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17 <h2 class="main-header">Arthur Taft</h2>
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20 <li class="resume-list-item">Mobile: (385) 266 - 6682 • </li>
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27 <h3 class="main-subheading">Summary</h3>
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29 <li class="summary-list-item">Diversified experience troubleshooting Microsoft Windows, macOS, and other Unix-based operating systems.</li>
30 <li class="summary-list-item">Knowledgeable in: HTTP(S), TCP/UDP, LAN, WAN, VLAN, SSH, RDP, SSL, DNS, NAT, Bash, PowerShell, pfSense, postfix, dovecot, Microsoft Office, and Jira.</li>
31 <li class="summary-list-item">Experienced in interpersonal communication, with an emphasis in clarity and customer satisfaction.</li>
32 <li class="summary-list-item">Detail-oriented and organized, with the ability to manage multiple tasks in a time-efficient and effective manner.</li>
36 <h3 class="main-subheading">Education</h3>
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38 <p class="degree">BS, Cybersecurity - Minor in German</p>
39 <p class="grad-date">May 2028</p>
41 <p class="school">Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT</p>
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43 <li class="education-list-item">SUU Cybersecurity Club</li>
44 <li class="education-list-item">Key Courses: Object Oriented Programming, Web Development, Data Communications and Networking, Database Design and Management, Systems Security</li>
48 <h3 class="main-subheading">Projects</h3>
49 <p class="project-title">Homelab</p>
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51 <li class="project-list-item">Hosted Minecraft Server, learned about TCP/UDP, using pfSense for routing and configuring LAN and WAN interfaces. Used SSH and RDP to access remote machines. Used VLANs to segregate services. Set up a mailserver using postfix and dovecot.</li>
53 <p class="project-title">Custom Scripts</p>
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55 <li class="project-list-item">Wrote a file backup and restore script to increase efficiency in moving users to new workstations. Wrote custom scripts to build packages from source on Gentoo Linux. Wrote a wrapper for the popular program yt-dlp to aid in media archival.</li>
59 <h3 class="main-subheading">Experience</h3>
60 <p class="experience-title">SUU Cybersecurity Club</p>
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62 <li class="experience-list-item">Attended every meeting for the 2024-2025 school year, participated in 3 CTF events, member of the NCAE Cyber Games team. Learned about DNS, routing, NAT, apache webservers, and general Linux hardening.</li>
63 <li class="experience-list-item">Stayed late after every club meeting in 2025 to learn from the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition team. Learned about SIEM, Palo Alto, Windows Automation, Linux Automation.</li>
64 <li class="experience-list-item">Gave a presentation on Gentoo Linux and walked club members through the install process step-by-step. Enabled club members to learn more about Linux.</li>
66 <p class="experience-title">IT Help Desk Technician, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT November 2024 – August 2025</p>
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68 <li class="experience-list-item">Monitored ticket queue, personally reviewing all tickets and resolving an average of 3 tickets per week. Took initiative in answering 4-5 phone calls per day.</li>
69 <li class="experience-list-item">Developed and deployed a script to automate transfer of user files, increasing efficiency by over 50%.</li>
70 <li class="experience-list-item">Praised by coworkers and patrons averaging a 5-star review on all completed tickets.</li>
71 <li class="experience-list-item">Actively assisted walk-in patrons, and strove to resolve user issues in under 10 minutes when possible. All other issues were resolved in under 1 hour.</li>