Education
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Volunteer Work Leadership
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Riya Kappen

Fairfax,Virginia

Education

Bachelor of Science - Cybersecurity

George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
05-2025

Associate of Applied Science - Cybersecurity

Northern Virginia Community College
Annandale, VA
08.2023

Skills

  • Nessus
  • Metasploit
  • Nmap
  • Wireshark
  • Burp Suite
  • AWS CloudWatch
  • VMware
  • Linux
  • Windows
  • Python
  • Java
  • Bash
  • SIEM monitoring
  • Vulnerability scanning
  • Incident response

Volunteer Work Leadership

Tutor, Fairfax High School, 2018 - 2021,

• Conducted interactive one-on-one tutoring sessions across various subjects, helping students develop effective learning techniques while enhancing their communication and active listening skills.

• Effectively improved individual student ranks through successful execution of class curriculum.

• Strategic time management correlates to the proper completion of tasks and projects.

Library Volunteer, Chantilly Regional Library, 2018 - 2019, 

• Organized bookshelves to ensure tidiness and make it easier for the next person coming in to pick up a book.

• Removed and replaced the information labels on the spines of books, greatly lessening the librarians' workloads

• Answered patron queries in a timely and courteous manner.

Projects Certifications

  • Cybersecurity Simulation, Conducted XSS, SQL Injection, and DDoS attack simulations in a controlled lab environment.
  • Network Security Analysis, Used Wireshark and Metasploit to detect and exploit vulnerabilities.
  • Machine Learning & AI in Security, Explored TensorFlow and OpenAI for threat detection models.
  • CompTIA Security+, In Progress
  • AWS Fundamentals & Cloud Security

Timeline

Associate of Applied Science - Cybersecurity

Northern Virginia Community College

Bachelor of Science - Cybersecurity

George Mason University
Riya Kappen