Résumé

2025 – Present

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Co-Founder & CEO

Founded 2025. Building AI-native compliance infrastructure for regulated financial institutions across Southeast Asia.

• Architecting an AI-native TrustOps platform that replaces manual GRC operations with continuous, automated compliance monitoring for banks and regulated enterprises
• Securing design partnerships with digital banks across Southeast Asia, validating product-market fit in high-compliance regulatory environments
• Driving product direction, engineering execution, and go-to-market strategy across a cross-functional team spanning AI, cloud infrastructure, and compliance
• Building core platform capabilities including regulatory obligation mapping, evidence traceability, and real-time audit readiness monitoring
• Establishing the complete operational foundation from zero: team structure, hiring standards, culture, and execution rhythms across engineering, product, and revenue
• Positioning the platform as scalable compliance infrastructure, reducing institutional reliance on manual processes and external advisory spend

2021 – 2025

Washington, DC

TPM Leader

Four years leading enterprise security programs at one of the world's largest professional networks.

• Spearheaded enterprise security programs across multiple engineering organizations at a 1B+ member platform, advancing compliance posture, automation, and platform resilience across one of technology's most scrutinized security environments
• Engineered and executed Root Certificate Authority rotation and TLS compliance program, protecting continuous global service delivery and maintaining encryption integrity across all platform traffic
• Designed and deployed automation frameworks that reduced manual compliance effort by 40% and accelerated compliance reporting cycles across security engineering
• Synchronized delivery across 9+ globally distributed engineering teams, driving program velocity and alignment across time zones without delays to critical security milestones
• Shaped executive investment and risk decisions through direct briefings on security posture, compliance readiness, and strategic threat priorities
• Embedded security-by-design practices into agile development workflows, reducing remediation cycles and strengthening platform resilience

2019 – 2021

Arlington, VA

Manager, Cyber & Strategic Risk

Federal consulting engagement: U.S. Department of State cybersecurity and $431M IT modernization portfolio.

• Directed cybersecurity strategy and operations across a $431M U.S. Department of State modernization portfolio, overseeing 4 enterprise programs and 30+ mission-critical applications
• Reduced system vulnerabilities by 50% and secured Authorization to Operate (ATO) under NIST RMF for systems supporting global visa and passport issuance
• Unified security architects, engineers, and compliance specialists across all four concurrent programs, meeting federal security requirements across 30+ applications without schedule slippage
• Consolidated fragmented monitoring tools across 4 programs into a unified threat detection capability, accelerating incident response across 30+ mission-critical State Department applications
• Integrated security controls into Agile delivery models, doubling team efficiency and eliminating compliance debt across development cycles

2018 – 2019

McLean, VA

Lead Technologist, Cloud Security

Federal consulting engagement: U.S. Department of the Treasury cloud security and mission-critical systems migration.

• Led FedRAMP-compliant cloud migration strategy for U.S. Department of the Treasury financial systems, maintaining regulatory posture throughout a high-risk infrastructure transition
• Developed migration roadmaps, risk models, and governance frameworks that accelerated cloud adoption while protecting compliance standing
• Established cloud security architecture standards and governance frameworks adopted across Bureau of the Fiscal Service engineering teams, building institutional capability that outlasted the engagement

2016 – 2018

San Antonio, TX

Cloud Security Lead

Enterprise cloud security and compliance at one of the nation's largest health insurers.

• Drove enterprise cloud security strategy across hybrid environments, ensuring full HIPAA and PCI-DSS compliance across Aetna's most sensitive data infrastructure
• Reduced system vulnerabilities by 30% and improved risk detection accuracy by 40% through new assessment methodologies for hybrid cloud environments
• Delivered R&D initiative introducing biometric-based authentication, eliminating legacy credential infrastructure and generating $10M in cost savings

2012 – 2016

Philadelphia, PA

Information Security Advisor & Early Career Roles

Career foundation: four years of growth from cybersecurity analyst intern to Information Security Advisor.

• Advanced from cybersecurity analyst intern to Information Security Advisor, progressively owning endpoint security, infrastructure engineering, and enterprise compliance programs across a Fortune 100 healthcare organization
• Managed endpoint security and compliance for 14,000+ enterprise devices across Windows and macOS environments, overseeing hardware and software lifecycle
• Delivered 100% on-time enterprise OS migration across 14,000+ endpoints, maintaining full security posture through the Windows XP end-of-support transition