Defense Aviation · TS/SCI Eligible · CISO

built. secured.
deployed.

First security hire at Vanquish Air, a defense-aviation operator — I own the security program and the IT stack, and I build the systems that run under them. A flight-operations board in daily use. Encrypted comms down to embedded hardware. One data structure the whole org pulls from.

In production.

Not whiteboards. Not prototypes. These are battle-tested systems running in production right now.

Deployed

Flight Board v3

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Flight Board v3

Real-time flight-operations board, deployed and in daily use — live aircraft status, decoded METAR/TAF, selectable LiveATC audio, terrain and wildfire overlays. Dockerized, one-command deploy, served over mesh VPN. v2 demo on the project page.

DockerJSLiveATCNASA FIRMS
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Dashboard

Flight Board v1

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Flight Board v1

Scrolling Gantt timeline with weather strip and color-coded flight blocks. The technical proof-of-concept — 6-hour window, lane packing, endcap status system.

Power PagesAzure FunctionsES5rAF
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Field App

Inspections.

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Inspections

Your technical manual, digitized. QR scan any equipment, walk the checklist step by step, photograph faults, submit — findings route to the right people instantly.

Power PagesAzure FunctionsBlob StorageQR
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Secure Comms

MatrixTUI

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MatrixTUI

Multi-account Matrix client in Rust — plus an ESP32 e-ink handheld port with end-to-end encryption (Olm/Megolm) built on custom firmware.

RustE2EEESP32
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Learn

Cyber
Awareness

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Cyber Awareness

Interactive security training disguised as a scroll. 10 scenarios, 19 threat identifications — phishing, passwords, Wi-Fi, popups. The page IS the training.

SecurityInteractiveTraining
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Learn

Big
Brother

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Big Brother

Your browser is talking about you. 44 data points collected with zero cookies, zero permissions — then drawn back to you as a scene on your own desk.

FingerprintingCanvasPrivacy
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Why it matters

The brain connects everything.

One ontology. Every department's data, every workflow, every person — connected through a single structure that AI and automation can actually use.

People
Dashboards
Reports
brain.
Paperwork
Departments
Interactive Data

Now plug in AI. The ontology is already structured — let intelligence do the rest.

This is your organization without a brain...

chaos.

Data is messy. Let the machines do the heavy lifting...

TS/SCI
Eligible · Favorable ICD 704
CISO
First Security Hire · Vanquish Air
35F
US Army · 2019 – 2026
AAS Intelligence Operations
Cochise College · May 2026
Intune Entra ID Defender Autopilot M365 CIS Controls v8.1 NIST CSF 2.0 PowerShell Linux Docker Rust ESP32 TAK Power BI Power Pages Power Automate SharePoint Azure SQL Azure Functions Azure OpenAI HTML / CSS / JS Python SQL

Let's talk.

Bring the mission. I'll build the stack.

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