For hiring managers and recruiters
Twenty-five years turning noisy security telemetry into clean, actionable protection.
I led data, edge, and analysis engineering organizations that sat at the intersection of large-scale threat telemetry, machine-learning classifiers that had to hold up in production, and the customer-facing story that made protection deployable. I hold two U.S. patents on network-security ML, spent nine years on the McAfee PR steering team, and served as an FBI escalation contact. Below is the shortlist. Full detail is one click away.
Shortlist
- Ran the Data, Edge, and Application Analysis engineering organizations at Zimperium (2021–2026); chaired the Principal Engineering Committee.
- Eighteen years at what became McAfee (CipherTrust → Secure Computing → McAfee → Intel → McAfee, 2003–2021), promoted internally from L3 Support through Research Architect.
- Personally owned ~30M IP and ~200K domain reputation blocks per year at Intel/McAfee, driven by dedicated threat hunting rather than passive feeds.
- Two granted U.S. patents on ML for network security (US 11,743,276; US 11,689,550), plus 13+ conference talks, 2 keynotes, and hundreds of press placements.
- Full messaging datacenter uplift from physical Rackspace to virtualized Oracle.
What I'm looking for
- A leadership role that revolves around sifting data for threats, building the pipelines those investigations run on, and coaching motivated individual team members.
- Companies where communication with customers, executives, government partners, and press is treated as part of the engineering craft — not something to route around.
- Environments that value institutional knowledge, patient managers, and long-lived best practices even as agentic AI accelerates the work.