I've been doing security for over a decade — network and endpoint defense, SIEMs, incident response, then cloud, infrastructure, and application security. For the last four years I've been a cloud security consultant (security engineer/architect) at AWS, helping enterprises build, assess, and secure their cloud environments.
I have a degree and a number of active/historic credentials in Cybersecurity, but I am fundamentally self-taught. It started at twelve, reverse-engineering embedded drum videos from page source to learn proper drumming technique — and, accidentally, figure out how the web worked. That curiosity never left. I just pointed it at networking, security, and automation.
The security career and drumming/music ran side-by-side for many years. From 2015 to 2022 I played drums for Kroenke Sports & Entertainment (KSE) — in-game for the Avalanche (NHL), Nuggets (NBA), and occasionally the Rapids (MLS) and Mammoth (NLL) — at night, after my Cybersecurity day-job, in roles that were progressing from junior- to mid-level. Thanks to KSE, I got to entertain audiences attending: games during the Avalanche's 2022 Stanley Cup run, the London NBA Global Games with the Nuggets, and some concerts at Red Rocks (including one sold-out night with eight-time Grammy Award winner Kacey Musgraves).
Security was the day job through all of it: analyst/administrative work at KIOSK; then EDR, Email, SIEM, and MDM security engineering work at Zayo; then network security engineering at Zayo. The year I started at AWS, in 2022, I put the drums away and doubled-down on professional development.
Have a look at my writing to see how I think and work.