Ermenegildo Zegna Group

ICT - Technology & IT Operations Cyber Security Intern • Summer 2018

This past summer I worked as a Cyber Security Intern at Ermenegildo Zegna Group. During my experience I focused mainly on the compliance of the Zegna world with GDPR regulations regarding the protection of users' data and the overall security of the systems. GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is a regulation on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union and European Economic Area. I utilized Powershell scripting to manage Active Directory and ensure that every entity was compliant with GDPR. I also partecipated in the development of an Identity Governace System that would match each user in every application of the Zegna world with an identity in Active Directory. This included working with the project team members and organizing meetings to determine how to create the connectors between the Identity Governance System and the applications. I also joined the Darkatrace project team. Darktrace is a system that analyzes mirrored traffic and uses machine learning algorithms to identify threats. I worked on the installation of the tool in the Zegna network architecture and analyzed the data, packets and logs to actually determine possible threats and breaches.

Computer Vision Research Laboratory

Undergraduate Research Assistant • Fall 2017

I worked in a team with a fellow undergraduate student and an advisor to create a web-based platform utilized for psychophysical experiments. We built a web page that shows different types of layouts, where the user sees an image for a couple of milliseconds and then clicks on a button to pick the name of the object they just saw. This response is recorded and sent back to the database built with SQL. These results stored in the DB will be used to improve machine learning algorithms. We linked the web interface to Mechanical Turk because we wanted our experiment to be visible to a wide range of people. During this experience I acquired skills in Flask, Javascript, HTML, CSS and JQuery. I also learned some basic SQL. The results of our work will be published in an academic journal coming out in November 2018.

Notre Dame Energy

Pedaling for Power Project• Spring 2017 - Fall 2017

As a member of the SWE Outreach Committee, I devote a significant amount of my time to the South Bend community, especially organizing events that can show young students the powerful tools of engineering. The "Pedaling for Power" project is funded by Notre Dame Energy and is meant as a teaching tool for the education and understanding of today's global energy challenges. We built an electrical circuit that converts the mechanical energy created by pedaling on a bike into the electrical engergy necessary to power the different lightbulbs. Our main idea was to inform students about how much energy is required to light up different types of lightbulbs and how we can do our part in reducing energy consumption starting with picking the right lightbulbs.

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame

C/C++ Programming Teaching Assistant • Fall 2018

As a teaching assistant for Prof. Corey Pennycuff, I assist engineering students interested in learning the basics of C/C++ Programming by offering office hours and disponibility on Piazza and Slack.

Data Structures Teaching Assistant • Spring 2018

During the Spring semester of 2018 I had the opportunity to be a teaching assistant for the Data Structures course taught by Dr. Shreya Kumar. I collaborated with a team of undergraduate TA's and taught two sections of lab to approximately 80 Computer Science majors. We helped the students with their homework and projects whenever they needed guidance, whether it was related to debugging or learning the algorithms and data structures.

Distillery Giovanni Rapa

Order Coordinator • Summers 2016 - 2017

I spent my freshman and sophomore summers at Distillery Rapa working as an order coordinator. I directed production of up to 20 orders daily and coordinated their distribution both nationally and internationally. I also worked at the company's retail store where I engaged with numerous customers daily and provided them with a quality shopping experience.

Society of Women Engineers (Outreach Committee) • Tutor at St Adalbert Elementary School in South Bend, IN • Childcare Volunteer at the Center for the Homeless in South Bend, IN • Women's Ski Captain of the Notre Dame Ski & Snowboard Club • Women's Boxing Club • Italian Club • Fashion Club of Notre Dame • Engineering Leadership Program • St. Stephen's Parish Tutoring