Michael Jenkins

Michael Jenkins is consultant within the Cyber Security unit of Crowe LLP's Consulting practice. He provides information security services for clients across industries, including assessment, penetration testing, and virtual security officer services.

Michael graduated with highest distinction from Purdue University with a bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity and Network Engineering Technology.

He is passionate about life-long learning, and in his free time, independently studies, tinkers with his HomeLab/smart home, and paints.

Resume

Education

Purdue University - Class of 2022

Bachelor of Science: Cybersecurity and Network Engineering Technology
Additional Studies: Art and Design Studio

Czech Technical University in Prague - Study Abroad Spring 2020

Work Experience

Cyber Security Consulting Staff

Performed Internal, External, and Web Application Penetration Testing for clients in the Public Sector, Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Life Sciences industries.
Conducted cyber security gap and maturity assessments against industry frameworks and regulations including NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27000, NYCRR, and HIPAA.
Performed technical audits against hardened baselines of diverse systems, services, and network configurations, including Linux, Windows, Entra ID, and Active Directory.Assessed vendor diverse server, client, domain, database, network device, and application configurations against industry baselines using OpenScap, CCAT, and custom scripting.
Developed methodology, scripts, and integrated control frameworks to support new forms of assessment.
Provided virtual security officer services to a manufacturing organization including policy drafting, risk management activities, and acquisition transition planning.

Cyber Security Consulting Intern

Volunteer Administrative Assistant

Scheduled, documented, and summarized meetings within GSuite.
Organized and tracked leadership tasks day of convention.

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

Led one CNIT 470 Incident Response Management lab section covering policy writing, environment monitoring and analysis using IDS and SIEM, and incident response approaches and standards.
Provided feedback and guidance to students performing incident response in a simulated environment.
Wrote a ransomware simulation in Rust designed to demonstrate malware evasion and cryptographic flaws.
Led two CNIT 270 Cybersecurity Fundamentals lab section covering security policy and controls, attack methods, access control, authentication, cryptography, and network security.
Led one CNIT 176 Information Technology Architectures lab section covering logic gates, basic OS components, installation, and hardening, network topologies, and introductory Linux.
Provided feedback and guidance to students regarding semester long, final Raspberry Pi project.

Student Tech Intern

Enforced and audited AWS instance compliance against hardened Windows and Linux baselines on approximately thirty machines, with planned expanded deployment, utilizing Chef and Chef InSpec.
Produced user acceptance tests for a Perl program to streamline Terraform provisioning.
Performed manual and supervised automated patching to ensure rapid vulnerability remediation.
Participated in daily stand-up and weekly planning meetings as part of an Agile workflow.

Summer Camp Counselor

Guided groups of 20+ children around center grounds to ensure safety.
Documented behavior and incidents and conducted verbal roll calls.

Volunteer Art Teaching Assistant

Encouraged creative expression through positive feedback and guided brainstorming.
Maintained the classroom setup and supplies to facilitate instruction.