experience
Career timeline
Roles, in reverse-chronological order.
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Senior Systems / Platform Engineer
Platform engineering with an AI governance overlay. Building shared infrastructure that other engineers across the org rely on, with a particular focus on how AI agents fit into a production environment without breaking the things around them. A lot of the work shows up as ADRs, the Satellite estate and its config-as-code layer, privileged-access migration tooling, and the guardrails that let AI agents touch production safely.
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Senior Cyber Security Engineer
Zero trust architecture assessment across a federal environment. The work was less about any single tool and more about how identity, network segmentation, and policy enforcement compose when the existing footprint is large and old.
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Cyber Security Engineer
Cyber engineering: consolidating endpoint security onto a unified EDR/XDR platform, re-platforming configuration management from Habitat to Ansible, and zero-trust device work. Pivoting from ops into security taught me to look at the same systems through a different lens: less about whether they run, more about what they assume.
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Linux Systems Engineer (Satellite / RHEL)
Came back to GD to run Red Hat Satellite and RHEL fleet management. Patch lifecycles, content views, errata. The kind of work that is invisible when it goes well and very loud when it does not.
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Security Operations Specialist
First security seat: SOC operations running SIEM and XDR day to day, and building small tools to make the appliance work less manual. Where I learned what attacks actually look like in the logs.
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Linux Systems Administrator
First role out of school. Learned the trade on a real fleet: package management, kickstarts, the difference between a runbook that works and one that just looks like one.
// skills
- RHEL · Red Hat Satellite · fleet patching · kickstart provisioning
- Docker · Docker Compose · Kubernetes · multi-tenant OpenShift
- Ansible · Ansible Automation Platform · GitLab CI/CD · Packer · configuration-as-code
- SOC operations · zero-trust architecture · enterprise PAM · vulnerability management
- routing & switching · DNS · reverse proxy / TLS
- MCP server authoring · Claude Code skills & sub-agents · AWS Bedrock RAG · AI agent governance · ADR-driven design
- Bash · Python
// certifications
- RHCE 7 · CySA+ · Security+ · Network+ · CCNA
- EX294 (RHCE) · EX280 (OpenShift) · EX380 (OpenShift Automation)