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SECURITY OPERATIONS & RISK LEADERSHIP

Clear judgment.
When the stakes
are real.

I lead security operations and build practical tools for making better decisions across physical, cyber, and business risk.

Signal to decisionDifferent perspectives. One clear course.
INTELLIGENCE-LED DECISIONS. BUSINESS-AWARE LEADERSHIP.
24member GSOC

Leading people and 24/7 security operations

HarvardALM · 2022

Information Management Systems

$7Mannual savings

Historical supplier negotiation result · Phoenix Far East

Judgment.
Made tangible.

Independent work that makes the reasoning visible.

SYNTHETIC EXAMPLE / DECISION PRACTICE

A decision brief.
Before certainty.

A fictional monitoring outage. Three options. Explicit ownership, residual risk, and conditions for changing the recommendation.

Inspect the decision brief

The signal.
And its implications.

Public-source analysis, with assumptions and alternatives in view.

Good judgment
is a team capability.

A clear decision depends on the people, standards, and handoffs around it.

01

Coach the people closest to the signal.

I coach supervisors and analysts, using quality review to strengthen triage, reporting, and the judgment behind an escalation.

02

Make the handoff reliable.

Operating standards make facts, ownership, open questions, and the next action visible across shifts and stakeholders.

03

Keep the business in the picture.

Security advice has to connect the threat to the activity being protected—and make the tradeoffs clear to the people who own the risk.

Operational focus.
A broader foundation.

2025–PRESENT

GSOC Manager

Allied Universal · Fortune 500 pharmaceutical client

Manager since November 2025. Analyst and Supervisor roles earlier in 2025.

Operating scope

EARLIER EXPERIENCE

Commercial risk & international leadership

Investment analysis, supplier negotiation, regulated financial services, and commercial operations.

Full chronology

Harvard ALM · Harvard ALB, cum laude
Cybersecurity Graduate Certificate · CySA+ ce · Security+ ce

Education & credentials
IN CONVERSATIONWhitinsville, Massachusetts

Better security starts
with a clearer picture.

For conversations about security operations, risk, and decision-making, let’s compare notes.

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