I build security controls and AI-powered tools, test them against real systems, and publish what failed alongside what passed. MIS senior at Iowa State with a Cybersecurity Engineering minor, graduating December 2026; CompTIA Security+; former cybersecurity intern at HNI. Open to entry-level roles in security engineering, security operations or identity and access management, and AI engineering or automation roles, from January 2027.
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Disabled isn't done. Automated employee offboarding that proves the person's access is really gone. An HR event shuts off their access in Microsoft Entra ID, Keycloak and an Active Directory-compatible directory, and each system is checked to confirm the change.
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Catch identity attacks in the logs a SOC already has. Sigma rules for password spraying, Kerberoasting, MFA fatigue and device code phishing in Windows and Microsoft Entra ID logs, tested on public attack data and compared with the community's rules. A lab version catches access that should have ended.
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The two work as a pair: AccessOps sends a signed event for each offboarding step, and SignalBridge verifies those events and opens a critical case if a departed account is used anyway.
| Project | What it is | Highlight |
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| BetTail | Live web app where private groups share sports picks and track results | Profit, ROI and leaderboards calculated in the database; row-level security on every exposed table; 6 fixes from my security review |
| Netted | Personal-finance app for trade profit, shared funds and budgeting | Accounting rules written before any code; MFA enforced in the database; 7-item risk register |
| Downfield | Local AI research agent that writes structured NFL reports for BetTail | 32 games across two NFL weeks and 415 saved reports so far; every report checked by code; forecasts graded after each game |
BetTail, Netted and Downfield are private; their case studies link selected code and tests.
Cybersecurity Intern, HNI Corporation · May–July 2026
Automated triage for 3 identity-alert types in Cortex XSIAM (30+ alerts handled without manual review), supported phishing response and data-loss investigations with Proofpoint, built Python threat-intelligence integrations, and wrote Rego controls and Wiz queries for Azure.



