Gabriel Knight

Experience

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  Kleinfelder

  Sept 2006 - May 2008

  Environmental Scientist

  • Participated as a member of GIS project team for large petroleum client in 2007.• Completed multi-month sensitive receptor survey’s on 76 retail petroleum stations in Connecticut.• Selected to present at Kleinfelder’s National Technical Seminar in 2008, summarizing the results of the GIS sensitive receptor survey.

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  Unicorn Management Consultant

  Jul 2008 - Sept 2010

  Environmental Field Supervisor / GIS Analyst

  • Managed field work for Lehigh Valley Railroad (LVRR) Derailment EPA Superfund site, Le Roy, NY.• Assisted in conducting public-outreach meetings to discuss various aspects of the Superfundinvestigation while working with local government and townspeople to minimize negative impact in daily life.• Oversaw HQ3 rock coring and performed rock-core classification for purposes of identifying preferential flow pathways for DNAPL migration. Worked with laboratory in selecting rock core intervals for proprietary analysis to determine DNAPL concentrations within rock matrix.• Oversaw and assisted with the installation of 20+ FLUTe monitoring well liners inside bedrock monitoring wells. Installation included hydraulic conductivity profiling, borehole geophysics, and blank-liners installation and removal. Show less

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  Stantec

  Nov 2010 - May 2014

  Geologist

  • Completed Phase I/Phase II/Phase III environmental investigations and associated reports forConnecticut property transfers.• Oversaw the decommissioning and decontamination of a battery manufacturing facility in Connecticut. Tasks included confirmatory sampling of building materials, soil, and water treatment plant facilities, as well as management of multiple waste-streams both non-hazardous and hazardous for proper disposal.• Acted as company’s Regional Health & Safety Coordinator for two fortune-500 petroleum clients.Maintained zero reportable injuries for both health & safety programs for all field work conducted bythe local Stantec office.• Acted as on-site health & safety officer for a 6+ month soil excavation at major petroleum clientterminal in Worcester, MA. Completed the excavation with zero reportable incidents.• Assisted with overflow GIS work for regional offices. Show less

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  Tighe & Bond

  Jun 2014 - Feb 2015

  Project Environmental Scientist

  • Prepared Phase I, Phase II, and Phase III Environmental Site Assessments for a variety of sites,including and DECD funded brownfields.• Assisted with brownfield loan and grant applications.• Worked with the hazardous building materials group in collecting PCB and lead samples.• Oversaw geotechnical work for southern Connecticut utility companies, for purpose of determiningsubsurface stability for planned transmission line routes.• Created remedial action plans for sites which require active or passive environmental remediation. Show less

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  TRC Companies, Inc.

  Feb 2015 - Jan 2016

  Project Environmental Scientist

  • Field program lead for work conducted at a EPA Superfund site located in southern NewJersey.• Generate work plans based on previously negotiated Record-of-Decisions (RODs). Coordinate withonsite field staff and contractors to complete project tasks efficiently.• Oversee multiple phases of field work, including quarterly groundwater sampling events, remedialinvestigation soil sampling, stream, sediment, and biota sampling.• Responsible for entirety of GIS database for the Superfund site.• Developed 3D models for several areas of concern for use in monitoring well installation locationselection.• Assisted with the integration of Fulcrum mobile-data collection, a web-based service provided bySpatial Networks, Inc. Show less

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  AECOM

  Jan 2016 - Oct 2020

  Senior Environmental Scientist

  • Conduct investigations into groundwater / surface water interaction using thermal infrared cameras,unmanned aerial systems (UAS) platforms, fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing, 1-D verticaltemperature profilers. Perform the field work, post-processing, data analysis, and write-up.• Federally certified UAS pilot as well as proficient in data analysis software packages. Provide aerialremote sensing analysis for various environmental site studies.• Aid in the training of junior staff in field-methods associated with health and safety, environmentalsampling and oversite.• Create and manage GIS databases for key clients and assist with groundwater modeling, figuregeneration, and editing.• Field program lead for Pre-Design Soil Investigation at EPA Superfund Site in Stratford, CT• Assist with grant applications for DECD, EPA, and other groups providing assessment and remediationfunding for brownfields.• Oversite and report writing for sites complying with the Site Characterization Guidance Documentpublished by CT DEEP.• Generate reports for environmental sites subject to the Connecticut Property Transfer Act.• Create field logging mobile applications with ESRI Survey123 for offices around North America. Show less

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  Columbia Engineering

  Oct 2020 - Apr 2021

  Student Cybersecurity Bootcamp

  Graduated with 4.0 GPA• Monitored simulated network traffic using Wireshark to identify payload transfers, URL requests, login and password information, along with other security-specific traffic.• Identified and configured payloads based on previously enumerated focal points of vulnerability with Metasploit and SearchSploit Utilized both frameworks to initiate bind and reverse shells in laboratory settings.• Experienced with cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injections in laboratory setting to enumerate server vulnerabilities, as well as configuring servers for input-validation to mitigate XSS vulnerabilities.• Built virtual networks, virtual machines, configured availability sets, security groups, and restricted internal/external traffic on Amazon AWS Cloud Services and Microsoft Azure Cloud both platforms. • Deployed an ELK Stack in Azure to collect metric, file, and packet beat logs. Utilized Kibana dashboard to review traffic and identify Red Team attacks.• Frequent Red Team practice on virtual machine labs through Vulnhub, HTB, hackthissite, and similar lab environments. Familiar with both Kali Linux by Offensive Security and Parrot OS by Parrot Security.• Strong understanding of cryptographic encryption and hashing, both symmetric (AES-128, 192, 256) and asymmetric (RSA, Diffie-Hellman), subsequent hashing algorithms: SHA, SHA2, MD, LM, and NTLM.• Automated VM deployments and configurations using Ansible.• Analyzed logs and monitored alerts through Splunk to identify malicious actors and developed incident response reports.• Configured firewalls to deny traffic on hosts and networks.• Familiar with compliance policies and regulations including HIPAA, FISMA, FERPA, and GLBA. Show less

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  Verisk

  Aug 2021 - now

  Incident Response:Initial responsibilities included triaging user-submitted phishing emails, ReliaQuest/ServiceNow/and Proofpoint tickets, while contributing to incident response to CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor triggers. Isolating potentially malicious files in sandbox environments, utilizing third-party applications to confirm/deny status of files.Used CrowdStrike Real-Time Response to isolate and contain potentially compromised assets.Assisted with Threat Management in OSINT research, sitting in on working groups in response to zero-days. [I entered the industry just in time for Log4j, which is like a rookie baseball player making the World Series!] Show less

  • Security Engineer

    Feb 2022 - now

  • Incident Response / Threat Intelligence

    Aug 2021 - Feb 2022
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  University of Pennsylvania

  Nov 2021 - Mar 2022

  TA - Cybersecurity Bootcamp

  Provided assistance, along with 2 other TA's to a group of approximately 30 students. Having just completed the course the prior semester, it allowed me to relate my current technical knowledge to students undergoing a similar career pivot. It allowed me to relate more directly to the students I assisted, as I had just "been in their shoes". Was not only a good refresher on basic technical aspects, but was rewarding to see the students excel!