Website: Marylandersonline.umd.edu 

Marylandersonline: University of Maryland Extension, Digital Literacy Project

Led research efforts for $6M federally-funded Digital Literacy Project, providing strategic insights, and compelling data to support grant applications. Instrumental in the development & execution of this initiative to digitally empower residents across the state of MD.

Conducted Research on AI and RAG, LLM models in enhancing digital literacy & equity, identifying multiple high-impact use cases that can benefit the Project, leading to the development of these AI-powered features that improved the learning experience.

Managed the project's website content, collaborating with team members to create and publish web-based resources related to digital literacy, resulting in an 80% increase in website traffic and increased user retention.

Experienced in Incident Response, Threat Hunting, malware, email, and phishing analysis with a track record of timely detection and mitigation of potential threats such as ransomware, APTs, Botnet, DDoS, phishing, and impersonation attacks.  

As a key member of an MSSP, proactively performed 24/7 threat hunting, risk mitigation, and incident response. My contributions helped scale the SOC from 6 clients to successfully overseeing 16 clients within 2 years.

Responsible for writing Incident Response playbooks for malware, phishing, and network intrusion.

 Demonstrated my expertise in SIEM and EDR tools by creating new rules to enhance our detection capabilities.

Successfully trained and onboarded 10+ security analysts within a 3-month timeframe, resulting in a 50% increase in incident handling efficiency.  

Actively worked on an impersonation attack that caused monetary damage to a client’s brand by demanding ransom and used my threat hunt expertise to identify and contain the threat, ultimately resolving the issue.