About Paul
I’ve worked in technology and security since 1999. At the University of Connecticut, I handled Unix and Linux security, including breach response and cleanup. I then spent sixteen years as an engineering contractor on the U.S. Navy’s Virginia-class submarine programs, working on secure software development, system hardening, and audits ahead of formal inspections. At Amazon Web Services I taught AWS’s security engineering course as a certified instructor and later worked as a senior solutions architect. Today I’m a solution architect focused on security, compliance, and integration for an enterprise software platform.
Along the way I earned a master’s in teaching. Explaining complex systems to people who aren’t technical has been part of every role since, and it’s at the heart of forensic work: establishing what the evidence shows and explaining it clearly to the people who have to act on it.
B.S., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut
M.S., Digital Forensic Science (in progress), Champlain College. Coursework completed 2021, including DFS 500; resuming January 2027
M.A. in Teaching (Secondary Mathematics), Sacred Heart University
Graduate-level digital forensics coursework, SANS Institute
Former AWS Authorized Instructor, security engineering
Research paper: “Search Engines: The Ignored Threat”, GIAC (GSEC), 2001
Open-source tool: aws-memory-capture, automated memory acquisition from AWS EC2 instances
Education and background
How I work
The practice I’m building works through attorneys. My role is to analyze the evidence counsel already has and explain what it shows: what happened, when, and which accounts were involved. I report what the evidence supports and stop where it stops, regardless of which side retains me.