Senior Cybersecurity Architect
30 years from Red Teams to AI frameworks.
I write the security policy and build the systems.
Building frameworks to secure autonomous AI agent systems before deployment outpaces the ability to govern them. NIST RFI contributor. 800-53 overlay for agentic systems. 7-chapter practitioner guide.
Enterprise ZTA from policy through implementation. NIST SP 800-207 applied to real infrastructure. CIO and CISO advisory across DoD. ZTA overlay mapped to agentic AI deployment patterns.
Automating the Authorization to Operate process with agentic AI. 16-family agent framework across the entire RMF lifecycle. Control decomposition into machine-checkable assertions.
Automated monthly cybersecurity policy digest. Collects from 17 RSS/API sources, curates with Claude, renders to PDF, delivers via email and Discord. Fully automated pipeline running since March 2026.
Multi-agent continuous ATO automation research environment. Two-agent crew validates NIST 800-53 controls against synthetic RMF targets with per-agent identity, explicit authorization, and hash-chained audit.
7-chapter guide (~20,000 words) on securing agentic AI systems. Covers threat landscape, agent identity, authorization models, monitoring, reference architecture, 800-53 quickstart, and zero trust mapping.
Formal response to NIST's January 2026 Request for Information on agentic AI security. Proposed control mappings for autonomous agent systems grounded in existing NIST frameworks.
Personal AI assistant built entirely on Claude Code. Scheduled tasks, file-based persistence, multi-channel delivery. No external LLM services. 5 public component repos demonstrating the architecture.
One continuous thread: wherever security meets the frontier, that's where I work.
Enlisted Signal Support specialist. Commissioned as Signal Officer. Built the foundation for everything that followed.
Full-spectrum cyber and information warfare assessments across DoD commands. NSA Red Team Boot Camp. The principles from this period haven't changed in 20 years.
Cybersecurity Operations Lead. Directed security controls, incident response, and defensive operations. Built and managed teams across multiple DoD programs.
Final deployment. Led Cyber Assistance Team. Three combat deployments total across a 26-year Army career. Separated as Major.
Principal cybersecurity advisor to CIO/CISO. Led enterprise Zero Trust transformation. Chief Architect for 100-person contract.
Mapping existing NIST and ZTA frameworks onto the agentic AI problem. Building the tools and writing the guidance that the field needs before deployment outpaces governance.
All four CISSP concentrations — architecture, engineering, management, and cloud.
Western Governors University (2024) · South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (2002)
Active clearance. 26-year Army career. Three combat deployments. Bronze Star.