Joshua Wierschem
Plainfield,IL
Summary
Recent undergraduate in cybersecurity interested researching topics in offensive security, cryptography, robotics, distributed systems, and operating systems. Eager to learn as much as possible about new topics in the field of computer science and to improve the community with technology.
Overview
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Programming Robotics Mentor
- Taught high school freshman java programming and mathematics related to creating robots for specialized tasks
- Encouraged problem solving, creativity, and leadership in the student’s engineering process.
TA grader
Illinois State University
- Assisted in grading and improving assignments of students learning the Swift programming language, Xcode environment, and a introduction into cloud computing.
Student System Administrator
Illinois State University
- Assisted in managing the 911 emergency infrastructure for VoIP devices
- Focused on managing and deploying communications and VoIP software and equipment for internal and external usage with proper security protocols
- Worked with mass emails infrastructure used to send emails requested by affiliates of the university to be sent throughout the university.
Personal Projects
- Configured numerous Linux and Unix operating systems to learn how operating systems generally work
- General IT/programming projects such as a DNS sinkhole, clustering computers, process injection program, etc
- Circumventing an eeprom chip in a HP laptop to bypass secure boot
- Building a drone designed for wireless attacks and bypass physical security to learn how threat actors can use robotics to circumvent security
- Building a proof of concept theoretical hybrid peer to peer botnet to see if it would be better for threat actors and how it can be prevented.
Instructor
APS Training Academy/Ready Set Code
06.2024 - 08.2024
- Taught kids from 3rd through 8th grade robotics, computer science, and electronics
- Trained a newly founded First tech challenge teams programming subteam that services underserved kids in the Aurora area
- Improved students abilities to not only understand topics in STEAM but to be able to contribute the STEAM community
Education
Master of Science - Cybersecurity
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Brooklyn, NY 05.2024 - 05.2026
Bachelor of Science - Cybersecurity, Minor in Mathematics
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 08.2020 - 05.2024
Skills
- Java
Python
C
Golang
Swift
Kotlin
Bash
Additional Information
Activities: Member of Cybersecurity club, Hack the box, Over the Wire, Try hack me, patching my own linode server, configuring the operating system I use
Achievements: Department of Energy Cyberforce competition participant and State farm Mobile Application Development competition finalist
Timeline
Instructor
APS Training Academy/Ready Set Code
06.2024 - 08.2024
Master of Science - Cybersecurity
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
05.2024 - 05.2026
Bachelor of Science - Cybersecurity, Minor in Mathematics
Illinois State University
08.2020 - 05.2024
Programming Robotics Mentor
TA grader
Illinois State University
Student System Administrator
Illinois State University