Information Security Leader
Hi, I’m Mason. I’m a 13-year U.S. Air Force veteran and former cyber-warfare operator who turns complex threats into clear, actionable guardrails. I led a 362-person security operations center and, in 2022, directed incident response during the Air Force’s largest network breach in fifteen years. Most recently, I guided the Air Force’s initial Cloud Security Service Provider from concept to launch, extending enterprise-grade safeguards to modern workloads.
+30 B
Assets protected
60%
Manual reviews cut in one quarter
24 h
Global SOC incident-response SLA
What I do
I wire security into CI / CD so audits run as unit tests and fixes ship in the same commit. Using Terraform, AWS CDK, Lambda, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, and policy-as-code, I create self-defending infrastructure.
Recently I led 31 engineers to bring a nine billion dollar platform to NIST 800-53 compliance in four months, lifting detection fidelity by 25 percent.
Tooling I love
- Infrastructure as Code — Terraform, AWS CDK
- Serverless — Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge
- Observability — CloudWatch, ELK, Splunk
- Identity — IAM, SSO, OIDC, SAML
- CI / CD — GitHub Actions, Jenkins
- AI and ML — Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, Guardrails for large-language models
Awards
The 26th Network Operations Group's Cyber Warfare NCO of the Year, 2023
Certifications
Values
Security should support progress, not stand in its way. I believe the best solutions feel intuitive and enable teams to move fast without compromising security.