My story
Two decades spanning military intelligence, NATO operations, and global cybersecurity leadership have shaped a simple belief for me: people don't remember policies; they remember stories.
Origin A story that started at rock bottom and turned into a career I've built around helping others find purpose, resilience, and safety.
Before putting on the uniform, I was homeless and drifting, living a story without direction or purpose. The military didn't just give me discipline; it gave me a shared mission worth believing in and revealed how a clearly told story can unite very different people around a common goal.
My mother taught pre-K hearing-impaired children in an inner-city school; my father served as a hospital chaplain. Both showed me that the fastest way to reach people isn't data; it's a story that meets them where they are.
I built and delivered security and technology training for deployed units, from intel analysts to Explosive Ordnance Disposal techs and Special Operations teams. One former student called from Afghanistan to say the lessons he learned helped him restore comms while out on a mission and bring his teammates home, a moment that reframed the work for me as being about the people using the tools.
I stood up cross-border governance and intelligence-sharing programs across NATO, standardized security protocols for multinational exercises, and delivered governance-centric training to 11 allied nations, strengthening the alliance's collective network defense and security posture.
My work sits at the intersection of security, human behavior, and leadership. From designing global security strategy to building enterprise governance, I've helped organizations create environments where people become the strongest line of defense, proving that lasting security is built through culture and purpose rather than compliance.
Across NATO and the enterprise, I kept seeing the same pattern. Programmes were judged by activity (modules completed, phishing simulations sent, policies published) rather than by whether anything about the organisation actually changed. Intelligence work taught me that an operation you cannot measure is an operation you cannot improve. Security had inherited the reporting habits of compliance instead.
I could keep running good programmes inside one organisation, or I could work on the measurement problem underneath all of them. No amount of internal effort was going to fix a reporting model the whole industry shared. It is not a gap in any one company's execution; it is a gap in what the industry agreed to count. So I decided to build the thing I kept wishing existed.
IO is an executive intelligence layer that measures whether security interventions actually worked, including when they did not. The null result matters as much as the win; it is the part most reporting quietly discards. IO is the end of the arc that started in military intelligence and ran through twenty years of enterprise security.
I served as President of a Fortune-500 Veterans Employee Resource Group and provide career and transition mentorship to service members separating from the military. I hold a B.S. in Business Management from Pepperdine University.