Networking, cybersecurity, and cloud technologies - from coursework, co-ops, and projects.

I got into IT because I like the moment a system actually works the way it's supposed to - a VLAN that isolates exactly the traffic it should, a firewall rule that closes one hole and nothing else. That's carried through four co-ops in manufacturing IT and university research, where I've moved from configuring networks someone else designed to designing them myself, and from resolving tickets to writing the segmentation policy that prevents them.

My goal after graduation is to work in networking, systems, and infrastructure - where I'll bring a cybersecurity-first perspective - as a network engineer or systems engineer, ideally somewhere that work also means protecting people - manufacturing, healthcare, finance, or government.