Jun 2025 – Jan 2026 · 7 mos

May 2024 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

Oct 2021 – May 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Nov 2019 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos

May 2023 – Present · 3 yrs

Oct 2022 – Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Mar 2022 – Jul 2025 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Feb 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

Feb 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

May 2019 – Nov 2019 · 6 mos

Mar 2017 – May 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Los Gatos, CA

Jan 2017 – Mar 2017 · 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Responsible for strategy and leadership across the security program spanning Nuna. Work heavily in maturing the team, executing against strategy and business objectives in order to be proactive and scale to protect millions of lives of healthcare data and meet nation-scale needs. Building strategic relationships with partners and vendors to promote success across security and the company at whole.

Sep 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Responsible for technical leadership and path forward for security at Nuna. Recruited and helped build the security team across multiple security groups: purple team, corporate security, security engineering, security operations, and governance risk and compliance.
• As a principal engineer I focused of defining engineering principles, infrastructure and engineering patterns, and engineering SDLC at Nuna.
• Designed and implemented central key management solution
• Designed immutable centralized identity management solution
• Security monitoring in the cloud at Scale
• Infrastructure security
• Redefine DNS internally and externally
• Design and deploy internal certificate authorities
• Helped define and push config as code as a foundational engineering principle
• Code reviews across the organization
• Write numerous tools in python and golang
• Make security an enabler and not a blocker. Create a pattern where security improvements are automatically applied without engineering effort

Jan 2016 – May 2021 · 5 yrs 4 mos · El Paso, Texas Area

• Lecturer in the Computer Science department in charge of the Secure Wireless Networks graduate course as part of the NSA Center of Excellence in Cyber Operations.
• Teach the students a background of wireless communications from low level signaling, bandwidth and capacity, to higher level application of LTE, 802.11, and IoT.
• Provide industry example of curriculum with a security focus. Create a safe environment for hands on network exploration using a RTL-SDR USB device.

Jan 2015 – May 2021 · 6 yrs 4 mos · El Paso, Texas Area

• Cyber security advisor to the Computer Science Department. Consult and guide the department in their pursuit of excellence in security education. Created a course on Secure Wireless Networks in order to obtain NSA Accreditation in Cyber Operations. Reviewed NSA packet for Cyber Operations submission and participated in interviews with NSA review board.
• Secure Wireless Networks Course:
• Created curriculum
• Course work
• Exams
• Projects
• 1 of 16 schools to receive the Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations from the NSA

Feb 2015 – Sep 2015 · 7 mos · Global

• F35 Japan SOC Lead - Design, implement, and build SOC for F35 Japan
• Build the team and mentor Japanese counterparts in Blue team tactics in a joint mission
• Red Team and Network assessments
• Specialized one-off assessments requiring a unique mindset and attack vector(s)
• Hardware Security Assessments
• Lead complex system architecture risk analysis engagements with Fortune 500 clients
• Perform consulting services in secure code review, vulnerability assessments, Architectural Risk Analysis and Threat Modeling, web application penetration testing, network penetration testing, mobile, and incident response for internal Lockheed, Civil, State, and private industry clients

Jan 2015 – Feb 2015 · 1 mo

• Lead, provide oversight, and mentor in:
• Penetration Testing
• Red Teaming
• Software Security Architecture
• Application Security
• Secure Coding
• Code Review
• Architectural Risk Analysis
• Threat Modeling
• Malicious Code Detection

May 2014 – Feb 2015 · 9 mos

• Penetration Testing
• Red Teaming
• Software Security Architecture
• Application Security
• Secure Coding
• Code Review
• Architectural Risk Analysis
• Threat Modeling
• Malicious Code Detection

Jan 2008 – May 2014 · 6 yrs 4 mos · McKinney, TX

• Cyber Security professional and embedded software engineer. Responsible for designing, implementing and integrating tactical software and firmware for Combat Systems for US Army programs. Program support and training for in field exercises and customer demonstrations.
• Business development through onsite customer demonstrations
• In field research and development (CONUS tactical engagements)
• System Integrator
• C/C++ Embedded Programming
• FPGA - VHDL
• Reverse Engineering
• Anti Tamper
• Secure Design Systems Architect
• Data Custodian

Feb 2007 – Jan 2008 · 11 mos · College Station, TX - Research Park

• Managed a team on Microsoft Category 2 Server Certification Projects. Responsible for certifying approximately 40% of all HP Proliant class servers, program logistics and deadlines affecting server release dates.