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Computer Information Systems student applying AI and security to real problems

I blend AI tooling with practical security work, from sales automation and document extraction to attacking and defending IoT systems.

Work samples

Portfolio of externships where I evaluated AI sales tools, implemented AI extraction pipelines for mortgage documents, and executed attacks and defenses on IoT setups.

  • Horizon X AI-Powered Sales Automation & Strategy Externship
    Horizon X AI-Powered Sales Automation & Strategy Externship
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    HorizonX Consulting · Jun 2025 · ✅ Verified by Extern

    Horizon X AI-Powered Sales Automation & Strategy Externship

    AI is transforming how companies sell—want your resume to prove you get it? Work directly with the CEO of HorizonX—a leader in AI, quantum, and engineering consulting—to find an AI-powered sales automation solution. You’ll research tools that automate outreach workflows, identify high-quality leads, and simplify sales processes. Perfect for both sales-minded and technical students, this practical experience helps you master using AI strategically, giving you the competitive edge that today's top employers look for. This is an Internship Track Externship: top externs will be selected to interview with HorizonX for internship opportunities.

  • Outamation Advanced AI-Powered Document Insights and Data Extraction Externship
    Outamation Advanced AI-Powered Document Insights and Data Extraction Externship
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    Outamation · Feb 2026 · ✅ Verified by Extern

    Outamation Advanced AI-Powered Document Insights and Data Extraction Externship

    An Outamation externship exploring AI techniques for turning messy mortgage document collections into structured, searchable data using OCR, extraction, and RAG pipelines.

    AI & MLData AnalysisPythonGoogle ColabLlama IndexPresentation Skills

About me

I blend AI tooling with practical security work, from sales automation and document extraction to attacking and defending IoT systems.

I am Kennedy Patton, a Computer Information Systems major at Alabama State University. I have completed externships focused on AI-driven sales automation, AI document extraction for mortgage data, and IoT cyber defense, gaining hands-on experience researching tools, building RAG/OCR pipelines, and testing/defending IoT systems.

Externships

Horizon X AI-Powered Sales Automation & Strategy Externship

Completed · Jun 2025

Experience

Intern

City of Montgomery · Jul 2026 - Jan 2027

Hydroficient IoT Cyber Defense Extern

Extern · Mar 2026 - May 2026

Outamation Advanced AI-Powered Document Insights and Data Extraction Extern

Extern · Dec 2025 - Feb 2026

Google Cloud Career Launchpad

Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund · Sep 2025 - Dec 2025

Information Technology System Support (20-Hour)

Alabama State University · Aug 2024 - May 2025

Student Trainee

Air University’s Protocol Office, Maxwell Air Force Base · May 2023 - Aug 2023

Education

Alabama State University

Bachlor's · Class of 2027

Skills

AI research and tool evaluationSales automation workflowsOCR and data extractionRAG pipeline designIoT attack techniques (spoofing, replay)IoT defenses (TLS, mTLS)

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Horizon X AI-Powered Sales Automation & Strategy Externship

AI is transforming how companies sell—want your resume to prove you get it? Work directly with the CEO of HorizonX—a leader in AI, quantum, and engineering consulting—to find an AI-powered sales automation solution. You’ll research tools that automate outreach workflows, identify high-quality leads, and simplify sales processes. Perfect for both sales-minded and technical students, this practical experience helps you master using AI strategically, giving you the competitive edge that today's top employers look for. This is an Internship Track Externship: top externs will be selected to interview with HorizonX for internship opportunities.

Overview

The work surveyed AI-powered sales automation across the funnel, tested prospecting and outreach tools, and produced a commercial-ready pitch for an automation tool. Deliverables included a market-trends slide, a comparative tool matrix of 10 prospecting platforms, a PRISM-based outreach comparison with a recommendation, and a pitch deck with workflow, ROI snapshot, and testimonial.

Horizon X AI-Powered Sales Automation & Strategy Externship
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What I've accomplished

I produced a market-trends slide, a comparative matrix of 10 prospecting tools, a PRISM evaluation of three outreach products with a recommendation for Lavender.ai, and a pitch proposing Cognism with workflow steps, ROI figures, and a testimonial.

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Outamation Advanced AI-Powered Document Insights and Data Extraction Externship

An Outamation externship exploring AI techniques for turning messy mortgage document collections into structured, searchable data using OCR, extraction, and RAG pipelines.

AI & MLData AnalysisPythonGoogle ColabLlama IndexPresentation Skills

Overview

The externship produced a complete set of experiments and prototypes for mortgage document intelligence. Work examined LLM internals and OCR behavior, implemented Python extraction pipelines and RAG retrieval, and integrated a Gradio chatbot. The deliverables include extraction code, OCR comparisons, a RAG pipeline, evaluation metrics, and a Colab demo.

Outamation Advanced AI-Powered Document Insights and Data Extraction Externship

What I've accomplished

I delivered an end-to-end RAG pipeline for mortgage documents, including OCR and extraction code, a Gradio chatbot, OCR comparisons, embedding and retrieval experiments, and an evaluation report with quantitative accuracy metrics.

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Hydroficient IoT Cyber Defense Externship

Build, hack, and defend real IoT infrastructure, then hand your security playbook to an actual company. You’ll launch realistic cyberattacks, from spoofing and replay attacks to unauthorized shutoffs, and implement defenses like TLS and mTLS.

Python ProgrammingData AnalysisThreat ModelingDashboard Development

Overview

The work documented the HYDROLOGIC water-management architecture and data flows, applied STRIDE to identify threats, and produced a professional threat model listing unauthorized access, tampered alerts, and system unavailability. Subsequent projects built and instrumented an MQTT pipeline, measured TLS and mTLS controls, evaluated replay protections across experiments, and delivered a live

Hydroficient IoT Cyber Defense Externship

What I've accomplished

I produced a complete set of deliverables: a STRIDE-based threat model, Python data-prep and sensor-generator notebooks, a captured insecure-MQTT dataset, TLS and mTLS hardening with experiments, a replay-defense evaluation with results, a provisioning policy, a live security dashboard, and an Isolation Forest anomaly prototype.

Project breakdown

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