Aidan Cornett, A+
My name is Aidan Cornett, I am an aspiring Cybersecurity Professional and this is my web portfolio!
Education
High School Diploma
Pottsboro High School
May 2024
-GPA: 3.76
-Top Student Awards in Anatomy, Audio/Visual, and Economics
A.A.S in Advanced Manufacturing
Grayson College
Dec 2025
A.A.S in Cybersecurity Administartion
Grayson College
May 2026 (WIP)
-GPA: 4.00 (currently)
-Workin' on it.
Certifications
Clicking on the Icons will redirect you to the verification page!
WIP
Earned 9/11/2025
WIP
Work Experience
QuikTrip Clerk
Apr. 2024 - Present
-Customer Service (over 140 directly per hour)
-Over-the-Phone Customer Service
-Troubleshooting Basic Systems
-Cash Handling (0.01% cash variance)
Brookshires Cashier
Oct. 2022 - Jan. 2024
-Customer Service
-Over-the-Phone Experience
-Trained New Cashiers
-Cash Handling
Projects
Youtube Channel
My YouTube channel in which I post most of my projects and whatever fun things I happen to be studying at that time.
This Website!
My video on how I made my portfolio website and how others can do the same. As well as some insights on why others should as well!Web version here!
Sleeper PC
A 2004 eMachine that was forcefully retrofitted to take modern components.No video for this😔But web version here!
Contact Me!
The form below is attached to my email. So anything you send here I'll respond to within 24 hours!
YOU should make a website, text edition!
Why should you make a website?
Making a website is a wonderful, and frankly fairly easy way to show up on Google. If you're a hiring manager, then clearly it worked. If you're stalking me, than clearly it still workedMaking a website is generally fun especially using simple methods because even though it takes some work it also shows that you're willing to put in that work. In my personal case making the website made me want to try harder because I wanted this site to be awesome.If your website title is your first and last name. Google should treat it very sweetly and put your website at the top. This gives you easy advertisement!To start the journey of a portfolio website I'd start at TLD-LIST
Purchasing a Domain Name
TLD-LIST is a Website that compares domain names from the cheapest bidders (usually Cloudflare). If for some reason you want to have this website for only a year (in this case) you'd go with Spaceship.Do NOT purchase the domain from whatever website builder you are using. It is almost always more expensive and only marginally easier. Just about every website builder will have an easy to follow FAQ page for transferring your CNAME over.Speaking of website builders, which one should you use?
Using a website builder
Carrd is the website builder I decided to build this site with. I chose it for a few reasons but mainly the price to pretty ratio you get with it. Carrd is mainly used for small projects such as portfolios, especially for non-design and non-UX based jobs. In those cases I'd suggest making it on your own.Now since my experience is limited to Carrd, if you want to make something outside of Carrd I'd suggest watching this video as well as the whole channel Steve Builds Websites.Carrd also has a very easy FAQ page for changing over domain names that is tailored to each major domain name provider.To wrap up, make a website, buy a domain name, get seen on Google, and by AI tools much easier. It's a great thing and I'd highly suggest doing it.
Project Sleeper, text edition!
Why did I make a sleeper build?
My friend had gone to the marines and I was craving building a computer. This ended up becoming a feat of machining, air flow diagrams, and some really odd problem solving.My friend who left for boot camp and I previously discussed this idea as it was quite popular during the 2024 era to make the coolest sleeper build ever.So when he left we got to work.
The case
The case for this critter was purchased on the great Facebook Marketplace from a lovely gentleman who offered to give me a tattoo. I declined but I look back on that experience fondly.None the less, what I got my grubby mitts on was a 2004 eMachine in immaculate condition.The image shown here is the case we has to work with, and it may not seem like it yet but this PC is a Micro-ATX.This also means our premier problem is going to be cooling this properly.
Cooling
Since the main problem is cooling I had to come up with a silly solution that could get more air into this small case. The first photo shows the basic idea for how I would do this.My solution was to contact the Grayson College Advanced Manufacturing professor, Richard Osbrink for his help in making the picture on the left into an OEM-looking solution.After hand-drilling a little over 100 holes into this computer I had my intake vent ready for fan mounting. This however, presented a new problem, a regular PSU won't fit with this fan configuration.
Power Supply
Now that a new problem has reared it's head I had to find a way to fit a PSU into this computer. There was a point where I considered lazily having an external PSU. That was until I found the holy grail.I measured out the length of PSU I needed and plugged that number into PCPartPicker. It gave back one result in stock, the EVGA G7 series PSU.It was almost the exact size I needed but since nothing compared and I knew it would be a tight fit, I just ordered it and put it in.It worked amazingly!I did however, have to trim the PSU lever in this photo as it wouldn't fit with it.😁
Final Assembly
Now that the main problems were out of the way the only remaining pain was the assembling.The only difficulty with this was really the tightness of everything (and the motherboard that had to be replaced).The finished product looked beautiful and janky all at the same time which really was the goal the whole time!