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Ashton-Drake Giddings
INFORMATION SECURITY
 ashton@gameofpwnz.com

 www.gameofpwnz.com

Experience
Denim Group, Ltd.

San Antonio, TX

PENETRATION TESTER AND INFORMATION SECURITY CONSULTANT III

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May 2016 - Present

Participated in penetration testing of internal and external networks, mobile applications, and web applications.
Implemented BitLocker on more than 300 remote laptops.
Participated in the improvement of security awareness training.
Researched exploits and vulnerabilities for penetration testing and patching.
Won team award of the month (June 2016) and nominated twice for employee of the month award (July and August 2016).

Alamo Colleges

San Antonio, TX

PEER MENTOR

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March 2015 - May 2016

Mentored Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics students.
Guided students through the Alamo Colleges’ programs
Promoted higher education through workshops and presentations
Upgraded and maintained the program’s web pages.
Setup appointment software for use throughout the program.

Denim Group, Ltd.

San Antonio, TX

INTERN, INFORMATION SECURITY

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May 2014 - August 2014

Developed a HIPAA control matrix
Participated in a HIPAA gap assessment
Researched vulnerabilities to be used in a penetration test
Completed training in web application security, data protection, cross site request forgery CSRF, and mobile application security.

Alamo Colleges

San Antonio, TX

BUSINESS INFORMATION SOLUTIONS CONTRACT TRAINER

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February 2013 - May 2014

Trained college students in the fields of information technology and information security.
Created labs to emulate real world applications of information technology and information security technologies.
Held workshops for the public on basic security practices.
Acted as an ambassador for the department at different visits to conventions and several high schools.
Aided students on the transition from the Windows OS to Linux OS.

AlamoTech, LLC.

San Antonio, TX

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

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May 2012 - August 2012

Completed cable installing, testing and management.
Removed malware from many computers.
Provided on-site and remote assistance to clients throughout San Antonio, New Braunfels, and Seguin.
Maintained servers on-site and remotely.
Administered Microsoft Active Directory.
Managed client websites.

Education
Texas AM University - San Antonio

San Antonio, TX

B.A.A.S IT EMPHASIS INFORMATION ASSURANCE AND SECURITY

2015-2016

Trinity University

San Antonio, TX

B.S. COMPUTER SCIENCE - TRANSFERRED

2013-2014

St.Philip’s College

San Antonio, TX

A.A.S NETWORK SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

2011-2013

Extracurricular Activity
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SECURITY CAPTURE THE FLAG (CTF) COMPETITOR

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Virtual and In Person
2012 - Present

Captain and member of several CTF teams.
Placed 1st at UT Dallas TexSAW 2015
Placed 2nd at Cyber Panoply SA 2015
Placed 2nd at UT Dallas TexSAW 2013
Southwest CCDC Regional Qualifier for 2012, 2014, 2015, and 2016
Top 10 North American in Global CyberLympics for 2014 and 2015

US CyberPatriot

San Antonio, TX

MENTOR

Sep. 2010 - Oct. 2011

• Taught high school and middle school students about the basics of information security.
• Taught students about network architectures and different operating systems
• Acted as red team to help students prepare for cyber attacks.

www.GameOfPWNZ.com

Online

OWNER AND BLOGGER

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2014 - Present

Maintain a security blog.
Post write-ups from security competitions.
Keep updated on the field of information security.
Add resources for public download.

Certifications
INTERNATIONAL
2013

NSTISSI No. 4011, committee on National Security Systems (CNSS)

San Antonio, TX

2013

CNSSI No. 4012, Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS)

San Antonio, TX

2011

Windows 7 and Configuring, Microsoft

San Antonio, TX

Technical and Personal Skills
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

• LaTeX, PowerShell (Learning), Bash, DOS Command Line, Scala, Python (Learning), HTML
INDUSTRY SOFTWARE SKILLS

• Windows, *nix, Wireshark, Nessus, NMap, VirtualBox, Kali Linux

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