Experience
Service recordVulnerability Assessment Team analyst intern
- Organization
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security (CBP), HS-POWER Program
- Period
- May 2026 to August 2026
- Location
- Ashburn, VA
- Matched Nessus/Tenable scan results against the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog to identify high-risk systems and aged findings.
- Designed a risk-based prioritization method weighing KEV status, asset criticality, exposure, EPSS and CVSS, and benchmarked remediation against CISA BOD 26-04 timelines.
- Built a multi-page Power BI dashboard and an executive briefing on actively exploited vulnerabilities and mitigations for technical and leadership audiences.
- Wrote compliance reports and remediation recommendations aligned with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and FedRAMP.
Work product from this role is not published. The public projects use synthetic or open data only; kev-risk-prioritization is the closest public relative.
Education
- George Mason University
- B.S. Information Technology, Cybersecurity Minor. Expected May 2028.
- Northern Virginia Community College
- A.S. Information Technology, May 2026. GPA 3.7.
Certifications
- CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701), issued November 5, 2025. Certificate (PDF)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, issued September 24, 2025. Certificate (PDF)
- In progress: OSCP and AWS Certified Security - Specialty. Not yet earned.