Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Projects:
Volunteer Experience
Competitions And Licenses
References
Timeline
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Uzair Hussain

Summary

I’m a final-year Bachelor of IT (Networking and Cybersecurity) student at UniSA. I am currently in my final semester of my degree and looking for an opportunity so I can apply all the knowledge that I learned at UniSA in a practical environment.

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience

Work History

Store Assistant

Aldi
Parafield, Australia
11.2022 - Current
  • Serving and assisting customers professionally and efficiently
  • Operating registers and calculating change manually
  • Training to use equipment to move stock safely
  • Ensuring shelves are fully stocked with products
  • Cleaning and maintaining store standards
  • Handled customer complaints and issues, resolving them to the customer's satisfaction

Achievements:

  • As a senior employee, I got to train new staff on tills and other warehouse operations
  • Run shifts and maintain customer inquiries in the absence of the shift manager

U-buddy

UniSA Mawson Lakes Campus Central
Mawson Lakes, Australia
11.2023 - 11.2024
  • Set up computer pools and assist students enrolling on their courses using the interactive web application Enrol Online
  • Provide directions on campus and general information to students and visitors
  • Promote welcome briefings and orientation activities for new students
  • Assist key staff members in delivering information sessions
  • Assist Campus Central staff with issuing student ID cards and general administrative tasks

Education

Bachelor of Information Technology - Networking and Cybersecurity

University of South Australia
07-2025

Diploma of Information and Technology -

South Australian Institute of Business And Technology
06.2023

Skills

Customer Service: Provide friendly customer service to shoppers at Aldi, and students at the campus central UniSA

Problem-solving: Applied critical thinking skills to assist customers at Aldi, resolving their inquiries effectively

Team Collaboration: Collaborated with colleagues at Aldi to maintain store standards

Networking Concepts: Applied network routing and switching knowledge in academic projects and my private network environment at home

Hardware Configuration: Install and configure Cisco hardware at home and in a lab environment at UniSA

Documentation: Used cloud-based software at Campus Central, UniSA, to record student interactions and inquiries

Projects:

Created challenges for Capture the Flag (CTF) competition: February 2025 - June 2025

  • Worked alongside a team of three to create CTF challenges for a client
  • Worked as a Scrum Master, managed the Jira board, and led stand-ups
  • Since the other two members were online students, they used Zoom for team meetings and Discord for communication
  • Created geo-location, vulnerable web app, web inspection, malware analysis, and forensics challenges, and host it on the CTFd platform
  • Present the final product to the client at the end of the project

Server Deployment: Aug 2024 - Nov 2024

  • Lead a team of three to set up open-source servers for the simulated company using Linux and Docker
  • Deployed Ubuntu virtual machines inside a virtual environment, and set up Ansible for remote configuration
  • Deployed Nextcloud and Grafana using Ansible playbooks, and set up Keycloak as a single sign-on solution
  • Delivered a presentation to the client at the end of the project

Private Network, Feb 2025 – present

  • Built a private home network using Cisco 2960 and 3560 switches
  • Used loopback interfaces to create some more traffic and to test the network
  • Connected my PC and LCD to VLANs and did inter-VLAN routing on a Layer 3 Cisco 3560 switch for routing

Volunteer Experience

  • UniMentor, mentored new students and organised social events for them
  • PBA FM 89.7, provided technical and IT support to staff, including Microsoft 365, and network devices

Competitions And Licenses

  • Online Capture the Flag (CTF) event, participated in SilltCTF, ranked 49th out of 99 teams globally
  • Student member of the Australian Computer Society (ACS)
  • Australian full driving license

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

U-buddy

UniSA Mawson Lakes Campus Central
11.2023 - 11.2024

Store Assistant

Aldi
11.2022 - Current

Bachelor of Information Technology - Networking and Cybersecurity

University of South Australia

Diploma of Information and Technology -

South Australian Institute of Business And Technology
Uzair Hussain