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Resume

Security engineer focused on AI security, secure pipelines, and compliance.

Experience

  1. Security Owner

    May 2026 – Present
    CCAI, Information Security
    • Map AI risks, maintain the risk register, and flag new threats directly to the CTO.
    • Build and own software engineering and GitHub pipeline security gates for AI systems.
    • Flag EU AI Act compliance triggers in pull requests and escalate as required.
    • Own security scans and evidence collection for production incidents.
    • Review and approve every AI-touching release before shipment.
  2. Information Security Intern

    Feb 2026 – May 2026
    University of Notre Dame, Office of Information Technology
    • Conducted third-party risk assessments in accordance with HECVAT and department policy.
    • Created custom AI rules within the email security platform to detect and block niche phishing campaigns.
    • Supported security awareness initiatives, including promoting 1Password adoption across the organization.
  3. Graduate Researcher

    Aug 2024 – May 2026
    Indiana University South Bend, Department of Computer Science
    • Designed and implemented a Privacy-Preserving AI Secure Gateway that detects PII, malicious prompts, and unsafe outputs.
    • Researched AI system reliability and ethical deployment, applying DAG-based dependency resolution to ensure correct execution.
    • Evaluated performance tradeoffs across compute-intensive deep learning models.
  4. Computer Consultant

    Sept 2022 – Aug 2024
    University of Notre Dame, Office of Information Technology
    • Ensured endpoint compliance with institutional security policies across faculty and staff systems.
    • Authored SOC-style knowledge base documentation, improving incident response consistency.
    • Supported incident triage, escalation workflows, and root cause analysis.
  5. Research Programmer

    May 2021 – Aug 2022
    University of Notre Dame, Center for Research Computing
    • Developed secure data collection features supporting controlled research access.
    • Built a grant discovery crawler with structured and controlled data ingestion.

Education

  1. MS, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

    Indiana University South Bend · Focus in Information Security and AI
  2. BS, Computer Science

    Indiana University South Bend · Mathematics minor

Skills

Security
Secure coding, OWASP, authentication, encryption, logging, incident response
Compliance
NIST, ISO frameworks, EU AI Act, policy documentation, risk management
Concepts
Threat modeling, vulnerability mitigation, system hardening
Tools
ServiceNow, BMC Remedy ITSM, Abnormal AI, knowledge base playbooks, monitoring workflows
Programming
Python, Java, SQL, scripting and automation