44Net PoP
connect.44net.cloud ->VPN infrastructure points of presence for the 44Net cloud network, serving the amateur radio community.
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Summary
Technical Product Manager with 20+ years in IT and 7+ years of senior product leadership at Cisco, Thales, and RSA. MIT certified Product Manager. Scaled a security platform ecosystem to 75+ integrations serving thousands of enterprise SOCs; managed a $5M portfolio and teams of up to 15.
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Experience
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Product Owner (Acting Head of Discipline, Cyber Security)
Thales- Owns the product roadmap (Product Manager) and backlog for LC5ISRT cybersecurity capabilities, leading a 6-person delivery team across customer requirements, prioritization, and cross-functional delivery.
- Align engineering investment with customer and mission priorities, balancing features, technical debt, and cyber risk across the backlog.
- Lead the discipline's compliance program for Canadian defence cybersecurity certification, translating regulatory requirements into engineering and product commitments.
- Manage a 10-person team spanning interns through managers: hiring, performance management, career development, and workforce planning.
- Built a cyber range that trains in realistic attack and defence scenarios.
- Advised senior leaders on cyber strategy, investment priorities, capability growth, and risk.
- Implemented LLMs, agentic AI, and FastMCP-based tools across custom platforms, improving analyst workflows, accelerating investigations, and enabling faster, better-informed decision-making.
- Established targeted technical training and development plans for team members who previously lacked formal training, closing project skill gaps while improving individual capability, growth, and readiness for future assignments.
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Director (Technical Product Manager)
Cisco- Scaled SecureX's third-party ecosystem to 75+ EDR, XDR, SIEM, SOAR, IAM, cloud, and network integrations, automating workflows across thousands of customers.
- Partner onboarding reduced by 90% - building a scalable integration framework (github/ciscosecurity).
- Managed a $5M portfolio and a 15-person team, balancing customer demand, engineering investment, scale, and partner growth across Cisco Secure Technical Alliances (CSTA).
- Partnered with Cisco Talos threat intelligence to accelerate detection and response in Cisco Secure products by defining improved workflows for telemetry, investigation and response.
- Member of the Black Hat NOC (Informa) – Team Lead for developing integrations and custom detections.
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Principal Consultant
RSA- Drove technical wins and delivery across Canadian threat-hunting and incident-response engagements, with financial institutions among the primary client base.
- Influenced product strategy by translating field intelligence into security platform capabilities.
- Built reusable detections, playbooks, and threat-hunting methods that improved investigation quality and reduced response times.
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Specialist / Forensics Investigator
KPMG- Conducted forensic investigations across enterprise environments using X-Ways and F-Response, including malware analysis, insider threats, and incident response.
- Built custom forensic tools (Automated FTK Imager bootable CD) to support regulatory and legal investigations.
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Senior Consultant
Deloitte- Built a Cyber Threat Management Portal (CTMP) product and service delivering real-time, actionable intelligence feeds to enterprise customers.
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Forensics Investigator
Research in Motion- Led incident triage and malware reverse-engineering for global breaches.
- Pinpointed gaps in RIM's security posture and built incident-response playbooks, streamlining tooling and cutting response times.
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Network Security Analyst
Scotiabank- Performed forensic investigations on insider-threat, fraud, and malware incidents.
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Education
- Jun 2025 - Jun 2026 Product Management, MIT (Professional Education)
- 2003 - 2006 Advanced Diploma, Computer Security and Investigations, Sir Sandford Fleming College
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Certifications & Coursework
- Aug 2022 - Apr 2030GCTI - Cyber Threat Intelligence - GIAC
- Oct 2020 - Nov 2028GCFA - Certified Forensics Analyst - GIAC
- Oct 2017 - PresentOSCP - Certified Professional - Offensive Security
- Aug 2015 - Aug 2027GREM - Reverse Engineering Malware - GIAC
- Jun 2025 - Sep 2025Designing High Impact Solutions (MITdesignX) - MIT
- Sep 2025 - Dec 2025Designing Product Families: From Strategy to Implementation - MIT
- Dec 2025 - Mar 2026Digital Platforms: Designing Two-Sided Markets - MIT
- Mar 2026 - Jun 2026Forecasting Technology Innovation: Using Data for Strategic Advantage - MIT
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Skills
Product & Strategy
AI Product Management · Product Roadmapping · Strategic Planning · User-Centric Design · SaaS Platforms
Cybersecurity
Digital Forensics & Incident Response · Threat Detection & Response · Threat Intelligence · Computer Security · Networking Protocols
Forensics Tooling
FTK · X-Ways · Encase
Technical
OpenAI API · Anthropic API · Model Context Protocol (MCP) · LLM Technologies · AWS · Docker · Kubernetes · Python · Secure Architecture
Execution
Cross-Functional Leadership · Stakeholder Management · Agile (SAFe) · Process Optimization
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Projects
HashLookup.org
coming soonNext-generation AI-powered cyber search engine utilizing MCP and a custom backend.
DarkHound
github.com/ceilingduster/darkhound ->Threat hunting meets AI. Ask it to hunt for you, and it generates a report.
Ant Colony
github.com/ceilingduster/ant-colony ->Autonomous LLM-powered agents in sandboxed Docker containers for building AI applications with minimal guidance.
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Also
Outside the day job: licensed amateur radio operator (VA3IAN), homelab tinkerer (Proxmox, Docker Swarm, MikroTik, SDR), and persistent builder of things that probably didn't need to exist but were fun to make anyway.