I am an information security architect focused on firewalls and the orchestration suites that manage them, on premise and in the cloud. I am brand agnostic and I like hard problems. The last decade has been spent putting security tooling into large, messy production networks and keeping it running.

This site is where I keep field notes, deployment retrospectives, and longer write-ups. The resume has the formal version of everything below.

Career

Lead Security Engineer — Eversource Energy

2023 – present, Berlin, Connecticut

I lead security operations engineering at a large electric and gas utility. The environment is as complex as it sounds: a Gigamon visibility fabric, Arbor edge DDoS defense, and a SIEM and SOAR pipeline that all depend on knowing exactly what is on the network. A lot of the job is making the technical inventory accurate enough that detection can actually work, and mentoring the junior engineers and interns who will run it after me.

Technical Account Manager — Tufin

2023

After years deploying Tufin for customers, I spent a year on the vendor side, owning the technical relationship for security policy orchestration deployments and sitting between customer engineering teams and product. I hold TOS Aurora certifications at all three TCSE levels.

Security Engineer, Field Security Architect, Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer — Atlantic Data Security

2017 – 2023

I joined Atlantic out of college and was the most productive member of the professional services team within six months. Over five years I became the subject matter expert and escalation engineer for the firm's most critical technology: Check Point firewalls, Tufin and AlgoSec orchestration, and Gigamon packet-broker fabrics with NetScout analysis behind them.

The work that shaped me most was an enterprise in-line network tapping deployment, where a visibility layer had to be inserted into live production paths without inheriting new outage risk. I was named AlgoSec MVP in 2021 and received the firm's Diamond Award and Principals Club recognition.

IT Support Specialist — Bond Auto Parts

2015 – 2017

A three-person IT team supporting fifty locations and six hundred employees. I handled everything from printers to routers, helped stand up a fully virtualized point-of-sale system, and led the replacement of more than a hundred Windows XP machines across fifty stores with a standard image. It taught me imaging discipline, vendor coordination, and rollout logistics before I had a title that required them.

Champlain College

2014 – 2017, Bachelor of Applied Science

Networking and security coursework: ethical hacking, perimeter security, network systems programming, anti-forensics, and the law of digital evidence. I worked the Bond Auto internship from sophomore year and the college helpdesk before that.