Education:
University of Colorado Colorado Springs

Degree: Bachelor of Innovation in Computer Security

Graduation Date: May 2021

Academic Experience:
Innovation Courses

ENTP 1000: Introduction to Entrepreneurship

Description: Introduced students to the basics of entrepreneurship. Covered concepts including how to begin a startup, the brainstorming processes, creating a proposal, and how to pitch an idea to a group of investors.

INOV 1010: The Innovation Process

Description: Overviews team dynamics within the innovation process. Allows students to experiment with different innovation techniques within different team building exercises and product prototyping.

INOV 2010: Innovation Team: Analyze and Report

Description: Sophomore level course introducing client focused work while on a team. Emphasizes researching, analyzing data, and communicating findings to the team. Client: Jason White | Take-N-Teach (TNT) Scope of Work: Assisted Mr. White in creating a mobile application UI/UX design. Further brainstormed app functionality and researched future potential customer demographics.

Outcome: The team identified a target market by creating surveys and compiling the results and furthered the product design with written product concepts and an overall mobile application design.

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BLAW 2010: Business and Intellectual Property Law

Description: Examined the legal practices needed for innovation within a start-up organization. Focused on intellectual property, including patents and patent applications/filing, copyrights, and brand protection.

INOV 2100: Technical Writing, Proposals, & Presentations

Description: Taught students about grant writing, specifically project reports, funding requests, non-profit information, and technical reports. A Pair of students collaborated to write a grant proposal for real non-profit: The Cyber Resilience Institute (CRI).

INOV 3010: Innovation Team: Research and Execute

Description: Junior level course with advanced participation on a team project. Includes project research, design, and execution. Client: Michael Rothberg | Feast and Famine Living Scope of Work: The initial purpose of this project was to recreate the organization’s website to better reflect the organizations values and add new features. After a mid-project pivot, the scope of work shifted to applying for non-profit status and grant applications plus a social media marketing plan to increase website views and create a network amongst customers and supporters of the organization.

Outcome: The team was able to create a basic outline for a new website using Angular so that the client could finish the design after achieving non-profit status. The team was also able to create a marketing plan that included analytics and social media plans. Lastly, the team completed all non-profit application documentation for applying and began filling our basic grant proposal information for the client to begin applying for grants after gaining non-profit status.

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INOV 4010: Innovation Team: Design and Lead

Description: Senior level course with emphasis on design and becoming the leader of the team’s project. Client: Liz Parsons | Motivations | motivationsfirst@gmail.com Scope of Work: The purpose of the project was to create an easily maintainable website for our client’s different business ventures. Similarly, our goal was to create a website that had a easy to use interface that reflected our client’s needs.

Outcome: The team created a new website for the client. The team was also able to use tools to increase the websites search engine rank to appear for my potential customers. Lastly, the team created a personal recorded how-to-guide for how to edit and add sections to the website for easy customization.

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ENTP 4500: Entrepreneurship and Strategy

Description: This course is the Bachelor of Innovation Capstone class. Students learn to write business proposals and assess their opportunities. Students also further their teamwork and problem-solving techniques through complex projects.

Computer Security Major Courses

CS 1150: Principles of Computer Science

Description: Students developed methods for problem solving and learned basic programming skills. Utilized Java to understand programming techniques and computer systems as well as debugging and data types.

CS 1450: Data Structures and Algorithms

Description: Learned and experimented with different data types and data structures and analyzed efficiency of different programs.

CS 2060: Programming with C

Description: Explored the history of the C programming language and further experimented with different programming concepts like pointers, linked lists, and arrays. Completed the course with a student created game.

CS 2080: Programming with UNIX

Description: Introduced the UNIX/Linux operating system and introduced terminal commands and bash scripts.

CS 2160: Computing Organization and Assembly Language Programming

Description: Examined the concepts of computer architecture, functional logic, computer arithmetic, and basic MIPS programming.

CS 2300: Computational Linear Algebra

Description: Combined mathematical concepts such as matrices, vectors, 3D spaces, neural networks, and eigenvalues with real-world programming challenges using linear algebra concepts.

CS 3050: Social and Ethical Implications of Computing

Description: Discussed the legal implications of programming and hacking. Dove into past examples of unethical behavior and provided a brief history of cyber security and the law.

CS 3060: Object Oriented Programming with C++

Description: Discussed the origins of C++ and the advantages of C++ to other languages. Practiced using object-oriented programming and the benefits of using objects.

CS 3300: Software Engineering I

Description: Course covered software development fundamentals and different development dynamics for real world industry teams. Featured a software development project for student teams using the waterfall lifecycle.

CS 3910: System Administration and Security

Description: Covered mainstream operating systems and network services. Students practiced basic virtual machine uses and involved fieldtrips to UCCS servers and IT facilities.

CS 4200: Computer Architecture I

Description: Included advanced computer architecture concepts as well as hierarchy design, caching, storage, and memory systems. Students practiced computing different computer properties.

CS 4220: Computer Networks

Date: Spring 2020

Description: Course focuses on the basic network topography and design. Students developed techniques for handling error detection, TCP/UDP, packets, and internet protocols.

CS 4420: Database Systems I

Description: Introduced data storage, and database design. Students practiced using database programs such as basic SQL and Neo4j. Included team project to dynamically organize data in a graph format to display information in an easily readable format.

CS 4500: Operating Systems I

Description: Introduces computer architecture concepts and differentiates architecture based on which operating system is being used. Included dynamic resource allocation, scheduling, and processing times.

CS 4910: Intro to Computer Security

Description: Included computer vulnerabilities, threats, penetrations, and included past hacks and vulnerabilities in systems. Introduced basic cryptography concepts.

CS 4920: Applied Cryptography

Description: Included basic cryptography methods and basics such as public key, private key, hashing, encoding, and decoding. Provided students with the tools and mathematics to program encryption methods and decryption methods.

CS 4940: Ethical Hacking

Description: Provided a history of hacking and a discussed many recent hacks. Included basic cyber security principles and legal practices used for legal penetration testing.

CS 4950: Homeland Security and Cyber Security

Description: Overviewed the history of terrorism and threats within the United States. Covered the creation of the Homeland Security and their responsibilities. Included cyber security incidents and hacker protections and laws.