Experience

IT Cadre

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • Nov 2022 - Present

• Visualization Engineer

  • Aug 2020 - Nov 2022



National Intelligence University

• Intelligence Community Campus - Bethesda, MD

• Chief of Staff and Executive VP, University Operations

  • Apr 2016 - Aug 2020

  Chief of Staff and Executive Vice President, University Operations at the National Intelligence University, the nation's sole accredited, degree-granting institution of higher learning that operates completely in a classified environment. Enables academic operations through coordination, integration, and synchronization of staff support to an academic institution comprised of 900 students, faculty, and staff from across the Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense. As the ranking military joint service official at the University, serves as the President's advisor on military, joint, leadership, and accreditation matters. Second in command at the University. Also an Associate Professor at NIU. Show less



National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Executive Officer to the Director

  • Jun 2015 - Apr 2016

  Provides direct support to the Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Leads a hand picked team responsible for the management of all associated functions in support of the Director, to include tracking the Director's requests, requirements, and taskings. Supports the day-to-day and long term planning, coordination, management, and execution of the Director's internal and external senior level engagements to include foreign dignitaries, industry partners, members of the Intelligence Community, and Congressional Leaders. Synchronizes efforts across the agency in support of the Director's speeches, briefings, meetings, and conferences. Plans, coordinates, and travels with the Director on local and international visits, ensuring adherence to laws, regulations, and policy. Manages the Director's four separate offices. Show less

• Director, Content Management Office

  • Aug 2014 - Jul 2015

  Responsible for assessing, service enabling and integrating timely, valid, and relevant geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) and partner content into NGA's Map of the World. MoW is an NGA service that provides visualizations of spatially enabled content for NGA's Intelligence Community and DoD partners.



US Army

• United States
• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• Colonel (Doctoral Candidate)

  • Jul 2011 - Aug 2014

  Research foci: risk, risk modeling, social vulnerability, indicators, susceptibility, adaptive capacity, downscaling. Obtained a PhD in Geography. Dissertation title: A Comprehensive Disaster Risk Index for the United States.

• Duty Director of Intelligence

  • Aug 2010 - Jun 2011

  Command select position. Served as the senior intelligence director for the Operational Intelligence Watch (OIW); responsible for a six member team of multi-service intelligence operators. Led 24/7 watch operations for NORAD-NORTHCOM. Represented the N-NC J2 after hours and ensured quality/timeliness of multiple daily intelligence products; monitored six warning problems. Was the focal point for reporting to the N-NC leadership from domestic and allied intelligence, law enforcement, and homeland security agencies. Briefed flag officers regularly, provided time-sensitive critical intelligence in support of N-NC's mission to detect, deter, and defeat strategic and asymmetric threats against the US homeland. Supported National Security Special Events and other time sensitive events that required immediate feedback to the SECDEF and POTUS. Show less

• Branch Chief and Senior Analyst, J24S Analytical Supprt Branch

  • Feb 2010 - Aug 2010

  Served as the branch chief for the NORAD-NORTHCOM J24S and as the senior analyst for environmental issues. Led 16 bi-national military, civilian, and contract personnel in intelligence support for the N-NC commander. Served as the J2 lead for Defense Support to Civil Authorities (DSCA) and Humanitarian Assistance / Disaster Response (HA/DR). Conducted long term intelligence analysis and short-term intelligence assessments for the N-NC Area of Responsibility on DSCA and HA/DR, the physical and human environment, critical infrastructure, the Arctic, and maritime issues. Was the focal point for open source intelligence at N-NC. N-NC Commander’s primary intelligence briefer; briefed flag officers routinely, providing time-sensitive critical intelligence and analysis in support of the command’s mission. Show less

• Chief, Current Intelligence Branch

  • Oct 2009 - Feb 2010

  Served as the Strategic Intelligence Advisor to the US Ambassador for Afghanistan and military representative to the Embassy Executive Briefing Team. Responsible for providing the Ambassador daily operations and intelligence information designed to raise his personal awareness of critical threats and his overall awareness of Commander, International Security and Assistance Forces’ (ISAF) operational priorities. Served in a coordination role between various intelligence agencies, Other Government Agencies, US Forces – Afghanistan, ISAF Joint Command, and ISAF to provide situational awareness to the Director, USFOR-A Liaison to the US Embassy (L/EMB), Kabul. Produced a daily strategic intelligence product distributed throughout the Afghanistan intelligence and operations community of interest. Provided security/force protection updates to the Ambassador and L/EMB. Analyzed threats to US/Coalition forces and political-military events. Show less

• Senior Analyst, J22 General Military Intelligence Division

  • Nov 2008 - Oct 2009

  Served as the senior analyst for the N-NC J22 General Military Intelligence Division. Led 57 military, civilian and contract personnel in intelligence support for the Commander, NORAD-USNORTHCOM. Managed daily production in order to provide actionable threat assessments and timely warning of worldwide threats against North America; monitored five warning problems. Was the focal point for reporting to the N-NC leadership from domestic and allied intelligence, law enforcement, and homeland security agencies. Was the focal point for open source intelligence at N-NC. N-NC Commander’s primary intelligence briefer; briefed flag officers routinely, providing time-sensitive critical intelligence and analysis in support of the command’s mission. Served as the Senior Intelligence Officer for the Combined Joint Chiefs of Staff-mandated Mobile Consolidated Command Center (command select position). Show less

• Duty Director of Intelligence

  • Nov 2007 - Nov 2008

  Command select position. Served as the senior intelligence director for the Operational Intelligence Watch (OIW); responsible for a six member team of multi-service intelligence operators. Led 24/7 watch operations for NORAD-NORTHCOM. Represted the N-NC J2 after hours and ensured quality/timeliness of multiple daily intelligence products; monitored six warning problems. Was the focal point for reporting to the N-NC leadership from domestic and allied intelligence, law enforcement, and homeland security agencies. Briefed flag officers regularly, provided time-sensitive critical intelligence in support of N-NC's mission to detect, deter, and defeat strategic and asymmetric threats against the US homeland. Supported National Security Special Events and other time sensitive events that required immediate feedback to the SECDEF and POTUS. Show less

• Student

  • Jul 2007 - Nov 2007

  Attended Joint and Combined Warfighting School.

• Student

  • Jul 2006 - Jul 2007

  Received a master's degree in strategic intelligence.

• Assistant Professor

  • May 2005 - Jul 2006

  Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at the United States Military Academy. Charged with educating, training, and inspiring cadets. Responsible for the academic, moral-ethical, and military development of over 150 cadets enrolled in the Department’s core course in Physical Geography and an upper-level elective course, EV-389B (Climatology). Responsible for synchronizing the administration of each course, preparing lesson material, and examinations. Mentored cadets by serving as an academic counselor, family mentor, Army football mentor, and leadership trainer. Pursued an active research agenda in professional geography. Served as the personnel officer for the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering as well as the officer in charge of Land Navigation Training. Show less

• Instructor

  • Jun 2003 - May 2005

  Served as an instructor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at the United States Military Academy. Charged with educating, training, and inspiring cadets. Responsible for the academic, moral-ethical, and military development of over 150 cadets enrolled in the Department’s core course in Physical Geography and an upper-level elective course, EV-389B (Climatology). Responsible for synchronizing the administration of each course, preparing lesson material, and examinations. Mentored cadets by serving as an academic counselor, family mentor, Army football mentor, and leadership trainer. Pursued an active research agenda in professional geography. Served as the personnel officer for the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering as well as the officer in charge of Land Navigation Training. Show less



St. Thomas Aquinas College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Instructor

  • Jan 2004 - May 2006

  Served as an adjunct instructor at St. Thomas Aquinas College. Taught human geography, marketing, environmental geology, and environmental biology. Served as an adjunct instructor at St. Thomas Aquinas College. Taught human geography, marketing, environmental geology, and environmental biology.



US Army

• 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Carson, CO

• Cavalry Troop Commander

  • Apr 2001 - Apr 2003

  Commanded an Armored Cavalry Troop with a Force Package One, worldwide contingency 96 hour deployment requirement with the mission to conduct reconnaissance, security, and economy of force operations. Responsible for the tactical employment, training, morale, discipline and warfighting capabilities of 130 soldiers. Also responsible for the operational readiness and accountability of 36 vehicles, consisting of nine M1A2 tanks, thirteen M3A2 Bradley cavalry fighting vehicles, two M1064A3 120mm mortar carriers, two M113A3 armored personnel carriers, one M88A1 recovery vehicle, one M577 tactical operations center, seven wheeled vehicles, and ancillary equipment worth over $60 million. Planned, coordinated, supervised, and evaluated the training and professional development of four combat platoons, a mortar section, a maintenance section, and a headquarters section consisting of soldiers covering twelve military occupational specialties and six skill levels. Show less