Hello! I am Sam Vonderahe. I am a Cyber Security Consultant in Denver Colorado.


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Work Experience

Cyber Security Consultant Staff

Crowe LLP

Successfully ran and lead Social Engineering Campaigns, External Penetration Assessments, Cybersecurity Assessments, and Internal Penetration Assessments for clients in the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications industry both remotely and on-site.

Traveled domestically and internationally to perform Internal Penetration Assessments, either independently or with team members.

Participated in Purple Team assessments in which I worked closely with the client’s internal blue teams to discuss progress, tactics, findings, and paths to remediation on a daily basis.

Participated in Cloud Security, Mobile Application, and API Security Assessments for clients in the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications industry.

Developed a Data Exfiltration methodology that defined levels of Data Exfiltration testing and built internal tools using Python for testing client’s Firewall, Intrusion Detection, and Packet Analysis systems.

Updated and built several internal tools as part of our Development Team using Go, C, Python, Bash, and Powershell.

Cyber Security Consultant Intern

Crowe LLP

Participated in a Cybersecurity Assessment for a client in the financial sector; Focused on endpoint controls.

Participated in Internal Penetration Assessments for clients in the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications industry.

Updated a public tool (Shareenum) to support SMBv2 and SMBv3.

Built several tools using Python and Powershell for the Cybersecurity team.

Software Engineer Intern

Cummins

Canceled due to Covid-19

Education

B.S. Computer Science

Purdue University

Attended Purdue University from the Main Campus in West Lafayette, IN

Earned a Bachelor of Science Degree

Majored in Computer Science with a focus in Security

Earned an Associate's degree for Business Management

GPA: 3.53

Tools

Regularly Use:

  • Nessus
  • Burp Suite
  • Netsparker
  • Metasploit
  • Bloodhound

Proficient with:

  • Python
  • Bash
  • Linux
  • Git
  • C Programming
  • SQL

Experience with:

  • GO
  • Java
  • Node.js
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • C++
  • x86-64 and ARM Assembly

Projects

Notable Projects at Crowe

Crowe LLP

Used the Nessus API to create a custom python program to export Vulnerability Scan reports.

Built Python programs used to test client’s Firewall, Intrusion Detection, and Packet Analysis systems during Data Exfiltration testing.

Used my knowledge of SQL to improve the company’s password analysis methodology.

Built custom programs in Bash to help a client automate security testing.

Utilized amass, crt.sh, and subfinder to create a custom application to aid in the external domain identification process.

Updated internal tools written in C and Go for feature updates and bug fixes.

Pantry Pal

Techpoint

Django (Python framework) and mySQL website developed for the Techpoint S.O.S Challenge

Allows participating food banks to track their inventory and post what supplies they need

Built login form, distance calculation/sorting, and managed the mySQL database

PF-Chain

Web scraping tool developed for personal use; built using bash and python

Displays a graph representing an artist’s ratings on the website Pitchfork

Midas

Purdue University

Expense reporting app developed with Node.Js, Swift, and SQL for Software Engineering Course

Utilized Scrum development process as Scrum master

Managed the Midas SQL database hosted by google cloud

Built Node.Js classes to handle interactions with SQL

Speech Ehhsistant

Boilermake 2020 Hackathon

Java program used to track information while practicing for a speech/presentation

Utilized Scrum development process as Scrum master

Used multi-threading to build audio recording feature

Worked with NetBeans to integrate back-end and front-end

Hobbies

I enjoy learning new technical skills and tinkering with software (such as this self-hosted web server), hiking around Denver Colorado as well as our National Parks, and collecting vinyl records!