About Me

Hi there!

I’m Andrew Burch, but most people call me Drew.

I currently work in infrastructure security as a senior consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton, an American management and information technology consulting firm known for its unparalleled experience and expertise supporting and fulfilling United States Department of Defense federal contracts (among other high-profile clients). At this time I am heavily involved in automation of endpoint security and data loss prevention systems for the entire firm.

Previously, I worked in corporate network security for Consumers Energy, the state of Michigan’s largest natural gas and electric utility provider, and as a software engineer intern for the same company and simultaneously as a system administrator for Western Michigan University, where I received my B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics in April 2016.

I thoroughly enjoy and have extensive experience in designing streamlined, optimized and highly technical solutions to complex problems - both personally and professionally - and have done so in varied capacities, largely on an individual basis, over the past decade. For me, it is all about the challenge and overcoming what others may consider impossible.

My interests include anything related to security (cryptography, steganography, hash functions, algorithms and number theory), mass data analysis, efficiency and automation programming, software design and interconnected technology in the modern digital age. I am enthusiastic about aerospace, space exploration and humanity’s future in it as a multiplanetary species, and will often refer in one way or another to the works of Carl Sagan when probed not only about these passions but also my underlying belief systems.

In my spare time, I volunteer over at SpigotMC as a forums moderator (1.8 million members) and previously as a mentor for the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBS) organization.

This website is intended to be an online portfolio and centralized location for documenting all of my various projects and a blog focusing on technology, security topics I find particularly interesting, or whatever else I may be currently working on in my personal life.

Whether you have stopped by my little corner of the Internet on purpose or on accident, my hope is that you take away more than what you came with.

If you wish to get in contact with me, please feel free to drop me a line here. For an online copy of my résumé, please click here.

Thank you for visiting my website!