Build
Ideas are cheap until they have users, owners, constraints, and consequences.
Available for serious, messy problems
I help real work cut through the noise.
If your problem lives between legal, engineering, security, product, and leadership, it probably keeps getting renamed instead of solved. I help find the owner, shape the system, coach the people involved, and move the work until it is real.
Between domainsSecurity, Privacy, AI, Product, Business
Default modeName the owner. Kill the fog. Ship the next honest version.
Current focusAI governance people can actually follow when the work gets busy.
About
The messy middle is usually the job.
You are probably dealing with one business problem wearing security, privacy, and AI badges.
01I work where the handoffs get weird: legal needs engineering, security needs product, leadership wants certainty, and the team still has to ship.
02My job is to learn the room fast, find the real constraint, and turn a vague concern into something someone can own by Friday.
Principles
How the work gets done.
Pour the concrete
The boring foundation decides whether the shiny thing survives contact with Tuesday.
Simplify
Most systems do not need more sophistication. They need fewer places to hide.
Connect
The answer that matters is usually hiding between teams, incentives, and vocabulary.
Ship
Get something real into the world. Reality is a better editor than another meeting.
Keep learning
Learn the domain fast enough to contribute, then stay humble enough to keep learning.
Work
Bring me the stuck thing.
The label changes. The pattern usually stays the same. Someone needs to make the problem smaller, make the tradeoffs visible, and get the next version moving.
Security, Privacy and AI Governance
For teams that need real guardrails, not another 80-page document everyone quietly ignores.
Products and Software
Small tools, focused products, and experiments that answer a real question instead of feeding a roadmap fantasy.
Systems and Automation
The unglamorous stuff: workflows, automations, internal tools, and repeatable habits that stop teams from relearning the same lesson.
Advisory and Translation
Advisory, coaching, and translation for people with different vocabularies who need to make the decision in front of them.
Selected work
A few places the work shows up.
For teams that need security, privacy, and AI governance to work in the real organization and hold up beyond the slide deck.
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A small lab for building focused tools and experiments when the best way to understand a problem is to make something real.
Visit siteEnterprise Privacy, Security and AI Governance
The big-company version of the same problem: too many stakeholders, real constraints, no patience for theory, and a need to make governance operational.
Writing and Speaking
Essays, webinars, roundtables, and conversations for people trying to make better decisions while the ground is moving under them. Coaching is available for people doing that work inside real organizations.
Writing
Notes for people who have to decide.
Why boring work compounds
The work nobody claps for is often the work that saves the team six months later.
The value of being a generalist
Range is not a lack of depth. It is how some problems finally get translated into action.
Shipping beats discussing
A draft, prototype, or ugly first version beats another room full of theoretical agreement.
Practical AI governance starts small
Start with the decisions people need on Monday, not the framework nobody will read.
Speaking & Community
Blunt conversations beat louder opinions.
I speak when there is something worth making clearer: AI governance, security, privacy, leadership, and the strange work of turning anxiety into decisions.
Conference Speaking
Webinars
Podcasts
Community Discussions
LinkedIn Live Sessions
Roundtables
Podcast
Revenge of the Generalist: AI, Risk, and the Future of Cybersecurity Leadership
A conversation about why cybersecurity leaders now need range, judgment, and a better answer than 'buy another tool.'
Watch on YouTubePodcast
Enhancing Privacy, Security & Compliance Without Slowing Business Growth
A practical discussion on making privacy and security feel like part of how the business grows.
Watch on YouTubeWebinar
What the Heck Do We Do Now? A Leader's Guide to Practical AI Controls
A leader-friendly session on AI controls for people who need decisions they can put to work.
Watch on YouTubeExperience
The pattern came from the work.
Sep 2025 - Present
Zero Drama Security
FounderStarted the advisory practice I kept wishing existed: security, privacy, and AI governance without the compliance theater.
- Helps founders and operators get clear on risk, ownership, compliance readiness, and what to do next.
- Builds reusable playbooks, assessments, templates, and services so the work does not become consultant dependency.
May 2023 - Present
Nu Skin
Director of Privacy, Data Security and GRCLeads privacy, data protection, data governance, GRC, AI governance, and data security work in a global environment where simple answers do not survive long.
- Turns regulatory pressure, sensitive data, and operational reality into programs people can actually run.
- Modernized privacy and security engineering, data classification automation, incident response, cloud operations, compliance frameworks, and vendor strategy.
Nov 2024 - Oct 2025
Veuu
Vice President of Engineering and SecurityLed engineering and security for a healthcare fintech startup where product speed and trust had to grow together.
- Kept delivery moving without treating security as a decorative checkbox.
- Supported AI and blockchain pilots while keeping engineering, product, and security pointed at the same problem.
Jun 2025 - Apr 2026
Strategic AI advisory
Strategic and Executive AdvisorHelped an early-stage AI venture turn a promising idea into a clearer product, story, roadmap, and operating rhythm.
- Translated technical ambition into a market-facing narrative people could repeat.
- Coached the founder through product building, positioning, and go-to-market strategy.
- Set up early planning, decision tracking, and collaboration practices before chaos had time to harden.
Dec 2025 - Present
Community and nonprofit work
Advisory Council Member / Community SpeakerShows up in communities where people are trying to make cybersecurity, privacy, and AI governance more usable.
- Leads roundtables on AI governance, privacy, and data protection.
- Supports practical cybersecurity access and entry-level pathways through nonprofit work.
Sep 2010 - May 2023
EY and enterprise advisory work
Security, privacy, and governance leadershipSpent more than a decade inside large security, privacy, and governance work: EY client transformation programs, executive advisory, cloud, DevSecOps, automation, compliance, and the people problems underneath.
- Helped leadership teams understand which risks mattered now and which could wait.
- Turned messy stakeholder needs into security and privacy programs that could move.
- Built the delivery discipline and team habits that still shape how I work.
2001 - 2010
Earlier entrepreneurial and consulting foundation
Founder, CTO, COO, consultant, and analyst rolesThe messy apprenticeship: startups, operations, consulting, audit, finance, brand work, and community building.
- Co-founded and operated small businesses before moving into larger advisory and enterprise security work.
- Picked up the finance, operations, consulting, and product instincts that still show up in the work today.
Connect
Have a problem with edges?
Send the thing that is hard to explain, politically awkward, cross-functional, or too important to leave floating. I am available for coaching, advisory work, and the messy decisions that benefit from a second brain in the room.