Hiroshi Takeuchi
Highlighting career goals and academic achievements.
B.S Mechanical Engineering
2003-2008
Professional
Experience
Education
M.S Engineering & Industrial Management
2008-2010
Filter Research Corp.
2009-2010
Mitsuchi Corporation of America
2010-2011
Mayekawa USA, Inc
2011-2022
Cyber Defense Professional Certificate
2021-2022
CompTIA Security+
2023
Danfoss
2022-Current
AWS Certified Practitioner
2024
Temperature Controller Project
Personal & Academic Labs or Projects
In development: I have wanted to build this fun little project for my home firewall, Protectli Vault router, for a while; stay tuned as I progress further in the development. I will share more details on this exciting little project.
Skills used: CODESYS, OPC-UA, Python, Controls Engineering, HMI & User Interface development
Penetration
Testing Lab
Personal lab: This is one of my favorite tasks right now. While I am taking a course on pen-testing, I am reviewing and refining my following skills.
Skills used & exercised: Virtualization, Kali Linux, Metasploit, Routersploit, nmap, vulnerability analysis, Nessus, Viruses, Msfvenom, Trojans, Payloads, Python (port scanner, creating a backdoor)
Firewall Application
Personal & Academic Lab: Ever since getting familiar with pfSense and networking from classes I took at UCF, I have applied some of these skills in building my own home network. Where all of my IoT devices are placed on a different subnet and blocked by a firewall from not being able to access my secured home network. Aside from that I have also experimented with applying VPN to my network traffic as well as blocking malicious domains and websites, and keeping an asset registry of all of my devices in my network.
Skills used & learned: pfSense, Applying firewall rules, Blocking Traffic Such as ICMP packets, Enabling Port Forwarding, and Applying Network Subnetting.
Website Development
In development: Behind the scenes, I am actually working on a different website while I am taking a full web development course. Why am I doing this? I am confident that understanding how websites are developed from scratch and hosted will help me as a Cybersecurity professional and enhance my website pen-testing skills.
Skills used & exercised: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, NodeJS, Git, ExpressJS, SQL Databases, MySQL, Sessions & User Authentication, Website Security (CSRF, XSS, SQL Injection protection)
Installation of WAN
Academic lab: This was one of the most confusing but satisfying projects I did during my courses at UCF to obtain my Cyber Defense Professional Certificate by ThriveDX. We set up a wide network for a bank that included three LANs. We were tasked with designing an IP address scheme and dividing it into eight subnets. This included devising a network topology plan and assigning IP addresses. It was challenging but very satisfying once the whole project was finished.
Skills learned:
How to build VLANs, trunks, and routers network communications.
Set up inter-VLAN routing.
Security configuration on network devices.
Encrypting passwords and setting up security messaging.
Cisco Packet Tracer 8.0.1
Cloud Security
Academic lab: This absolutely was one of my favorite labs I did during my studies at UCF, and also the reason why I got inspired to proceed to get my AWS Certified Practitioner certification. During this lab, we learned how to implement IAM features for AWS accounts, using some of the services AWS offers, such as S3 buckets, and understanding security features on the cloud, such as WAF and ACL. I am very passionate about this topic and also continue to take webinars on how to use certain AI tools. The next one I am enrolled in is how to maximize velocity in Kubernetes environments with DevOps confirmation!
Also once the other website I am working on is fully developed, I am planning on hosting it and managing it from AWS! I think this will further help me develop invaluable skills in the field of tech and cybersecurity!
Skills exercised and used: AWS, Identity Access Management, S3 Buckets, EC2, Cloud Front, Delivering Static Websites from an S3 Bucket, WAF, ACL.
My future goals!
Before my CompTIA Security+ expires in 2026, I have my eyes set on getting the CompTIA PenTest+. This will not only renew my Security+ but will encourage me to take my penetration testing skills to a new level and help me demonstrate my competency in this field.
Another certificate that I would love to obtain and work towards is the ISA/IEC 62443 Cybersecurity Fundamentals Specialist. This one will be more challenging as there are fewer resources to prepare for it, and the cost is higher than the CompTIA PenTest+. Nevertheless, it will be of tremendous value to me as I proceed with my journey of becoming a cybersecurity professional in the ICS/OT world.