Fort Worth, Texas
Senior Architect · Cybersecurity, Data Protection & AI
I translate privacy intent into governance policy, governance policy into technical enforcement, and enforcement into measurable, audit-defensible outcomes.
I am a systems thinker, not a task executor. I design outcomes, not activities, and I build architectures that outlast my direct involvement. In the boardroom I frame decisions rather than present data; on a team I own the outcomes, the failures, and the standards.
Today I am Senior Architect for Cybersecurity and Data Protection at American Airlines, where I am responsible for enterprise data protection architecture: data discovery, classification, governed access, scaled enforcement, and AI-safe data usage. I translate tooling output into quantified business risk for senior stakeholders and replace manual workflows with automated ones.
My background is unusual on purpose. Twelve years in county law enforcement, finishing as a sergeant, gave me evidence discipline, chain-of-custody rigor, and composure under pressure. That carried directly into digital forensics and eDiscovery, and from there into data discovery and data protection. I don't patch isolated findings; I trace the design pattern and eliminate entire classes of risk. I communicate bottom line up front, with the trade-offs named explicitly.
Trust boundary design, control-gap elimination, and threat modeling, with security review shifted left into the way teams actually work.
Enterprise data discovery, classification, and enforcement designed as one control plane rather than disconnected toolsets.
Secure AI enablement: guardrails, human-in-the-loop controls, and AI-safe data usage for enterprise copilots and agentic workflows.
For speaking, advisory conversations, or professional inquiries, email is the best way to reach me.