Shaun MarshallCV

Curriculum vitae · Orlando, Florida

Shaun Marshall

Enterprise systems, security and AI governance

People first. Good systems augment good people. I am also conducting independent research into a specific aspect of gravitational physics.

Current
Senior Systems Analyst, Executive Support, Walt Disney World · Oct 2013 – Present
Employment
Atos assignment: October 2013–November 2022; Disney employee: November 2022–Present.
Certifications
CompTIA Network+, CompTIA i-Net+, Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW); CompTIA Security+ ce (previously held, valid 2022–2025) · all credentials
Education
ECPI University: Computer and Information Science coursework, cybersecurity track (governance and policy focus), 2023–2025
Clearance
Top Secret (Single Scope Background Investigation), previously held
Skip the chart links
AI governance specification → GKOS project Governed agent tooling → GKOS-Engine project Executive technology support → Current Disney role Enterprise records and knowledge migration → Knowledge base migration Security and evidence handling → Navy NAVAIR role Large deployments and migrations → Navy NAVAIR role NASA safety data systems → NASA Kennedy role Founding and leading teams → Florida Armored Combat Infrastructure for small organizations → IT consulting role LEAD, 1995 – 1996 UCF help desk, 1996 – 1999 NASA KSC, 1996 – 1998 UCF Nursing lab, 1998 – 2001 NMCI, NAVAIR Orlando, 2001 – 2006 AERA, 2001 CompuCom, 2006 – 2007 CNSS, Windows 7, May 2012 – Oct 2013 WDW executive support, Atos to Disney, Oct 2013 – Present TEKsystems, 2008 – 2009 Connextions, 2010 – 2011 Shaun Marshall Consulting, Feb 2010 – Present Independent AI work, GKOS, 2025 – Present PTO, 2016 – 2020 Florida Armored Combat, 2023 – Present 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

The nine numbered stars are the strengths, in the order this CV lists them. The list below names each one and goes to its part of this CV; the ring index further down lists every role.

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  • Space
  • Academia
  • Defense
  • Enterprise
  • Legal
  • Small business
  • AI governance
  • Nonprofit

Nine strengths

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  1. 1 AI governance specification v0.82.1 · 62 requirements since 2026 Public artifact Go to the GKOS project Preview
  2. 2 Governed agent tooling 10 read-only MCP tools since 2026 Public artifact Go to the GKOS-Engine and Kosmos-Oden project Preview
  3. 3 Executive technology support 13 years · VP level and above since 2013 Self-reported Go to the current Walt Disney World role Preview
  4. 4 Enterprise records and knowledge migration 3 at WDW; Confluence import ~95% 2016–2026 Self-reported Go to the knowledge base migration project Preview
  5. 5 Security and evidence handling TS/SSBI, previously held since 2001 Self-reported Go to the Navy NAVAIR Orlando role Preview
  6. 6 Large deployments and migrations $200K+ SLA exposure avoided 2001–2013 Self-reported Go to the Navy NAVAIR Orlando role Preview
  7. 7 NASA safety data systems PV/S database · contractor portal 1996–1998 Self-reported Go to the NASA Kennedy Space Center role Preview
  8. 8 Founding and leading teams 8 city teams, up from 3 since 2001 Public artifact Go to Florida Armored Combat Preview
  9. 9 Infrastructure for small organizations Self-employed since 2010 since 2010 Self-reported Go to the IT consulting role Preview

Chart index

The rings as a list

Every ring marker in the chart, outermost ring first. Each one opens in the chart reader, and the chart marks it.

The ring index: every role by lane

Nonprofit and community

Independent and self-employed

Other employers

Walt Disney World

Department of the Navy

NASA and UCF

Flight brief

Summary

People first. Good systems augment good people. I bring 30 years of IT experience to dependable technology for small businesses, executives, and complex organizations. My work spans enterprise support, cybersecurity, knowledge and records migrations, and developmental AI governance through GKOS and GKOS-Engine. I am also conducting independent research into a specific aspect of gravitational physics.

Role focus

  • AI governance and assurance engineering
  • Enterprise and executive technology support
  • Information and records governance

Current roles, held at the same time

Clearance Top Secret (Single Scope Background Investigation): previously held.

Projects

Selected projects

For each project: the problem, my part, what exists now, what it shows and what is still missing. Public artifact means a linked public source supports the claim and anyone can open it; being public does not mean a third party has verified it. Self-reported means the claim comes from my own records and has no public artifact.

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Developmental specification · Founder and initial editor · Public artifact

GKOS: AI governance specification and assurance engineering

Independent project. Not affiliated with a standards body or an employer.

Status Public developmental specification; executable mechanism-level checks available. Complete profile qualification and independent interoperability validation remain outstanding.

Problem
When an AI system recommends or takes an action, ordinary logs show that a call happened. They rarely show which evidence it used, what context it saw, who had authority to approve it, or how the result can be challenged and replayed.
My part
I drafted the specification (with AI drafting assistance) and lead its design: provenance, deterministic validation, reproducible context, bounded delegation and records of decisions and actions. I direct the schemas, fixtures and conformance runner and approve each published edition.
Exists now
Published edition v0.82.1 (25 September 2026) with 62 permanent requirements and 28 gate codes, JSON schemas, a requirements registry, and an adapter-neutral conformance runner. CI runs the runner on Linux and Windows with Node 22 and 24.
Results
Mechanism-level checks pass, including a clean-process context replay and a mutation corpus that covers all 28 gate codes. The executable suite covers only part of the profile catalogue, so no conformance profile is qualified yet.
Limits
No qualified profile, no public second implementation, and no independent interoperability validation. Proposed NIST, ISO and EU AI Act mappings are informative drafts under review, not established alignment.

Evidence Public artifact

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Open-source releases · Product owner and lead developer (agent-assisted implementation) · Public artifact

GKOS-Engine and Kosmos-Oden: governed knowledge tooling

Independent open-source projects (Apache-2.0).

Status GKOS-Engine release 2.1.1 (18 August 2026); 2.2.0 on main pending release qualification. Kosmos-Oden release 0.8.2 (9 September 2026).

Problem
Agents and people need to search and reason over a Markdown knowledge base without a tool silently changing source files or exposing restricted notes.
My part
I set the requirements and design, review the changes, run the qualification checks and decide releases. AI coding agents write much of the code under that review.
Exists now
A TypeScript library and CLI that parses and validates GKX records, builds canonical graphs, indexes and retrieves notes, and serves ten credential-bound, read-only MCP tools on a local port. Kosmos-Oden uses it to draw a vault as an explorable 3D map in Obsidian or a standalone viewer.
Results
Release-status records show CI and Linux and Windows runtime qualification passing for the recorded main baseline. Writes to source notes remain unavailable unless a host explicitly configures and authorizes them.
Limits
No published usage or adoption figures. The npm package lags the current source (2.0.1). Implementation independence from GKOS has not been demonstrated.

Evidence Public artifact

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Completed internal migration · Did the export, migration and analysis · Self-reported

Team knowledge base migration: OneNote to Markdown to Confluence

Work for Walt Disney World Enterprise Technology.

Status Export complete and shared with the team; Confluence import approximately 95% successful; limitations documented.

Problem
A team's knowledge lived in a OneNote environment that was hard to search, move or preserve with its attachments and history.
My part
I exported the full environment to Markdown with attachments intact, shared the export and approach, ran the Confluence import from a copy, and wrote up the limitations.
Exists now
A complete Markdown export, a Confluence space built from it, and an experimental map of which notes supersede others.
Results
About 95% of the import succeeded (my estimate; the denominator is not published). The supersession map is non-deterministic and is used only to help people review search results.
Limits
Internal work: no public artifact. The import rate is self-reported.

Evidence Self-reported

Internal work. No public artifact.

Mission log

Professional experience

Every role, newest first. The rail colour shows the sector, matching the ring markers in the chart. Roles marked current run at the same time. Each role opens with its first point; the rest are folded under it. A point marked Public artifact links to its public source; the other points are self-reported.

  1. 2025 – Present

    Independent work

    AI governance

    Current

    Agentic AI Developer and Systems Architect

    Independent · Orlando, Florida

    Independent design and development of governed knowledge tools that support human judgment through inspectable evidence, clear authority, and bounded agent access, alongside full-time employment. AI coding agents assist implementation; I set requirements, review changes, test behavior, and decide what ships. GKOS remains developmental; independent validation and full conformance qualification remain ahead.

    4 more points from this role
    • Directed the schemas and assurance tooling: deterministic context replay, fail-closed validation, and a mutation-test corpus covering all 28 gate codes, run in CI on Linux and Windows. Releases state their coverage and conformance limits. Public artifactGKOS conformance mechanisms at commit b308ff7; GKOS conformance-claims policy at commit b308ff7
    • Leads development of GKOS-Engine, an Apache-2.0 TypeScript library that validates GKX records, builds deterministic knowledge graphs from Markdown and serves agents through ten credential-bound, read-only MCP tools (latest release 2.1.1). Public artifactGKOS-Engine repository; GKOS-Engine 2.1.1 release
    • Built Kosmos-Oden on GKOS-Engine: an Obsidian plugin and standalone viewer that draws a Markdown vault as a navigable 3D map (release 0.8.2). Public artifactKosmos-Oden repository
    • Runs a self-hosted lab of open-weight language models and AI agents that share memory records, task files and a message broker. AI coding agents do much of the implementation; I set the design, review the changes, run the tests and decide what is released.

  2. 2023 – Present

    Nonprofit leadership

    Nonprofit

    Current

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    Founder, President and CTO

    Florida Armored Combat Inc. · Florida

    Founded a 501(c)(3) nonprofit; statewide governing body for armored combat (buhurt).

    Founded and leads Florida Armored Combat, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, applying leadership, business orchestration, technology integration, event planning, AI governance, and cybersecurity to support member teams and community activities.

    • Founded Florida Armored Combat Inc. as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and leads the organization as President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
    4 more points from this role
    • Grew the organization from three teams to eight city teams and three collegiate teams, and led the formation of a statewide female team.
    • Supports charitable events, STEM programs, K-12 and collegiate education programs, and free training for the public; coaches and recruits new fighters.
    • Significantly reduced technology costs by building and running the organization's website and systems with open-source software, and trained volunteers to use open-source frameworks in their work.
    • Built AI agents to augment the volunteer workforce and devised governance protocols defining what agents can and cannot access or do with the organization's knowledge and infrastructure.

  3. Oct 2013 – Present

    Atos to Disney

    Enterprise

    Current

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    Senior Systems Analyst, Executive Support

    Walt Disney World · Orlando, Florida

    Atos assignment: October 2013–November 2022; Disney employee: November 2022–Present.

    Provides technology support and advice to Walt Disney World executives at vice-president level and above and WDW Legal. Served through Atos from October 2013 to November 2022, then joined Walt Disney World Enterprise Technology as an employee. Work spans enterprise support, secure remote access, records and knowledge migrations, and coordination with information security teams. Helps executives, Legal staff, and colleagues work reliably and securely, with less disruption.

    • Exported the team's OneNote knowledge base to Markdown with attachments intact, shared the export and method with the team, and used a copy for a Confluence migration with an approximately 95% successful import. Documented the migration's limitations.
    11 more points from this role
    • Added an experimental analysis of relationships between notes, including which documents supersede others, so current material is easier to find in search. It is non-deterministic, so it is used as an aid to human review.
    • Wrote the policy for migrating WDW Legal records from several sources to NetDocuments and coordinated LegalOps training on retention and retrieval.
    • Recovered lost or fragmented data and reports for clients on several occasions, saving from about an hour to several days of rework each time; this work contributed to a Disney Recognition award in 2026.
    • Liaison between executives and Global Information Security; advised WDW Legal on modernizing its BYOD policy and forensic investigation methods.
    • Moved WDW Legal executives, paralegals and support staff to secure remote work in 2020 using Citrix and two-factor authentication, procured equipment for long-term remote work, and strengthened home networks for the added traffic.
    • Located, organized and migrated WDW Legal PST archives to Exchange Online, with access granted to the correct attorneys and paralegals.
    • Developed and delivered training to counter spear-phishing campaigns; worked with eDiscovery on preserving digital evidence and records.
    • Proposed to leadership a review of WDW Legal's digital assets based on confidentiality, integrity and availability (CIA triad) principles.
    • Supported the WDW Legal move from eDOCS to NetDocuments (in progress in 2019).
    • Administered accounts, file and system access, and conferencing: Active Directory and Azure AD, Exchange Online, SCCM, OneDrive, BlueJeans, Zoom and Polycom.
    • Subject-matter expert for Disney IT support and field teams on PC, Mac, application and network issues; individual and group instruction for executives and support staff.

  4. Feb 2010 – Present

    Self-employed

    Small business

    Current

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    IT Consultant

    Shaun Marshall Consulting · Florida

    Current work through LuSaur Technology, LLC; independent consulting since 2010.

    Practical IT, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and AI integration suited to an organization’s people, resources, and needs. Current work through LuSaur Technology, LLC builds on an independent consulting practice begun in 2010.

    • Designs and deploys segmented networks with remote access: OPNsense and pfSense firewalls, Cisco switching and Proxmox virtualization.
    2 more points from this role
    • Builds and hosts websites on the LAMP stack and WordPress; plans and runs hardware and software migrations.
    • Writes business-operations, disaster-recovery and information-security policies for each client, and teaches owners how to run their networks safely.

  5. May 2012 – Oct 2013

    Contractor, vendor assignment

    Enterprise

    Windows 7 Migration Team Lead and Technical Liaison

    CNSS Inc., for Walt Disney World · Orlando, Florida

    Field team for moving Walt Disney World property and offices from Windows XP to Windows 7.

    • Led four contractors and worked with the HyperCare team supporting the move from Windows XP to Windows 7 across the Walt Disney World property and supporting offices.
    2 more points from this role
    • Scheduled deployments with off-site developers, directors and department heads, deploying department by department to keep downtime low.
    • Enforced enterprise PC standards, fixed application and network issues, and helped test white-box applications and equipment.

  6. 2010 – 2011

    Enterprise

    SME Support Analyst

    Connextions Inc. · Orlando, Florida

    Technical support account in a contact center.

    • Technical mentor for call-center agents on a technical support account; trained them in troubleshooting and resolution.
    1 more point from this role
    • Wrote and updated support articles in the company wiki; provided first- and second-level support with DameWare and Active Directory.

  7. 2008 – 2009

    Contractor, staffing firm

    Legal

    Systems and Support Analyst

    TEKsystems, for Roetzel & Andress · Orlando, Florida

    Support for attorneys and staff at a law firm's Florida offices.

    • Supported attorneys and staff on Citrix, Westlaw and Microsoft Office 2007; managed accounts, printers and remote access with Active Directory, Remote Desktop and SMS.
    1 more point from this role
    • Helped build a Citrix server environment for the firm's Orlando, Fort Lauderdale and Naples offices.

  8. 2006 – 2007

    Contractor, vendor assignment

    Enterprise

    Senior Analyst

    CompuCom Inc., for Walt Disney World · Orlando, Florida

    Disney PC Migration project.

    • Proposed an in-house help center and remote-assistance service for the Disney PC migration, then set it up and managed it; it worked with Disney IT to resolve deployment and transition issues.
    2 more points from this role
    • Wrote training material for new help-center technicians and trained them on Active Directory, SMS, Ghost imaging and Remote Desktop.
    • Ran needs assessments and deployment scheduling with ACS and Disney managers and network engineers; provided basic data recovery when needed.

  9. 2001 – 2006

    Contractor, vendor assignment

    Defense

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    Senior Field Service Technician

    CACI and TEKsystems, for U.S. Department of the Navy, NAVAIR Orlando · Orlando, Florida

    Promoted from Field Service Technician.

    Department of Defense contractor on the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) at Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division.

    • Provided hardware and software support for over 1,100 clients on the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI).
    5 more points from this role
    • Led the research that resolved a Windows Installer failure blocking Microsoft Office deployments on Windows 2000 workstations (2003). Deployments continued on schedule, and the prime contractor, EDS, avoided an SLA miss carrying a penalty of more than $200,000.
    • Wrote documents and hot-fixes that were used at site and enterprise level within NMCI.
    • Assisted DoD Information Assurance personnel with forensic investigations on the Navy network, gathering evidence within state and federal law.
    • Tools: HEAT and Remedy ticketing, Tivoli remote control, Active Directory and SMS for accounts and software packages.
    • Command Master Chief Award for Excellent Service, Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (2001).

  10. 2001

    Contractor, project

    Defense

    Technical Project Manager, NMCI Assessment and Planning

    AERA Inc., for U.S. Department of the Navy, NAVAIR Orlando · Orlando, Florida

    Assessment and planning stage before the NMCI transition at NAVAIR Orlando.

    • Hired and supervised 15 contractors for the assessment and planning stage before NMCI, working with the local Navy command and DoD staff.
    1 more point from this role
    • Wrote standard operating procedures and a lessons-learned list used at other naval bases preparing for NMCI; finished almost one month ahead of schedule.

  11. 1998 – 2001

    Academia

    Electronics Lab Manager, Department of Nursing

    University of Central Florida · Orlando, Florida

    Computer lab and simulation equipment for the Department of Nursing.

    • Designed, assembled and ran the department's networked computer lab, with testing stations, a file and print server and a Virtual IV injection-simulation station.
    1 more point from this role
    • Supported nursing faculty, staff and students; wrote a best-practices and lab-maintenance guide for later lab managers.

  12. 1996 – 1999

    Student employment

    Academia

    Help Desk Representative

    University of Central Florida · Orlando, Florida

    Campus help desk.

    • Supported students and staff on campus email clients (GroupWise, Outlook and Exchange, PINE) and network access.

  13. 1996 – 1998

    Student employment

    Space

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    Safety Engineer and Computer Specialist

    NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center, Safety and Mission Assurance (RT-SRD-2A, EIC-A) · Kennedy Space Center, Florida

    Student employment in Safety and Mission Assurance.

    • Maintained the Pressure Vessels and Systems (PV/S) database and coordinated a safety-recertification schedule with the Center's major contractors.
    2 more points from this role
    • Designed a web portal where contractors could identify their own pressure vessels and systems and check them against the Center's records.
    • Member of the Shuttle Upgrades Liquid Flyback Booster study (1997): reusable kerosene and oxygen engines, specific impulse and maintenance time between launches.
    Show my photographs from Pad 39B

  14. 1995 – 1996

    Student employment

    Academia

    Student Assistant, LEAD Scholars Program

    University of Central Florida · Orlando, Florida

    Program office of the LEAD Scholars student leadership program.

    • Student assistant in the LEAD Scholars Program office while a member of the program.

Skills

Skills and where they were used

Security and governance

  • AI governance and assurance (provenance, authority, replayable context) current

    GKOS; Independent 2025 – Present

  • Information and records governance (retention, access, migration policy) current

    Walt Disney World Oct 2013 – Present

  • Digital evidence preservation with eDiscovery historical

    Walt Disney World Oct 2013 – Present

  • Forensic investigation support (DoD Information Assurance) historical

    CACI and TEKsystems 2001 – 2006

  • Security awareness training (spear-phishing) historical

    Walt Disney World Oct 2013 – Present

  • Security liaison between executives and Global Information Security current

    Walt Disney World Oct 2013 – Present

  • Policy writing: business operations, disaster recovery, information security current

    Shaun Marshall Consulting Feb 2010 – Present

  • AI governance current

    Florida Armored Combat Inc. 2023 – Present

  • Cybersecurity current

    Florida Armored Combat Inc. 2023 – Present

Infrastructure and operations

AI and automation

  • MCP tool design with read-only, credential-bound access current

    GKOS-Engine

  • Deterministic validation, replay and mutation testing current

    GKOS

  • Knowledge-base export, migration and retrieval current

    Knowledge migration

  • Self-hosted open-weight models and model routing (lab) current

    Independent 2025 – Present

  • TypeScript, Python and Rust in current projects (agent-assisted) current

    Independent 2025 – Present

  • PowerShell, Bash and batch scripting for operations current

    Walt Disney World Oct 2013 – Present; Shaun Marshall Consulting Feb 2010 – Present

  • HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript websites (LAMP, WordPress) current

    Shaun Marshall Consulting Feb 2010 – Present

  • Database and web portal for safety records (1990s) historical

    NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center 1996 – 1998

Delivery and leadership

Credentials

Education, certifications and previously held clearance

Education

  • ECPI University

    Computer and Information Science coursework, cybersecurity track (governance and policy focus)

    Coursework 2023–2025 · Lake Mary, Florida

    Network security and defense; Incident response and digital forensics; Governance, risk and compliance; Security policy and ethics; Cryptography fundamentals; Programming logic and design

  • University of Central Florida

    LEAD Scholars Program (student leadership program)

    Program member 1995 · Orlando, Florida

  • Professional and continuing study

    Cisco Networking Essentials I and II; Microsoft Exchange 2000; Coursera courses in AstroTech, Genetics and Evolution, Galaxies and Cosmology, and Nanotechnology

    Completed courses

Certifications

  • CompTIA Security+ ce

    Previously held CompTIA · Valid 2022–2025

  • CompTIA Network+

    Held CompTIA · Earned before 2009

  • CompTIA i-Net+

    Held CompTIA · Earned before 2009

  • Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW)

    Held CIW

  • CompTIA A+

    Previously held CompTIA

  • Dell Certified Systems Expert

    Previously held Dell

  • Lenovo Certified (ThinkPad T42, T43p, T60)

    Previously held Lenovo

  • Microsoft Office User Specialist (Office XP)

    Previously held Microsoft

Clearance

  • Top Secret (Single Scope Background Investigation)

    Previously held

Memberships

ISACA, ISC2, InfraGard

Awards

  • Disney Recognition

    Walt Disney World Enterprise Technology · 2026 · Client service and data recovery

  • Command Master Chief Award for Excellent Service

    Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division · 2001

Community

Service and community

2016 – 2020 · Volunteer

President and Technology Advisor

Grassy Lake Elementary PTO

  • Founded the PTO's 501(c)(3).

Volunteer

Volunteer

Scouting BSA Pack 551 and Troop 998G

Volunteer

Technology Advisor, AV and Effects Specialist

Breakthrough Theatre of Winter Park

Volunteer

Science and technology education support

Home-school families

Also

  • Creator and host, The SHOW (Star Trek Online podcast, Oden Knight on YouTube) 2015

    • Produced and hosted roundtables on game mechanics with community guests and Star Trek Online developers and artists.

  • Science advisor and voice of Professor Kim, Project Warp

  • Raid leader and game tester, Online games 2004 – 2017

    • Led World of Warcraft raid teams of 10 to 40 players across time zones: recruiting, training, scheduling and supply logistics.
    • Beta tester for Star Trek Online (documented over 200 bugs) and other titles; regional coordinator for technical issues in the Earth & Beyond test.