Volunteering - White Whiskers Senior Dog Sanctuary

In August of 2023 I began my interest in the newly established and not yet fully functional senior dog rescue in Akron, NY appropriately called "White Whiskers Senior Dog Sanctuary" which is to be a 25 dog free roam facility manned completely by volunteer staff and funded via donations. The...

Blue Teaming with Security Blue Team and Let's Defend

Spending the end of 2023 focusing in on Blue Teaming activities, tools and techniques in Cybersecurity in order to further expand my learning base. I anticipate this taking well into 2025 on the Security Blue Team Platform and Let's Defend learning platforms. Both offer hands on approach using tools of...

Volunteering - Messinger Woods Wildlife Care 2024

The opportunity to volunteer on a weekly basis in a working wildlife care facility in Holland, NY. Operating as a functioning animal care facility since 2003, Messinger Woods provided a perfect opportunity to learn from other rehabbers with years of experience as well as function on teams of animal lovers...

Wildlife Rehabilitation Training with AWARE

In early 2024, a lifelong dream got underway to becoming a licensed NYS wildlife rehabilitator. We trained for 5 weeks with AWARE Wildlife Rehab and prepared to take the exam in April. In April the exam was taken, passed, paperwork sent to Albany and a few weeks later an interview...

Try Hack Me! Soc Analyst Level 1 Learning Path

  After spending a great deal of time studying terminology and concepts, it was time to dig into tools of the trade and get more in-depth working knowledge of all aspects of a SOC analyst role. Thoughts on each room along the way.... Cyber Defense Networks In this series of...

Trocaire/Goodwill Career Good Skills Skillbuilder Cybersafe Training

Providing both in-person and simultaneous live streamed sessions over MS Teams of Cybersafe training to those looking to reskill for the modern workforce be it starting out in tech or in manufacturing must begin with a lesson is being safe online and securing our most secure data assets in the...

InfoSec716 Local Security Discord & Meetup Group

In order to network and immerse in the local community I joined and regularly attend the InfoSec716 Discord meetups to stay updated on local security related topics and participate in talks by local experts in the field.

HomeLab - Setup

HomeLab

In order to truly learn one must put practical knowledge to work and given that most data centers refuse to let me in for "experimentation" it was time to setup a Home Lab environment. After doing many hours of research on devices to host a home server I decided to...

Microsoft Learn - Azure AZ-900 Cloud Fundamentals

Training

In addition to the materials provided by the ATTAIN Labs, I found the material provided by Microsoft to be much more in-depth and offered better lab environments within an Azure Sandbox environment. In addition they had a Microsoft Ignite Cloud Skills Challenge running for a no cost exam voucher so...

Cisco Learning Network - Ongoing Training [Networking]

Training

Upon completion of the Packet Tracer training, I decided to take advantage of more Cisco free training and learning with both packet tracer and networking concepts and Cisco networking products.

Hack The Box Academy

Simulation

Starting the beginning stages of learning pentesting and security at Hack the Box. Completed Module 1 of understanding the platform and jumping right into Web Requests on a skill path toward Information Security Foundations and toward a career path of Junior Penetration Tester.  

Amazon AWS

Simulation

My ongoing pursuit of learning Amazon AWS. In addition to taking two courses offered by Amazon including: AWS Cloud Technical Essentials and Building Serverless Applications, I have attended Amazon Technical Essentials Day 2021 Webinar and AWSome Day 2021. I hope to soon become AWS Cloud Practitioner Certified and possibly go...