A small bench, deep on both sides.

More than a decade of marketing leadership at a financial institution, most recently as Vice President of Marketing, through a period in which institutional assets grew from $725 million to $1.6 billion. Work centered on audience acquisition, message strategy, conversion, and measurement, including growing unaided in-market brand awareness from roughly 4 percent to more than 42 percent, and holding member acquisition costs well below market benchmark across multiple product lines. Experience specifying and integrating enterprise marketing technology stacks, analytics implementations, and CRM and lead-management systems.

Served as Vice Chairman of the Board of the United Heritage Charity Foundation, a 501(c)(3) that has distributed more than $2.5 million to organizations serving Central and East Texas. BS in Business Administration, University of Texas at Dallas. CXO Certification, Cambridge Judge Business School. Speaker, Financial Brand Forum 2026. Published in The Financial Brand.

Approximately 29 years of production software engineering. Principal engineer supporting Atlas Instinct on federal and commercial engagements, focused on backend and distributed systems, secure data handling, web application development and operations, database design, and API integration. It is the background regulated and public-sector work demands: systems that stay up, data that stays protected, and integrations that hold under load.

Software Engineer IV at Cisco (2014–2025), building core components of the Cisco Secure Malware Analytics backend in Go. Senior Software Engineer at SmartFile, where he designed the RESTful API covering the full product feature set, built an SMB filesystem interface with audit logging, and extended the Elasticsearch search index. Earlier work at Blue Coat Systems and IBM Tivoli in VPN, authentication, and intrusion detection systems.

FreeBSD Project contributor since 2007, src committer 2007–2019 and continuing ports maintainer. Independent engineering contractor since 2009. BS, Purdue University.