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Critical Infrastructure & Security

Securing what matters most

Overview

Period
April 2011 – May 2019
Overview
Securing what matters most
Engagements
3
Positioning

Positioning

By 2011, the conversation around infrastructure had shifted — it was no longer enough to build systems that worked; they had to be hardened against failure, intrusion, and consequence. I moved into an environment where the stakes were fundamentally different: the systems I was responsible for didn't just support operations, they underpinned decisions that affected public safety and national continuity. That context sharpened everything.

Over nearly a decade, I architected and governed critical infrastructure at a scale where downtime wasn't a service metric — it was a crisis. Security wasn't a layer added at the end; it was the foundational constraint around which everything else was designed. I learned to think in threat models before I thought in architectures, and to treat resilience not as a feature but as a discipline. That shift in perspective — from building for performance to building for trust — became one of the defining lenses I carry into every engagement that followed.

Arriving early

Arriving early

The technology transitions arrive in wave 2.

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