Thirteen years leading cybersecurity across financial services, healthcare, fintech, and retail. Eight years teaching STEM and building makers. One throughline: taking what is complex and hard to reach, and making it real for the people who need it.
I learned security on a particle accelerator. At 17, I expected to work alongside physicists at a national physics lab. Instead I was paired with the head of network engineering, because there was no separate security job in those days. If you ran the network for the accelerators, you secured them too.
The stakes were physical. The same technology was moving into hospitals to treat cancer, where a misconfiguration doesn't cause a data breach, it can send the wrong settings to a machine pointed at a patient. That is where security designed upstream comes from for me, and it has shaped every role since.
Enterprise and critical-infrastructure security at JPMorgan Chase and Amazon. Strategy, architecture, and governance at platform scale.
Explore →Co-founder and security lead on a greenfield critical-minerals manufacturing venture. Security engineered into a factory floor from day one.
Explore →Built the Museum of Science and Industry's makerspace program for high-school students in under-served Chicago communities.
Explore →Founded a vCISO and managed-security practice serving 200+ clients. Board-level security judgment without a full-time seat.
Explore →Notes on where IT, operational technology, and human safety meet. New pieces in progress.
Why coming up through operational technology, where failure is physical, changes how you think about every system after.
By the time we review the roadmap, the costly mistakes are already in it. Designing upstream, in practice.
What building industrial capability teaches a security leader that enterprise IT never will.