Jeremy Hughes / Glenville, NC
Seven years of operations management and healthcare compliance — business continuity, risk assessments, HIPAA, root cause analysis, incident reporting. Jeremy is a cybersecurity analyst now bringing that record to Linux, SQL, Splunk, and Wireshark.
About
At a glance
Jeremy Hughes is a cybersecurity analyst in Glenville, North Carolina, with more than seven years in operations management and healthcare compliance behind him. He works in risk assessment, regulatory compliance, and incident response, with hands-on experience in Linux, SQL, Splunk, and Wireshark.
The career change is less of a jump than it looks. At Morrisons Healthcare he ran compliance for a hospital under HIPAA and State Department of Health oversight — conducting root cause analysis on incidents and managing the reporting protocols that documented them. At Blue Ridge Timberworks he owned business continuity planning, ran site audits and risk assessments, and built the security awareness training that staff were onboarded through.
Those are the same problems a security operations team works on: keeping things available, finding the weak points first, satisfying a regulator, and writing an incident up so it holds. The difference is the surface. He has spent the last stretch learning the technical one — the Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate through Merit America, and a long run of hands-on TryHackMe work in Linux, log analysis, Wireshark, Windows forensics, and Splunk incident handling.
He is not new to consequences, either. Directing logistics for a hospital serving roughly 107 patients a day is a job where an error is not an inconvenience. That is the instinct he brings to a SOC queue.
He is currently consulting independently from Glenville, up in Jackson County, pursuing security work full-time while managing freelance projects to keep his operational leadership sharp.
Experience
Hospital compliance, a campus built from nothing, and a paper-to-digital transformation that paid for itself — the roles behind the security case.
Glenville, NC · 2024 – Present
Pursuing intensive cybersecurity upskilling while managing freelance construction projects, keeping operational leadership and project management sharp alongside the technical work.
Retraining without stepping away from the work that pays.
Manager of Operations · Highlands, NC · 2018 – 2024
Championed Business Continuity Planning, maintaining site availability and reliability for high-volume commercial use. Directed an end-to-end executive retreat and wellness center deployment, scaling a site from zero assets to a fully operational multi-facility campus — six residential units and a 4,000 sq. ft. operations center.
Zero assets to a running campus, with the controls to keep it running.
Director of Food and Nutrition · Highlands, NC · 2014 – 2016
Directed large-scale logistical planning for a hospital serving roughly 107 patients daily. Oversaw HIPAA and State Department of Health compliance, running root cause analysis on operational incidents to implement corrective measures and prevent recurrence, and managed rigorous incident reporting protocols.
Regulated-environment compliance, documented and defensible.
Manager · Highlands, NC · 2017 – 2018
Spearheaded a digital transformation initiative, replacing manual paper logs with a centralized digital platform. Eliminating data loss and ensuring accurate service tracking produced a 27% revenue increase.
Proof that better records are worth real money.
Operations to security
Each line on the right is from Jeremy's operations record, quoted as written. The term on the left is what a security team would call it.
Championed Business Continuity Planning by maintaining site availability and reliability for high-volume commercial use, ensuring uptime for client deliverables.
Conducted regular site audits and risk assessments, identifying physical vulnerabilities in the facility and implementing controls to mitigate safety and liability risks.
Oversaw regulatory compliance (HIPAA / State Department of Health) by conducting root cause analysis on operational incidents to implement corrective measures and prevent recurrence.
Managed rigorous incident reporting protocols, documenting and analyzing operational breaches and safety incidents.
Led Security Awareness and Operational Training, personally developing curriculums and onboarding staff to ensure strict adherence to protocols.
Spearheaded a digital transformation initiative by replacing manual paper logs with a centralized digital platform, eliminating data loss and ensuring accurate service tracking.
Hands-on labs
TryHackMe rooms worked through in a gamified virtual environment — the practical counterpart to the certificate coursework.
TryHackMe
Navigated directories and files, adjusted permissions, analyzed logs, and explored common utilities.
TryHackMe
Identified log types, located logs, employed regular expressions, and used the command line and CyberChef for effective log analysis.
TryHackMe
Packet dissection, navigation, and filtering; analyzed ARP, ICMP, TCP, DNS, HTTP, and HTTPS traffic for network troubleshooting and security analysis.
TryHackMe
Windows file systems, user account control, system configuration, firewall, and registry; accessing hives, using registry explorer, and recovering files across FAT and NTFS.
TryHackMe
Navigating Splunk and conducting incident handling; participated in the Boss of the SOC investigation for security analysis.
Capability stack
Detection and analysis tooling on one side, the compliance and process discipline he already had on the other.
Background
A current cybersecurity certificate on top of seven years of operations and compliance in regulated settings.
Certificate
Merit America, virtual · 12/2025. Systematically identifying and mitigating risks, threats, and vulnerabilities, with practical work in Linux, SQL, and Python using SIEM tools, IDS, and network protocol analyzers.
Applied work
Conducted a simulated security audit, responded to a cyber incident, analyzed vulnerable systems, and completed an incident handler's journal.
Experience
Operations management and healthcare compliance across hospital food service, landscaping, and timberworks — regulated settings with real audit, incident, and reporting requirements.
Based in
Jackson County, in the mountains of western North Carolina.
Get in touch
Jeremy is seeking a security operations role. Reach out about a position, contract work, or anything you want to ask about his background.