Cybersecurity Specialist
RCN Veteran · Incident Response
GRC · Systems Hardening
I'm a Royal Canadian Navy veteran and cybersecurity practitioner, now based in Brisbane. After twenty years administering HR operations, payroll systems, and compliance frameworks for hundreds of personnel — including a Top Secret-cleared posting at the Canadian Embassy in Washington D.C. — I bring something most cyber practitioners don't: deep, lived experience applying policy frameworks under real operational pressure.
My focus is GRC — governance, risk, and compliance. I understand what it means to work within strict regulatory environments, communicate policy to both frontline staff and senior leadership, and maintain rigorous documentation standards. That's not theory for me; it was my daily work for two decades.
Currently building on that foundation with formal cybersecurity credentials and hands-on technical skills, with an eye toward roles in compliance, risk management, and security operations.
Running two home servers as a full replacement for commercial cloud services — progressively de-Googling and eliminating third-party data dependencies. Every service listed below runs on hardware I own, in my home, under my control. The goal is complete data sovereignty: no subscription, no surveillance, no corporate reliance.
Performed a full jailbreak of a B023-series Kindle, stepping through incremental official firmware updates from 4.1.1 to 4.1.4 as a prerequisite. Executed a community-developed exploit chain to gain root-level access — installing a developer key, MobileRead Kindlet Kit, KUAL launcher, and DevCerts keystore — before deploying KOReader as the end payload, restoring full usability to hardware Amazon no longer supports.