About Me
Senior technology executive and AI security strategist with deep expertise in data intelligence, cybersecurity, anti-fraud, and digital asset analytics for global financial services.
Certifications
- •CISSP - August 2023
- •CEH - January 2023
- •CNDA - January 2023
- •Security+ - November 2021
Awards & Patents
Awards:
- Splunk President's Club FY20
- Public Sector MVP FY16
- Splunk Values Award FY15
Patents:
- US11843622B1 - Machine Learning Models for Domain Classification (Splunk/Cisco, 2023)
- US20230410072A1 - Enhanced Non-Fungible Tokens (Tantamount Labs, 2023)
Experience
BlinkOps
Principal Sales Engineer
April 2026 – Present | Phoenix, AZ (Remote)
- ▸Drive technical pre-sales for BlinkOps agentic SOC automation across West Coast enterprise accounts, from discovery through proof-of-value to close
- ▸Run POCs and competitive bake-offs positioning BlinkOps no-code automation against incumbent SOAR platforms, contributing to new-logo wins and expansion
- ▸Stood up a threat lab of internet-facing honeypots capturing live attack telemetry, feeding real-world detections and demo scenarios
- ▸Own the Microsoft technical alliance as lead sales engineer, pairing BlinkOps agentic automation with Sentinel and Defender for co-sell motions
Crogl
Principal Forward Deployed Software Engineer
July 2025 – February 2026 | Phoenix, AZ (Remote)
- ▸Architected multi-SIEM automation framework supporting Splunk, Azure Sentinel, CrowdStrike, and Databricks — reducing response plan development time by 70%
- ▸Designed AI agent accountability and governance framework for enterprise SOC environments, enabling auditable AI operations aligned to NIST AI RMF, SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA
- ▸Built production MCP-based threat intelligence automation connecting 10 security platforms (CrowdStrike, Tenable, Shodan, VirusTotal), reducing manual OSINT collection time by 80%
Bank of New York Mellon
Senior Vice President, Data & Intelligence Engineering
September 2023 – July 2025 | New York, NY (Remote)
- ▸Senior executive defining the firm's data-driven cybersecurity, digital asset intelligence, and anti-fraud strategy across global institutional business lines
- ▸Deployed LLM-based decision intelligence platforms for regulatory alert triage and anomaly detection, reducing manual analysis workloads by over 30%
- ▸Represented BNY Mellon at SuriCon 2024 in Madrid showcasing "Supercharging Security with RAG" — first large-scale institutional demonstration of RAG for security operations
Palo Alto Networks
Cloud Security Architect, Prisma Cloud
January 2023 – September 2023 | Phoenix, AZ
- ▸Acted as trusted advisor in executive-level engagements, aligning Prisma Cloud to customer risk profiles, regulatory requirements, and cloud transformation strategies
- ▸Conducted technical POCs and competitive bake-offs against Wiz, Sysdig, and Lacework, contributing to strategic wins across Fortune 500 accounts
BlockFi Inc.
Senior Security Architect, Head of Machine Learning
April 2021 – August 2022 | Phoenix, AZ
- ▸Appointed first Head of Machine Learning; architected and delivered a modern ML platform serving 100+ data scientists and 400 BI users in under six months
- ▸Built crypto-specific graph analytics framework tracing and flagging $252M in suspicious blockchain transactions, resulting in proprietary IP
- ▸Identified and responsibly disclosed a critical zero-day vulnerability to a global authentication provider while serving in an ML role
Splunk Inc.
Principal Architect, Global SE Architect, Machine Learning & AI
October 2014 – April 2021 | Phoenix, AZ
- ▸Key driver of Splunk's revenue growth from $35M to $411M (FY18–FY21) through ML solution development, technical leadership, and enterprise customer enablement
- ▸Architected large-scale security data platforms for government agencies and Fortune 500 companies processing 100TB+ of daily log data at petabyte scale
- ▸Co-authored Splunk's machine learning toolkit, integrating TensorFlow, scikit-learn, and Spark MLlib, enabling security analysts to run complex ML workflows without deep data science expertise
Education
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science
Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana | May 2010
Western Governors University
23 Credits toward Masters in Data Analytics | 2017-2018
Technical Skills & Expertise
AI/ML & LLM
Claude AIModel Context Protocol (MCP)Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)LangChainHugging Face TransformersTensorFlowPyTorchDatabricksVector EmbeddingsSemantic Similarity DetectionLLM OrchestrationPrompt EngineeringMLOpsModel DevelopmentFeature Engineering
Security Platforms
Splunk Enterprise SecurityPhantom SOARAzure SentinelCrowdStrikeTenableDragosFidelisCISA KEVVirusTotalShodanSuricataNessusMetasploitPrisma Cloud
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS (ECS, Lambda)Azure (Container Instances, Sentinel, Confidential Ledger)GCPTerraformKubernetesDockerPulumiCDKCI/CD AutomationServerlessAir-gapped DeploymentsZero-Trust Networking
Cryptography & Security
RSA-PSS SignaturesAzure Confidential LedgerCryptographic AttributionOAuth 2.0SSL/TLSSecure Key ManagementImmutable Audit TrailsSOC 2ISO 27001GDPRHIPAA
Data Engineering
Apache KafkaDelta LakeNeo4j (Graph Analytics)PostgresSnowflakeEvent-Driven ArchitecturesStreaming PipelinesLakeHouse ArchitecturesPySparkETL/ELT
Blockchain & Digital Assets
ChainalysisAlchemyEllipticTRM LabsDune AnalyticsThe GraphWeb3.jsEthers.jsNFTIPFSDeFi ProtocolsSmart Contract SecurityGraph-Based Blockchain Forensics
Languages & Query
PythonSQLBashKQL (Kusto Query Language)SPL (Splunk Processing Language)PySparkTypeScriptJavaScriptGoRRubyPerl (RegEx)
API & Development
FastAPIJSON Schema ValidationREST APIsGitWebhook AutomationGraphQLMicroservicesReactNext.js
Let's Connect
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