George Breen

Senior Security Engineer

Senior Security Engineer experienced across major technology stacks, supporting customers from small businesses to global enterprises. Designed and automated incident response processes including report generation, data collection, and first-pass analytical triage. Proficient with PowerShell, Python, and Go, to streamline investigations, improve consistency, and accelerate decision-making.

g@heresmy.work
New Jersey, USA

Work Experience

Training Support Engineer

2024 - 2026

SpecterOps

  • Deployed and performed quality assurance for virtual lab infrastructure supporting industry-recognized training.
  • Provided live support to students and instructors at major cybersecurity conferences.
  • Served as the first hire of a new team wave; established processes and operating structure that enabled team growth from 6 to 11 members.
  • Managed course refreshes as a project manager, coordinating communication between consulting and training development teams.
  • Helped develop Capture the Flag challenge ranges for a Fortune 10 company by creating technical artifacts and supporting learner-focused instruction.
  • Supported Capture the Flag participants through Zendesk by performing triage, analyzing reported attack behavior, and confirming advanced exploitation paths and exploitability in target ranges.

Advanced Support Engineer

2021 - 2024

Miles IT

  • Received "Unsung Hero" award by demonstrating an ability to catch and identify issues before wider impact
  • Conducted SOC2 audit preperations via guided Risk Register assessments and Infrastructure analysis
  • Identified and prevented over $10M+ in fraudulent wire attempts
  • Prepared vulnerability reports powered by Qualys/Pingcastle/Bloodhound to ensure customer compliance
  • Created & refined security playbooks and procedures to be used across the company

IT Support Specialist

2019 - 2021

Miles IT

  • Responsible for maintaining client networking via hardware & software configuration to best practice
  • Performed dual role of Incident Response and SOC Analyst for security related issues
  • Acted as an escalation point to 5-10 Tier 1 team members
  • Resolved reoccurring Tier 1 issues with advanced root cause analysis

IT Support Consultant

2018 - 2019

Miles IT

  • Worked with third party vendors on behalf of clients to resolve technical issues
  • Handled initial triage of incoming tickets via email & phone
  • Utilized in-house documentation system to track inventory and issues
  • Managed communications at the direction of senior staff to individual clients

Projects

z$ - 0DollarMSP

A theoretical MSP business focused on utilizing Open Source software

Proxmox Self-Hosting Podman SSO

Slay The Spire Websocket Bridge

An experiment using a GLM 5.2-powered coding harness for software reverse engineering & prototyping

C# PowerShell Oh My Pi

Troubleshooters Toolkit

A freely available online guide with time-tested tools used during my tenure

Network Troubleshooting Active Directory & Entra DNS & Email Security Ansible Development Best Practices

Education

Associate of Science (AS) in Computer Science

2016 - 2018

Camden Community College

Best Class: Computer Organization & Discrete Math

Languages

English Native
Spanish Elementary
Mandarin Beginner

Awards

Unsung Hero Award

Miles IT - 2021

Hall Of Fame

Miles IT - 2024