Cybersecurity Engineer · Author · Human
Twenty-three years in IT. Nearly a decade in cybersecurity. One memoir about what happens when the walls you build to protect yourself become the thing that traps you. Not your average résumé.
Cybersecurity
I didn't start in cybersecurity. I started in a call center.
Over twenty-three years I worked my way through nearly every layer of IT — helpdesk, systems administration, network operations, security engineering. I've managed complex infrastructure and complex people. I've worked in the video game industry and the financial sector. I've held the title of individual contributor and I've led teams of security engineers. The IT world hasn't stopped moving, and neither have I.
I never went to college. I don't have a degree on the wall. What I have is two decades of real-world experience cutting through problems that textbooks don't cover — and a track record of building things that actually work.
My specialty is vulnerability management. Not the checkbox kind — the kind where you inherit a broken program, rebuild it from the ground up, get stakeholder buy-in across the organization, and actually reduce risk. I've done it at scale using Qualys VMDR, and I know the difference between a dashboard that looks good and a program that performs.
But beyond the technical work, I lead by a philosophy I arrived at the hard way — managing a team of security engineers at defi Solutions taught me something that no certification ever could:
People first. Process second. Tools last.
Most organizations get this backwards. They buy the tool, then wonder why adoption fails and risk doesn't actually go down. I invest in the people around me first — their growth, their clarity, their buy-in. Then we build the process that serves them. Then we evaluate what tools actually fit. In that order, every time.
I believe in paying it forward. In leaving every organization better than I found it. In the idea that a security program is only as strong as the people running it — and people perform best when someone has genuinely invested in them first.
I'm currently available for cybersecurity engineering and leadership roles — US remote or Europe remote.
Career Journey
The Book
Every man builds a fortress. It's supposed to be temporary — a place to retreat, regroup, recover. But some men never leave. The walls become the thing that traps them.
This is a memoir about forty-six years inside. It's honest, it's dark, and it has more humor than you'd expect from someone writing about a lifetime of hiding in plain sight. It's for any man who has retreated so far inside himself that he forgot there was a world waiting on the other side.
Coming to Amazon in 2026
The Willing Prison Project
The memoir started a conversation. The Project is where that conversation goes next.
The Willing Prison Project is a developing initiative focused on men's mental health — specifically the epidemic of emotional withdrawal that leaves men present in body but absent in every way that matters.
The details are still taking shape. But the mission is clear: to reach the men sitting in their own willing prisons right now, convinced the door is locked from the outside.
It isn't.
Contact
Whether you're a hiring manager, a reader, a journalist, or just someone who needed to read something today — the door is open.
I'm actively seeking roles that align with my experience — whether as an individual contributor or as a manager/leader. Based between Espoo, Finland and Jay, Florida, I'm available to work in either country and am not limited to one location.