Joshuah Garduno

Newpark Resources

Partnered with IT experts in a technical role at a publicly traded company to upgrade hardware infrastructure and virtual environments. Led company-wide technical change management as a consequence of a divestment.Responsibilities evolved to include presenting projects to executive leadership; working on various cybersecurity projects; designing a series of technical workshops and trainings; managing servers and troubleshooting errors; and supporting critical technical divestment projects in collaboration with cross functional, non-technical stakeholders.

LyondellBasell

Partnered with international subject matter experts at a publicly traded company to manage risk and global security programs affecting the safety of people and critical infrastructure.Worked on several globally consequential assignments, including analyzing global security risks; initiating global travel risk management maturity per ISO 31030 standards; standardizing processes for evaluating and defining travel risk; engaging travel risk audit vendor solutions; collecting, interpreting, and presenting global site incident data trends to leadership; assisting with the implementation of a new global emergency notification system; and participating in several nation-wide crisis management exercises.

Beta Academy

Partnered with the CEO and school district leadership to strategically strengthen school board and advisory committee leadership, advanced growth projects, analyzed and built sustainable fundraising channels, fostered corporate and non-profit relationships, built and maintained government and university partnerships, mitigated risk and matured district-wide emergency planning as the District Emergency Management Coordinator, and managed some public communication.Helped raise $6 million for programs, salaries, and capital projects.

Houston Foreign Consultancy

Built a tutoring business in 2010 for students and business leaders across Shenzhen, China. Later launched a customer-facing consultancy for high-net-worth clients for overseas studies and university entry exams.Leveraged this consultancy to work with a group of e-commerce executives as their consultant for an online gaming company, recruited foreign workers, negotiated employee contracts, and managed marketing and customer service to English and Spanish-speaking clients. Additionally, negotiated deals with local manufacturers to produce, ship, and market products to the US.

Shenzhen Yaohua Experimental School

Recruited by a premier international school to manage more than 40 diverse international staff, act as a college advisor to VIP students, teach Economics, and assist the CEO with international partnerships.Navigated a high-pressure, fast-paced environment with diverse international employees. Responsibilities evolved to include working in direct support of the founder and CEO to locate, negotiate, and translate conditions for partnerships and acquisitions worth millions of dollars. Traveled across the US with executive leadership to analyze several prospective partnerships, make recommendations, and lead negotiations of several important deals.

Shenzhen International Foundation College

Ushered the expansion of an international middle school in its first year, helping to double enrollment in year two.Responsible for the development of programs and enrollment, management of local and foreign staff, teaching, and public lectures. Led the middle school through rapid expansion; taught Algebra, Economics, and other subjects; gave open lectures in Chinese at recruiting events; and worked closely with the Marketing department to boost exposure to our target demographic.

Texas House of Representatives

As a Legislative Aide to an elected official, worked closely with constituents to understand their concerns and convey their requests to the Representative.I was also responsible for legislative research, reports, select communication efforts, and the introduction of legislative proposals on behalf of the Representative.

The University of Texas at San Antonio

Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration
Cyber Security
Magna Cum Laude

Began my formal technical and business education. Took courses in Finance, Accounting, Business, Coding, Cyber Forensics, Computer Security, and more.

The University of Texas at Austin

Bachelor of Arts
Government | Minor Economics

After graduating valedictorian from my high school, pursued a degree in Government with a minor in Economics while working at the Texas State Capital as a Legislative Assistant. During this time, I found my passion for Chinese.

Purdue University Northwest

Certificiate
Cyber Security - Artificial Intelligence

Continued my technical education through a DoD-sponsored cyber security program. Took courses in and pursued certifications in Artificial Intelligence, Python, IoT Security, Red Hat Linux, and more.

Shenzhen University

Certificiate
Chinese Language

Continued my Chinese language education, taking fully immersive courses with degree-seeking students. I was one of the highest-performing students in the program, and took Chinese courses in Economics, Geography, Business, Literature, Classics, and more.

Microsoft Office Specialist: Microsoft Excel Expert (Office 2019)

Competency in creating, managing, and distributing professional spreadsheets for a variety of specialized purposes and situations.

Microsoft Office Specialist: Microsoft Excel Associate (Office 2019)

Competency in the fundamentals of creating and managing worksheets and workbooks, creating cells and ranges, creating tables, applying formulas and functions, and creating charts and objects.

Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate

Knowledge and skills related to security concepts, security monitoring, host-based analysis, network intrusion analysis, and security policies and procedures.

CompTIA Security+

Skills required to assess the security posture of an enterprise environment and recommend and implement appropriate security solutions; monitor and secure hybrid environments, including cloud, mobile, and IoT; operate with an awareness of applicable laws and policies, including principles of governance, risk, and compliance; identify, analyze, and respond to security events and incidents.

CompTIA Network+

Skills required to establish network connectivity by deploying wired and wireless devices, understand and maintain network documentation, understand the purpose of network services, basic data center, cloud and virtual networking concepts,
monitor network activity, identifying performance and availability issues,
implement network hardening techniques, manage, configure and troubleshoot network infrastructure.

CompTIA A+

Knowledge related to mobile devices, networking technology, hardware, virtualization and cloud computing, network troubleshooting, installing and configuring operating systems, expanded security, software troubleshooting, and operational procedures.