About Herm
🧔 N1PWN: The Tactical Polymath of Pwnage
“A warfighter-turned-wired-wizard with more certs than passwords and more radios than coffee mugs.”
🧭 Who Is Herm?
Herm is what happens when a Counterintelligence Agent, a Penetration Tester, a Ham Radio wizard, a Paralegal, a Locksmith, and a rogue Electrician get zapped by a radioactive Burp Suite terminal.
From the jungles of Morse Code in the 509th Airborne Infantry Battalion in Italy to the digital trenches of Red Team ops, Herm has lived the spectrum — analog and digital, covert and overt, command line and coaxial.
⚙️ Current Ops
- Penetration Test Engineer & Practice Architect
- Specializes in web application security, API exploitation, cloud red teaming, and threat intelligence
- Daily driver: Kali Purple on an Alienware battlestation
- VMs spin up like artillery shells — loaded with Metasploit, Burp Suite Pro, MobSF, and custom recon scripts
- Fluent in Python, JavaScript, and C++ with a side hustle in soldering
📜 Credentials & Certs
“I collect certs like some folks collect challenge coins.”
- Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
- Certified Dark Web Investigator
- Certified Adversary Emulation Engineer
- CompTIA CASP+, PenTest+
- MITRE ATT&CK Certified (x4)
- CSI Linux Certified Investigator
- AWS & Azure Security Training (In Progress)
- Burp Suite Certified Practitioner (Training)
📡 RF Ops
- FCC GROL w/ Radar Endorsement
- General-class Amateur Radio License (Extra pending)
- GMRS licensed
- HF Shack: Icom IC-7300, IC-735, Kenwood TS-180S
- Deployable Antennas: Buddipole, JPC-7, JPC-12
- QSL cards that slap harder than a misconfigured firewall
🔍 Intelligence Background
- Former U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent
- Intelligence Analyst at the U.S. State Department (Bureau of Intelligence and Research)
- Master’s in Strategic Intelligence from the National Intelligence University
- Fluent in English & Spanish, conversational in Arabic & German
- Grounded in HUMINT, SIGINT, and “the kind of OSINT that scares the internet”
🛠️ Other Specialties
- Licensed Paralegal
- Residential Electrician
- Locksmith (both ethical and tactical)
- FCC General Radiotelephone License
- Physical Security Trained (Diplomatic Security Service Academy, Army, Cybrary)
🧪 Fun Facts
- Taught a toaster to connect to Wi-Fi once
- Can still tap out Morse code at 25 WPM
- Currently training for the Offensive Security Web Expert (OSWE)
- May or may not have a Faraday cage under his desk
🛰️ Want to Work With Me?
I’m semi-retired but always open to new adventures — especially remote roles involving red teaming, threat intel, radio engineering, or tactical training.
👉 Head over to my Contact page and let’s talk.