About
I'm a cybersecurity professor with a practitioner mindset.
I'm early in the academic research journey. Most of my time is spent building, testing, breaking, and rebuilding security ideas in environments that resemble real operations more than clean labs.
My doctoral work is in Curriculum and Instruction at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, with a focus in Instructional Design and Educational Technology. The program gives me a formal way to study something I was already doing: designing cyber ranges and lab environments where the instructional design decisions carry as much weight as the technical ones.
I believe security improves when assumptions are challenged early and publicly.
Security ideas are only useful if they survive contact with reality.
How I Approach Problems
Ground Theory in Practice
Pair implementation with the literature so ideas are tested against how systems actually behave
Learn From Failure
Treat breakage as signal and use it to sharpen the next iteration
Adjust Designs
Iterate based on real operational constraints
Document the Journey
Capture the evolution of the work so others can learn from the path, the decisions, and the result