PROJECTS / LABS / CONCEPTS

Projects and technical work

Professional work, completed labs and planned projects, with their purpose, validation and lessons clearly identified.

PROFESSIONAL WORK / SELECTED SCOPE

Work projects

Selected professional implementations and operational work. Details are intentionally high level to protect organisations, environments and security-sensitive information.

Network SecurityPROFESSIONAL

IPSec implementation and troubleshooting

Implementation and systematic troubleshooting of secure IPSec connectivity.

IPSecVPNTroubleshooting
Threat PreventionPROFESSIONAL

Custom threat signature creation

Creation of custom threat signatures for targeted detection and prevention use cases.

SignaturesDetectionThreat Prevention
Security AutomationPROFESSIONAL

Python SIEM rule automation

Python-based automation supporting repeatable SIEM rule management workflows.

PythonSIEMAutomation
Security OperationsPROFESSIONAL

Cortex XDR security analysis and incident response

Security analysis and incident-response work using Cortex XDR.

Cortex XDRAnalysisIncident Response
Security OperationsPROFESSIONAL

Cortex XSIAM and XDR tenant management

Operational administration and management of Cortex XSIAM and XDR tenants.

Cortex XSIAMCortex XDROperations
Network SecurityPROFESSIONAL

Palo Alto Networks NGFW Zero Trust transformation

Zero Trust transformation of a Palo Alto Networks NGFW environment with a correlated rulebase.

PAN-OSZero TrustPolicy
Endpoint SecurityPROFESSIONAL

XDR security profile tuning and deployment

Tuning and deployment of XDR security profiles to support operational security requirements.

XDRSecurity ProfilesDeployment
Network OperationsPROFESSIONAL

QoS implementation on Palo Alto Networks NGFW

Implementation of quality-of-service controls on Palo Alto Networks firewalls.

QoSPAN-OSTraffic Management
NetworkingPROFESSIONAL

Extreme Networks switch administration

Administration and operational support of Extreme Networks switching infrastructure.

Extreme NetworksSwitchingAdministration

LABS / EXAMPLES / CONCEPTS

Initial placeholders are examples or future concepts. They do not claim completed work.

Cloud securityAZ-500

Azure Least-Privilege / RBAC Exercise

A fictional identity and access exercise covering administrative separation and auditability.

AzureRBACLeast privilege

Example project — replace with your own implementation

Cloud securityAZ-900

Azure Secure Network Architecture

A conceptual workload-separation design using VNets, subnets, NSGs, identity and logging.

AzureNetworkingIdentity

Example project — replace with your own implementation

SoftwarePROJECT

Normalised Database and Web Application

A CV-derived university project involving a normalised relational database and a small web application.

MySQLApacheDatabases

CV-derived placeholder — verify and expand with your own implementation details

Network securityPalo Alto NGFW Engineer

GlobalProtect Remote Access Design

A design exercise covering authentication, address pools, policy, split tunnelling and logging.

Remote accessVPNIdentity

Example project — replace with your own implementation

Security operationsISC2 CC

Security Incident Triage Playbook

A decision-focused playbook for validation, severity, scope, evidence and escalation.

Incident responseEvidenceOperations

Example project — replace with your own implementation

SoftwarePROJECT

Java Network Change Management Application

A deliberately small future concept connecting software design with operational change control.

JavaChange management

Future concept — not yet implemented

SoftwarePROJECT

Java and Firebase Team Platform

A CV-derived team software project for a fictional shop using Java and cloud data persistence.

JavaFirebaseTeam project

CV-derived placeholder — verify and expand with your own implementation details

NetworkingCCNA

Multi-VLAN Enterprise Network Lab

A documented lab outline covering segmentation, trunks, inter-VLAN routing, DHCP and validation.

VLANsRoutingDHCP

Example project — replace with your own implementation

NetworkingCCNA

Network Troubleshooting Methodology

A systematic walk-through from physical connectivity to application behaviour.

TroubleshootingDNSFirewall

Example project — replace with your own implementation

NetworkingCCNA

OSPF Routing Lab

A repeatable lab plan for neighbour formation, route advertisement, defaults and fault isolation.

OSPFRoutingTroubleshooting

Example project — replace with your own implementation

Network securityPalo Alto Network Security Professional

Palo Alto NGFW Segmentation Lab

A safe project scaffold for zones, policy, NAT, logging and threat prevention.

NGFWSegmentationPAN-OS

Example project — replace with your own implementation

AutomationPROJECT

Python Network Utility

A future CLI concept for CIDR, host range, mask and wildcard calculations.

PythonCLICIDR

Future concept — not yet implemented

SoftwarePROJECT

Python Viewing-Data Analysis

A CV-derived university data-analysis project using Python, machine-learning methods and natural-language processing.

PythonData analysisNLP

CV-derived placeholder — verify and expand with your own implementation details

InfrastructureCCNA

Sanitised Homelab Development

A CV-derived placeholder for documenting the ongoing homelab as architecture and engineering decisions rather than an infrastructure inventory.

HomelabNetworkingSecurity

CV-derived placeholder — publish only after a full privacy review

OperationsPalo Alto NGFW Engineer

Palo Alto Security Policy Review

A process-led review of broad, duplicate and unused rules, including rollback and documentation.

PolicyReviewChange management

Example project — replace with your own implementation

Security operationsPalo Alto Security Operations Professional

XSIAM Investigation Workflow

A completely fictional incident used to document evidence, hypotheses, decision points and containment considerations.

TriageInvestigationXSIAM

Example project — fictional scenario; replace with your own implementation