Stephen Petrick

Experience

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  Austin Convention Center

  Jun 2016 - Jul 2016

  IT Intern

  Shadowed and observed different aspects of IT. Assisted IT personnel with on-site tasks. Learned various practices for IT, both for the office and client environment, as well different IT technologies. Exposed to interdepartmental and business-to-client communication.

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  Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

  Aug 2017 - Dec 2022

  Student
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  Austin Convention Center

  Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

  Information Technology Support Analyst

  Worked primarily with Networking team to provide Internet services and technical support to clients.Created hard line connections to service clients, and built communication skills relying technical information to clients. Heavily exposed to various aspects of network life cycle: physical and digital creation, management and configuration of networks through various software tools such as Cisco Prime Infrastructure, maintenance through tools such as Nagios, and de-allocation of network resources. Show less

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  The University of Texas at Austin

  Aug 2019 - Dec 2019

  Enterprise Network Security Course

  Graduate Network Security course. Covered network analysis and packet inspection, Kubernetes security systems, Linux security modules such as SELinux, machine learning to detect malicious activity, and multiple attacks types such as SQL injection or buffer overflow through tools such as DVWA and Metasploit. Heavy usage of Linux to perform work. Culminated in a final research project over developing alternate solutions to CVE-2019-11253.

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  Trilogy Education

  Apr 2020 - Jun 2021

  Teaching Assistant

  Coached students of varying technical background both during and outside of class hours on various course material, including, but not limited to, bash scripting, networking fundamentals, virtual network creation in Azure, and basic Metasploit usage. Assisted instructor with guiding students through class activities, and demonstration of various software, such as Splunk, and how to use them. Responsible for grading and providing feedback for improvement on student homework and projects.