Our Leadership

As COO, Jon turns Fighting Smart Cyber's mission into delivered outcomes. He brings over a decade in the DoD cyberspace and intelligence community — spanning defensive cyber operations, signals intelligence, linguistics, and capability development, including three Marine Special Operations SIGINT deployments — from hands-on defensive cyberspace operator on a Cyber Protection Team to directing multi-million dollar capability development programs.

He has led agile delivery at every level: Release Train Engineer, Product Manager, Scrum Master, and Agile Coach. Today, he remains a builder at heart, developing resilient DevSecOps platforms, cyber range orchestration environments, and agentic AI capabilities, all offline-first by design and engineered to run anywhere from the cloud to the disconnected tactical edge. That combination — operator's instincts, executive's discipline, engineer's hands — is how FSC ships what others only scope.

As CTO, Steve sets the technical direction that keeps Fighting Smart Cyber ahead of the threat. He brings more than two decades in the DoD cyberspace and intelligence community — spanning signals intelligence, digital network intelligence, and offensive and defensive cyberspace operations — from hands-on exploitation operator to Mission Lead at DARPA's Adaptive Capabilities Office, directing development of fully integrated, operationally employable kill chains.

He has guided cyber capability development at the highest levels: Technical Director of the Program Executive Office for Joint Cyber Weapons at US Cyber Command — overseeing a $150 million portfolio across more than 80 contracts — and Weapons and Tactics Director at Joint Force Headquarters–Cyber. Along the way he cut capability delivery timelines from two years to six months, fielded the first-ever cyber kill chain delivered to operations in five days, and championed DevSecOps pipelines and container orchestration for rapid production deployment. That track record — operator's depth, technologist's vision, director's discipline — is how FSC builds what the mission demands.