From offshore oilfield to power, finance and telco’s, my career has been a journey through some of the most interesting challenges in the information technology field. At the highest level, my skill set is best represented by the following venn diagram:
My first non-defense oriented IT role took me into the offshore oilfield industry, where I worked as a technician building surface-side infrastructure. This would aggregate and batch upload telemetry data collected from subsea IoT sensors to the Google Cloud. At this time (2012/2013) GCP was pretty new to my organization so I was given a ton of latitude (aka “rope”) to build both the cloud and surface-side (local to the rig) infrastructure as I wanted, as long as the engineering teams were getting the data they desired. In the first 18 months, my infrastructure was actively collecting data from the Gulf of Mexico / America, Brazil, Nigeria, Alaska, Australia and many other areas.
After about two years, I was poached by a data analytics company that brought me to my next challenge: Obtaining, onboarding and integrating data sources from geographically disparate oilfield assets across multiple countries. In this role, I would approach the companies about obtaining their data (often purchased), then work with their technical teams to ingest the data into our cloud for further analysis. Unfortunately, the company shut its doors after about 9 months – with absolutely no warning.
I was on the job market for about 3 days before I joined a medium-sized multinational consultancy, where I was tasked with consolidating their infrastructure and data estate into a cohesive, cloud provider. At first, this included GCP, AWS, Oracle, IBM, but we eventually consolidated to AWS, then switched to Azure in 2019-2020. Over nearly a decade, I grew with the organization, ultimately leading the Technical Services practice, where I managed global teams and delivered enterprise-scale solutions across multiple industries.
Oddly enough, as the need for our technical services slowed in the COVID & Biden economies, the need for my expertise in targeting (gained through the military & private contracting) was once again in high demand. Renewing my skills through Michael Bazzell’s OSINT course and certification, I began to accept 3 – 5 risk assessment cases per month.
Most recently, I served as a Principal Architect at the intersection of infrastructure, AI, and security, working with Fortune 500 companies to solve some of the largest data and security challenges in the world. My work blends architectural leadership with hands-on technical execution, ensuring that solutions are not only visionary but also deeply grounded in practical implementation.
Outside of my professional role, I’m passionate about traditional machine learning systems and fine-tuning large language models (LLMs), particularly for security and defense applications. I regularly publish knowledge shares and technical deep-dives, and contribute security-related projects to my GitHub—combining a commitment to continuous learning with a drive to strengthen the broader security community.
I try to stay pretty active here, on LinkedIn and X, so I look forward to connecting!