Leading Azure security and platform-engineering programs that reduce enterprise risk, standardize cloud operations, improve delivery performance, and build high-performing engineering teams.
Lead the DevSecOps team responsible for Azure platform delivery, cloud security, reliability, and operations.
Have trained and mentored technical professionals throughout my career, helping them grow across cloud, automation, DevOps, and security.
Set direction for Azure security across identity, networking, governance, architecture reviews, monitoring, and secure delivery.
Establish reusable architecture, infrastructure-as-code, governance, and operational patterns that make Azure environments consistent and supportable.
Embed security controls into CI/CD pipelines so software delivery becomes repeatable, auditable, and secure by default.
Set long-term priorities by balancing security risk, platform reliability, engineering capacity, and organizational delivery needs.
My career has grown by addition, not substitution: engineer, then architect, then security owner, now the leader who sets direction for security and platform engineering.
My technology career began in IT support in 2009, progressed through systems administration, and moved into DevOps and Microsoft Azure in 2016. That operator foundation continues to shape how I lead cloud security, platform engineering, and secure delivery today. I own the organization's Azure security posture, set the platform and security strategy, and lead the engineering team that delivers on it.
My focus is organizational: enterprise risk ownership, cross-functional governance, executive communication, and developing engineers into leaders. What makes my direction credible is that I've operated everything I now govern; I hold Microsoft's highest security and architecture credentials, including the SC-100 Cybersecurity Architect Expert, but the decisions come from having run the infrastructure, not just certified on it.
Set the security and platform direction for the organization's Azure estate. Own the Azure security posture end to end and lead the DevOps team: hiring, coaching, and developing engineers into senior and lead roles while steering the long-term roadmap.
[Outcome metric: e.g. security gates across all production pipelines, audit result]Designed and operated the organization's Azure cloud architecture end to end (identity, networking, governance) and became the de facto security lead, the scope that grew into today's combined security and leadership role.
[Outcome metric: e.g. consolidation of the Azure estate under one governance model]Built the CI/CD foundation and drove infrastructure-as-code adoption, turning manual deployments into automated, repeatable, auditable pipelines.
[Outcome metric: e.g. release lead time before vs. after automation]Made the jump from systems administration into DevOps, bringing an operator's instincts to automation: the 3am pages from the sysadmin years still shape how I think about securing systems today.
[Outcome metric: e.g. manual runbook work automated away]Built an end-to-end infrastructure foundation across troubleshooting, Windows Server, Active Directory, virtualization, and networking before moving into DevOps and Azure in 2016.
Owning the enterprise cloud risk posture: security strategy, Zero Trust adoption, governance standards, audit readiness, and the executive reporting that turns security work into business assurance.
Setting the direction for the Azure estate: landing zones, identity architecture, cost governance, and modernization roadmaps that align platform investment with business priorities.
Leading the shift from manual, late-stage security to automated gates, infrastructure as code, and policy as code across every delivery pipeline, so teams ship faster and safer at the same time.
Building the organization, not just the systems: hiring, coaching, developing engineers into leaders, and designing an operating model where reliability and security are habits, not fire drills.
Three Expert-level Microsoft certifications spanning security, architecture, and DevOps.
The best security architects are the ones who've been paged at 3am. I secure systems the way an operator would, because I've been the operator.