Webinar: HS Navigator Young Scholars Program by Cybersecurity Careers

HS Navigator - Young Scholar Program

The HS Navigator Young Scholars Program strives to engage academically talented students with a strong desire to pursue career in Computer Science and related areas. The program incorporates a lecture series, research exposure experiences, and networking opportunities. Participants will work on live project on variety of latest Information Technology field areas. It is remote 8-Weekend online program where every weekend will consist of 2-4 hrs webinar and labs on scheduled topics.

Meet The Presenters

Devinder Singh

Senior Database Specialist SA Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Results-oriented Senior IT Manager with experience and proven track record in managing technology and operations teams. Over 20 years of hands on experience with the right balance of management and technical skills to work effectively in a team and across multiple functional groups. Experience in planning and management of Database infrastructure projects, project plans and review status with IT staff and other business units. Designing and building highly Available and Scalable Database Infrastructure utilizing Linux/Solaris, Oracle Real Application clusters, EMC storage, OPS and Veritas Cluster Server and Sql Server Clusters and VMWare. Background in strategic planning, project management, staffing and employee relations. Proven strength in managing global resources, meeting goals and producing result oriented team efforts through excellent interpersonal, motivational and communicational skills. Consistently working on improving delivery time and service levels. Experienced in many functions of IT -- Database Management, Project Management, Application Development, Database Technical Support, Compliance and Security.
AWS certification in Big Data and Solutions Architect Associate. Currently working on multiple AWS cloud related projects.
Amitabh Rai

Senior Consultant, Data Analytics at Verizon Wireless

Highly analytical and methodical data analyst with in-depth knowledge of analyzing, combining, visualizing, inferring, and forecasting multitude of large data sets. Using latest statistical and analytical techniques furnish insights and business intelligence used to advance opportunity identification, process reengineering and continuous growth
Mahesh Chowdhary

Director & Fellow, Strategic Platforms and IoT Excellence Center at STMicroelectronics

Technology leader credited with many industry firsts. An innovator delivering revenue-generating products based on synthesis of emerging technologies, customer needs and competitive trends in complex device and system markets. Technologist with experience in MEMS sensors, AI, ML, IoT, location technologies, and Digital Transformation. A resourceful manager with a global management perspective credited with creating and growing global delivery teams.
Niloufer Tamboly

Risk Management | Vendor Risk Assessment | Risk Quantification | Cloud Security

Niloufer collaborates with clients to identify, analyze, develop end-to-end risk management processes to mitigate business partner risk. She is a risk management professional and helps companies manage risk, quantify the impact, and translate risk metrics for business stakeholders. Niloufer helps business stakeholders execute cybersecurity strategies and accept risks appropriately based on quantified risk appetite.
With over 15 years of experience identifying, assessing, and driving remediation for risks in applications Niloufer understands unique client challenges across multiple industries.
She prides herself on her ability to build business partners’ trust and understand their experiences and
the risks they face on a daily basis.
Niloufer stays up to date on technologies, frameworks, products, threats, and solutions. She is a sought-after resource to review risks in emerging tech like cloud security, blockchain, AWS security, and complex risk assessments.

Niloufer holds multiple certifications in IT Security (CISSP, CCSP), Risk (OPEN Fair), Privacy (CDPSE), Audit (CISA, CIA), and Fraud (CFE). She is a Certified Public Account licensed to practice in the State of New Jersey. And a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA).

Niloufer has authored two patents for System For And Method of Generating Visual Passwords (US 9,171,143 B2) and Establishing An Alternate Call Path Using Short-Range Wireless Technology (US 9,392,523).

Niloufer is the organizer of the largest cybersecurity career MeetUp group and creator of the YouTube Channel "Cybersecurity Career Talks".

Niloufer co-founded the nonprofits Step Up Skill in 2020 and (ISC)2 New Jersey Chapter in 2012.
Mehar Johal

CEO and Founder of HS Navigator

Mehar is a Graduated Senior at South Brunswick High School, Monmouth Junction, New Jersey who is passionate about computer science and its applications! He is the lead Python/HTML/Java Developer and his passion for helping others pushed him to create HS Navigator platform during his sophomore year. Mehar is AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialist, AWS Certified Architect Associate and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundation Associate. He is member of several school teams and clubs including Science Olympiad, New Jersey Science League and more and won several awards in the competition. He enjoys spending time learning about topics like Astronomy and Cryptography. Out of School, he loves playing Percussion, Reading books, Cooking, volunteering and Tutoring. Currently working as SWE Intern at Bloomberg Engg IT Department and last year worked as Teaching Assistant/Intern for Columbia University AI4ALL program, helping students with the basics of AI and Python. He has also attended Princeton University AI4ALL program camp and Air Force Association Cyber
Dhruv Rai

Chief Technology Officer

Dhruv is Junior at Johns P. Steven High School, Edison, New Jersey. He has worked with various programming languages and technologies including HTML/CSS, Java, Python, PHP and SQL. Highly Analytical, motivated, and skilled at solving programming problems, he has been overseeing the implementation of this project and is the key in designing and deciding the technologies to use. He has a great interest in computer games. Currently, he is developing a computer game of his own. When not on the computer, he loves to play the guitar. He has been into the development of small scale model airplanes and is a member of the Academy of Model Aeronautics. He is also passionate about fishes and maintains two aquariums of his own,
Arsh Batth

Chief Information Officer

Arsh is a Junior at South Brunswick High School, Monmouth Junction, New Jersey. He is passionate about STEM and wishes to immerse himself in the field of Computer Science. He is proficient in languages such as Java, Python, HTML/CSS, and Javascript. He uses these skills as a side hustle to build websites for small businesses and nonprofits. At SBHS, Arsh has become a member of various clubs and teams such as the Computer Science Club, Track and Field team, Cross Country team, Soccer team, and NHS. On his school teams, he has earned various medals for athletic as well as academic excellence. In the Computer Science club, he has participated in various hackathons and has won a few of them in the ‘expert’ categories. Outside of school, he likes to learn about other critical modern-day skills such as stock trading, investing, foreign languages, and cooking. Since 2018, he has been a prominent member of nonprofit organizations such as A2Z mentoring and Everest NGO, which seek to help kids from underserved communities by providing them one-on-one mentoring to expand their knowledge in STEM. Arsh is also an active member of the Scouts of America, where he uses his leadership skills to guide younger scouts and organize events and activities for the members of his Troop. In 2017, Arsh got inducted into Order of the Arrow National Honor Society for exemplifying the values of Boys Scouts of America. In his free time Arsh enjoys scuba diving, cycling, reading, playing video games, and listening to music.
At HSNavigator, Arsh is responsible for the technical design and implementation of new features. He hopes to use his technical skills to improve the website and further use his volunteering and mentoring experience to use the organization to help underserved communities.
Anmol Khurana

Director of Marketing & Outreach

Anmol is a Junior at the South Brunswick High School, Monmouth Junction, New Jersey. She is very interested in business with a concentration in Marketing and Finance. She serves as a volunteer in all different aspects of her community both local and religious. As a leader, she is involved in her school’s JSA chapter, Asian Club along with South Brunswick Student Council. She hopes to provide her creativity and knowledge to HS Navigator!.
Rishi Kumar

Technology Officer/Developer

Rishi is a freshman at Downingtown West High School, Pennsylvania. He is always looking for ways to optimize his fascination in the fields of Robotics and Computer science. He enjoys solving everyday problems through technology such as his recent project in the Python language. Rishi is heavily involved in Robotics and Mathematics competitions including being a National qualifier in VEX Robotics. He is a certified Python, HTML and Javascript programmer and has knowledge of CSS and SQL languages. Rishi also loved to be in the outdoors and, as an avid Hiker and Trekker, he aims to climb all seven summits of the World. Killimanjaro is already crossed off the list! He has also been to Everest Base Camp, Patagonia and several national parks across the United States. Rishi hops his passions both as an Analyst, Creator as well as outdoors man continue to propel HS Navigator towards greater success.
Alveera Munshi

Technology Officer/Developer

Alveera Munshi is a Sophomore at South Brunswick High School, Monmouth Junction, New Jersey. She is very passionate about computer science and helps develop CS and other curricula at Code 4 Tomorrow and does graphic design for various organizations. Alveera is the Vice President of her school’s startup club, XSTEM, and volunteers as an Assistant Teacher at her local mosque. She has been learning Java and Python and hopes to learn Swift, HTML/CSS, and SQL.
Shyam Varan

Director, Enterprise Cloud Architect, Oracle Corporation

Focus on Enterprise Cloud Architecture including IoT, AI / Analytics, Autonomous Data Warehouse and Blockchain at Oracle. Author of book - Industrial Digital Transformation
An Industrial Internet / IoT Professional and book Author, focused on Industrial IoT / Digital Transformation both inside and outside of GE. Proven expertise in solving business problems with Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics in IIoT space. Oracle Certified (OCP) DBA since 1998. Oracle Certified Specialist (OCS) for OBIEE and Oracle BI Applications Implementer for ERP and CRM. Winner of IOUG Oracle Contribution Award 2007
Santosha Kumar

Identity Solution Architect
Chandler Forrest

Undergrad @CMU, SWE Intern @Amazon
Gurnoor Virdi

Undergrad @Columbia University, SWE Intern @Amazon

Investment Analyst Intern at Singh Capital Partners Teachers Assistant and Student at Columbia University in the City of New York
Suraj Neelakantan

Industrial PHD Student at Örebro University

Enthusiastic computer science engineer eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail, and excellent organizational skills. Experience in research for novel approaches to problems, prototype development to assess the viability of approach and application deployment. Understanding in the field of data science, software development methodologies, hardware engineering, and embedded systems. Motivated to learn, grow, and current research/ interests are in the areas of Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Embedded Systems.
HS Navigator

This Young Scholar Program! Has 17 Sections

12:00 PM - Sat - July 3, 2021 (EDT)

HS Navigator - Young Scholar Program Introduction

Saturday, July 3, 2021 · 12:00 PM EDT

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12:00 PM - Sat - July 10, 2021 (EDT)

Amazon AWS Part 1- Storage, Compute, Network and Security Introduction

Saturday, July 10, 2021 · 12:00 PM EDT

This webinar will make you ready for all important information about Amazon AWS essential components including Storage ( S3, EBS, Instance Store), Computing, Networking and Security. I will also share how to create an account. It will also cover how to plan for AWS certification

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1:15 PM - Sat - July 10, 2021 (EDT)

Android App Development

Saturday, July 10, 2021 · 1:00 PM EDT

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12:00 PM - Sun - July 11, 2021 (EDT)

Amazon AWS Part 2- Storage, Compute, Network and Security Introduction

Sunday, July 11, 2021 · 12:00 PM EDT

This webinar will make you ready for all important information about Amazon AWS essential components including Storage ( S3, EBS, Instance Store), Computing, Networking and Security. I will also share how to create an account. It will also cover how to plan for AWS certification

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1:00 PM - Sun - July 11, 2021 (EDT)

Structured Query Language (SQL) - Overview

Sunday, July 11, 2021 · 1:15 PM EDT

This presentation deals with the fundamentals of SQL. It will cover Data Definition Language (DDL), Data Manipulation Language (DML), Data Control Language (DCL) and more. Labs exercise will be provided for practice

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12:00 PM - Sat - July 17, 2021 (EDT)

Unix Part 1 - Awk, Sed, Grep and more programming tools

Saturday, July 17, 2021 · 12:00 PM EDT

This presentation will cover Character as well as Line manipulation commands. It will cover Regular Expression and Text replacement editor. Main focus will be on Awk programming which is very helpful tool for daily routine work on Unix/Linux environments

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1:00 PM - Sat - July 17, 2021 (EDT)

Internet of Things Development - IoT

Saturday, July 17, 2021 · 1:00 PM EDT

This presentation will provides an overview of IoT and will be covered by an industry recognized speaker who is also author of multiple books on this platform

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12:00 PM - Sun - July 18, 2021 (EDT)

Unix Part 2 - Shell Loop Programming

Sunday, July 18, 2021 · 12:00 PM EDT

This presentation will cover using Unix/Linux shell as programming language covering Looping "for" and "while" statement, Conditional "if" statements and more. Labs will be provided for practice

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1:00 PM - Sun - July 18, 2021 (EDT)

Data Analysis

Sunday, July 18, 2021 · 1:00 PM EDT

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12:00 PM - Sat - July 24, 2021 (EDT)

Amazon AWS Static Website Build

Saturday, July 24, 2021 · 12:00 PM EDT

This presentation will give you all details as how you can create your own static website using Amazon AWS infrastructure.

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1:00 PM - Sat - July 31, 2021 (EDT)

HS Navigator - How It works and Features - Demo 2

Sunday, August 8, 2021 · 1:00 PM EDT

This Live demo will provide details on the Volunteer opportunities with HS Navigator.

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12:00 PM - Sun - July 25, 2021 (EDT)

Cyber Security - An Overview

Sunday, July 25, 2021 · 12:00 PM EDT

This presentation will cover CIA Triad, Types of Cyber Attacks, Tools of Information Security, Various Vulnerabilities and Career in Cyber Security

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12:00 PM - Sat - July 31, 2021 (EDT)

Advanced Java with Algorithms and Data structures

Saturday, July 31, 2021 · 12:00 PM EDT

Learn some of the core principles that go into designing algorithms, as well as how to write Java implementations of common algorithms and data structures.

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1:00 PM - Sat - July 24, 2021 (EDT)

Unity Game Development

Saturday, July 31, 2021 · 1:00 PM EDT

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12:00 PM - Sun - August 1, 2021 (EDT)

Python for Beginners

Sunday, August 1, 2021 · 12:00 PM EDT

This presentation will provide an overview of Python language

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1:00 PM - Sun - August 1, 2021 (EDT)

HS Navigator - How It works and Features - Demo 3

Saturday, July 24, 2021 · 1:00 PM EDT

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12:00 PM - Sat - August 7, 2021 (EDT)

Java - Overview

Saturday, August 7, 2021 · 12:00 PM EDT

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