Becker Penafort

I've spent the last six years at Travel + Leisure Co., growing from a bilingual customer service rep into a team lead, and then into a business analyst / program specialist role. Along the way I led enterprise change management, administered Salesforce end-to-end — from a platform migration to custom fields, dashboards, and serving as the department point of contact — and built internal tools in PowerApps and Lovable that solved real operational problems for the people I worked with every day.

I'm now pursuing my B.S. in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance at Western Governors University while interning as a Network Engineer with Girls on Firewalls, sharpening my hands-on skill in Cisco networking, AWS, and security operations. My goal is a security role where the business context I've built matters just as much as the technical craft I'm sharpening.

Outside of work I run a home lab on a Chuwi LarkBox — a small trophy from placing at the BurbSec Chicago security conference — where I practice networking, red-team, and SOC workflows continuously.