Cybersecurity Specialist
RCN Veteran · Incident Response
GRC · Systems Hardening
I'm a Royal Canadian Navy veteran and cybersecurity practitioner, now based in Brisbane. After twenty years administering HR operations, payroll systems, and compliance frameworks for hundreds of personnel — including a Top Secret-cleared posting embedded with US DoD in Washington — I bring something most cyber practitioners don't: deep, lived experience applying policy frameworks under real operational pressure.
My focus is GRC — governance, risk, and compliance. I understand what it means to work within strict regulatory environments, communicate policy to both frontline staff and senior leadership, and maintain rigorous documentation standards. That's not theory for me; it was my daily work for two decades.
Currently building on that foundation with formal cybersecurity credentials and hands-on technical skills, with an eye toward roles in compliance, risk management, and security operations.
Performed a full jailbreak of a B023-series Kindle, stepping through incremental official firmware updates from 4.1.1 to 4.1.4 as a prerequisite. Executed a community-developed exploit chain to gain root-level access — installing a developer key, MobileRead Kindlet Kit, KUAL launcher, and DevCerts keystore — before deploying KOReader as the end payload, restoring full usability to hardware Amazon no longer supports.
This project was conducted on personally owned hardware, with no circumvention of DRM for content piracy and no commercial intent. The motivation is explicitly aligned with right-to-repair values: a functioning device should not be rendered a paperweight by a unilateral vendor decision.
Amazon's announcement that approximately 2 million devices will lose Kindle Store access in May 2026 — estimated to generate over 624 tonnes of unnecessary e-waste — validates this position. The Restart Project has called the move "deliberately wasteful." EU Directive 2024/825 now explicitly addresses software-induced obsolescence as a consumer protection matter. Jailbreaking a personal device to restore its utility is not a circumvention of law — it is an assertion of ownership.