1. Daniel J. Mercado
4053 Nathaniel Rochester Hall
Rochester NY 14623
(845) 645-1010
djm2095@rit.edu
www.linkedin.com/in/albinohat
Objective: A full-time co-op position as a software tester or software engineer
Education: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
Bachelor of Science in Information Security and Forensics, Anticipated Graduation
December 2015 GPA 3.66 / Dean's List: 6 Quarters
Coursework: System Administration: Set-up Windows 2008 DCs and administered small
AD domains. Set up group policy and adhered to server & web security
standards. Installed and configured Samba 4 and iSCSI(Starwind)
Introduction to Routing & Switching: Configured STP, RIP, VLANs &
ACLs on Cisco hardware.
Cryptography & Authentication: Performed cryptanalysis using Cryptool
to break ROT-13, Vigenère and simple substitution ciphers.
Network Services: Setup and configured DHCP, DNS & SMTP
Servers and clients on Windows as well as Linux platforms.
Windows Systems Forensics: Worked on an open-
source project to retrieve and summarize artifacts from a Windows system.
Information Security Policies: Created policies for a business and
presented them in a professional manner.
Skills: General: Written/Oral Communications, Groupwork
Scripting Languages: Perl, Python
OS: Windows XP/7/8/2003/2008/2012, CentOS 5.6/6.2, RHEL 6, Kali 1.0.9
Software: VMware, VirtualBox Wireshark, Omnipeek, Cryptool
Hardware: Cisco 1242AG/2621/2651/2811/3550
Activities: RIT Competitive Cybersecurity Club (RC3) member
Work Experience: Functionality Test Engineer Intern (1 Year). Responsibilities included
working with developers to fix issues in software and maintain testing environments.
References: Available upon request