One story, told four ways.
Four pillars run the whole length of this record: Serve, Secure, Lead and Build. They are not seasons of a career. They are one way of working, carried from federal civilian IT through nearly 21 years in the U.S. Air Force to enterprise identity security today.
Each pillar spans the whole career.
Choose a pillar to follow its thread through the record below. Choose it again to see everything.
From where it began to where it stands.
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1999 · Federal civilian IT
Where it began
Started in IT as a federal civilian hire while still in school: troubleshooting and installing computers, and running network and phone cabling.
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2002 to 2009 · U.S. Air Force · Lackland AFB, Texas
Lead systems administrator
Supported 2,200+ multiservice users across three major commands, keeping 2,200 secure systems at 26 locations, including 500+ UNIX systems, reliable and compliant. Taught himself MSSQL scripting to resolve a software flaw with global impact, earning the NSA STAR Award as its sole recipient for that globally implemented fix. Also wrote training guides for incoming system administrators.
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2009 to 2013 · U.S. Air Force · Ramstein AB, Germany
Systems administrator and supervisor
Led a 37-person team across five secure network enclaves at 99.9% uptime. Pioneered the division's first secure NATO network, later adopted by three more organizations across 30 member countries.
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2009 to 2013 · U.S. Air Force · Resource advisor
Budget and contract discipline
Managed $7.9M in contracts as a squadron and group resource advisor, redirecting funds to critical mission requirements.
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2012 · Deployed · Operation Enduring Freedom
Automation under pressure
Sustained 99.9% network availability for 844 users at seven sites, and automated system-access account creation to save 4,700 staff hours a year.
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2013 to 2018 · U.S. Air Force · Scott AFB, Illinois
Global functional lead, storage and virtualization
Directed the Air Force's storage and virtualization enterprise: 300+ military, civilian and industry staff supporting a 900,000-user network, alongside a separate 140,000-user classified enclave for Air Mobility Command. Delivered an $8.5M infrastructure retrofit across 500+ virtual servers at 99.9% uptime.
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2013 to 2018 · U.S. Air Force · Enterprise
Policy adopted Air Force-wide
Authored functional security policy adopted as official Air Force-wide policy and used to inform updates to the relevant DISA STIG standards.
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2013 to 2018 · U.S. Air Force · Career field
Training built to last
Hand-selected to build the Air Force's storage and virtualization training curriculum from scratch, aligned across 11 career fields for 31,000 cyber personnel. Also wrote 127 standard operating procedures and 42 PowerShell scripts.
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2017 to 2018 · U.S. Air Force · Air Mobility Command
Two-factor authentication on SIPRNet
Drove two-factor authentication on the classified SIPRNet, securing Air Mobility Command's global command and control systems and making it the first major command to meet the Air Force CIO directive.
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2018 to 2022 · U.S. Air Force · The Pentagon, Joint Staff
Lead architect and branch supervisor
Directed a 21-person staff supporting a classified network enclave for the Joint Staff across 57 organizations, keeping it hardened and accredited. Awarded permanent wear of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Identification Badge.
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2018 to 2022 · U.S. Air Force · Joint Staff
Steady in a crisis
During an electrical fire in a command center, personally isolated and de-energized the fault, averting $1.2M in damage to critical communications equipment, then directed 30 hours of recovery operations.
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2018 to 2022 · U.S. Air Force · Joint Staff
A team that automates
Trained his team in PowerShell, together building 129 automation and monitoring scripts and reaching a three-minute average incident resolution. Designed the division's first automated patch management solution, deploying 2,500+ patches to 450+ devices, and modernized Group Policy to automate security compliance.
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2022 to 2024 · Global live-entertainment company
Lead systems engineer, Windows
Consolidated Active Directory from nine domains to four and standardized security across all of them, with CIS, SOX and PCI DSS requirements as the minimum baseline. (Faithful Oversight is not a PCI QSA.)
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2024 to today · Global live-entertainment company
Lead systems engineer, identity services
Secures 40,000+ corporate and customer identities across four Active Directory domains, and is building a self-service identity platform (Python, React, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes) to replace ticket-based directory administration.
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2024 to today · Global live-entertainment company
Growing the people around him
Runs weekly training and knowledge-share sessions for his team, including hands-on training in AI-assisted engineering, continuing a practice that predates any formal leadership title.
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Ongoing · Local church
Serving in ministry
Youth group leader; Awana leader and teacher; and the audio-visual and livestream team for weekly services.
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2026 · Faithful Oversight, LLC
Founded Faithful Oversight
A veteran-owned practice bringing senior security and technology leadership to organizations that need it without a full-time hire.
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2026 · Pro bono
From 28 hours to 30 minutes
For a global life-sciences organization, helped design and build an AI agent for data analysis, extraction and entry: about 28 hours at 85% first-pass accuracy became about 30 minutes at 99%+, often 100%.
The story continues.
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