Projects

Selected work, sanitized for public sharing — spanning DoD network operations and a self-hosted, enterprise-grade homelab.

ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION HOMELAB — Dual-socket Dell PowerEdge host on Proxmox with iDRAC out-of-band management, running multiple production-style VM workloads.

ZERO-TRUST NETWORK & FIREWALL — Segmented network on OPNsense with VLAN isolation and Twingate zero-trust remote access; periodic Nessus / OpenVAS vulnerability scans and remediation.

STIG COMPLIANCE AUTOMATION — Built a findings database and script that cut DISA STIG scans from hours to minutes for a DoD network team. (Process and tooling only — no sensitive configuration shared.)

SELF-HOSTED AI STACK — Local AI stack (Ollama, Open WebUI, Qdrant vector database) on dedicated GPU hardware, exploring retrieval-augmented generation and private model serving.

EDGE-SECURED WEB SERVICES — Public-facing services behind a Caddy reverse proxy and Cloudflare, managing DNS and TLS end-to-end.

DATA-CENTER OPERATIONS — Authored an asset-auditing guideline bridging a legacy platform and revamped new-hire onboarding to save ~1 week of ramp per hire.

Certifications

CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) — valid through Aug 2027

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

Cisco CCNP-Enterprise — in progress

B.S. Information Technology, William Paterson University (Honors) · CompTIA Security+ CE

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