About Me
Building solutions that scale โ and last.
Cybersecurity Engineer, IC, PM
20+ years of cloud security leadership with 10+ focused on cybersecurity product management. Reduced organizational risk, prevented millions in potential costs, and enhanced compliance through IaC guardrails and policy-as-code.
I've led infrastructure migrations, built zero-downtime deployment pipelines, and architected serverless platforms processing millions of events daily.
"Is Smart. Gets things done."
Work With Me โRowing
Concept2 RowErg โ the ultimate honest machine. No coasting
Favorite Book
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley โ still relevant, still unsettling
Chopping Wood
Wood warms you twice โ once when you chop it, and once when you burn it
Career
Owner | Principal Cybersecurity Engineer
As an owner at Integrated Specialty Coverages, LLC (ISC), I bridge the gap between Engineering/IT and Business Leadership.
My focus here is, aligning every security measure with our core mission to protect both our people and our progress.
In this role, I am responsible for building robust enterprise defenses and optimizing operational workflows that accelerate scalable business growth.
Distinguished Cloud Platform Security Engineer
Strategy & Leadership
- Orchestrated multi-year security roadmaps across SaaS, multi-cloud, and on-prem environments
- Advised executive leadership on risk decisions that strengthened platform security posture
Scale & Impact
- Secured 15K+ users and 1.2K+ applications across hybrid cloud environments
- Architected Zero Trust frameworks with continuous verification across IAM, network, endpoint, and logging
Measurable Results
- Reduced lateral-movement risk by ~70% across three hybrid environments
- Improved deployment time by 95% through IaC CI/CD automation
- Cut audit evidence collection efforts by 70%
Platform & Governance
- Owned enterprise vulnerability management with 99%+ coverage across all workloads
- Institutionalized blameless root cause elimination (RCE) across 20+ teams and 400+ members
- Achieved 40% improvement in remediation consistency and eliminated recurring platform failures
Enablement & Mentorship
- Built scalable security capabilities replacing ad hoc solutions with repeatable, platform-level controls
- Produced architecture standards used by 400+ engineers, architects, and auditors
- Cut security misconfigurations by 40% through standardized controls and onboarding
- Mentored 8 senior engineers, elevating design quality and technical proficiency
Lead Security Engineer
Program Leadership
- Led cross-functional security programs across IT, Engineering, Legal, and Compliance
- Protected 20K+ users, 1.2K+ applications, and 25K+ endpoints globally
Compliance & Hardening
- Reduced vulnerability exposure by 45% through policy enforcement and system hardening
- Achieved 99% patch compliance; maintained 100% audit readiness for SOC 2 and ISO 27001
Operations Optimization
- Improved detection coverage by 35% and MTTR by 40% through incident response optimization
- Standardized architectural guardrails across six teams, reducing configuration errors by 40%
Visibility & Infrastructure
- Delivered executive dashboards demonstrating a 30% decrease in critical security incidents
- Reduced IaC configuration errors by 25% for 1.2K+ applications and services
Senior Security Engineer
- Managed enterprise endpoint security across 100+ district courts with policy enforcement at scale
- Built custom IaC pipelines that eliminated manual provisioning and accelerated deployment
- Led threat hunting and vulnerability management, reducing incident response time by 25%
Security Platform Engineer
- Modernized endpoint security across 80+ global missions protecting 10K+ users
- Automated remediation workflows generating ~$100K in annual savings
- Directed enterprise firewall and NIDS evaluations with adopted recommendations for perimeter controls
Network Systems Engineer | Server Administrator
- Enforced USCYBERCOM / FedRAMP compliance across thousands of DoD users to secure ATO
- Integrated SCCM, ePO, NAC, VPN, and patching to secure enterprise platforms
- Led STIG-based hardening, vulnerability scanning, threat hunting, and network mapping initiatives
George Mason University
Volgenau School of Engineering
B.S. Applied Information Technology
Concentration in Database & Programming
Skills & Proficiency
Cloud & Infrastructure
Development