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Promoted from Junior Cybersecurity Analyst. Leads daily monitoring, detection tuning, and incident response across the SOC.

• ▸Investigate 800+ security alerts monthly across Splunk SIEM, performing log analysis, incident triage, and detection tuning that cut false positives by 20%.
• ▸Lead end-to-end response for critical incidents, reducing Mean Time to Containment (MTTC) by 30% against tracked SOC KPIs.
• ▸Hardened exposed systems after assessments (Nessus, Nmap), remediating endpoints and reducing the attack surface by 40%.
• ▸Identified and analyzed a coordinated web-server attack (20,000+ automated requests) via threat hunting, log correlation, and traffic analysis, confirming no compromise.
• ▸Performed malware analysis with FLARE VM, REMnux, Procmon, Wireshark, and YARA to extract behavioral indicators and support investigations.

• Splunk
• Nessus
• Nmap
• Wireshark
• FLARE VM
• REMnux
• YARA

Vulnerability management, phishing triage, and alert correlation for a Nigerian fintech cooperative.

• ▸Ran Nessus vulnerability assessments, identifying and prioritizing 10+ critical and high-severity findings and supporting remediation.
• ▸Drove phishing investigations with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, VirusTotal, and URLScan, analyzing headers, attachments, and IOCs.
• ▸Correlated alerts, endpoint events, and logs in Splunk, separating real threats from false positives and escalating confirmed incidents.

• Nessus
• Splunk
• Microsoft Defender
• VirusTotal
• URLScan

Systems and network administration for a pharmaceutical company supporting 1,300+ users.

• ▸Managed Windows Server, Active Directory, patching, backups, permissions, roaming profiles, and access reviews for a 1,300+ user environment.
• ▸Enforced least privilege by reviewing permissions and removing excessive access across systems and accounts.
• ▸Cut critical vulnerabilities by 35% through patch management and configuration hardening; remediated open services, weak permissions, and exposed directories.

• Windows Server
• Active Directory
• Patch Management