More professional development for Interns! I recommend an internship at the Navy Exchange Service Command to anyone trying to develop professional experience while in their college tenure. This company spends a lot of time and money into their interns, even though most of them are only going to be in the company temporarily. The most recent round of professional development centered on interviews, dressing for success, resumes, LinkedIn and social media presence. The HR head of recruiting was able to give me some insight on my so far failed job search. She said that due to my extensive military service background, regardless of the fact that Cybersecurity is a new field for me, I am definitely not at a “Entry Level” position, and so I should stop looking for those positions. They are going to sit me down with one of their recruiting experts to tailor my resume and LinkedIn profile and guide me into what I should be searching for in a job.
Other than that, I continue to work on my capstone presentation, where I will be suggesting process improvements to the trouble ticketing management system and addressing inventory and maintenance thoughts and concerns. For the trouble ticket management system, I will be providing examples of actual tickets with poor information for location and explaining how the initial provision of that information can improve efficiency. For inventory and maintenance, I will bring up how there is a very loose, but not managed inventory of IT assets, and from that no measurable maintenance can be done. Without measurable maintenance they cannot measure MTBF/R (Mean Time Between Failure/Repair). With measurable maintenance they can possibly save money because they can measure how well COTS equipment performs and the maintenance can improve efficiency by making sure the computers fail less and operated better.
Below is my work desk, where I have my personal laptop, teaching myself ethical hacking, the center laptop and monitor doing NEXCOM work and schoolwork and on the right a computer I am imaging.