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Dave Friedman

Dave Friedman

Open to roles in system administration and programming, and network engineering and security. Experienced with bash, linux, networks, and python.

Skills

  • Ansible network automation and configuration
  • Apache Spark big-data programming
  • Applied mathematics
  • Amazon Web Services cloud management
  • Anaconda package and environment management
  • Bash shell scripting and configuration
  • C programming
  • Computer networks
  • Data analytics and visualization
  • Git version control
  • Linux/Unix administration and hardening
  • Mathematics typesetting
  • OpenSSH authentication and remote server management
  • PostgreSQL relational database management
  • Python development
  • R programming
  • SQL
  • Systems administration and programming
  • Technical documentation
  • Web development
  • Zsh scripting and configuration
  • Analysis
  • Critical thinking
  • Detail orientation
  • Organization
  • Research
  • Japanese
  • Linguistics
  • Spanish

Coursework

  • Penn State's CYBER 497 Machine Learning Security
  • Penn State's CYBER 497 Blockchain
  • Penn State's CYBER 362 Cybersecurity Analytics Studio
  • Penn State's CYBER 262 Cyber-Defense Studio
  • Penn State's CYBER 100 Computer Systems Literacy
  • Penn State's CMPSC 497 Cryptography
  • Penn State's CMPSC 465 Algorithms and Data Structures
  • Penn State's CMPSC 410 Programming Models for Big Data
  • Penn State's CMPSC 360 Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science
  • Penn State's CMPSC 311 Systems Programming
  • Penn State's CMPSC 221 Object-Oriented Programming with Web-Based Applications
  • Penn State's CMPSC 132 Programming and Computation II: Data Structures
  • Penn State's CMPSC 131 Programming and Computation I: Fundamentals
  • Penn State's CMPEN 270 Digital Design: Theory and Practice
  • Penn State's DS 220 Data Management for Data Sciences
  • Penn State's IST 451 Networking Security
  • Penn State's IST 220 Networking and Telecommunications
  • Penn State's IST 210 Organization of Data
  • Penn State's MATH 484 Linear Programming
  • Penn State's MATH 468 Mathematical Coding
  • Penn State's MATH 457 Mathematical Logic
  • Penn State's MATH 220 Matrices

Work Experience

2U

Lanham, MD (Remote)

parent company of edX

Senior Instructional Specialist
Oct 2021 - Aug 2024
  • Provided expertise in computer security, artificial intelligence, and data and financial analytics and visualization tools and technologies
  • Provided Tier-2 technical support, along with troubleshooting and configuration assistance for computer- and software-related issues
  • Delivered training sessions to instructional specialists and facilitated the coordination of day-to-day operations
  • Performed quality assurance checks in cooperation with curriculum engineering and development
  • Achieved a comprehensive student engagement score of 5.0/5 from 1 out of every 2 students supported, based on more than 2000 instructional sessions (written feedback on LinkedIn)
Cybersecurity Instructional Specialist
Jul 2021 - Oct 2021
Cybersecurity Teaching Assistant
May 2020 - Jul 2021
  • Cybersecurity TA at the University of Pennsylvania's College of Liberal and Professional Studies
  • Assisted students with cybersecurity and financial technologies concepts, tools, and techniques
  • Provided guidance and support in troubleshooting technical issues during lab sessions
  • Collaborated with instructors to develop curriculum materials and update course content
  • Evaluated student assignments and final projects

Penn State University

State College, PA

Enterprise Security Student Worker Office of Information Security
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
  • Performed log analysis of university systems via Splunk SIEM
Tutor in Mathematics and Spanish Morgan Academic Center for Student-Athletes
2019 - 2020
  • Tutored Penn State student-athletes in the Spanish language and linguistics; trigonometry; symbolic algebra; analytical geometry; and the univariable calculus

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy of Science and Math
Penn State University
  • Minor - Computer Science
  • Minor - Mathematics for IST
  • Minor - Linguistics
  • Minor - Spanish

Project Work

Homelab
2021 – Present
  • Designed, installed, configured, and manage a rack-mounted enterprise network stack; stateful firewall with L7 filtering and multigigabit IDPS; camera system with local NVR; and managed (L3) PoE++ switch
  • Planned and terminated Cat 6a runs to multiple APs and devices via PoE
  • Configure and manage VLANs for secure devices, WireGuard VPN clients, and IoT networks
  • Raspberry Pi cluster providing OpenSSH auth, DNS filtering, HDFS + Apache Spark, and load-balanced web services
Laptop Lab
2021 – Present
  • Knowledge base on computer systems and applied mathematics using Jupyter Book and LaTeX