For eight years I ran aviation security operations at American Airlines in Charlotte — as a Crew Chief in a federally regulated environment, holding a security clearance with a CBP badge endorsement and supporting international flight operations under FAA, OSHA, IATA, and CBP requirements.
That work is where my instincts come from: identity validation, access control, recurrent incident‑response and safety training, and documentation precise enough to stand up to federal accountability. A SOC calls these alert triage, least privilege, and escalation notes. I called them Tuesday.
In January 2026 I completed a B.S. in Information Technologies with a cybersecurity concentration at Southern New Hampshire University — summa cum laude, 3.96 GPA — alongside CompTIA Security+ ce. Since then I’ve been building the proof in public: defensive tooling, log‑anomaly detection, and a reproducible benchmark that measures whether AI coding agents can build safe, MITRE ATT&CK‑aligned defensive tools.