Dallas, a lot of testing, and a turn toward security.

I studied computer engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas from August 2020 to December 2023 and graduated cum laude with a 3.74 GPA. The degree kept one foot in hardware and one in software, and the co-ops I did during school were split the same way.

Senior design was HoverDR1, a UTDesign 2023 project: an audio-reactive module for educational hoverboards. We won Best in Show at the Senior Design Expo and raised more than $1,500 through Kickstarter campaigns and the marketing around them. The engineering was only half of it; getting strangers to fund a student project taught me how much of shipping is explaining. There is a write-up.

Before UTD, in a Project Lead The Way program in Frisco, I built a baby safety awareness device: an infrared wristband and a wall-mountable sensor that alerted parents when a child moved. It was the first thing I made that had to be right rather than merely working.

Two co-ops at Crestron Electronics in Plano, back to back. Quality engineering first, February to December 2022: writing and running WebUI test cases, automating page-level tests with Maven, and wiring remote panel testing into Appium and Jenkins pipelines. Then firmware, January to August 2023: enhancements in C, C++, JavaScript, and Python, a Python and Kivy interface for reaching devices over WebSockets, and a C++ JSON-schema validation library that rejected malformed data before it reached anything that mattered. That summer I also mentored two interns and onboarded two full-time engineers.

The validation library is the project I think about most now. It was a security control. I just did not call it that at the time.

Through all of school I also worked retail, first at Walmart and then as a Microsoft Certified Advisor at Best Buy, where I ranked among the top Microsoft sellers in the country. That is where I learned to explain a technical thing to someone who does not care how it works, which turns out to be most of consulting.

I joined Protiviti in Dallas in April 2024 as a Technology Consultant and was promoted to Senior Consultant in June 2026. The through-line of my work there is automation that produces evidence. I built an automated test suite framework that the team adopted across four different tools, and before that a Python suite in Jenkins that validates API calculations.

The current project extends that framework to evaluate an agent-to-agent AI system on Azure. Every run is recorded, and statistical outliers in which model was used and how much compute it consumed are flagged for review. Azure's built-in agent-quality library is being integrated now. For a period I also led the Managed Business Solution team, where we resolved about five tickets an hour against a benchmark of one.

From September 2025 to June 2026 I additionally worked in clinical trial recruitment at Veradermics, managing outreach and enrollment through the TrialBee platform and finishing as one of the team's top recruiters. It was a detour, and a useful one. Human-subjects protection and Good Clinical Practice training is a different kind of security, and the recordkeeping discipline transfers directly.

I started the Online Master of Science in Cybersecurity in August 2026 and expect to finish in 2028, taking courses around a full-time job. I chose security because every project I have been proud of was really about trust: does this data conform to what it claims to be, does this system do what it says, and can I prove either. Security formalizes those questions and adds the part I had been leaving out, which is someone actively trying to break the answer.

Coursework will be listed on the Experience page as each semester finishes. I would rather show what I have completed than what I have enrolled in.

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