~$ ./About_Me

I am one of those people who is lucky enough not only to get to do what they love every day but also to get to make a living doing it. Officially, my career in information security started in August of 2018 when I accepted my first full-time information security position at a company providing hospital and healthcare services across the US after graduating from Pennsylvania State University with a bachelor's degree in Security and Risk Analysis (SRA) in the spring of that same year. However, I've always found this way of marking the start of one's personal career growth to be a bit reductionist as, like many others in this field, I began training for what would eventually become my career much less formally years before I even started at Penn State. In reality, information security is not just something I started learning in college. I have been interested in what we now formally call "information security" for as long as I can remember; and in computers and technology broadly for even longer. Even still, all of these things aren't just interests of mine, they are also the things that I am most passionate about.

Suffice it to say, having only been working in information security professionally since 2018, I still have a lot of professional development to do. So far, in my relatively limited time in this industry, I’ve learned far more than I can easily quantify. I am by no means, at the point where I am today, an expert in the field, but my passion to become one continues to drive me to learn, research, and educate myself at every opportunity I have. As I once put it in a job interview, for me this doesn't stop at five o'clock when I leave the office for the day. That's just the way that it is with the things we're passionate about and it still remains true for me today.

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