A leadership team makes a cyber or AI risk decision and then has to defend it, to a board, to a regulator, to the customers who trusted them. The decision holds up when someone names what the exposure is, who owns the outcome and what the fix costs.
My background is enterprise security and risk leadership in enterprise technology, critical infrastructure, energy, healthcare and federal environments. I also run independent research on how organizations govern AI agents. I learned what fails first at scale and what an auditor accepts as evidence afterward.
I owned a business before I worked in security. Revenue, payroll, customer commitments and the consequences of those decisions were mine.
I've had a lot of help getting here. Now I try to do the same for the next generation of security leaders, whether they're starting a career or moving into one. I do that through board and chapter leadership, by teaching cybersecurity, emerging technology and privacy at the university level and through university advisory roles in cybersecurity education.
Education and Credentials
MBA in Information Security. James Madison University.
BS in Management Information Systems. University of Phoenix.
Active certifications. CISSP, CISM, CISA, AAIR, CDPSE, CET, CCSK and PMP.
APMG University Instructor (Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Blockchain, Internet of Things Fundamentals). Issued by APMG International.