70%
Faster employee provisioning
Led a two-year Data Revitalization effort aligning people, roles, permissions, data repositories, and automation across a regulated professional-services firm.
Systems · Security · AI · Technical Leadership
Complex systems. Clearer edges.
Senior Systems & Security Engineer
I design, build, and improve systems where infrastructure, security, identity, automation, and organizational complexity meet. My background spans more than 20 years of enterprise technology — from carrier-scale systems engineering and security architecture to long-tenure CIO leadership — with current work in AI grounding, agentic workflows, and human-centered security.
selected technical impact
Work that changed the system.
I tend to be most useful when a problem crosses boundaries: data and permissions, infrastructure and continuity, architecture and operations, or product capability and customer reality.
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Live backbone migration
Recovered and re-architected a failed dual-Cisco 6509 hospital backbone, moving static routing to OSPF with sub-second production interruption.
17+
Years of technical CIO work
Designed and operated secure enterprise infrastructure, security architecture, continuity, client connectivity, and technical services while leading a seven-person engineering team.
4
National carrier environments
Supported AT&T, SBC, Verizon, and WorldCom/UUNET in carrier-class IP-services engineering, convergence architecture, and QoS across Layer 2/3 networks.
2025 — present / technical R&D
Current work.
Recent projects extend the same systems instinct into AI-assisted engineering, source-grounded knowledge architecture, automation, and trust/security protocols. AI is an extension of the systems career, not a replacement for it.
security / trust / PWA
HumanKey / Abracadoo.app
A human-centered authentication and trust reference implementation spanning bounded authentication, local trust state, witnessed reciprocal exchange, revocation, encrypted backup behavior, and explicit separation of delivery from consent.
AI grounding / knowledge architecture
Grounded AI systems
Versioned, machine-readable structures for AI-assisted reasoning using canonical JSON, schema validation, stable identifiers, provenance, and human/machine bootstrap documentation — with semantic-integrity patterns that keep claims inspectable and uncertainty visible.
career spine
Built at several altitudes.
Titles changed. The recurring work did not: understand the real system, make the dependencies legible, reduce unnecessary complexity, and leave something more durable behind.
2025 — present
Independent Technical R&D
AI Systems, Security & Automation
AI-assisted engineering, agentic workflows, source-grounded knowledge systems, trust/security protocols, local-first tooling, static validation, and browser/serverless prototypes.
2007 — 2024
Chief Information Officer
Finley & Cook, PLLC
Hands-on executive and technical leadership for enterprise infrastructure, information security, data/access architecture, resilience, client-facing technical services, and a seven-person engineering team. Data Revitalization reduced provisioning time by 70%, simplified backup/compliance labor, and automated external security-audit responses.
2005 — 2007
Security Architect
Oklahoma Department of Human Services
Enterprise datacenter security architecture, segmentation, IDS, load balancing, HIPAA-aligned reviews, and technical leadership for the Computer Emergency Response Team.
2004
Senior Systems Engineer
iPolicy Networks
Pre- and post-sales engineering for multi-gigabit security appliances: technical discovery, labs, enterprise evaluations, RFI/RFP responses, partner enablement, and solution architecture.
2000 — 2003
Senior Consulting Systems Engineer — IP Services
Lucent Technologies / SpringTide
Carrier-class IP-services systems engineering, lab architecture, large-account support, VoIP/IP Centrex convergence, and QoS for national telecommunications providers.
1998 — 2000
Director of Engineering, Internet & Broadband Operations
Logix Communications
National ATM backbone and broadband engineering, routing architecture, circuit diagnostics, IP allocation, QoS/SLA operations, and voice/data convergence strategy.
Credentials: CISSP · GCIA (Honors) · GCIH (Honors) · GPEN (Honors) · former SANS Mentor Instructor · SANS Advisory Committee · InfraGard
Education: MBA, Information Technology Management · BS, Information Technology — Security · Western Governors University
where I tend to fit
Senior capability. Useful scope.
I am not optimizing for title. I am looking for environments where broad technical experience is useful, the work is real, and responsibility can stay close enough to the system to see whether it actually works.
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Systems / Security
Senior systems, infrastructure, security, integration, architecture, resilience, and complex troubleshooting roles.
02
Technical Leadership
Small or experienced technical teams where leadership still benefits from architecture depth and direct technical engagement.
03
Solutions Engineering
Complex products and enterprise customers where discovery, technical validation, architecture, and translation matter more than prospecting.
04
AI + Automation
Grounding, agentic workflows, knowledge architecture, integration, and automation where reliability and inspectability matter.
ideas / research / experiments
The stranger edges
Not everything I make is a product, and not every useful idea belongs in a résumé. These are some of the places where I explore trust, continuity, consent, meaning, memory, and human-machine coordination.
collective intelligence
Consentful Cybernetics
Research and applied systems for scaling intelligence without coercion, opacity, or capture.
consentfulcybernetics.comcontinuity
Continuity Office
Intent, consent, legibility, reversibility, and proportionate governance through change.
continuityoffice.comsemantic integrity
Checkable meaning
Instrumentation rather than navigation: expose structure without inventing hidden meaning.
semanticintegrity.netmemory
Shimmery Memory
A public corpus exploring memory, witness, continuity, language, and machine-readable context.
shimmerymemory.comacceptance
ULiUA
Unconditional Love Includes Unconditional Acceptance — a social-metaphysical attractor.
uliua.comlocal artifact
Consent Seed
A small philosophical tab about freedom persisting inside structure.
open the seedprofessional conversation
Have a real system with a difficult edge?
I am interested in senior engineering, technical leadership, solutions engineering, and AI-enabled systems work where broad technical judgment can create measurable leverage.