Professional Experience
Experience
15+ years across global finance, airline, government, and regulated-enterprise environments — from hands-on pipeline engineering to enterprise-wide security architecture.
Sayers Consulting
Security & Data Modeling Engineer (Contract)
United Airlines — E-Enabled Ground Services (Chicago, IL)
Critical aircraft communication systems (IPVPN, satellite, cellular, gate-link) across United's global fleet.
- • Built and maintained Cribl pipelines for log ingestion, parsing, routing, and enrichment across aircraft telemetry and ground-system data sources.
- • Led the redesign of the aircraft metadata architecture between Splunk and Cribl, delivering a 40% cost reduction while improving data quality and reducing query latency.
- • Oversaw monitoring and telemetry for 6,000+ ground systems and IoT devices with Linux-based collection and security-sensor coverage.
- • Automated pipeline and alerting workflows with Python and Bash, including Discord/email/calendar integrations and real-time monitoring.
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) — Network Services
- • Led the enterprise-wide implementation of Dynatrace as the primary observability platform in a highly regulated financial environment.
- • Designed the integration layer connecting ExtraHop RevealX with ServiceNow for automated service discovery and CMDB population.
- • Applied NIST- and CIS-based security assessment practices to validate control effectiveness.
BDO
Primary Infrastructure Monitoring / Security Architect
- • Designed end-to-end operational data and security architectures for government and financial clients using Azure and Microsoft services — ingestion pipelines, event processing, SIEM, dashboards, and alerting.
- • Conducted NIST- and CIS-based data security assessments; established data classification, retention, and access standards.
- • Led Software Asset Management and vulnerability-governance programs using ServiceNow for automated discovery and reconciliation.
- • Presented security architecture decisions and tradeoff analyses to C-level stakeholders.
Independent IT Consultant
- Apple Inc.: Architected HP Operations Management integration with ServiceNow CMDB; built KPI dashboards in Grafana and Jira.
- Southwest Airlines: Designed event management architecture with ExtraHop RevealX integration and streaming telemetry pipeline standards.
- DaVita / Boeing: Designed bi-directional integration between HP uCMDB and ServiceNow using XML and API-based architecture.
- CVS / TriZetto: Implemented DevOps monitoring data pipelines; designed HP BSM/OMi enterprise architecture with Riverbed packet analysis.
Northrop Grumman
2006 – 2007Infrastructure Monitoring Solution Architect for the Commercial Enterprise division.
Samsung SDS America
2001 – 2005Senior Product Manager — managed 60+ Java developers across 4 international teams; led design of a large-scale, data-driven Linux messaging platform.
Education & Certifications
CompTIA Security+
ITIL Foundation
Dynatrace Certified Associate
ServiceNow CSA
ServiceNow CIS-Discovery