Curriculum Vitae
Client-facing cybersecurity, resilience, and technology-risk executive with more than two decades of experience helping senior leaders and complex organizations understand security posture, operational risk, and business exposure. Leads REACT — Resiliency, Emerging Threats, Assessments, and Client Engagements — within Firmwide Technology Resiliency at JPMorganChase. A trusted advisor across more than 3,000 engagements in 50+ countries and six continents — Fortune 500 companies, banks, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds, and governments — helping strengthen the technology underpinning roughly $17T in daily payments and $3T in daily markets activity.
Experience
Head of REACT, Firmwide Technology Resiliency — JPMorganChase
May 2024 – Present
- Lead a specialist team integrating client security advisory, cyber resilience, emerging-threat intelligence, strategic assessments, and executive exercises across payments, markets, treasury, and custody capabilities supporting roughly $20T in daily financial activity.
- Serve as a senior external representative of the firm in 3,000+ client engagements across 50+ countries and six continents, translating complex cyber, fraud, technology, and resilience issues for executive, security, risk, treasury, and operations stakeholders.
- Partner with relationship, sales, and product teams on 100+ RFPs representing more than $10B in business.
- Delivered a board-mandated financial-resilience program for a multinational energy company — designing and exercising a minimum viable operating model for critical payments during a cyberattack or outage; strengthened continuity for a major pharmaceutical company’s in-house bank.
- Designed and led multinational cyber and operational-resilience exercises with 100+ participants across continents, testing executive decision-making, escalation, communications, and payment continuity.
- Lead executive after-action reviews and emerging-threat assessments for senior, Operating Committee, audit, regulatory, and client audiences.
Attack Simulation & Emerging-Threat Research, Cybersecurity Operations — JPMorganChase
Apr 2019 – May 2024
- Led an integrated attack-simulation and emerging-threat research function spanning adversary emulation, red-team operations, threat intelligence, and AI-enabled risk modeling.
- Co-established a purple team; delivered firmwide phishing, vishing, and no-notice exercises, aligning offensive findings with defensive detection and control improvements.
- Initiated the enterprise after-action review practice for major incidents, including Log4Shell.
Chief Technology Officer / Director of Cybersecurity — Aveshka, Inc.
Nov 2016 – Apr 2019
- Senior technology and security executive (CTO / CISO-equivalent) for a cybersecurity practice, directing high-sensitivity federal programs for Department of Defense and Intelligence Community customers.
- Modernized the Pentagon’s digital-forensics and insider-threat program and designed a user-activity-monitoring architecture for a national insider-threat program.
- Directed advanced-persistent-threat investigations and complex cyber-response efforts, coordinating with law-enforcement and counterintelligence partners.
Chair, Technical Surveillance Countermeasures Working Group — Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Jan 2014 – Jul 2016
- Chaired an interagency working group spanning much of the Intelligence Community, coordinating policy and operational activity for technical surveillance countermeasures and national-security protective operations.
Director of Training & Intelligence Operations Officer — U.S. Department of Defense / Intelligence Community
1999 – 2018
- Nearly two decades in a joint special-operations and Intelligence Community unit, beginning in U.S. Army Special Forces and progressing into intelligence leadership across multiple overseas theaters.
- Directed a national-security training program supported by an approximately $200M budget, rebuilding curriculum, operations, and standards to certification by two Intelligence Community agencies.
Academic appointments
Professorial Lecturer & Doctoral Research Advisor — The George Washington University
Nov 2024 – Present
- Advise doctoral research in cybersecurity analytics, digital forensics, fraud, insider threat, operational resilience, agentic AI, and machine unlearning. Primary advisor to 10 completed doctoral students; committee member on 25+ doctoral committees.
- Teach doctoral-level applications of AI and machine learning to malware analysis, fraud detection, social engineering, cloud security, and cyber defense.
Course Chair, Digital Forensics in the Criminal Justice System; Adjunct Professor — University of Maryland Global Campus
Jul 2017 – Present
- Lead course quality and practitioner-focused instruction in digital forensics, cyber investigations, evidence handling, chain of custody, and criminal-justice applications of forensic technology.
Education
- Doctor of Engineering (D.Eng.), Cybersecurity Analytics — George Washington University
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Modern War Studies (pending viva) — University of Buckingham
- Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Cybersecurity Policy & Compliance — George Washington University
- Master of Science & Technology Intelligence (MSTI) — National Intelligence University
- Postgraduate Certificate, Foreign Denial & Deception Analysis — National Intelligence University
Certifications
CISSP · CISM · CRISC · CCSP · CFE · Chartered Engineer (CEng) · MIET · DoD-Certified Cyber Crime Examiner · Cyber Counterintelligence / Insider Threat Analyst
Languages
English (native) · Spanish (full professional) · Russian (limited working)
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