Chima Ozonwoye

Systems Analyst

Designing solutions to complex technological systems.

I am an Albert Dorman Honors College scholar at the New Jersey Institute of Technology majoring in Information Systems, with an interest in solutions architecture and product management focused on security.

Reach out at ozonwoyechima[at]gmail[dot]com

Experience

May 2026 – Present

Undergraduate Researcher

SPUR Lab, New Jersey Institute of Technology

  • Investigate whether agentic AI systems know when to hand security and privacy decisions back to the user, in Dr. Nathan Malkin's human-centered security and privacy lab.
  • Design prompt-based test protocols and lead the evaluation of two commercial browser agents, recording a written prediction before each run and measuring results against it.
  • Maintain the study's private repository and compile per-run documentation into an auditable record for the team.

Feb 2026 – May 2026

Undergraduate Researcher

Digital Spatial History Lab, New Jersey Institute of Technology

  • Researched automated detection of small, incremental changes in public spaces over time, supervised by Dr. Louis Hamilton, Dean of the Albert Dorman Honors College at NJIT.
  • Developed a prototype that analyzes Roman street shrines across 17 years of Google Street View imagery, cutting a manual counting process from hours per site to minutes.
  • Presented findings at NJIT's Spring 2026 Honors Interdisciplinary Research Forum.
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Sep 2024 – Apr 2025

Cybersecurity Tutor

Essex County College

  • Tutored students in networking and security fundamentals, adapting hands-on technical material to peers at varying skill levels.

Projects

2026

script to vid

Write a script and get back a finished narrated video, made entirely on your own laptop.

A free tool that turns a written script into a finished narrated video, with voiceover, drawn visuals, subtitles, and music, running entirely on an ordinary laptop.

Chose code-drawn frames over AI video so it needs no graphics card or per-video fees, cached each stage on content so editing one line redoes only that line, and measured each performance change, cutting a 100-second render from four and a half minutes to two and a half.

Python, ffmpeg, matplotlib, edge-tts

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2026

Via

Shows whether the buildings on a city block have improved, held steady, or declined over time.

Extended the shrine-tracking method to city blocks: a Chrome extension and local Python server that compare the oldest and newest Street View imagery along a marked block and report whether each building frontage improved, declined, or held steady.

Ran the vision model entirely on the user's machine so no images or keys leave the device; scoped output to visible building condition, excluding claims about neighborhoods, safety, or people.

Python, JavaScript, Chrome extension, local vision model

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2025

The Amadi Framework

An AI orchestration system built to keep working through repeated crashes inside 2.99GB of RAM.

Architected an AI orchestration system with file-based external memory and multi-instance parallel processing, designed to preserve progress through repeated system crashes across eight hours within 2.99GB of allocated RAM.

Field-tested the design at the 2025 DoD Cyber Sentinel Challenge, where the architecture produced solutions across categories including forensics and web security, and sustained operation through repeated crashes.

Ubuntu virtual machine, LLM orchestration

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2024

SECT Security Platform

A privacy-first security platform for small organizations that cannot afford enterprise tools.

Identified a gap in security tools for small organizations, which face common threats like phishing without the budget or expertise enterprise tools require; defined requirements for an accessible, privacy-first security platform.

Built a browser-based prototype with client-side OCR, real-time threat feed aggregation, and a Visual Threat Score, validating that email threat analysis can run fully client-side.

HTML, JavaScript, Tesseract.js

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More projects

2025

Curriculum Heroes

Led system design for an Honors service-learning platform addressing career exposure gaps in elementary education; produced a Product Requirements Document with user stories, success metrics, and GenderMag cognitive walkthroughs.

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2026

SpeedSearch

Built with three teammates: a prototype Chrome extension that ranks university research opportunities against a student's portfolio using a local LLM, developed alongside a business plan and a pivot from web app to extension.

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2024

MGM Resorts Cyber Breach

Analyzed MGM's 2023 vishing breach and designed a vishing verification protocol and recommended device trust controls for organizational security training.

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Education

Expected 2027 and 2028

B.A. and M.S. in Information Systems

New Jersey Institute of Technology

  • B.A. in Information Systems, Albert Dorman Honors College, expected May 2027.
  • M.S. in Information Systems, expected May 2028.
  • Dean's List.

June 2025

A.A.S. in Cybersecurity & Network Technology

Essex County College

  • Graduated with Highest Honors.
  • Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society.
  • Dean's List.

Thoughts & Writings

Occasional reflections on life and technology. These reflections represent my ongoing attempt to understand life, work, and technology. I welcome conversations with those who see things differently.

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