Defending cloud and enterprise environments with visibility, automation, and threat intelligence
Get in Touch View CertificationsI am a Combat Veteran with two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, and a 20-year U.S. Army career. My last five years of service were with U.S. Army Cyber Command, AFRICOM Cyber Protection teams, where I served as Infrastructure Security Lead, Threat Hunting Technical Lead, and ultimately Overall Team Technical Lead (Operations Planner).
After retiring, I served as Global Intelligence Systems Lead Administrator and Software Development Lifecycle Administrator for Cyber Protection Brigade deployment kits, before transitioning to Cloud Security (SOC) with By Light on AWS GovCloud for the Air Force’s Unified Platform AI/ML software factory. I currently serve as a senior detection engineer with By Light Professional IT Services SOC.
I have also dedicated five years as a mentor for the USCyberPatriot program with Evans Middle and High Schools — a worldwide competition that teaches students to harden and secure Cisco networking devices, Windows, Windows Server, Ubuntu, and Debian systems.
My most current expertise spans Splunk, AWS, Azure, endpoint security, threat detection, and compliance-driven security engineering, with extensive experience in both operational and technical leadership in complex cyber environments. I studied for and earned the Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst (CTIA) certification to infuse CTI into all of my efforts. Over the past 25+ years I have covered IT/Cyber communications from radio transmissions to the Splunk dashboard and everything inbetween to include compliance and mentoring.
Advanced Splunk detections across Fortigate, Cisco, Palo Alto, and endpoint telemetry.
FleetDM, Trellix HX, hardening, and response automation.
AWS IAM, zero trust, EventBridge automation, and SOC integration.
Email: splunkasaurus97@gmail.com