I'm a cybersecurity engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, MD.

Before joining APL, I worked at the MITRE Corporation near Fort Meade, MD, and before that served as a cyberspace operations officer in the United States Air Force. I commissioned in 2004 and was stationed with the 1st Combat Communications Squadron, Ramstein AB, Germany from 2004 to 2007, and with the National Air and Space Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH from 2007 to 2010.

Education

I earned a bachelor's degree in computer science in 2003 from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, AR.

My master's in computer science is from Capitol Technology University (then Capitol College) in Laurel, MD, completed in 2013.

In 2024, I completed a graduate certificate in applied and computational mathematics through the Johns Hopkins University Engineering for Professionals program.

In 2026, I completed a Doctor of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. My dissertation, "Engineering Cyber Resilience in Spacecraft Flight Software: A Threat-Informed Architecture and Evaluation", developed a threat-informed approach to making spacecraft flight software resilient against cyber adversaries. My original advisor was Dr. Gregory Falco (now at Cornell University), and my final advisor was Dr. James Bellingham, the head of JHU's Institute for Assured Autonomy.

Background

I was born in western Texas, where my father was stationed in the US Air Force, and grew up in a small town in rural eastern Arkansas. Along the way I've also lived in Colorado, Ohio, and Germany. I currently live in Maryland with my wife Emily and our daughter Sophie.

Outside of work, my main hobbies include amateur astronomy and video games.