R&D Leadership · Security · Resilience
A practitioner’s path into resilient systems.
I’m a builder first. Twenty years of R&D in food manufacturing — where a bad day means a recall instead of a reboot — plus years in physical security and law enforcement, taught me to build for the failure case: systems people can actually operate under pressure.
R&D leadership in the physical world.
I lead cross-functional work across R&D, operations, and supply chain in large-scale food manufacturing. It is a setting where safety, reliability, regulatory requirements, and real operational constraints are inseparable.
That experience directly informs how I approach cybersecurity and technical architecture: start with the operating environment, understand the dependencies, and design for the conditions that matter when a system is stressed.
Security, systems, and human judgment.
My technical and operational foundation comes from serving as a Navy Signalman and Master-at-Arms and later as an Air Force Security Forces/CATM NCOIC — years spent where policy, pressure, communications, and human judgment collide.
I completed a BS and MS in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance at WGU and am finishing an MS in Computer Science with a concentration in AI and machine learning. I am considering doctoral study in forensic cyberpsychology at Capitol Technology University, with research interests spanning human decision-making, AI-assisted judgment, adversarial environments, and the behavior of people and systems under stress.
The interests that keep the systems view human.
These are not credentials or a second brand. They are the things that keep me curious about how people, institutions, and technology behave when the plan meets reality.
Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
I read the genre to examine what systems, social structures, and values endure when infrastructure fails. The best stories are rarely about collapse alone; they are about adaptation, trust, and rebuilding.
Gaming
World of Warcraft is a long-running hobby and a useful reminder that complex systems depend on coordination, shared context, leadership, and recovery after a bad decision.
Coffee
A simple constant for long-form technical work, reading, and the kind of conversations that need time rather than speed.
Food History
I research pre-contact South American food systems and the Columbian Exchange: how ingredients, trade, knowledge, and culture moved across the world. It is a living study in adaptation, interdependence, and unintended consequences.