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Distinguished Security Engineer at Verizon, Aldie VA. A decade-plus building and breaking security systems — from terabit-scale DDoS mitigation and firewall automation to exploit development and CVE research.

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  1. Verizon

    2015 – Present

    1. Distinguished Engineer

      Mar 2025 – Present

      Aldie, VA

      • Built an IRM-specific LLM that reduced total work reaching the team by 21.6% and overall average turnaround time by 52%, while improving projects closed immediately by 144% and within three days by 100%.
      • Designed and built the user interface and API fronting the model, semantic search and related capabilities.

    2. Distinguished Security Engineer

      Dec 2023 – Present

      Ashburn, VA

      • Led the architecture that turned Verizon's firewall request system into a general-purpose request-and-implementation platform, retiring three commercial systems and saving the business $5M/year.
      • Unified the team's code-quality standards and automated testing, cutting reported bugs 92% across 4,000 active application users in the first half of 2024.

    3. Senior Principal Security Engineer

      Sep 2021 – Dec 2023

      Ashburn, VA

      • Built a proof-of-concept NIST Cybersecurity Framework compliance auditor giving near-real-time visibility into Verizon's OpenShift platform — justifying a dedicated team to productize it.
      • Led all technical and design work on the firewall request & implementation system, reducing annual expense by $1M/year and time-to-approval by 76%.

    4. Principal Security Architect

      May 2018 – Sep 2021

      Ashburn, VA

      • Implemented real-time configuration automation for the global DDoS Shield platform, protecting Fortune 50 customers from terabit-scale attacks with no downtime.
      • Led a real-time vulnerability-detection platform across Verizon's lab environments, improving device coverage 43% and reducing penetration-test findings 67%.
      • Designed and taught an offensive-security and secure-development curriculum, and ran penetration tests alongside the network-security team.

    5. Security Architect

      Mar 2015 – May 2018

      Ashburn, VA

      • Built next-generation tooling for network and security teams: internet route-registry management, malware-infection analysis and command-and-control detection.
      • Co-architected DDoS Shield, Verizon's automated global denial-of-service mitigation platform.
      • Automated Nessus scan orchestration, result processing and remediation planning; ran penetration tests and built automation to speed them up.

  2. Applied Network Solutions

    1. Software Engineer

      Jul 2014 – Mar 2015

      Chantilly, VA

      • Built a network-anomaly dashboard rendering 100 GB/day of NetFlow.
      • Cut reported bugs 30% through expanded automated integration and regression testing.

  3. Hampden-Sydney College

    1. Graphic Designer

      Jul 2012 – Jul 2014

      Hampden-Sydney, VA

      • Designed marketing for alumni-donation campaigns raising $500K+ each, and built the primary online gift form with card validation and encryption.
      • Drove a 35% increase in web traffic through social-media graphics and web work.

  4. Envato Tuts+

    1. Freelance Writer

      Jun 2013 – Nov 2013

      Remote

      In-depth macOS application guides, tutorials and productivity tips for the Envato network.

  5. Razer Design

    1. Founder & Designer

      Nov 2008 – Jul 2014

      Freelance design studio — a WordPress portfolio/blog platform plus websites for small-business clients, in Dreamweaver and Photoshop.