Security and IT

Technical knowledge supports my work as a brand design engineer. My security and cloud certifications, Microsoft Intune lab and four personal learning projects help me understand the products and teams I design for. These are learning credentials and labs, not claims of professional security consulting.

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Certifications

3 active
CompTIA Security+ ce badge

CompTIA Security+ ce

CompTIA

Earned June 2024 · Valid to June 2027

Vendor-neutralSecurity fundamentals
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner badge

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

Earned October 2024 · Valid to October 2027

CloudFoundational
HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate badge

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)

HashiCorp

Earned December 2024 · Valid to December 2026

Infrastructure as codeFoundational
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Course certificates

Coursera, verified

Microsoft IT Support Specialist Professional Certificate

Microsoft, via Coursera

Earned December 2025

Professional CertificateIT support

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Google Cybersecurity Specialization

Google, via Coursera

Earned February 2024

SpecializationSecurity operations

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In preparation

Microsoft role-based
Exam date pending

Microsoft MD-102: Endpoint Administrator

Microsoft

Study since August 2026. The exam was moved in September and the new date is pending. The Intune and Entra ID lab below is the practical side of the same syllabus.

IntuneEntra IDAutopilotDefender for Endpoint
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Personal lab: Microsoft Intune and Entra ID

Own tenant, 2026
012026

Device join

Joined a Windows 11 virtual machine to Microsoft Entra ID and enrolled it in Intune. Traced join error 801c03ed to two device settings tightened three days earlier, fixed them, and completed the join.

Entra IDIntune
022026

Windows Autopilot

Imported the machine's hardware hash, then built a user-driven deployment profile and the dynamic group that assigns it. The deployment ran end to end and the device renamed itself to the naming template.

AutopilotDynamic groups
032026

BitLocker

Drove encryption to completion, with the 48-digit recovery password escrowed to the device's Microsoft Entra ID record.

BitLockerEntra ID
042026

Device recovery

A wipe and a snapshot rollback left a machine that believed it was enrolled while Intune had no record of it. Recovered it through Autopilot, whose registration survives a wipe.

AutopilotIntune
052026

Defender for Endpoint

Enabled the Defender to Intune connector, deployed an endpoint detection and response policy with onboarding set to auto from the connector, and confirmed the device onboarded.

Defender for EndpointIntune
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Learning labs

4 write-ups
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Tooling

Labs and study, not production

Pipeline security

GitHub ActionsTrivyGitleaksSonarQubeOWASP ZAPDockerTerraform

AI security

OWASP LLM Top 10MITRE ATLASPyRITGarakPrompt injection testing

Endpoint and identity

Microsoft IntuneEntra IDWindows AutopilotBitLockerDefender for Endpoint