Summary
Owen Pierce is a Jr. Systems Engineer with a decade of hands-on IT experience and over four years focused specifically on networking and cybersecurity. He combines practical infrastructure management—running a clustered Proxmox homelab and automating tasks with Ansible, PowerShell, and Bash—with offensive security skills evidenced by HTB CPTS and CompTIA Security+ certifications. At FoodArt he bridged business operations and security as an IT Administrator and later Information Technology Security Specialist, managing networks, web services, firewalls and virtualization. Now at Ally, he’s expanding into cloud, incident response, analytics and operations while applying a pragmatic, automation-first approach to secure, resilient systems. Outside work he sharpens his skills on HackTheBox challenges and sustains a busy home life with two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels.
10 years of coding experience
Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Washtenaw Community College
Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Assurance & Cyber Defense, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Assurance & Cyber Defense at Eastern Michigan University