Francisco Alves

Current position: Security Analyst, National Grid

Education (degrees and school): Masters in Cyber Defense (2021), NEIT

Hobbies: Traveling, Working out, video games

Where were you born and where did you grow up? Cape Verde and Central Falls

Where did you go to high school? Central Falls High School

What did you want to be when you were growing up? Video Game Designer

How did you get into computer science? By playing video games and discovering how they were made.

What other jobs have you had? I have worked at Burger King and Cintas before transitioning to the IT field.

What is an average day at work like for you? An average day for me consists of looking at logs to find any security threats and take the corrective measures to resolve the threats.

What is your favorite part of your job? My favorite part of my job is working with different technology that controls and monitors the way gas flows through our neighborhoods.

What is the best opportunity you have had because of computer science? Computer science opened the doors for me to get into the cybersecurity field.

Any great stories about working in computer science? During my undergrad, I and a group of students created a video game using C++ called Food Panic where your objective was to collect as many foods as possible within a certain time limit.