The person behind the work.

I was born and raised in Annapolis, Maryland. A water town, a sailing town, the kind of place where the Naval Academy is just down the road and the smell of the Chesapeake is part of growing up. I went to Archbishop Spalding High School in Severn and stayed local for community college. I'm a Marylander through and through, and I don't see that changing.

My day job is at the Department of Defense, where I work as a Digital Network Exploitation Analyst. I started there as a Software Developer, moved into network engineering, and stepped into analysis from there. On the side, I'm the Lead Privacy Officer at EikenbergSocial Marketing Agency. Cybersecurity isn't a job title for me. It's how I think across all of it.

I hold a TOP SECRET//SCI clearance with FS Poly. The work I do has to be precise. Critical infrastructure, cryptologic systems, intelligence collection. The stakes aren't abstract and the standards aren't negotiable.

I came in through community college. A.A.S. at Anne Arundel Community College in Security, Information Assurance, and Cybersecurity. Started at the Department of Defense before I had a bachelor's. I'm working on the B.S. in Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics at Stevenson University while I work full time. It's a lot of plates. The work and the school feed each other, so I keep going.

What pulled me into security was simple: I wanted to know how things break. Why some networks hold up under pressure and some don't. How an attacker moves once they're in. Once I started looking, I couldn't stop.

Outside of work I run a home lab, read threat-intel reports because I find them interesting, and spend time with the people who keep me grounded. I'm building all of this under Eikenberg Security because the work, the writing, and the practice are all part of the same thing: me, and how I show up.

I care about making this field accessible. Cybersecurity has a gatekeeping problem, and people like to make entry sound more complicated than it is. I started at AACC and made it to the Department of Defense. That path is real, it's repeatable, and I want more people to know it.