IT Engineer & Cybersecurity Specialist
From submarine warfighting to workforce professional.
NAVY SUBMARINE VETERAN · MSP · SECURITY OPERATIONS
U.S. Navy Submarine veteran with 13+ years turning high-stakes problems into secure, repeatable solutions. I don't just close tickets; I put heart into securing and maintaining customer networks and environments.
Recent Real-World Work
- Internal vulnerability assessment for multi-site medical org: deployed Vonahi vPenTest, personally remediated SMBv1, null sessions, SNMP issues across 100+ systems
- 1st time CTF competition during a security conference hosted by Pax8, landing in top 5 out of 100 participants
- Tailscale VPN segmentation: configured a dedicated router to segment Tailscale VPN traffic via policay based routing in a zero trust environment
- Pi-hole homelab: deployed DNS filtering in Docker, blocked ~480k domains, documented Docker NAT limitations and VPN conflicts
Available for full-time & contract roles.
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Available for full-time positions, contract work, and consulting opportunities.