GE Digital – February 2019 – Present

I started out as an intern at General Electric’s subsidiary company GE Digital where I still work at today. During my 6 month internship I learned a lot about this SIEM tool called Splunk and what it’s used for. I was busy working on creating new alerts for our dashboards, creating new dashboards, and providing monitoring as well as help customers and my team out whenever they needed it. I got converted there to a full time position on August 12, 2019 and have been working there full time ever since. My position on that team is Enterprise Applications Engineering Specialist and I am responsible of doing a lot of different tasks such as:

• Leverage technical capabilities to assist the Data and Analytics team in automating reports and dashboards
• Create alerts which trigger when suspicious activity on our network happens
• Refresh analysis data on a regular basis and publish new dashboards
• Create new indexes to allow new data feeds into Splunk
• Work with customers on getting their data feeds into Splunk
• On 24/7 call rotation, respond to Splunk issues that may arise and act as key point of escalation for other security engineers when needed
• Handle customer requests
• Help create new apps for customers

These are just a few of the many new things I’ve learned to do and have to do on a regular basis. What I really like about GE in particular is their work/life balance and how everybody treats each other with a sense of community and teamwork. I say it’s because of our company culture that GE is one of the biggest companies in the world and is the main reason I got drawn into working with them in the first place. I continue to work at GE where I’ve met many new people and have been able to network and make many new connections. I currently work from home which is a big plus, before I used to travel everyday to work from Woodbridge, VA to Glen Allen, VA which was about an hour and twenty minute drive one way every single day.