Industry

My management experience is across three distinct environments: military, multiple startups, and in large enterprise. Technology manifests it differently in each of these, and so I've had to do a lot of learning and un-learning over the years.

Line-drawn retro-modernist Cornell courtyard

The knowledge economy is becoming the wisdom economy: the edge is no longer knowing what the information is or how to get it, but knowing when and how to apply it.

- Scott Seidenberger

My career so far

2016 – 2027
Military & government
Instructor ABM / Mission commander
Wing chief electromagnetic warfare officer
Defense analyst, Advanced Strategic Insight
Industry
Co-founder, Epoch Forge
PhD research fellow, Nethermind
Academia
M.S., Penn State
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
Postdoc Associate & Fellow, Cornell
2016 2020 2024 2027
Military & government Industry Research Current
Overlapping bars are deliberate. The startup, the doctorate, and the last years of the commission ran at the same time.

Dossiers. Two records kept in full

Working inside a server rack during Epoch Forge infrastructure setup
Startup, exited

Epoch Forge

Node and validator infrastructure for public blockchains.

2023 – 2025 Enter →
In flight suit in front of a USAF E-3 AWACS aircraft
US Air Force

Military service

Instructor air battle manager, mission commander, and a wing's chief electromagnetic warfare officer.

2016 – 2023 Enter →

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Summer 2025 Ph.D. Research Fellow Nethermind, Washington, DC Enterprise / protocol
— Led technical due diligence on a Bitcoin restaking platform for a country-level ETF issuer.— Created novel zero-knowledge proof schemes to reduce bandwidth on Ethereum's P2P layer. Featured in the Nethermind Internship Program 2025 report (PDF) ↗
2023 Defense Analyst Advanced Strategic Insight, Washington, DC Government / defense
— Led research on human-machine teaming and produced a company white paper on autonomous-agent integration with air operations.— Led analysis for an SBIR Phase II proposal focused on USSF capability enhancement.— Authored technical briefs for DARPA, USAF Rapid Capabilities Office, and Space Systems Command.