Charlotte Croce

Education

Champlain College*

Burlington, VT

Bachelor of Science in Computer Networking and Cybersecurity

Class of 2027

GPA: 3.97/4.0

Relevant Coursework: Network Security Controls, Web & Application Security, Database Security, Information Assurance, System Administration for Enterprise and Distributed Systems, Automation & Scripting

*Designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security

Experience

The Leahy Center

Burlington, VT

Lead Security Engineer

May 2025 — Present

Led SOC hypervisor migration from VMware to Proxmox VE, rebuilding a more efficient storage architecture (see more)
Built and administered internal Mediawiki server with department-based access controls integrated with Active Directory
Maintained Gitea server infrastructure
Served as Teaching Assistant for Champlain College's precollege summer academy

Security Engineer

Jan 2024 — May 2025

Maintained Elastic Stack SIEM infrastructure, ensured uptime, and automated security operations
Optimized a threat detection engine to expand security coverage while reducing false positives
Collaborated with analysts on alert response

Security Operations Intern

Oct 2023 — Dec 2023

Learning the ropes 🙃

Certifications

CompTIA CySA+

CompTIA Security+

CompTIA A+

Keywords

Systems & Infrastructure

Active Directory

Debian Linux

Docker

iDRAC

LXC

Proxmox VE

RHEL Linux

VMware

Windows Server

Security Tools & Frameworks

Elasticsearch

Firewalls

Kibana

PKI

SIEM

Wireshark

Networking

VyOS

Programming & Scripting

Ansible

Bash

Java

JavaScript

PowerShell

Python

SQL

Collaboration & Documentation

Git / GitHub

MediaWiki

Monday.com