Experience
CBIZ Technology
Cybersecurity Consultant
June 2024 – Present
- Led security control assessments across 12+ client environments against ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2 Type II, and TISAX, with 100% client audit pass rate, and all implementations recommended for ISO 27001 certification.
- Reviewed access control, change management, SDLC, and configuration management processes to surface drift between documented policy and operational reality, remediating gaps with IT and DevOps throughout the process.
- Built audit-ready evidence packages and led clients through control implementation ahead of ISO 27001, SOC 2, and TISAX certification assessments.
- Authored 40+ security policies and procedures spanning access management, change management, incident response, and SDLC, each tailored to the specific client environment with defined control ownership.
CBIZ Technology
Intern, IT / Internal Audit
Jan 2024 – Jun 2024
- Evaluated cybersecurity and IT general controls against FDICIA and SOX requirements.
- Authored audit findings reports prioritizing the highest-risk control weaknesses for client remediation.
Projects & early experience
PortalVision
Personal project
2025 – Present
- Built out the identity, access control, and application security architecture end to end.
- Designed the authentication and authorization layer on Auth0 with JWT-based session handling and database-backed role claims driving every authorization decision.
- Enforced role-based access control across all API endpoints with tiered separation of admin, authenticated user, and public routes.
- Shipped the privileged admin console for user and organization lifecycle management, isolating administrative actions behind elevated role checks via the Auth0 Management API.
- Hardened the production deployment with CORS policy, bearer-token enforcement on all API calls, environment-scoped secrets management, and multi-stage container builds.
University of Kansas
MeshMapper — Master’s Research Project
May – Dec 2023
- Implemented BLE link-layer encryption via custom ESP32 firmware, defeating sniffing and man-in-the-middle attacks across Bluetooth Mesh topologies.
- Built the GIS-based auto-provisioning layer on Google Cloud and the Google Maps API to deploy encrypted mesh nodes across a mapped region.
Satcom Direct
Information Security / Software Engineering Intern
Summer 2020, 2021
- Prototyped an OWASP Dependency-Track integration for the CI/CD pipeline to surface vulnerable third-party components in the software supply chain.
- Contributed backend and frontend enhancements to a SaaS flight-planning platform used by corporate and private aviation customers.
Education
- M.S., Computer Science — University of Kansas, Dec 2023
- B.S., Computer Science — University of Kansas, May 2022
Certifications
- CompTIA Security+, Oct 2025
- ISO/IEC 27001 Implementer, Jan 2025
- ISACA member
Technical skills
Security Domains
Vulnerability Management, Identity & Access Management, Application Security, Cloud Security, GRC.
Control Frameworks
ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 27017, SOC 2 Type II, TISAX, NIST CSF, FDICIA, SOX.
Identity & Access
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC, JWT, Auth0, Spring Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
Tools & Platforms
Google Cloud Platform, Docker, PostgreSQL, Git, Render.
Programming
Python, Java, SQL, JavaScript / ReactJS, Bash, C, C++.