El Dorado Hills, CA · Active TS-SCI Clearance

Built at the intersection of technology, people, and capital.

Seven years in U.S. Army Special Operations. A cybersecurity and defense-sales career after that. A company founded and scaled from zero. Now a finance degree, graduated Magna Cum Laude, and a body of work in valuation, M&A, and applied AI. I turn complex problems into clear, measurable outcomes.

About

A deliberately built career.

Most people pick a lane. I built a career across several on purpose, because the interesting problems live where those worlds overlap. I spent seven years as a Psychological Operations Sergeant in U.S. Army Special Operations, advising senior military and government leaders and standing up the first foreign-run PSYOP training pipeline in USASOC. After the military I moved into cybersecurity as an Information Systems Security Officer at a defense manufacturer, then into defense sales where I helped drive revenue from 500 thousand to 15 million dollars, then founded and scaled my own e-commerce brand.

I recently finished a B.S. in Finance at San Jose State, graduating Magna Cum Laude with a 3.92 GPA. The through-line across all of it is the same: technology, human behavior, and decision-making under pressure. That is what I bring to a finance or operations role, and it is what I am building into the AI systems I develop now.

Finance & valuation.

Corporate valuation, M&A analysis, DCF and WACC modeling, financial statement reorganization.

Operations & intelligence.

Fifteen years leading teams and systems in high-stakes environments, from special operations to enterprise security.

Applied AI.

Building autonomous agents and decision systems that give organizations durable operational leverage.

Experience

Where I've operated.

  1. System Administrator & Information Systems Security Officer

    Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems · Apr 2020 to Nov 2020, Jun 2021 to Nov 2023

    • Built and enforced security policy across NIST, DoD, and FISMA frameworks, owning SSPs and POA&Ms through federal compliance assessments.
    • Led risk assessments and the full incident response lifecycle, and mentored junior cybersecurity staff.
    • Administered access controls and Active Directory on least-privilege principles.
  2. Law Enforcement & Military Sales Specialist

    Modlite Systems · Jul 2019 to May 2021

    • Helped drive revenue 10x, from 500K in 2019 to 5M in 2020, then supported the product lines that carried the company to 15M in 2021.
    • Ran testing and evaluation programs with elite units including FBI HRT and SWAT, feeding Tier 1 requirements back into R&D.
    • Managed key dealer accounts, several purchasing over 1M annually at wholesale, and built a custom CRM workflow to run the pipeline.
  3. Founder & Owner

    Empire Gear Company · Dec 2018 to Jun 2023

    • Founded and scaled a lifestyle apparel brand to roughly 50K in annual revenue and 5,000-plus annual orders on a rapid-to-market strategy.
    • Owned everything: finance and tax, a 15K-follower marketing engine, e-commerce, sourcing, logistics, and a team of contractors.
  4. Psychological Operations Sergeant & Squad Leader

    U.S. Army Special Operations · Nov 2011 to Jan 2019

    • Advised general officers and senior allied officials across cultures and high-stakes settings.
    • Innovated the first foreign-run PSYOP training pipeline in USASOC, certifying 30 foreign personnel for independent operations.
    • Led a squad of 12 and guided 50-plus personnel; authored intelligence assessments and operational briefs for senior leaders.
  5. Earlier roles

    • VTC Scheduler / Technician, Jacobs Engineering (Mar 2019 to Jun 2019): maintained 130-plus VTC systems for USASOC at a 98% reliability rate.
    • Automotive Technician, Stammler Audi (2007 to 2011): diagnostics and complex repair to Audi standards.

Selected work

Proof, not promises.

A sample of recent work across valuation, strategy, and building. Each one is real analysis or a real system, not a class exercise dressed up.

  • M&A
  • MCDM / AHP
  • Strategy
  • Defense AI

Lockheed Martin AI-defense M&A analysis

A quantitative framework for a 15-billion-dollar acquisition decision.

A structured evaluation of five acquisition targets for Lockheed Martin's entry into AI-enabled autonomous systems, using the Analytic Hierarchy Process to weight criteria and Simple Additive Weighting to rank targets. The raw model favored Shield AI on transformational capability, but a risk-adjusted expected-value analysis reversed the ranking toward AeroVironment once integration risk, talent attrition, and 800-million-plus in post-deal capital needs were priced in. The recommendation was conditional: acquire Shield AI only with founder retention, a paired AeroVironment deal for manufacturing scale, and CFIUS pre-clearance, otherwise pivot. The takeaway I care about: acquisition selection in software-defined defense is a tradeoff between capability and execution risk, not a math problem with one answer.

My role: A four-person team project. I built the core analysis, the AHP weighting, the SAW ranking, and the risk-adjusted expected-value framework that reversed the naive result, and the team divided the work for presentation.

  • Financial modeling
  • Product build
  • Advisory

Digital wealth management toolkit

An end-to-end advisory system I designed and built.

A complete wealth-advisory toolkit built from scratch: a 13-tab financial workbook spanning net worth, cash flow, investments, tax planning, and retirement projection; a separate multi-asset-class portfolio tracker; a client-facing annual review report template; and an interactive risk-tolerance assessment app grounded in real methodology, the risk capacity versus risk tolerance distinction, lifecycle investing, and Black-Litterman concepts. Built to show I can design the system, not just run the numbers inside someone else's.

  • Applied AI
  • Agentic systems
  • Operations

Business Brain: autonomous operating system for companies

A multi-agent system that runs a business against its own strategy.

An in-progress AI system that models a company across seven core functions, sales, deals, marketing, operations, intelligence, customer, and back office, then decomposes each into sub-functions and individual agents. Agents handle tasks as they arise and collaborate with each other to reach outcomes. What makes it different is that every action references the organization's overarching strategic goals, so the system does not just execute, it explains why a decision advances the strategy. It can act autonomously or produce a documented plan with reasoning so humans stay in the loop. Alongside it I have built specialized Claude skills, including a decision-making framework that reasons like a CEO and a resume-tailoring engine, and I am developing tooling for building individual agents.

  • Go-to-market
  • Marketing strategy
  • Operations

Small-business go-to-market and expansion plan

A real growth plan for a real small business.

A full business development and marketing plan for a working barber at a Folsom-area barbershop, built on current 2025 to 2026 industry and platform data. Three pillars: turning social media into a client-acquisition engine, launching an online store for products and branded merch, and adding revenue streams that earn outside of chair hours. Concrete and executable, with platform-specific posting strategy, local paid-ad targeting across Folsom and Sacramento, and content pillars, not generic advice.

Capabilities

What I bring.

Finance

  • Corporate valuation
  • M&A analysis
  • DCF & WACC modeling
  • FP&A
  • Financial statement analysis

AI & systems

  • Agentic AI development
  • AI implementation & change
  • Automation design
  • Decision systems

Security & operations

  • Information security (NIST / DoD / FISMA)
  • Risk management
  • System administration
  • Intelligence analysis

Leadership & go-to-market

  • Team leadership
  • Defense & government sales
  • CRM & pipeline
  • Strategic planning
  • Active TS-SCI Clearance (2022 reinvestigation)
  • CompTIA Security+ CE
  • B.S. Finance, San Jose State (Magna Cum Laude, 3.92)
  • Persian Farsi (2/2)
  • Modern Standard Arabic (1/1)

Contact

Let's talk.

If you are hiring for a role in finance, operations, or AI implementation, or you just want to compare notes, reach out. I respond quickly.