Summary
Mark Morris is a Lead Cybersecurity Architect with 12+ years of experience designing enterprise security architectures, risk programs, and compliance-aligned solutions for critical infrastructure. Based in Austin, he leads security strategy at LCRA while also founding Hempchain, a venture that blends blockchain, AI, AR, IIoT and robotics to decarbonize industrial hemp supply chains. He brings a rare combination of hands-on engineering and executive leadership—building microservices, serverless and multi-cloud platforms and reducing operational costs through pragmatic architecture. Mark has a long consulting pedigree across healthcare, defense, and large enterprises, delivering PoCs and production systems with Hyperledger, Ethereum, Kubernetes, TensorFlow and Azure/AWS. He’s known for turning emerging technologies into auditable, compliant solutions (NIST, NERC, PCI, CJIS) and mentoring teams to operationalize complex security controls. An Army-to-enterprise builder, he couples deep legacy systems experience with modern distributed architectures and a mission-driven focus on sustainability.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Nova Southeastern University
Stanford Continuing Studies
Computer Science, Computer Science at The Ohio State University
MIT Professional Education