Consulting and advisory
For organizations that cannot afford to be surprised.
Principal investigator on $5.8M of Defense Threat Reduction Agency biosurveillance research. Contributor to more than $55M in federally funded, academic, and industry programs across DHS, DoD, NIH, NSF, USDA, FDA, CDC, VA, USAID, and the Department of State. The work now is the same: find the failure before it finds you.
Problems I solve
Biosurveillance architecture
Common operating picture design, data standards, sensor-to-decision pathways, and performance measures that show whether the system works.
Threat, vulnerability, and risk assessment
Quantitative and qualitative methods across biological, physical, and cyber threats, with mitigations ranked by cost and effect. Criticality assessment for food, agriculture, and infrastructure.
Open-source network and influence analysis
Funding networks, discourse networks, and coordination patterns mapped from public data, with formal hypothesis tests and source grading. Delivered as written analytic reports.
Biodefense and preparedness review
Independent assessment of plans, exercises, and detection capability against a stated threat model.
Security technology evaluation
Every system scored on three goals: does it increase liberty, increase security, and reduce cost. If it fails one, I say so.
AI and data systems
Design, validation, test and evaluation, model risk, and decision support that survives an audit.
Engagement models
Advisory retainer
Monthly. Priority access, standing review, cancel any time effective at the end of the billing cycle.
Fixed-scope assessment
Fixed fee with milestone splits. Objective acceptance criteria for every deliverable.
Embedded program support
A defined role for a defined term inside your program, with a written scope.
Working terms
- Vendor and platform costs are paid by you on your own accounts. No markup, no pass-through.
- Client-side delays shift schedules day for day; nothing else does.
- Findings are written for the decision maker: bottom line first, evidence second, uncertainty stated. Facts, assessments, and allegations are labeled as such.
Scope a project
Two sentences on the problem and a timeline are enough to start.