Cybersecurity leader and researcher with 15+ years of experience across government, military, and private sector. Currently serving as Director of Threat Research, focusing on emerging threats and advanced defensive strategies for Managed Detection and Response.
- Threat Research & Analysis
- Security Engineering
- Team Leadership
- Incident Response
- Machine Learning in Security
- Everyday Learning - I'm a lifelong learner, always looking to improve my skills and knowledge - something definitely required in this field.
- Naval Postgraduate School - Information Systems Security Engineering Post-Graduate Certificate
- Penn State University
- B.S. Security & Risk Analysis
- B.S. Information Science and Technology
- Published cybersecurity researcher and threat hunter
- Regular speaker at security conferences including ILTACON, Blackhat (as sponsored), and others.
- Led cybersecurity teams at Department of Defense
- Expert contributor to media outlets and podcasts
- CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker)
- CompTIA (A+, Network+, Security+)
- Various AWS and Azure certifications
- CISSP (Exam pass only so far...)
- English (Native)
- French (Intermediate)
- Russian (Basic)
- Security Tools: Wireshark, Metasploit, Nmap, Burp Suite, the SHELL and usual suspects.
- Programming: Python, TypeScript / JavaScript, Go, SQL, and a few others (BASH, PowerShell, C++, C#, LUA)
- Cloud: AWS (Primary), Azure (Secondary)), GCP (for fun)
- Networking & Network Security: Routing, Switching, Firewalls, IDS/IPS, SIEM, MDR, networked appliances galore.
- Forensics: Static Analysis, Dynamic Analysis, Network Forensics, Malware Analysis, Live Response, etc.
- Others: Virtualization, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Databases, Terraform / Cloudformation,