Engineering every layer

More than 20 years building from the physical layer up — RedHat and AIX administration, datacenter operations, enterprise networking, security engineering, and now production-grade agentic systems.

Today, I'm on the Global Cyber Security team at McDonald's, working remotely from Austin, Texas, where I manage people on the Privileged Access Management team while helping lead an ongoing enterprise-scale PAM deployment. My work spans governance, process design, and technical rollout across human and non-human identities, including service accounts, machine identities, and AI agents.

Before that, I was a Senior Solutions Architect focused on Privileged Access Management at Netwrix, where I designed and deployed enterprise PAM solutions, built automation frameworks, and translated complex security requirements into production-grade implementations.

I engineer across all three layers. Physical: infrastructure, edge devices, and the systems that have to survive the real world. Software: APIs, integrations, and automation that hold up under pressure. Agentic: multi-agent orchestration, prompt engineering, and autonomous workflows built with the same discipline I bring to enterprise security — least privilege, human oversight, audit trails, and fail-safe defaults.

I'm also just a genuine tech enthusiast. I like testing new tools, new workflows, and emerging devices in real life, not just reading about them. That curiosity has been there since my first computer, an Apple IIe.

Each layer informs the next. Infrastructure discipline shapes software design. Software discipline shapes agent design. That's the through-line.