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dollop

A personal archive at the intersection of technology leadership, minimalist photography, and experimental research

Since 1997 Senior Technology Leader Photographer
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About This Space

Not a portfolio.
An operating system
for ideas.

This is a digital home built over nearly three decades — a place where 20+ years of IT and cybersecurity leadership converge with an obsessive eye for minimalist photography and a relentless curiosity about how systems, light, and human perception interact.

No services. No pricing. No calls to action. Just the work, the thinking, and the experiments that define a career moving from corporate architecture into creative inquiry.

001
The Lens
High-contrast B&W — Industrial, Architecture, Texture
→ 002
The Architecture
Technical Philosophy — 20+ Years of Systems Thinking
→ 003
The Lab
Experimental Projects — OSINT, Sound Art, Geospatial
→ 004
The Archive
Site History & Colophon — 1997 to Present
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001 — Photography

The Lens

Monochrome studies in industrial geometry, urban infrastructure, and high-altitude landscape. Bay Area docks and warehouse districts alongside the mountains of Himachal Pradesh. Shot on digital, processed for tonal range.

Contact Sheet — Selected Works 12 Frames
Aerial view of spiral staircase with fern at center
Geometry 01 — Spiral
Himalayan village beneath dramatic eroded rock formations
Himalaya 01 — Village
Steel canopy structure casting long shadows across empty road
Industrial 01 — Canopy
Wide Himalayan valley with river and dramatic cloud formations
Himalaya 02 — Valley
Cyclist passing warehouse with birds in flight overhead
Industrial 02 — Passage
High-altitude plateau with snow peaks and storm light
Himalaya 03 — Plateau
Industrial crane boom against empty sky with graffiti markings
Industrial 03 — Crane
Women in traditional Kinnauri dress on mountain road
Himalaya 04 — Kinnaur
Industrial loading dock with dumpsters and corrugated light
Industrial 04 — Dock
Stone wall with water bottles and Hindi script signage
Himalaya 05 — Water
Fence receding into distance with trees and streetlights
Industrial 05 — Perimeter
Harbor crane at waterfront against moody sky
Industrial 06 — Harbor
Click any frame to enlarge Bay Area · Himachal Pradesh · 2023
002 — Technology

The Architecture

Not a resume. A technical philosophy — the intellectual arc of 20+ years building, breaking, and securing systems. From the first server rack to real-time geospatial intelligence.

Systems Thinking

Every network, every application, every organizational structure is a system of dependencies. Understanding failure modes is understanding the system itself. Two decades of enterprise IT leadership is really two decades of systems philosophy.

Adversarial Mindset

Cybersecurity is applied psychology. Penetration testing isn't about tools — it's about thinking like an attacker, understanding motivation, and recognizing that every defensive posture has a blind spot. GRC frameworks are the grammar of institutional paranoia.

Open Intelligence

OSINT and geospatial data are the archaeology of the present. The patterns are always there — in network traffic, in satellite imagery, in metadata. The discipline is knowing what to look for and, more critically, knowing when to stop.

The Stack — Credentials & Expertise
CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional Credential #594734
CISM Certified Information Security Manager Credential #252725823
B.A. Business & Information Technology Golden Gate University, San Francisco
Domains of Operation
Cloud Infrastructure AWS · Azure · Hybrid Environments
Digital Workplace Strategy & AI Enablement
Identity & Access Lifecycle Management
GRC SOC 2 · ISO 27001 · HIPAA
SaaS Governance Ecosystem & Vendor Mgmt
Endpoint Fleet MDM · Procurement · Lifecycle
Service Delivery SLA Mgmt & Operations
Incident Response Business Continuity
Budget & Vendors Multi-vendor Accountability
Executive Comms Board & C-Suite Liaison
Team Leadership Coaching & Development
Operational Record
Homebridge
Healthcare Nonprofit · SF
Senior Director, Technology Own enterprise IT, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and compliance for a healthcare nonprofit. Manage cloud-hosted infrastructure on Microsoft Azure / M365 — compute, storage, and access controls supporting mission-critical healthcare operations. Lead HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance programs end to end. Established SaaS governance framework including joiner/mover/leaver lifecycle and automated access reviews. Primary security and IT liaison to Executive Leadership and Board of Directors.
Jun 2022 — Present
IT · Security · Compliance
O.N. Diagnostics
Healthcare · Berkeley
Director, IT and Security Built enterprise IT security program from the ground up. Managed cloud-based infrastructure on AWS — implementing scalability controls, VPC configurations, and security hardening for mission-critical operations and sensitive patient data. Drove HIPAA compliance and third-party risk controls, establishing vendor security alliances and operational continuity processes.
Sep 2024 — Jun 2025
Ground-Up Build
Hero Digital
Digital Agency · SF
Vice President, Information Technology Owned SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 programs end to end across a 4.5-year tenure. Designed and managed hybrid cloud and AWS infrastructure strategy — network segmentation, VPC configurations, IAM policies, and encryption — supporting a SaaS-enabled distributed workforce. Integrated cloud infrastructure and security postures across six M&A transactions, ensuring unified identity management and consistent controls post-close.
Mar 2019 — Nov 2023
6 Acquisitions Integrated
iRhythm Technologies
Medical Device · SF
Director, Information Technology Designed enterprise risk management and IT governance framework aligned with HIPAA and NIST. Led global technology initiatives. Owned IAM program, endpoint fleet, and IT service delivery for a fast-scaling medical device company. Improved operational security by 20%.
May 2018 — Mar 2019
HIPAA · NIST
R/GA
Creative Agency · NYC
Director, Connected Spaces IT/AV Design Directed IoT-powered connected office solutions. Managed project planning and delivery for workplace technology initiatives.
Jul 2016 — Dec 2016
IoT · Workplace Tech
AKQA
Global Digital Agency · SF
Global Director, Information Technology Scaled IT and cloud infrastructure from 100 to 2,000 employees across 15 international offices over 11 years. Architected and managed AWS-based cloud services and hybrid infrastructure — network design, server environments, and storage systems across multiple regions. Built and led a global team of 30+ IT professionals; managed multi-million-dollar IT budgets. Okta design partner; presenter at CloudBeat 2012 on enterprise cloud adoption and infrastructure strategy.
Feb 2005 — Jun 2016
100 → 2,000 · 15 Offices · 30+ Team
Earlier Engagements
Director, IT · MBH Architects Director, IT · e-Centives Director, IT · The McKenna Group Director, IT · Liquid Thinking Manager, IT · USWeb/CKS
B.A., Business & Information Technology Golden Gate University · San Francisco, CA
1997

Origin Point

dollop.com is registered. USWeb/CKS, the early web consultancy, is the proving ground. Static HTML, hand-coded in Notepad, served from a shared host. A digital homestead claimed before the land rush.

HTML FTP USWeb/CKS
2005

Global Scale

AKQA. Eleven years building the invisible infrastructure behind a world-class digital agency — scaling from 100 to 2,000 people across 15 offices. Leading a team of 30+. The architecture becomes the career.

AKQA Global IT 15 Offices 2,000 Employees
2018

Regulated Environments

iRhythm Technologies, then Hero Digital. Medical device compliance, HIPAA governance, NIST frameworks. Six acquisitions integrated without breaking stride. SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 achieved and maintained.

HIPAA SOC 2 ISO 27001 M&A Integration
2022

Full Spectrum

Hero Digital at peak maturity. SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 fully operational. Six acquisitions integrated without breaking stride. Hybrid cloud and AWS infrastructure strategy running across a distributed, SaaS-enabled workforce. The full stack — infrastructure, security, compliance, and cloud architecture — firing together.

SOC 2 Type II ISO 27001 AWS M&A Integration
2025

Convergence

Homebridge. Senior technology leadership at a healthcare nonprofit — owning enterprise IT, cloud infrastructure on Azure / M365, cybersecurity, and compliance while translating technical risk into business language for the Board. Twenty-eight years of accumulated practice pointed at a single mission. The work meets the archive.

CISSP CISM Azure Board Liaison
Now

The Long View

Designing for what comes next — not as an ending but as a shift. From "hiring me" to "what I've built." The archive is the legacy. The lab is the future. OSINT research, geospatial intelligence, and acoustic experiments alongside continued leadership practice.

OSINT Geospatial Archive Legacy
003 — Experiments

The Lab

Where technical skill meets creative curiosity. Ongoing projects in open-source intelligence, sound art, and geospatial community tools.

Active

Aerial Predator

A unified OSINT platform engineered for surveillance of the global theater — aggregating open-source intelligence streams into a single operational view.

OSINT · Intelligence · Surveillance aerialpredator.com
Active

Sound Will Travel

An umbrella for diverse audio experiments — hosting a collection of projects dedicated to the art of sound. From immersive generative environments to the raw, intricate textures of the natural and industrial world. Future developments expand into field recordings, ASMR, and experimental sonic landscapes.

Audio · Generative · Field Recording soundwilltravel.com
Active

Noyo Map

A community resource for Fort Bragg and the Mendocino Coast — pulling together real-time weather, tidal data, live cameras, and local services into one practical view for residents and visitors alike.

Geospatial · Community · Real-Time Data noyomap.com
Active

Muni Music

San Francisco's transit system reimagined as a generative composition — every bus, train, and cable car producing live musical tones based on route and position. No two sessions sound alike.

Generative · Audio · Transit Data munimusic.com
004 — History

The Archive

A record of this site's evolution from hand-coded HTML to brutalist digital archive. Every version a snapshot of the web as it was.

Site Chronology

  • Static HTML — Notepad & FTP 1997
  • Table-based layouts — Frames era 1999
  • Early CSS — Div-based redesign 2003
  • WordPress migration 2007
  • Responsive redesign 2013
  • Minimal static build 2019
  • Brutalist Archive — Current 2026

The Name

dollop. A small, shapeless mass. Something dropped casually — without precision, without pretense. The domain was registered in 1997, when good names were still available and the internet hadn't yet become a marketplace. It stuck because it's honest — a small offering, nothing more.

Philosophy

This site is built to last. No dependencies that expire. No SaaS that sunsets. No framework that falls out of fashion. Just markup, style, and content — the same foundational technologies that powered the first version in 1997, refined but fundamentally unchanged.

005 — Contact

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