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/* As an IT Product Management candidate, I am pursuing a B.S. in IT and an M.S. in IT Product Management at WGU, ready to drive innovation and deliver impactful solutions. */

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vCISO Services Externship via Extern

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Portfolio of class projects, practical IT work, and deliverables from the Beats by Dre externship, focused on consumer behavior, market analysis, and applied research.

  • vCISO Security Risk Assessment Externship
    [01]vCISO Services Externship⏱️ In progress
    vCISO Security Risk Assessment Externship

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    vCISO Security Risk Assessment Externship

    Be a junior security consultant. Find a company's weak spots, score them on NIST and create a deck for senior leaders.

    Website Security TestingSecurity Policy ReviewIncident Report AnalysisNIST CSF 2.0 Gap Analysis
  • Beats by Dre Consumer Behavior & Market Analysis Externship
    [02]Beats By Dre ExternshipOct 2026
    Beats by Dre Consumer Behavior & Market Analysis Externship

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    Beats by Dre Consumer Behavior & Market Analysis Externship

    Discover how top brands like Beats by Dre turn consumer insights into products people can’t resist. Dive into the psychology of buying decisions, master survey design, and use cutting-edge AI tools to analyze real consumer data. In this externship, you’ll gain hands-on experience shaping marketing strategy for a leading global brand—perfect for anyone curious about marketing, psychology, or product innovation.

    Data AnalysisMarket ResearchPresentation Skills

<About_me>

As an IT Product Management candidate, I am pursuing a B.S. in IT and an M.S. in IT Product Management at WGU, ready to drive innovation and deliver impactful solutions.

In enterprise tech sales, my favorite part was discovery: meeting with IT and security leaders to identify their real challenges and help them find solutions. This instinct fits well in product management. I've assessed a company's security using NIST CSF 2.0, tested survey designs for Beats by Dre, and created my own Spotify analytics dashboard. I hold CompTIA A+, ITIL 4, and Linux Essentials certifications, and I'm pursuing Security+, Network+, Cloud+, AWS Cloud Practitioner, CAL1 and PMI CAPM.

Externships

vCISO Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Externship

In progress

Experience

Bartender

Ritual · Nov 2026

Bartender

JOEY Restaurants · Aug 2026 - Nov 2026

Associate

Sunipro · Oct 2026

Server

Lombardi Family Concepts · May 2026 - Aug 2026

Shift Lead / Server

JOEY Restaurant Group · Nov 2025 – May 2026

Account Executive, MSE

Gartner · Mar 2025 – Nov 2025

Territory Manager of the West / Account Executive

CrossRoads Technologies Consulting Group · May 2023 – Mar 2025

Education

Western Governors University

B.S. in Information Technology

Skills

Data VisualizationData StorytellingExcelStatistical AnalysisStrategic CommunicationCross-functional LeadershipStakeholder ManagementProject ManagementRequirements GatheringSQLWritten CommunicationSales & BDAIProduct DiscoveryUser ResearchUser Journey MappingprotoPrototypingCompetitive AnalysisKPI Tracking

✅ Verified by Extern · ⏱️ In progress

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Be a junior security consultant. Find a company's weak spots, score them on NIST and create a deck for senior leaders.

Website Security TestingSecurity Policy ReviewIncident Report AnalysisNIST CSF 2.0 Gap Analysis

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Small companies often can't prove what they own, who has access, or whether their security policies are followed, and forgotten accounts and vendor logins become the way in. As a junior consultant for vCISO Services, I assessed a client's Claims Intake service to show leadership where their real risk was.

vCISO Security Risk Assessment Externship

//What I've accomplished

Built an asset inventory, ran public reconnaissance and website security testing, triaged vulnerabilities, reviewed security policies against actual practice, and analyzed an incident report. Scored the organization against NIST CSF 2.0 and delivered an evidence-based risk report and executive deck prioritizing the biggest gaps for senior leadership.

///Project breakdown

I scoped the engagement, built an asset inventory from two conflicting company records, and recorded the disagreements and evidence. I also answered Meridian’s questions and created Slide 1 showing engagement scope and findings.

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<Beats_by_Dre_Consumer_Behavior_&_Market_Analysis_Externship>

Discover how top brands like Beats by Dre turn consumer insights into products people can’t resist. Dive into the psychology of buying decisions, master survey design, and use cutting-edge AI tools to analyze real consumer data. In this externship, you’ll gain hands-on experience shaping marketing strategy for a leading global brand—perfect for anyone curious about marketing, psychology, or product innovation.

Data AnalysisMarket ResearchPresentation Skills

/Overview

Beats by Dre wanted to understand what actually drives people to buy wireless speakers. Good answers depend on good questions, so the research started with designing an unbiased consumer survey and then analyzing real consumer data to inform product and marketing decisions.

Beats by Dre Consumer Behavior & Market Analysis Externship
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//What I've accomplished

Left 10 peer-review comments on a draft survey, flagging overlapping age and price ranges, vague frequency scales, an incomplete rating scale, and questions assuming respondents already owned the product. Applied research frameworks and AI-assisted analysis to consumer data and turned findings into product and marketing recommendations. Earned the Extern Completion Award.

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Total streams reward artists for simply being around longer, so who's actually growing fastest? I analyzed Spotify's top 500 most-streamed artists (Kaggle, July 2026) entirely in Excel, building a career-adjusted 'Streams per Year' metric to measure real momentum instead of lifetime totals.

ExcelData AnalysisData VisualizationKPI TrackingCompetitive Analysis

/Overview

Total streams reward artists for simply being around longer, so who's actually growing fastest? I analyzed Spotify's top 500 most-streamed artists (Kaggle, July 2026) entirely in Excel, building a career-adjusted 'Streams per Year' metric to measure real momentum instead of lifetime totals.

Spotify Streaming Velocity Analysis: Top 500 Artists

//What I've accomplished

Cleaned and validated 500 rows (0 duplicates, 0 missing values, fixed a header error) and caught a data-source flaw: 79% of artists' Lead + Feature streams didn't add up to their totals. Built formula-driven summaries by genre, country, and decade, ran correlation analysis, and designed a one-page KPI dashboard with 6 KPI cards and 3 charts.

///Outcome

Streaming velocity accelerates by decade: 2020s debuts average ~2,694M streams/year vs. ~1,453M for 2010s debuts and under 300M for artists who debuted before 1990. Bad Bunny leads Johnny Cash ~17x on total streams but ~92x on streams per year. Takeaway: the right metric changes the story, and top-line totals can hide what's really driving growth.

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