Updated 2026
Resume
Cybersecurity analyst with an M.S. in MIS and hands-on experience securing banking environments, cloud infrastructure, and endpoint ecosystems.
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Experience
Cybersecurity Analyst
Sunflower Bank, N.A.
- Lead secure AI enablement across 1,500+ enterprise users; engineer DLP controls and data-loss policies for Microsoft Copilot, preventing NPI leakage and ensuring GLBA/banking compliance.
- Author 55+ alert runbooks across SIEM and EDR environments, standardizing triage pathways and reducing MTTR by 35%.
- Build the enterprise Business Email Compromise (BEC) and email response playbooks, cutting threat containment time by 40% and mitigating wire-fraud risk.
- Design and own a 3-tier access exception framework (Manager → IT Risk → CISO) processing 40+ weekly tickets, eliminating SoD bypasses and maintaining 100% audit readiness.
Graduate Research Analyst
University of Arizona, McKeever MIS Lab
- Led an Information Security Risk Management (RMaP) project performing a formal gap analysis of 58 critical security controls using UASecure and NIST 800-53, ensuring alignment with University and federal standards.
- Engineered an Elastic Stack (ELK) solution to centralize log data and automate security monitoring, improving real-time threat visibility and reporting efficiency by 25%.
Security Operations Analyst — Internship
FirstBank
- Investigated and contained real-time network threats across 2,500+ endpoints using Splunk and CrowdStrike Falcon, while leading a project to draft 10+ standardized incident response playbooks that reduced investigation time by 20%.
- Collaborated with cloud security teams to migrate disaster recovery to AWS, implementing automated failover that eliminated resilience as a critical vulnerability for 2,500+ employees.
- Integrated AI-driven analytics and machine learning cues into Proofpoint to automate phishing detection, reducing manual investigative tasks by 30% and cutting false positive rates.
Strategic Consultant — Project Manager
UA Baseball · Eller College of Management
- Led a data-driven engagement strategy to scale fan attendance potential by an estimated 20%, leveraging 14M+ data points to bridge an awareness gap and increase organization revenue by 10%.
Founder
Arizona Fitness Club
- Founded UA's first bodybuilding-focused club, scaling to 180+ members and 800+ social followers while leading workshops on nutrition, training, and member retention.
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Education
M.S., Management Information Systems
University of Arizona, Eller College of Management
- Concentration: Information Security & Assurance
- Coursework: Pentesting/Ethical Hacking, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Data Management, Data Mining & Machine Learning, Computer Networking
B.S., Management Information Systems
University of Arizona
- GPA 3.8 · Magna Cum Laude · ZipperMan Scholar · Dean's List
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Certifications & Skills
Certifications
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
OCEG IAIP
Cybr Intro to AWS Security
Security Frameworks
NIST AI RMFNIST 800-53
NIST CSF 2.0MITRE ATT&CK
CMMC 2.0SOC 2
Technologies
SplunkCrowdStrike
Carbon BlackProofpoint
ELK StackAWS
TerraformWireshark
Technical Skills
Incident ResponseDetection Engineering
Alert TriageDLP
AI GovernancePythonSQL
Volunteer
FutureCon Cybersecurity Conference
Cyber Education for K-12
OSINT Research