Portfolio and creative archive

Curious, hands-on, and always building.

I’m a husband, father, Navy veteran, cybersecurity engineering student, and tinkerer.

I spent 20 years in the Navy as an IT and now study cybersecurity engineering, with interests in homelabbing, critical infrastructure, and hands-on technical work. dvcltr.com is my portfolio and creative archive: a place for projects, notes, experiments, and whatever I’m learning by taking things apart.

MS in Cybersecurity Engineering progress

Technology stack

ThinkPad X270

Windows coursework laptop

School endpoint
CPUIntel i7 10th gen
RAM16GB
SSD512GB

ThinkPad T490

Omarchy workstation with Docker

Primary lab host
CPUIntel i7 10th gen
RAM48GB
SSD1TB

VirtualBox lab stack

Local security practice environments

Lab VMs
KaliParrotOSLabtainerWazuhVulnHubMetasploitableDragon OSBlackArch

ZimaBlade

Proxmox mini home server

Home lab
CPUN3450
RAM32GB
Storage2 × 4TB HDD

Personal projects

Browser cyber range

Cipherstone Lab

A fictional university security lab built as a browser-based terminal game. The project turns beginner cybersecurity practice into an interactive investigation: reading help text, exploring hosts, mapping what is discovered, and solving small Linux/networking challenges inside an authorized training scenario.

React / Next.jsTerminal UICybersecurity labsScenario design

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