Cooper Pederson

Student-athlete studying cybersecurity at Metropolitan State University while playing ice hockey, which has strengthened my communication, time management, teamwork, and work ethic. I am seeking a software support, IT support, IT field technician, and any relevant cybersecurity internship position to apply my technical and customer support skills while gaining valuable experience.

• Youth Hockey Coach, Summit Youth Hockey, 06/25
• Youth Hockey Coach, Rocky Mountain Rough Riders, 08/25
• Club Ice Hockey Member, Metropolitan State University Club Ice Hockey Team, 08/24 - Present, Westminster, CO

• Blackjack Game Simulator, 03/25, Designed in spyder using python programming language. Clean readable code with comments. Used main function to call other functions in program. Used list to store values of cards to be then appended to either dealer or player based on first random card dealt.
• Vulnerability Assessment Lab, J&B Learning lab simulation. Used Nmap to scan for vulnerabilities. Analyzed scan reports by their severity scores and then providing the appropriate remediation technique. Created structured vulnerability assessment report.
• MySQL Data Base Creation, MySQL to create database to that stores NHL player Nathan MacKinnon's Statistics. Used basic MySQL operators & commands. Database management, created and deleted tables, entered data into tables to show NHL player statistics. Calculated AVG, SUM, MIN, and MAX totals of NHL player statistics.
• Home Network Vulnerability Assessment, performed by using Nessus for the scan. Network scan and in depth analysis of vulnerabilities found on network. Remediation plan that should eb implemented for the network with the vulnerability description, results, long term and short term plan.