AI &
Infrastructure
Security
Model. Preach. Teach.
I joined Cisco in August 2006. I’ve stayed because the work kept pulling me into new ground. Cloud, networking, security, systems. Functional beats impressive. I aim for the first.
01 — What I do
The CTOs and CISOs I work alongside are making 3-to-5 year decisions about where intelligence, defense, and automation belong in their stack. My job is to translate engineering reality into decisions they can actually make.
Current focus
02 — Selected work
Money Honey
A public research project stress-testing embedded AI security against the kinds of attacks production environments need to survive.
SpeakingCisco Live 2026
Architecting private cloud-like services with Cisco Nexus and Isovalent Cilium. Session BRKDCN-2982.
The STEP Program
Built the training, demonstrations, and labs that teach Cisco engineers cloud network security and Multicloud Defense.
Azure Connector
Terraform and PowerShell automation that streamlined Azure integration for Cisco Secure Workload.
Open sourceCloud Guardians
The hands-on labs behind STEP. Stand up EKS, lock it down with Cilium, then add Multicloud Defense and Secure Workload.
03 — Track
Twenty years at one company, across nearly the entire lifecycle of a product: engineer it, bring it to market, sell it, support it, then move to the next thing.
04 — Credentials
Certifications
- CCIE #27189, Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert
- Cisco AI Technical Practitioner
- Meta Backend Engineering
- Microsoft Azure Developer Associate
- Cisco Certified Specialist, Enterprise Core
- Cisco Certified Specialist, Data Center Core
- VMware Certified Professional, Network Virtualization
- AWS Advanced Networking
Education
- MBA, Business Analytics — Syracuse University, 2024
- Data Science Math — Duke University, 2022
- BS, Telecommunications Engineering — St. John’s University, 2006
Recognition
- Distinguished Cisco Live Presenter
- Senior Technical Leadership Development Program
- Chairman’s Club, FY19
- One of 3 selected from 300 candidates, Cisco Sales Associate Program
Speaking & writing
- Speaker, Cisco Live
- Lead presenter, Cisco NYC Networkers
05 — Contact
Say hello
Happy to talk architecture, segmentation, or where AI security actually holds up in production.