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High-energy, customer-centric, extreme-ownership leader.

First and foremost a company leader who transcends silos — I've led product management, design, software engineering, marketing and sales efforts across public and private organizations over the last 15 years. I thrive in high-growth, fast-paced environments and lead through change with transparency, candor, urgency, and purpose.

Experienced communicating with executive leadership and Boards of Directors, adapting teams through stages of growth and profitability, and driving impact cross-functionally across GTM, S&M, R&D, M&A and G&A.

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BASED IN
Tampa, Florida
FOCUS
Board & VC advisory · M&A

Experience

15+ years
Jan 2025 — Present
Rapid7

Sr. Director, PM — Inorganic Growth & Market Evangelism

Lead a portion of company M&A and partnership strategy. Meet regularly with founders to evaluate tech & teams, run due diligence, and lead negotiations and alignment — then bring partnership-derived products to market.

2026 — Present
The Cyber Toolchain

Founder, Product Lead & Sole Engineer (concurrent)

Founder of The Cyber Toolchain, an LLM-native intelligence system for the security tooling market — 'the security tools worth your attention.' It monitors 835 open-source and commercial tools for new capabilities and publishes a daily newsletter, a paid analytics product, and a public dataset. Designed, built, and operated solo with agentic coding tools.

  • ▸Shipped over 500,000 lines of tested Python across 8 interlocking repositories — ~6,900 tests, test-driven throughout — with Claude Code as the primary development surface.
  • ▸Built the evaluation layer the product depends on: LLM-as-judge output scoring, gold-set precision/recall gates that block publication below threshold, and a replay benchmark scoring candidate models against 1,001 real production input/output pairs — including a frontier-vs-open-weight bake-off on production prompts.
  • ▸Engineered grounding controls against model failure: a structural verbatim-evidence guard, a pre-publish critic that re-fetches every cited source, and full provenance on each published fact.
  • ▸Built a security dataset mapping 263 ATT&CK techniques, 1,125 CVEs, and 206 threat actors to D3FEND and CIS Controls, plus source-level analysis of a 522-repository mirror.
  • ▸Stack: Python (pytest, Hypothesis) • Claude Code primary, Codex secondary, OpenCode third • frontier and open-weight models (Qwen, GLM, Kimi) • containers, microVMs, Docker Sandbox and nono for agent sandboxing • AWS.
2024 — Jan 2025
Rapid7

Sr. Director, PM — Innovation (Exposure Management)

Headed planning and launch of the Command platform and the Exposure Command family.

  • ▸Generated the largest post-launch pipeline in company history — $40M+ within three months.
  • ▸Finished 237% over the ARR goal; product became Rapid7's dominant land & expand VM offering.
  • ▸Achieved a Leader position in Gartner's inaugural Exposure Assessment Platform Magic Quadrant (2025).
  • ▸Led analyst relations for the launch — briefed and built relationships with Gartner, Forrester, IDC, and other industry analysts.
2022 — 2024
Rapid7

Sr. Director — SOAR Business Leader (P&L)

Led and managed the P&L for a ~100-person organization across engineering, design, product, and operations.

  • ▸40% revenue growth, 6% CRR increase, and a 73% improvement in Expenses-to-Revenue.
  • ▸88% employee retention (14% increase, 10% above company average).
  • ▸Scaled a UK engineering team — 28 hires in 6 months (50% growth) — with only 1 attrit in 2 years.
  • ▸80% decrease in service degradations through investment in quality & operations.
2018 — 2022
Rapid7

Director — Integration & SOAR Engineering

Responsible for 3rd-party integrations across the Rapid7 portfolio. Led engineering, product management, roadmap, and strategy, partnering regularly with Strategic Alliances on high-impact integrations from top partners.

2015 — 2017
Komand (acq. Rapid7)

Head of Security & Alliances / Field CTO

Founding security member of an early-stage Boston cybersecurity startup acquired by Rapid7 in 2017. Effectively Field CTO, Security Leader & Integration Leader.

  • ▸Built a secure platform and security-automation use-cases while contributing to the product itself.
  • ▸Hired a team of ~30 engineering and technical-writer contractors for content, integrations & use-cases.
  • ▸Engaged customers on pre- and post-sales to create value.
2013 — 2015
NCSA

Security Engineer — National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Performed cybersecurity at scale, defending one of the world's fastest supercomputers.

  • ▸Among the first teams to implement security automation and ChatOps to handle alert volume.
  • ▸Network traffic & log analysis, incident response, and development of monitoring & IR tools.
  • ▸Member of the NSF-funded official Bro/Zeek NSM team, focused on video and conference training.
Earlier
Draconyx

Founder & Owner — Cybersecurity & IT Consulting

Owner of a boutique cybersecurity and IT consulting company specializing in information security training, with customers in the Fortune 500.

Earlier
Retail

Head of IT & Security

Led the technology department for a retail company with 4 locations, a call center, and an online store. Instituted infosec policies, achieved PCI DSS compliance, and operationalized a vulnerability management & network-security-monitoring program.

Awards & recognition

2025
Gartner EAP Magic Quadrant — Leader
For Exposure Command, the platform I led to market.
2024
Rapid7 'Never Done' Award
For the successful launch of Exposure Command.
2015
Peer-reviewed research — XSEDE
ISLET paper published July 15, 2015, St. Louis, MO.
2015
Published in 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
Spring 2015 issue.
2011
CTF Winner — Black Badge Recipient
Hack3rCon.

Community & leadership

Customer Advisory Board - Rapid7
A key member of Rapid7's Customer Advisory Board, bringing strategic customer voice into product and GTM decisions.
Advisory - Startups & Accelerators
Including Maro, Product Pass, and Tampa Bay Wave Accelerator.
Mentor - Aspiring Talent
Pro bono mentorship of aspiring talent in software engineering & cybersecurity.
Founder - The Cyber Toolchain
Cybersecurity newsletter & show — 'the security tools worth your attention.' 835 tools monitored by an LLM-native pipeline I built and operate solo.
Founder - OpenNSM
Weekly ACM group with international participation, advancing network security monitoring.
Leader - User Groups
Ran weekly GLUG at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Core competencies

Product Management Agentic Engineering LLM Evaluation & Benchmarking AI Product Development GTM Strategy P&L Ownership M&A / Inorganic Growth Due Diligence Team Building & Scaling Org Leadership (100+) SOAR & Automation Exposure Management Network Security Monitoring Incident Response Analyst Relations (Gartner, Forrester, IDC) Pricing & Packaging Board Communication Startup Advisory GRC

Let's build something great.

Advising founders, boards, and VCs on product, GTM, leadership, and company-building.

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