I make security legible to the people who have to decide about it.

I have spent more than ten years in cybersecurity and IT (engineering, consulting, project management, and leadership), working with large corporations, government agencies, and non-profits. The through-line has been translation: taking a technical reality and making it usable by whoever needs to act on it, whether that is an engineering team, a board, or a jury.

Academically that started with an Associate and a Bachelor's degree in Information Systems Technology with a cybersecurity specialization, plus a technical certificate as an Information Technology Client Specialist. Since then I have added more than fifteen IT and cybersecurity certifications, including the CISSP.

Alongside the consulting work I run Show Up Show Out Security, which houses the mentorship program, and I publish original vulnerability research, including assigned CVEs, under my own name. I am also a professional mixed martial artist, which is how a fair amount of the press coverage found me, and the founder of iVenza, an all-in-one platform for athletes, coaches, and gyms.

The reason I write and speak as much as I do is simple: most security failures I have seen were not exotic. They were ordinary problems that nobody explained clearly enough to the person who could have prevented them.