Experience

Director of Cyber Security & Infrastructure

Matrix Pointe Software · Jun 2021 – Present

Software Engineer

Matrix Pointe Software · Mar 2012 – Jun 2021

  • Full-stack .NET development across healthcare, government/justice, and banking, with a focus on backend services, system integrations, and payment processing
  • Grew into the DevOps and infrastructure role organically: built CI/CD pipelines (TeamCity, Octopus Deploy), migrated hosting to AWS, and architected HA across dual data centers
  • Simplified distributed service architectures into consolidated, highly available systems with monitoring and self-healing
  • Owned security and infrastructure concerns including client incident response, firewall management, VPN design, and on-premise deployment architecture for regulated clients
  • Introduced observability tooling (SeriLog, Seq) and drove front-end modernization (Webpack, TypeScript, NPM)

Co-Founder / Software Engineer

Yottaflow · Sep 2010 – Mar 2012

  • Built a multi-tenant, cloud-based workflow and task management application on .NET and Windows Azure
  • Shipped v1.0 in 3 months; shipped v2.0 with a redesigned interface based on market feedback in 4 months
  • Maintained a 2-week release cycle for bug fixes, enhancements, and new features
  • Leveraged open source tools including Elmah, MVC MiniProfiler, nLog, Dapper, and NuGet

Information Security Analyst

Key Bank · Cleveland, OH · Feb 2007 – Sep 2010

  • Performed network, application, and physical penetration tests across corporate facilities; GPEN score qualified as SANS mentor candidate
  • Primary engineer for ArcSight SIEM: led infrastructure redesign, built custom FlexConnectors, and architected the enterprise logging (E-Log) initiative
  • Led NAC evaluation from requirements through proof of concept and vendor selection across five competing platforms
  • Built custom tooling and automation in Perl and SQL to streamline vulnerability analysis and eliminate hours of daily manual review
  • Promoted from Vulnerability Specialist to Information Security Analyst to Information Security Consultant

Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Terraform / IaC
  • CI/CD Pipelines

Development

  • C# / .NET
  • TypeScript / Node.js
  • SQL / NoSQL
  • REST / gRPC

Security

  • Penetration Testing
  • Network Security / Firewalls
  • Compliance
  • Intrusion Detection

Certifications

CISSP

Certified Information Systems Security Professional

Prior SANS Certifications

GCIA (503) · GPEN (560) · GSEC (401)

Education

Bowling Green State University

B.S. Computer Science · 2006