IT, networking, and security.

January 2020 to July 2026 / Athens, Ohio

Dirty Girl Coffee / Operations Manager

Administered Square point-of-sale, WooCommerce ecommerce, financial platforms, and segregated operational and administrative email. Provided first-line troubleshooting for a team of 5+ during live operations, with downtime immediately affecting revenue.

Detected recurring failed $1 transactions as a card-testing attack, documented the payment integration weakness, escalated the issue, and implemented CAPTCHA-based mitigation after the vendor declined to remediate.

April 2023 to July 2024 / Independence, Ohio

Quasar Energy Group / AP and AR Specialist

Processed 200+ invoices monthly in internal financial systems, maintained accurate records, and resolved discrepancies through customer and vendor communication.

Infrastructure and systems / ongoing

Home Lab: IT Infrastructure and Network Administration

Operate Proxmox with Windows and Linux guests, TrueNAS and ZFS storage, Pi-hole DNS filtering, Tailscale remote access, layered backups, and an isolated Kali security-learning VM.

Security / implemented

Wazuh SIEM Lab: Deployment and Alert Triage

Deployed Wazuh 4.14.7 as an all-in-one manager, indexer, Filebeat, and dashboard stack on Proxmox. Enrolled one Linux agent, validated FIM live-fire alerts, triaged and remediated a vulnerability finding, and wrote a custom SSH detection rule tested in logtest and live fire.

Web / ongoing

Secure Software Development Practice

Use gitleaks secrets detection in pre-commit and CI workflows, pin internal dependencies to release tags, and maintain security review standards covering CSP, headers, client bundles, and bot protection.