After nearly 4 years of running Platform and Security for Chia, My leadership and I decided to promote my second in command to VP of Platform and move my focus entirely into security for the enterprise. This is a huge win for me as I now can focus solely on securing Chia and our partners!

Chia is green money for a digital worldAs VP of Platform and Security at Chia Network, I am responsible for leading a team of engineers in building and securing the company's platform. This includes developing and implementing new security features, managing the CI/CD pipeline, and working with the engineering team to integrate security into the development process.I have also been responsible for building and growing the Platform and Security teams from scratch. I have a strong focus on talent development and training, and I am committed to creating a culture of collaboration and innovation.I am proud of the work that we have done at Chia to build a secure and reliable platform for the Chia blockchain. We have implemented a number of industry-leading security practices, and we are constantly working to improve the security of our platform.

Bastion is a security consulting firm focused on medium to large businesses. We provide end to end white glove security guidance, incident remediation including red, blue and purple team engagements. We tailor all projects to the needs the customer. No project is the wrong size or challenge. Whether you need a retrofit, an upgrade or a compliance audit. At Bastion we have your back! Let us help you become more secure in an ever changing digital world.

Jengland Consulting was a boutique consulting firm that specializes in helping companies improve their security posture and implement DevSecOps practices. I founded Jengland Consulting in 2015 after many years of experience working in security and engineering roles at large companies.At Jengland Consulting, I work with clients to assess their security risks, develop and implement security solutions, and integrate security into their development process. I also provide training and coaching to help clients build and grow their own security teams.I am passionate about helping companies improve their security and build a more secure future. I believe that everyone deserves to work in a safe and secure environment, and I am committed to helping companies make that happen.I have sunset this business in favor of other opportunities.

At T-Mobile, I was a Principal Architect on the Continuous Delivery Platform team. I was responsible for designing and implementing a gitops-driven CI/CD pipeline for T-Mobile's cloud-based platform. I also worked to secure the CI/CD pipeline and integrate security into all phases of the development lifecycle. Additionally, I worked closely with the engineering team to adopt DevSecOps practices.My work at T-Mobile helped to improve the efficiency and reliability of the software development process. It also helped to improve the security of T-Mobile's cloud-based platform. I am proud of the work that I did at T-Mobile, and I am confident that it has had a positive impact on the company.

At BombBomb, I was a Senior DevOps Engineer. I was responsible for migrating the company's infrastructure to a Kubernetes cluster, designing and building new microservices, and improving the company's CI/CD pipeline. I also worked to create a more reliable local development environment and improve the company's monitoring and metrics gathering.I helped the company to improve its efficiency and reliability, and I helped to create a more secure and stable platform for its customers.

Worked with all major linux operating systems to support the day to day work of our front end engineers, as well as plan, deploy and maintain environments for clients of all sizes. That are not only cost effective, but scale to meet demand. Using AWS and other hosting providers. Doing general systems tasks, maintenance and daily care and feeding of all environments that fall under my umbrage. Provide support for client issues as well as after action reports for outages. Want to learn more about what they do? www.10up.com

Worked to deploy devops culture and ci/cd workflow for Penn States world campus web properties and associated web classroom technology stack. Converted all infrastructure to an infrastructure as code model using Puppet. Transitioned to a Gitops workflow for all changes either code or platform based. Essentially modernized all their tools and services from hand rolled vms in vsphere to a more future proof and off prem cloud friendly model.

Team lead for day to day operations of Platform team. Including but not limited to being lead POC on escalations, kanban board management, work delegation etc.

Linux and windows systems administration for all internal and customer facing servers in a massive continent wide network.

Co-Founder and COO of the up and coming maker space/ do it all IT shop.

Design, code and maintain the traffic advisors platform for ezanga.com. Worked as part of a small team coding in mainly php

Create and maintain programs for web researchOperation of a web spydering projectDesigned and developed SQL databasesCreation and maintenance of web sites