Hossein Parastar

Hossein Parastar has extensive work experience in the field of cybersecurity and technology. Hossein currently holds the position of Threat Analyst II (Microsoft Threat Specialist) at eSentire since July 2022. Prior to this role, they worked as a Senior Cyber Security and Privacy Consultant at PwC from June 2022 to July 2022, and as a Cyber Security and Privacy Consultant from March 2021 to June 2022.

Before joining PwC, Hossein was actively involved in academic research and teaching at the University of New Brunswick. Hossein worked as a Graduate Research Assistant from January 2021 to March 2021 and from August 2018 to January 2021. Hossein also served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant from May 2019 to July 2019 and from September 2018 to January 2019.

Additionally, Hossein has previous experience as an Android and JAVA developer, where they worked from May 2017 to January 2021.

Hossein Parastar's education history includes a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of New Brunswick, which they obtained from 2018 to 2021. Prior to that, they earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Software Engineering from Azad University (IAU) between 2014 and 2017.

In addition to their formal education, Hossein has obtained several certifications. These include being a Microsoft Certified: Information Protection Administrator Associate, Azure Security Engineer Associate (Az-500), and Security Operations Analyst Associate (SC-200), all from Microsoft, in 2022. Hossein also received certification as an AWS Partner: Accreditation (Technical) from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2021. Furthermore, Hossein holds certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) from Microsoft in 2021, User Experience: The Beginner's Guide from Interaction Design Foundation in 2020, SQL: Data Reporting and Analysis and Learning React.js from LinkedIn in 2020, and various others.

It is worth mentioning that Hossein Parastar has completed additional courses and programs, such as the "Bracketology Club: Using March Madness to Learn Data Science" from LinkedIn in 2020, "Crash Course on Python" from Google in 2020, "The Business Intelligence Analyst Course 2020" and "The Data Science Course 2020: Complete Data Science Bootcamp" from 365 Careers in 2020, and "Introduction to Internet of Things and Cloud" from Udemy in 2020. Hossein has also pursued an Android Developer certification from LAITEC and a Splunk Fundamental certification, although specific information regarding the completion dates is not available.