Mayra Diaz
By Amanda Sotelo, TSTC Staff
After four years in the Navy, Mayra Diaz set out to find a new career she could love and new goals she could achieve; this led her to Texas State Technical College.
The 27-year-old is now expected to graduate from TSTC’s cybersecurity program in Spring 2020 and Diaz couldn’t be any happier with her decision to pursue this path.
“After the Navy I returned home and tried everything from customer service to the medical field, and I wasn’t enjoying any of it,” said Diaz. “I was having trouble leaving my life as an electrician in the Navy behind, but I knew I needed to move forward, especially because of my back injury.”
Knowing how to cable and create electrical plans, she knew she needed to find a career similar to her last.
That’s when college program and career research, and memories of the networking crew on the ship she lived in while stationed in Virginia, inspired her to enroll in Computer Networking and Security Technology, now cybersecurity at TSTC.
“Cybersecurity and network cabling is pretty similar to what I did as an electrician,” she said. “And now I have added bonus skills, such as programming and troubleshooting networks.”
And as president of the Cyber Squad, the program’s student-run club, and a National Cyber League competitor, she has had the opportunity to learn not only from her instructors, but other TSTC students.
The National Cyber League is a non-profit organization that provides ongoing virtual training ground for participants to develop, practice and validate their cybersecurity knowledge and skills using next-generation, hig ..
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