Led several large cyber oriented programs in the Information Innovation Office (I20), notably the PlanX program which has now transitioned to the DoD under several joint program umbrellas in the U.S. DoD. Conceived novel applications of distributed ledger tech and awarded over 20 Phase 1 and 4 successfully transitioned Phase 2 SBIRs. Larger investments involved proprietary information theory/ language technology and advanced video processing capabilities.

With a fantastic team of amazing people we grew a fledging office in Rosslyn through new work (from 0 to $40M in 3 years) and contract expansion into National Business Park, Ashburn and Ballston. Proved it was possible to scale boutique cyber operations and cyber development capabilities with smart software engineering and management.

Communications and signals intelligence expert with operational deployment in war. Directly supported our nation's tip of the spear men and women by providing needed timely and accurate intelligence for their hard mission sets.

Wrote the network provisioning code, bootp, TFTP and DHCP client software for a first of its kind network security appliance. Given the tiny footprint of this system the code was hand written based on RFC specs. It was here I learned the nuances of ntohs().

Software engineer on the U2 ground station equipment. Affectionately known as the 'Dragon Lady' the U2 ground system is known as the Air Force Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS). I had the opportunity to sit in the cockpit of a U2 and although the instrument black was worn to silver I knew the capabilities under the hood were world class.