Brian
Tramuel

About

I'm a Computer Science grad from UNC Charlotte (IT concentration, Statistics minor), now in the first year of my M.S. in Information Technology with a concentration in Information Security & Privacy.

My first real enterprise exposure was interning with Mecklenburg County, managing accounts and permissions in Active Directory and Entra ID, building VMs in Azure and vSphere, and helping migrate servers to the cloud. That's where identity clicked for me: almost every security problem eventually comes back to an account that has more access than it should.

Since then I've been building the tools and labs to get good at it: an Active Directory lab I can break and fix, a PowerShell access-review audit, and a phishing analyzer for the SOC side. Right now I'm studying for Security+ and looking for IAM, SOC, and IT roles in Charlotte or remote.

Experience

1. Jun 2024 – Aug 2024

   IT Systems Engineer Intern

   Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, NC

   Administered user accounts, permissions, and role assignments in Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID with least privilege in mind. Built and managed 10+ VMs in Azure and VMware vSphere, ran Rubrik backups replicating to Azure storage, and helped migrate physical servers to the cloud. Kept servers, backups, and print services at 99% uptime and cut ticket resolution time by 15%.

   • Active Directory
   • Entra ID
   • Azure
   • vSphere
   • Rubrik
   • Windows Server
2. Jun 2022 – May 2025

   Technician

   Select Home Tech, Charlotte, NC

   Installed and configured 80+ home and office networks, fixed hardware and connectivity issues, and wrote the maintenance docs clients relied on afterward.

Projects

Skills

Identity & access

Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, least privilege, access reviews, account lifecycle, group policy and OU design, JWT and bcrypt auth

Security operations

Phishing triage, email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), URL and lookalike-domain analysis, security hardening, misconfiguration review

Digital forensics

Autopsy, The Sleuth Kit, ExifTool, E01 imaging and hash verification, deleted file carving, Windows registry and browser artifact analysis, timeline reconstruction

Cryptography

AES modes (CBC vs. ECB), HMAC, length-extension attacks, RSA signatures, Diffie-Hellman, salted password hashing (PBKDF2, scrypt, bcrypt), CyberChef

Cloud & infrastructure

Microsoft Azure (VMs, Blob Storage), cloud migration, VMware vSphere and Workstation, Windows Server, Linux, Docker, Rubrik backup

Networking

DNS, LAN/WAN, VPN, network setup and troubleshooting

Scripting & code

PowerShell, Python, Bash, SQL, Java, JavaScript (Node.js, Express), Spring Boot, Rust (learning this semester)

Data

PostgreSQL, MySQL, database design, SAS, regression analysis

Tools

Git and GitHub, Postman, Swagger, Microsoft 365, usability testing

Education

Involvement