A seasoned technologist, visual artist, and storyteller, Benjamin Fortier merges razor‑sharp analytical rigor with an instinctive artistic eye to produce work that is both meticulously engineered and profoundly resonant. Whether fortifying a network using overarching security policies, designing an engaging theatrical experience, or shaping poetry that captures the pulse of combat, every piece is forged with obsessive attention to detail and an unrelenting drive for narrative impact.
This portfolio showcases the full spectrum of his expertise: technical precision, creative vision, and compelling storytelling. All demonstrating how precision and imagination can coexist to solve problems, inform audiences, and move hearts.
Signature Technical Projects
Signature Technical Projects
Benjamin Fortier is a highly trained technologist, digital‑media creator, and technical writer who merges Marine Corps discipline with inventive problem‑solving. He crafts SEO‑optimized website copy, engaging blog posts, and policy documentation for non-profit agencies. Using PowerShell, Python, and a deep understanding of threat landscapes, he secures systems and then translates complex security concepts into polished, easily-digestible documentation. The result is a portfolio of reliable, battle‑tested protection paired with compelling, user‑focused content that makes technical information both accessible and discernable.
The guide stands out as a high‑quality technical resource because every section is built on targeted research; reviewing industry best practices, hardware reliability data, and archival standards. This is to ensure that each recommendation is both accurate and actionable. Its granular level of detail, from specific device‑type suggestions to a reproducible documentation table, demonstrates a meticulous, evidence‑based approach that leaves no critical step unaddressed. By combining a rigorously organized layout with thoroughly vetted content, the document delivers reliable, step‑by‑step guidance that users can trust in high‑stakes, real‑world scenarios.
The Archiving Sensitive Digital Information guide reflects a disciplined, “military‑grade” approach to technical writing. Beginning with a clean title page and a concise table of contents, the document is organized into a logical progression: introduction, theory, principles of operation, equipment list, warnings, step‑by‑step procedure, glossary, and references. This allows readers to locate any section instantly.
A concise, one‑page instructional PDF that delivers the essentials a new guitarist needs to set up and fine‑tune a live‑performance rig. Drawing on decades of stage experience, the guide distills practical expertise into a clear, step‑by‑step format that can be consulted quickly backstage or during rehearsal. Its straightforward layout emphasizes actionable tips, minimizes jargon, and provides just enough direction for an inexperienced player to feel confident, organized, and ready to deliver a polished live sound.
The Implementation of Data Security Policies for Small‑to‑Medium Businesses document is presented as a clean, professionally‑styled guide that walks the reader through a logical, layered workflow. Consistent headings, sub‑headings, and bolded key terms, coupled with inline call‑outs (e.g., “Important for Stakeholders”) and tabular summaries of industry‑standard frameworks (COBIT, NIST, ISO 27000, PCI‑DSS, etc.), reinforce a disciplined layout that mirrors the precision required of security procedures themselves.
Beyond its polished format, the guide is rooted in extensive research and a methodical, evidence‑based approach. Each phase of the “Defender” process is cross‑referenced to widely accepted standards, and the text cites a 2019 study that identified the top four best‑practice frameworks, grounding recommendations in peer‑reviewed data.
The document breaks down complex, often overwhelming concepts such as risk‑matrix creation, stakeholder‑communication strategies, Kotter’s change model, and turns them into bite‑size, actionable steps, showing a commitment to detail‑orientation that can be directly replicated.
By mapping every recommendation to a specific framework or procedural step, the guide serves not merely as a checklist but as a foundational blueprint from which organizations can derive their own formal security standards and policy‑governance programs, scaling the concepts to suit any SMB’s risk profile and regulatory environment.
Signature Creative Projects
Fortier is also a multifacted storyteller: fiction author, playwright, and scriptwriter. He channels his military background into narratives that probe the delicate nuances of the human condition. Drawing on firsthand experience and extensive research, he crafts short stories where the stark realities of servitude and protectorship intersect with inner turmoil. Across all formats his work balances gritty authenticity with emotional depth, inviting readers and audiences to confront the fragile, often contradictory forces that shape us all.
Phantoms
Role: Writer, Creative Director Medium: Print, E-book, Audiobook (coming 2026)
In keeping with the best traditions of war poetry, this collection tensions and trembles, refusing to settle, refusing to lie still. -Graham Barnhart
Phantoms (the third poetry collection and first full‑length work based on first-hand experience in the Iraq war) has quickly become a benchmark in contemporary war literature, garnering high‑profile praise from figures such as Sebastian Junger, Captain Dale Dye (U.S. Marine Corps), and poet‑critic Graham Barnhart, all of them noting its uncanny ability to “transfer the experience of combat directly into our psyches” and to render the “messiness and searing emotions” of ground combat into bite‑size, explosive verses.
Conceived in 2019 amidst the Patrol Base Abbate Book Club’s writing prompts and refined during a 2023 retreat that connected the author with the Dead Reckoning Collective and the celebrated author Junger, the volume emerged from a disciplined process of field‑level reflection, artistic evolution, and collaborative editing. The book’s blend of vivid battlefield consciousness, philosophical wrestling with the personal‑political divide, and a poet‑warrior’s transformation from “running and gunning” to “a man with a warrior’s soul and an artist’s touch” earned the Robert A. Gannon Award for poetry and secured its placement on numerous “must‑read” lists for veterans and literary audiences alike.
As a marker for artistic growth, Phantoms stands as a pinnacle of the Fortier’s creative output—an award‑winning, critically‑lauded work that not only documents a specific moment in Al‑Falluja’s history, but also offers universal insight into the human cost of conflict, resonating with readers who have never seen combat and those who have lived it.
Role: Writer Medium: Theater Premiered: Grief Dialogues, Memorial Day (Los Angeles, CA, 2025) Other Productions/Readings: In Honor (Hyannis, MA, 2025); Veterans Voices (Providence, RI, 2025)
The impact of the play is far-reaching because the playwright’s voice grabs our attention and doesn’t let go until he declares the final words that embody love and hope. Even after the lights dim, the main character’s plea resonates within our hearts and minds, and we cannot let what we learn go. -Leilani Squire, Returning Soldiers Speak
