SASE & AI Security · Enterprise Architecture · Professional Services

• ›Lead complex Prisma Access (SASE) implementations for Fortune 500 organizations across oil & gas, telecom, and global financial services
• ›Architect Zero Trust network security for high-stakes enterprise environments: critical infrastructure, carrier-grade, global finance
• ›Ran proof-of-value work on Prisma AIRS, the AI runtime security platform, and built SCMReady, internal pre-cutover tooling for Panorama to Strata Cloud Manager migrations that two customers deployed after their own security teams approved it
• ›Red-team production language models in Gray Swan's frontier-lab-funded arena, and built AEGIS, a zero-exposure RAG pipeline that placed second in Protegrity's 2026 AI Pipeline Security Challenge

Prisma Access escalations · Lab reproduction · Knowledge base

• ›Owned the hardest Prisma Access escalations, reproduced them in the lab and handed engineering the repro; several became shipped bug fixes
• ›Wrote the internal KBs and customer-facing troubleshooting guides that came out of those escalations
• ›Promoted to Sr. Professional Services Consultant in 2021

Enterprise firewall policy · Network segmentation · PCI-DSS

• ›Migrated enterprise data center firewalls from legacy Cisco ASA to Palo Alto NGFW with automated rule conversion and validation
• ›Operated in a highly regulated PCI-DSS environment with direct exposure to financial-grade security standards
• ›Ran the HA clusters under continuous compliance in production and non-production

Telecom infrastructure · Channel partner relationships · Business development

• ›Channel partner relationships and business development for a regional telecom provider
• ›Leveraged deep network engineering background to bridge technical and commercial conversations

MSP · Enterprise network architecture · Security hardening · VPN architecture

• ›Senior network security engineering at a dedicated MSP serving enterprise clients nationwide
• ›Enterprise network architecture, security hardening, firewall design, and VPN architecture
• ›Deepened the enterprise consulting skillset that feeds directly into current PAN work

Federal network security · Government infrastructure · Data center operations

• ›Federal contractor given a dedicated office, rare for a contractor at the agency
• ›Spent the majority of time in the data center; deep hands-on federal infrastructure work
• ›Led unplanned DC recovery after a visitor hit the emergency power shutoff; had the data center back online in under 30 minutes

ISP / CLEC operations · Carrier networking · Network engineering

• ›Carrier-grade networking at a regional CLEC, where enterprise networking fundamentals got built
• ›Earned CCNA certification during this role