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    Timeline

    Milestones, certifications, and hands-on labs.

    Activity

    14 labs · 3,411 TryHackMe events · 84 OffSec activities · 2 posts · 51 GitHub contributions · 5 milestones in the past year

    2026

    1. Project

      Security Home Lab

      A walkthrough of the design behind my Proxmox-based Active Directory attack-and-defense lab: hardware, network, resource planning, and what I'm adding next.

    2. Writing

      Home Lab Ep. 1: Building a Self-Hosted LLM with Ollama and LibreChat

    3. Writing

      Hack The Box: Busqueda

    4. Project

      Portfolio Website

      A Markdown-driven portfolio with a working terminal, a live lab timeline, and zero manual wiring.

    5. Labs · 10

      Rooted 10 Hack The Box machines

      Builder, Administrator, Forest, Magic, +6 more

      1. Lab

        Rooted Builder on Hack The Box

      2. Lab

        Rooted Administrator on Hack The Box

      3. Lab

        Rooted Forest on Hack The Box

      4. Lab

        Rooted Magic on Hack The Box

      5. Lab

        Rooted Bastard on Hack The Box

      6. Lab

        Rooted Beep on Hack The Box

      7. Lab

        Rooted Bounty on Hack The Box

      8. Lab

        Rooted Cronos on Hack The Box

      9. Lab

        Rooted Shocker on Hack The Box

      10. Lab

        Rooted Bashed on Hack The Box

    6. Work

      Security Operations Engineer at Vertex Inc.

    7. Labs · 2

      Rooted 2 Hack The Box machines

      Admirer, Active

      1. Lab

        Rooted Admirer on Hack The Box

      2. Lab

        Rooted Active on Hack The Box

    8. Award

      Featured in UV Pulse for 11th place in SentinelOne's threat hunting competition

    9. Award

      15th place in the SentinelOne Threat Hunt World Championship

    10. Education

      B.S. Computer & Information Science

      University of Maryland, College Park

    11. Award

      3rd place in the SentinelOne ThreatOps Challenge

      Hyperautomation, alert triage and remediation, and reducing cloud exposure across S3, EKS, and IAM.

    12. Milestone

      Passed the SOC queue certification at UltraViolet Cyber

      Passed on the first attempt, which cleared me to work the alert queue on my own.

    13. Labs · 2

      Rooted 2 Hack The Box machines

      Sau, Busqueda

      1. Lab

        Rooted Sau on Hack The Box

      2. Lab

        Rooted Busqueda on Hack The Box

    14. Milestone

      Worked my first SOC ticket at UltraViolet Cyber

      Triaged a low-severity alert in SentinelOne during my first reverse shadow.

    2025

    1. Work

      Cybersecurity Analyst at UltraViolet Cyber

    2. Education

      A.A. Cybersecurity

      Howard Community College

    3. Labs · 2

      Rooted 2 Hack The Box machines

      Planning, Cap

      1. Lab

        Rooted Planning on Hack The Box

      2. Lab

        Rooted Cap on Hack The Box

    4. Certification

      Certified Professional Penetration Tester (eCPPT)

      INE

    5. Writing

      Intro to Machine Learning

    2024

    1. Certification

      CompTIA Network+

      CompTIA

    2023

    1. Certification

      GIAC Cloud Security Essentials (GCLD)

      GIAC

    2. Work

      IT Support Specialist at University of Maryland

    3. Work

      Cybersecurity Intern at Edwards Performance Solutions

    2022

    1. Certification

      GIAC Foundational Cybersecurity Technologies (GFACT)

      GIAC

    2. Award

      4th place on the red team at HackThePort

      MISI's red team vs. blue team competition on industrial control systems: reconnaissance, stealth, and working against active defenders.

    3. Certification

      CompTIA Security+

      CompTIA

    4. Work

      Cybersecurity Tutor at Howard Community College

    5. Work

      Software Engineering Intern at Thorn Technologies

    2021

    1. Writing

      Ransomware: A Life-Altering Threat

    2. Work

      Cloud Security Researcher at Howard Community College

    3. Labs · 2

      Rooted 2 Hack The Box machines

      Devel, Spectra

      1. Lab

        Rooted Devel on Hack The Box

      2. Lab

        Rooted Spectra on Hack The Box

    4. Labs · 5

      Rooted 5 Hack The Box machines

      Legacy, Blue, Jerry, Netmon, +1 more

      1. Lab

        Rooted Legacy on Hack The Box

      2. Lab

        Rooted Blue on Hack The Box

      3. Lab

        Rooted Jerry on Hack The Box

      4. Lab

        Rooted Netmon on Hack The Box

      5. Lab

        Rooted Lame on Hack The Box

    5. Labs · 1

      Rooted 1 Hack The Box machine

      ScriptKiddie

      1. Lab

        Rooted ScriptKiddie on Hack The Box

    6. Award

      3rd place at Cyber Maryland 2021

      Federal Business Council · with Howard Community College

    7. Labs · 3

      Rooted 3 Hack The Box machines

      Delivery, Academy, Passage

      1. Lab

        Rooted Delivery on Hack The Box

      2. Lab

        Rooted Academy on Hack The Box

      3. Lab

        Rooted Passage on Hack The Box

    2020

    1. Labs · 1

      Rooted 1 Hack The Box machine

      Doctor

      1. Lab

        Rooted Doctor on Hack The Box

    2. Certification

      Junior Penetration Tester (eJPT)

      INE

    3. Award

      2nd place in the Maryland STEM CTF

      Maryland STEM Festival · with Howard Community College

    4. Milestone

      Attended the Johns Hopkins University High School Cybersecurity Workshop

      Two-week summer workshop on hacking ethics, enumeration, exploitation, post-exploitation, Linux, and network analysis.

    5. Writing

      The Anatomy of a URL: Part 1

    6. Writing

      WEP, WPA, WPA2, WPA3