I began my career in Cybersecurity in September, 2015. I started with a position as an intern and ingested pretty much everything I could get my hands on, learning from a small team of awesome people. Home labs, self-managed NSM/SIEMs, vulnerable VMs, rubber ducky, RFID cloning, etc. It was all new to me and I wanted to learn and experience it all.

I started learning about red-team engagements, social engineering, payload obfuscation, etc. As this was a pretty young and new team at the time, many of the projects that I worked on had not yet been refined so I was at the forefront of creating deliverables, adding new narratives, and customizing my team's methodology. The oversight and expertise was on the team, but as a junior member I was trusted with massive responsibilities as well as being provided with amazing resources from whom I could learn. Many of my then-teammates and peers are still close friends and mentors to me today.

After a couple of years of full-time Penetration Testing and consulting, I was promoted to a Senior Consultant role and had a chance to mentor other junior members on our team, cross train with our Security Operation Center, lead Intern groups through training exercises; and overall was able to give back a little bit of my time and help less-experienced individuals learn.

At this point I have obtained multiple Certifications as well as gone back to school to complete an accelerated course in Cybersecurity. Ten years after walking into an internship with zero idea of what to expect, I have performed assessments for hundreds of clients and worked within dozens of industries. My skills at this point range from network testing, physicals security, social engineering, wireless security, active directory audits, password cracking and analysis, digital forensics and incident response, etc. 

While I may have met my goal by at least being exposed to as much as possible, I do still have a lot to learn. Everyone in the industry will tell you that InfoSec is constantly changing - that is cliché but so true. I continue to strive to maintain my current skills and knowledge as well as seek out new techniques and continue to learn from my peers. It is a never ending process and I still want to learn and experience it all.