About
Current Role
- Security Operations Center Analyst
Academia
- University of South Florida (USF) Bachelors of Science in Cybersecurity
- Intelligence Studies Minor
- University of South Florida (USF) Masters of Science in Cybersecurity (Expected: December 2026)
Certifications
- Altered Security Certified Red Team Professional (CRTP)
- CompTIA Security Analytics Professional
- CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+ (CySA+)
- CompTIA Security+ (Sec+)
- Rapid7 InsightIDR Certified Specialist
Competitions
- [2025][1st] Social Engineering Competition hosted by Temple University
- 40 teams leveraged common social engineering tactics such as vishing, phishing, and pretext creation to evaluate the security of a mock organization.
- [2025][1st] BSides Tampa HackTheBox CTF
- 7 Hour CTF Competition comprising challenges across AI, ICS, Pwn, Fullpwn, Web, and Reversing. Team members included Nevin Southammavong, Fagan Afandiyev, Grant Stevens (Self), Miles Stevens, and Alex Sanders.
- [2025][3rd] Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (SECCDC)
- Most valuable teammate award
- Collegiate defense competition where students defend a simulated corporate network infrastructure against simulated cyberattack
- [2025] SouthEast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Qualifiers
- Advanced to regionals
- [2025][3rd] NCAE Cybergames
- [2024][Top 5%] HiveStorm 2024
- Collegiate blue team competition where teams compete to secure virtual machines by removing malware, correcting misconfigurations, and mitigating vulnerabilities
- [2024][2nd] Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division National CRAM Challenge
- Holistic Exploit Risk Discovery (HERD) Tool
- Where teams develop algorithms to measure a system’s Cyber Defensive Capabilities against full spectrum threats and calculate the probability of failure against threat profiles.
Extracurricular Activities
- USF CyberHerd Colligate Cybersecurity Competition Team
- Red team member
- WhiteHatters Computer Security Club (WCSC) at USF
- Head of Operations, Red Team Teacher (Current Role), Treasurer, CTF Architect, Member
- ReliaQuest Cybersecurity Labs Program
- Rapid7 Cyber Threat Intelligence Research Lab Participant
- Participated in a non conventional investigation of a compromised environment from the perspective of a Security Analyst. Raw logs were used to break down and investigate a complete Kill Chain within a mock Active Directory enterprise.