Skyler Watson

IT Engineer · Las Vegas, Nevada

IT engineer at a managed services provider, supporting a multi-site healthcare practice. I handle endpoints, identity, networking, servers, and cloud in a HIPAA environment, and I write scripts and tools to automate routine work. M.S. in Cybersecurity from UNLV, 2026.

Experience

Onsite IT Engineer

April 2026 to present

HealthSpaces

  • Provide onsite and remote IT support across six healthcare locations: user access, Windows endpoints, applications, printers, and network issues.
  • Manage Google Workspace accounts, permissions, and licenses for onboarding and offboarding.
  • Deploy and configure workstations, iPads, and software with Hexnode MDM, Apple Business Manager, and Windows imaging.
  • Support FortiGate and UniFi networks, including a site network migration, and work with vendors and internal teams to resolve issues.
  • Write PowerShell scripts and tools for deployment and routine endpoint administration, and maintain documentation and asset inventory.

AI Strategy and Engineering

May to August 2026

Station Casinos · UNLV graduate capstone

  • Four-person, client-sponsored capstone on how generative AI could fit enterprise software development.
  • Built the team’s eight-stage pipeline from plain-English request to tested pull request, with governance gates and a human merge. Presented the research and a working demo to IT leadership.

IT Help Desk Technician I

April 2025 to April 2026

UNLV Office of Information Technology

  • Hardware, software, network, and account support for a university of 30,000+ students, faculty, and staff.
  • Built a help desk assistant from 699 knowledge-base articles, with guardrails that require a technician’s sign-off before registry edits or scripts.

Cybersecurity Assessment Team Member

2025

Nevada SBDC Cyber Clinic

  • Assessed small-business systems for weak credentials, outdated software, and misconfigurations, and wrote remediation plans owners could act on.

Vulnerability Analyst Intern

Summer 2022

HealthSpaces

  • Deployed OpenVAS across client offices, ran vulnerability assessments, and presented prioritized findings to senior management.

Education

M.S. Cybersecurity

August 2026

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

B.A. Intelligence and Cyber Operations

May 2023

University of Southern California

Skills

IT operations
Windows 10/11 imaging, macOS, iPadOS, Google Workspace, Hexnode MDM, Apple Business Manager, ScreenConnect, Windows Server / RDS
Network and security
UniFi, FortiGate SD-WAN, IPsec VPN, ThreatDown EDR, Wazuh, Greenbone, TheHive, Cloudflare, Tailscale
Cloud and automation
Google Cloud, Proxmox, Docker, PowerShell, Python, Apps Script, Node.js / TypeScript, n8n, Azure DevOps

Competition and certificates