
- GitLab
- Zabbix monitoring software
- Virtual machines.
- Rancher container management
- KeyCloak
- TCPdump and Wireshark packet sniffing and searching.
- Experience with Informix and MSQL Databases and SQL
- Technologies used and experience gained from University and self-learning:
- Proxmox virtualization
- Docker
- Ansible
- Git
- PfSense over virtual machine and securing personal home network.
- Emulated IDS/IPS Snort and writing basic Snort rules using virtual machine.
- Configuring Zabbix and Grafana monitoring
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Penetration testing experience from CTF’s and online learning portals with:
- Metasploit
- Burp Suite
- Nmap
- SQLMap
- mimikatz and password crackers such as dirbuster, JohnTheRipper, Hydra
- Other red-team tools used in Kali distribution.
- Digital Forensic Experience in:
- Data acquisition standard procedures including bit-by-bit logical and physical drive imaging.
- Understanding of digital evidence analysis and examination using Autopsy and FTK imager and ability to use data carving techniques to extract deleted or damaged files in unallocated or slack space.
- Understanding of data-hiding techniques such as altered file headers, steganography, and bit-shifting.
- Ability to recover files by altering bits using hex editors and recover imbedded data in files using steganography tools.
- Experience in Volatility (vol.py) memory analysis examining memory dumps for network activity and processes running.
- Capstone project included building enterprise level backup and recovery system using AWS infrastructure.
- Basic usage of programming languages:
- Java
- Ruby
- Python
- Web-Development experience building responsive functional blogs, e-business sites and static web pages. Experience in PHP, CSS and JavaScript as well as WordPress sites using Elementor.
- Completed 221 labs in online learning platform Immersive Labs, top ranked in my Education organization at time of graduation. Link to report.