Experience
Professional Development
Professional Development · Sep 2024 - Present
Remote
Ongoing upskilling (Masterschool AI Cybersecurity) combined with hands-on trainee experience in infrastructure hardening, external testing support, and reporting.
Key Achievements
- Continued structured training and projects across SIEM, detection, incident response, and compliance.
Python
Linux
SIEM fundamentals
NIST CSF
ISO 27001
GDPR
Cybersecurity Engineer (Trainee)
Closed Door Security · Sept 2025 - Present
Remote
Supported secure infrastructure builds and hardening, assisted with scoped external testing tasks, and produced QA-ready customer-facing reports.
Key Achievements
- Supported secure server installation, configuration, and hardening under guidance; deployed VMware and Proxmox plus pfSense.
- Assisted on black box external penetration tests by executing scoped test tasks, capturing evidence, and validating findings with senior testers.
- Independently authored clear structured customer-facing security reports; passed internal QA and were released to customers.
- Shadowed senior testers and joined customer engagements, building methodology and client-facing communication.
VMware
Proxmox
pfSense
Linux
Windows Event Logs
Burp Suite
Nmap
Nessus
OWASP ZAP
Project Manager - Operations & BD
BRUBAKER · May 2021 - Oct 2024
Germany | Netherlands
Scaled operations for an eCommerce platform using system upgrades, process automation, and data-driven forecasting.
Key Achievements
- Scaled operations into a €2M+ eCommerce platform through system upgrades and process automation.
- Implemented data-driven forecasting, reducing stockouts by 30% and excess inventory by 25%.
- Optimized workflows and integrations, lowering costs by 15% and improving delivery speed by 20%.
Operations
process automation
forecasting
stakeholder communication
Telecommunications & Infrastructure Specialist
MJ Quinn · Jan 2013 - Nov 2020
United Kingdom
Delivered fibre infrastructure projects, managing procurement and coordinating large engineering teams to deliver KPI performance.
Key Achievements
- Delivered 15+ fibre infrastructure projects, expanding broadband access to ~100,000 households and businesses with minimal disruption to end users.
- Managed £1M+ procurement budgets per project and coordinated 250+ engineers to hit operational KPIs and maintain low failure rates.
Project delivery
procurement
team coordination
KPI management