Builder. Operator. Executive.

I turn high-stakes functions with untapped potential into something that actually performs.

What fails first is never the system.

$0 → $100M+. 19x. 100+ person teams. Four organizations. Three decades.

That's not a résumé. That's a pattern.

I walk into high-stakes, complex environments — inside infrastructure operators, industrial enterprises, and engineering-led organizations — and build capabilities that didn't exist, scale them past the point where they run themselves, and make them commercially and operationally relevant at the board level.

The domain has been security, operational risk, and critical infrastructure. The actual work has always been the same: build the thing, grow the thing, make it matter at scale.

I know the blueprint. I've earned it. And I'm ready to implement it at a scale the industry will actually feel.

Board & Advisory Roles

Former advisor to the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD), the U.S. Department of Energy (CESER), and DHS CISA. Previously led and scaled Security & Risk Consulting at 1898 & Co. (Burns & McDonnell).
Featured in ABC News, Forbes, White House Chronicles, Industrial Cyber, and many other media outlets.
Recognized by Thinkers360 in National Security, Cybersecurity, and AI governance.

CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS DOMAINS I WORK IN

  • Energy & Industrial (grid, generation, T&D, refining, pipelines, manufacturing, water/wastewater, mining)

  • Defense Industrial Base (federal government, military, defense)

  • Built Environments & Cities (data centers, smart buildings, OT/ICS, IoT, public safety)

  • Transportation & Mobility (aviation/airports, rail, ports & maritime, autonomous vehicles)

  • Healthcare & Life Sciences (clinical devices, labs, hospital CPS)

WHO I WORK WITH

  • Board Directors & C-Suite

  • National Security & Public Sector Leaders

  • Operators of Critical Infrastructure

  • Institutional Investors & Risk Committees

STRATEGIC FOCUS AREAS

  • Consequence-driven focus versus threats, vulnerabilities, and tools

  • CPS Risk Management & Resilience

  • Identification of CPS/IT (my phrase), in addition to CPS/OT assets — based on consequence

  • Operational Safety, Continuity & National Interests

  • Digital-To-Physical Governance (OT / ICS / CPS)

  • AI Governance & Model Risk in Physical Systems