The short version
I'm a cybersecurity and intelligence professional with more than 30 years spent turning threat intelligence into decisions leaders can act on. I work at the seam between government and industry, where protecting critical infrastructure depends on both sides sharing what they actually see. I write to give practitioners and decision-makers signal without the vendor noise.
I translate fast-moving threat activity into terms leaders and operators can use: what adversaries are actually doing, where supply chains and critical infrastructure are genuinely exposed, and where compliance and real security have quietly drifted apart. Analysis, not advocacy.
Career
United States Air Force
From 1988 to 2018 I served a 30-year Air Force career in intelligence, retiring as a Chief Master Sergeant, the service's most senior enlisted rank, held by about one percent of the force. The job was as much about advising commanders as it was about the intelligence itself: making sure the people making the decisions understood what the threat picture actually meant.
Intelligence & cybersecurity
Since 2018 I've continued that work in cybersecurity and public/private partnership, helping government and industry defend critical systems and share what each side sees. I also focus on writing and strategic partnership analysis across cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, and AI.
Writing
I publish articles on cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, and AI threats. I published the Friday Wrap Up newsletter weekly from 2024 until I retired it in April 2026. The full archive, along with my current writing, lives here on the site, covering how systems fail, who they fail, and what we keep getting wrong about both.
Beyond the writing
Hands-on technologist
I run a homelab of self-hosted services, automation pipelines, AI experiments, and I build the occasional tool when the one I want doesn't exist.
Vardek
A local, Mac-native widget dashboard for the Corsair Xeneon Edge™ touchscreen. There was a gap and I thought I'd try to fill it.