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Ben K.

Ben K.

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Cyber Forensic Analyst at BMO - Bank of Montreal

  • Education

    • Champlain College

      2019 - 2021
      Master's degree Cyber/Computer Forensics and Counterterrorism

    • Iowa State University

      2011 - 2017
      Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering

  • Experience

    • Heartland Technology Solutions

      May 2014 - Aug 2014
      IT Support Technician

      • Provided technical assistance to customers on inbound telephone tech support calls.• Used remote access to perform troubleshooting when needed.• Assisted customers with anti-virus program installations and virus removal.• Repaired hardware issues on Mac-books.

    • Communication Innovators

      Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
      Intern

      • Installed computer operating systems and hardware/software packages for a new company in downtown Des Moines.• Provided technical assistance and resources on a regular basis.• Assisted in new installation wiring process.

    • Iowa State University

      May 2016 - Aug 2016
      Intern

      • Used Java and IntelliJ to track lip movement for a facial recognition project. I ended in August due to going back to school.

    • Principal Financial Group

      Nov 2017 - Oct 2019
      Software Engineer

      • Developed Java applications to store holdings, transactions, andaccounts in a DB2 database for thousands of customers• Implemented Junit and Cucumber tests for all Java applications forthe Principal Securities team.• Conducted risk assessment analysis to check for vulnerabilities inJava applications that included SQL injection and buffer overflow

    • John Deere / RFA Engineering

      Jan 2020 - May 2021
      DevOps Engineer

      • Diagnose flapping Nagios issue on the team's documentationwebsite and fixing an existing check to correct it.• Support and resolve technical issues for more than 50 John Deereemployees, including virtual machine problems, Jenkins nodemalfunctions, and Artifactory uploads.• Create a pipeline for the DevOps team to convert an existing ingestpipeline to Logstash, sending Tomcat, Kibana, and Artifactoryaccess log files to a centralized location• Integrate AWS S3 bucket functionality for Jenkins nodes to storeteam data of more than 20 groups Show less

    • SAIC / Shyft Solutions

      May 2021 - Jun 2022
      Cybersecurity Engineer

      Working through Shyft Solutions/SAIC on the TADS Project on the Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska.• Create Security Technical Implementation Guide's (STIG's) that document CAT1, CAT2, and CAT3 vulnerabilities for government applications.• Improve DISA score on government systems and applications byfixing CAT1, CAT2, and CAT3 vulnerabilities to help thembecome more resistant to cyber related attacks.• Ingest application and system logs into Splunk to create alerts andreports for the support team• Implement support changes on government systems that havecritical Nagios alerts such as missing filesystems, services notrunning, and systems unable to boot properly Show less

    • Bank of the West

      Jun 2022 - Mar 2024
      Cybersecurity Engineer II

    • BMO U.S.

      Mar 2024 - now
      Cyber Forensic Analyst

  • Licenses & Certifications