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Nidia Esparza

El Paso,TX

Summary

Responsible and motivated student currently making a career transition into Cybersecurity.Focused in blue team operations and ready to apply the education that I have been acquiring in the last two years in the workplace. Offers excellent technical abilities with software and applications, ability to handle challenging work, and excellent time management skills.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Junior Geologist

Texas Rare Earth Resources
El Paso, TX
08.2011 - 04.2012
  • Examined composition and structure of soil, rocks and minerals to classify, measure and analyze.
  • Determined ideal sites for core drilling and preparing geological cross-sections to identify probability of [Type] mineralized zone.

Research Assistant

The University of Texas at El Paso/Jacobs Tech.
El Paso, TX
03.2009 - 06.2011
  • Conducted qualitative and quantitative analysis on assigned data.
  • Provided support for faculty members with grant applications related to research projects.

Education

Cybersecurity -

El Paso Community College
12.2023

Bachelor of Science Cybersecurity -

WGU

IT Support Professional Certificate -

Google

Cybersecurity Professional Certificate -

Google

Preparing for Google Cloud Certification -

Coursera

Skills

  • Excellent customer service skills
  • Microsoft System Active directory
  • PowerShell
  • Windows event log analysis
  • Network traffic analysis
  • TCPdump
  • Wireshark
  • DHCP
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Bash
  • Snort
  • Nessus
  • Kerberos
  • SIEM tools (Splunk, Windows Sentinel)
  • Virtual machines and containers
  • Networking and network security
  • Detection and response
  • Managing security risks
  • Cyber threat intelligence
  • NIST- 800
  • DNS/TCP
  • Ethical hacking
  • Digital forensics and incident response
  • Python
  • Scripting
  • Beginner level C
  • Cloud technology
  • Fluent in English and Spanish

Certification

  • Security +, In Progress
  • SOC level 1(Try Hack Me), In progress
  • Google Cloud Engineer, In progress

Projects

  • Analyze Network Traffic with TCPdump, Coursera
  • Wireshark for Beginners: Capture packets, Coursera
  • Introduction to Network Traffic Analysis, Hack the Box
  • Introduction to Active directory, Hack the Box
  • Setup SIEM in Azure
  • Windows Event Logs and Finding Evil

Timeline

Junior Geologist

Texas Rare Earth Resources
08.2011 - 04.2012

Research Assistant

The University of Texas at El Paso/Jacobs Tech.
03.2009 - 06.2011

Cybersecurity -

El Paso Community College

Bachelor of Science Cybersecurity -

WGU

IT Support Professional Certificate -

Google

Cybersecurity Professional Certificate -

Google

Preparing for Google Cloud Certification -

Coursera
Nidia Esparza