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Maya Carter — CV

Associate Network Engineer · Tampa, FL, USA · hello@mayacarter.net

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Associate Network Engineer at Vector Telecom, designing metro fiber rings and backbone upgrades. Honors graduate in Software Engineering (mathematics minor) from Harbor Coast University. Builds full-stack tools and publishes peer-reviewed research on AI, IoT and network security.

Employment

  1. 2024 — Present

    Associate Network Engineer — Vector Telecom, Tampa, FL

    Plan and deploy metro fiber rings and backbone capacity augments. Automate provisioning with Python and Ansible. Coordinate field crews from survey through acceptance testing.

  2. 2023 — 2024

    Undergraduate Research Assistant — HCU Networks Lab, Fort Myers, FL

    Federated-learning prototypes for intrusion detection on IoT traffic; co-author of two peer-reviewed papers. Maintained lab GPU cluster and containerized experiment pipelines.

  3. 2022 — 2023

    NOC Operations Intern — Vector Telecom, Tampa, FL

    Backbone alarm monitoring, fiber-cut triage, and field dispatch. Authored runbooks and a shift-handoff dashboard.

Education

  1. 2020 — 2024

    B.S. Software Engineering, Honors — Harbor Coast University

    Minor in Mathematics. Best Senior Project (NetLens). Teaching assistant for data structures. HCU Engineering Ambassador, 2022–2024.

Skills & Certifications

BGP / OSPF / MPLS · DWDM & OTN · OTDR acceptance testing · Python · Ansible · Terraform · TypeScript · React · Node.js · PostgreSQL · AWS · Azure · Docker · Kubernetes · Wireshark · Zeek

  • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) — routing, switching, and automation fundamentals.
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate — VPC design and highly available architectures.
  • CompTIA Security+ — threats, secure architecture, and incident response.

Selected Publications

  • Skew-Aware Federated Aggregation for IoT Intrusion Detection — Journal of Network Intelligence, 2024.
  • Lightweight Sequence Models for Gateway-Side Threat Detection — Workshop on Edge AI for Communications, 2023.
  • Visualizing Metro Fiber Health — Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2023 (Best Paper Nominee).