Cyber Training Officer

Overview

I joined the i5 national cyber team in November 2024, moved up to Cyber250 National Program Coordinator leading course development, and now hold the title Cyber Training Officer at i5 headquarters.

The main artifact is CYBER250, an advanced hands-on course in offensive-security tooling: network enumeration with Nmap, footprinting and DNS, file-transfer techniques, password attacks (John the Ripper, credential hunting), and web tooling (ffuf, Burp Suite, Metasploit, msfvenom). The modules are guided walkthroughs with real command transcripts, practical labs for each tool, and a final challenge target that brings every tool into one realistic scenario. Development ran in conjunction with the Space Force’s Space Training and Readiness Command (STARCOM), and I coordinated the team of contributors writing the curriculum.

Design decisions 03

• The course is built around doing — real command transcripts and tool use — rather than reading, and techniques open with concrete engagement scenarios (for example, escalating from a web shell when PowerShell and FTP are blocked but SMB is open) so learners meet each tool in context.
• HackTheBox Academy material was adapted into original guided walkthroughs organized by technique, rather than pointing students at the raw platform, so the course is self-contained and teachable in sequence.
• A hand-written x86-64 assembly demo (a stack-string XOR decoder) shows how low-level shellcode is actually constructed, not just how to run existing tools.

Nmap · ffuf · Burp Suite · Metasploit · msfvenom · John the Ripper · Impacket · x86-64 assembly (NASM)

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