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Zachary Wichman
Cybersecurity Engineer
Bellevue, WA, United States
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Education:
Master of Science - MS
Information Assurance and Cybersecurity Management
University of South Florida
2023 : 2025
Bachelor of Science - BS
Cybersecurity
Western Washington University
2019 : 2021
Associate of Applied Science - AAS-T
Cybersecurity
Whatcom Community College
2017 : 2019
Information Assurance and Cybersecurity Management
University of South Florida
2023 : 2025
Bachelor of Science - BS
Cybersecurity
Western Washington University
2019 : 2021
Associate of Applied Science - AAS-T
Cybersecurity
Whatcom Community College
2017 : 2019
Experience:
With the Data & Cloud Strategy leadership team, I analyze the currrent state of operations, identify present risk mitigation opportunities, and predict future needs based off industry trends. I then use this context to develop strategies to be adopted by the greater security organization that drive the company toward strong security posture and mature processes.
2022 : Present
T-Mobile
Cybersecurity Engineer
At Guidewire, I was a front-line defender in a 24/7 global SOC. This role granted me experience in the area of SIEMs, EDR, incident response, and the AWS Cloud.
During my time here, I investigated 5,000+ security events from sources including DLP, CrowdStrike Falcon, AWS GuardDuty, Phishing reports, and ZScaler. Further, my team followed through in the IR process from start to finish; I orchestrated remediation for data exposures, vulnerable cloud resource configurations, and infected endpoints, to name a few.
2021 : 2022
Guidewire Software
Associate Information Security Analyst
One highly notable project I worked on during this internship was to deploy a new AI-powered tool that protects API endpoints across all tools in the enterprise. By the end of my time as a UofMagenta intern, I'd achieved an 8% reduction in total API traffic by accurately blocking bot attack traffic.
2021 : 2021
T-Mobile
Systems Architecture Engineer
Through a collaboration between Western Washington University, Critical Insight (CI) Security, and numerous other academic institutions in Washington state and beyond, students in their fourth year of cybersecurity studies are placed in a SOC Analyst role. Here, I did network metadata analysis and heavily utilized OSINT to identify anomalous connections and indicators of compromise.
2021 : 2021
PISCES International
Tier 1 SOC Analyst
As a Network Security Intern, my main day-to-day role taught me how firewalls are managed on an enterprise level. I fulfilled requests to permit connectivity for new tools, and refined ACLs to be only as permissive as necessary.
A great accomplishment here was successfully automating a large-scale security task using API calls to several different tools with Python. When needed, the usage of this script will save ~40 hrs of manual labor.
2020 : 2020
Puget Sound Energy
IT Network Security Intern
2022 : Present
T-Mobile
Cybersecurity Engineer
At Guidewire, I was a front-line defender in a 24/7 global SOC. This role granted me experience in the area of SIEMs, EDR, incident response, and the AWS Cloud.
During my time here, I investigated 5,000+ security events from sources including DLP, CrowdStrike Falcon, AWS GuardDuty, Phishing reports, and ZScaler. Further, my team followed through in the IR process from start to finish; I orchestrated remediation for data exposures, vulnerable cloud resource configurations, and infected endpoints, to name a few.
2021 : 2022
Guidewire Software
Associate Information Security Analyst
One highly notable project I worked on during this internship was to deploy a new AI-powered tool that protects API endpoints across all tools in the enterprise. By the end of my time as a UofMagenta intern, I'd achieved an 8% reduction in total API traffic by accurately blocking bot attack traffic.
2021 : 2021
T-Mobile
Systems Architecture Engineer
Through a collaboration between Western Washington University, Critical Insight (CI) Security, and numerous other academic institutions in Washington state and beyond, students in their fourth year of cybersecurity studies are placed in a SOC Analyst role. Here, I did network metadata analysis and heavily utilized OSINT to identify anomalous connections and indicators of compromise.
2021 : 2021
PISCES International
Tier 1 SOC Analyst
As a Network Security Intern, my main day-to-day role taught me how firewalls are managed on an enterprise level. I fulfilled requests to permit connectivity for new tools, and refined ACLs to be only as permissive as necessary.
A great accomplishment here was successfully automating a large-scale security task using API calls to several different tools with Python. When needed, the usage of this script will save ~40 hrs of manual labor.
2020 : 2020
Puget Sound Energy
IT Network Security Intern
Company:
T-Mobile
Years of Experience:
3
Skills
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Bash, C (Programming Language), Cisco Networking, Crowdstrike Falcon, Customer Service, Cybersecurity, Database Administration, Encryption, ExaBeam, Firewalls, Java, Jira, Linux, Linux Server, MySQL, Network Security, Palo Alto Networks Prisma, Penetration Testing, PowerShell, Python (Programming Language), Splunk, Teamwork, Technical Writing, Vulnerability Assessment
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