# Gabe (Gabriel) U Concepcion — IT Support Specialist & Security Analyst

- Location: Texas, USA
- Degree: B.S. in Software Engineering, Western Governors University (Graduated April 2026)
- Website: https://gabeconcepcion.com/
- GitHub: https://github.com/GabeConcepcion
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabe-concepcion/

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## Professional Summary
Technical professional combining software engineering foundations with enterprise IT infrastructure diagnostics, endpoint support, and security detection engineering. Experienced in Windows Server administration, Active Directory/Entra ID, network protocol diagnostics, and hypothesis-driven threat hunting.

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## Certifications
- CompTIA Security+ (In Progress)
- CompTIA A+
- CompTIA Project+
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- ITIL 4 Foundation

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## Technical Competencies
- Systems & Administration: Windows 10/11, Windows Server, Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365 Admin Center, PowerShell, Event Viewer.
- Networking & Protocols: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, RDP, VPN, NSGs, Packet Inspection, Port Diagnostics.
- Security & Telemetry: Microsoft Sentinel (SIEM), Kusto Query Language (KQL), Defender for Endpoint (EDR), Tenable Nessus, Sysmon, DISA STIG compliance, MITRE ATT&CK.

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## Featured Infrastructure & Security Labs
- Azure Cloud SIEM & Telemetry Lab: Provisioned an internet-facing Azure VM honeypot to ingest raw authentication failure logs (Event ID 4625) into Log Analytics; authored custom KQL queries and Sentinel dashboards to map global attacker origins.
  Repository: https://github.com/GabeConcepcion/Honeypot-Report
- Technical Reports & DFIR Investigations: Case studies on external RDP compromises (T1021.001), Living-off-the-Land (LotL) execution, and identity breach analysis using Sysmon and Windows Security Event logs.
  Repository: https://github.com/GabeConcepcion/Threat-Hunting-Reports

## Autonomous Vision & Goalie Kinematics Engine
- **Classification:** Closed Source / Applied Systems Engineering
- **Stack:** Custom YOLO Model, Python, OpenCV, HDMI UVC Video Capture, Predictive Kinematics, Virtual HID Controller Emulation
- **Summary:** Engineered a real-time autonomous defensive pipeline ingesting live HDMI capture card feeds. Trained a custom YOLO model to detect puck dynamics under strict sub-20ms frame budgets, computing 2D vector trajectories and driving virtual gamepad stick actuation in real time.