Washington DC-Baltimore Area
20 year Army officer (14 active duty, transitioned to Reserves in 2020) with deep experience in security engineering and leading teams across a variety of missions. Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel. Joined the private sector to leverage experience in computer science and security in high-performing early-to-mid-stage startups. Led and contributed to multiple high-impact projects that continue to protect thousands of users and organizations today. Passionate about creating innovative and secure products that improve the lives and well-being of millions of people. Strong inclination towards collaboration, diversity, and continuous learning.
Led efforts to bring network telemetry into the Palantir platform to provide visibility in both commercial deployments and tactical edge networks. Integrated third party vendors into a containerized management control plane in edge deployments that enables customers to leverage bespoke capabilities against their platform ontology.
First AppSec hire. Built the team from the ground up that is charged with protecting the security and privacy of patients by enabling product teams to build scalable and secure-by-design technologies (including DevSecOps). Led strategic efforts with statistically significant financial impact to the business and risk reduction to include the centralized customer authentication (SSO) and consent management for patients to achieve privacy compliance across twelve US states—each with a different interpretation of emerging state-level privacy compliance. Launched the Vulnerability Disclosure Program (VDP) and Bug Bounty Program leading to the award of $100K in bounties and the mitigation of 20 patient-impacting critical vulnerabilities—an uncommon success in healthcare.