Position Specific Qualifications:

• Veteran recipient of a Healing Towers trip 2019
• CVC Mentor for Healing Towers veterans 2020
• Operator of Uninspected Passenger Vessel with 100-ton Master’s upgrade
• Assistant fishing guide for Navarre Kayak Fishing
• Competitive Sports Fisherman “Team Reels n Dirt” La Paz Mexico
• Active member in multiple Outdoor recreation veteran organizations

Qualifications Summary:

24-year veteran Special Forces officer with nine years of command experience leading diverse organizations.  Consistently recognized as a top 5% executive in a competitive field. Acknowledged for success in leadership, project management, policy development, and fiscal consulting. Management experience derives from leading diverse organizations from 12 – 1000 employees in the most complex & volatile environments imaginable.

• Special Operations
• Strategic Leader
• Strategic Planner
• Systemic Operational Design
• Operational Management
• Counter Terrorism
• Unconventional Warfare
• Coach, Train, & Evaluate
• Security Clearance – Top Secret–SCI–SAP

Experience

2018-Current:  President, B3 Professional Consulting, Gulf Breeze, Florida: 

• Provide performance assessment, evaluate and the develop short-term goals and strategic vision.
• Provide clients with a nation-wide network offering opportunities to in government contracting and enter new research and development markets within the Security & intelligence space.
• Serve as a “Turnaround Expert”, provide clients with a premier solution to leadership and program management shortfalls by working directly with senior leaders to achieve requirements in “at risk” portfolios.

2017-2018:  Chief Operating Officer, The Institute of Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola, Florida:

• Responsible for daily operations synchronizing research teams with administrative staff directorates to optimize performance
• Responsible for maintaining three research facilities as well as all construction and renovation
• Synchronized facilities support with special events in order to gain maximum exposure for the organization facilitating fund raising.  

2016-2017:  Accessions Director, United States Special Operations Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida:

• Consult a four-star general, regarding a $13 billion portfolio covering 21 programs.
• Coordinate across the DOD regarding fungible equipping requirements to maximize the return on investment while maintaining competitive edge over adversaries.
• Oversee five chief financial officers ensuring subordinate headquarters adhere to budgetary compliance and programing guidance.

2014-2015:  Director of Operations, Combined Joint Task Force – Syria Train & Equip, Al Ueid Air Force Base, Qatar: 

• Reported daily to a two-star general
• Synchronized operations of moderate Syrian fighters & the coalition partners
  • Defend the Syrian people
  • Stabilize local villages & promote the conditions for a negotiated settlement
  • Facilitated the tactical victory of moderate Syrian fighters over ISIL/Daesh

2014:  Commander, “Task Force Valiant,” Zabul Province, Regional Command South, Afghanistan: 

• Commanded 1000 personnel & a small city of 3000 occupants in hostile territory
• Duties / Responsibilities:
  • Defeat terrorist networks
  • Utilize surveillance drones
  • Manage informants
  • Intercept enemy cell and radio signals
  • Establish satellite communications networks.

2012-2013:  Commander, Special Troops Battalion, Fort Knox, Kentucky:

• Commanded 700 personnel
• Trained a BN TF, Advise & Assist Operations, SFAB academy, FT Polk, LA
• Duties / Responsibilities:
  • Engineering company (horizontal construction & route clearance)
  • Intelligence company (collection & analysis of technical surveillance data)
  • Satellite communications networking company.

2010-2012, Executive Officer, Deputy Commander, United States Special Operations, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida:

• Reported daily to a three-star general
• Duties / Responsibilities:
  • Design solutions to complex problems
  • Communicate strategic guidance across the Dept. of Defense
  • Facilitate a secure, flexible, & mobile headquarters, expedite projects through executive/national level boards such as, National Security Council, Chairman Joint Chiefs, & the Director National Intelligence.

2008-2010, Assistant Director of Operations, United States Special Operations Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida:

• Conducted program oversight (manage long & short-term goals) for nine classified portfolios
• Consulted the Department of State, FBI, CIA, & DOD on portfolio activities

2007, Operations Officer, 3^rd Battalion 3^rd Special Forces Group, Fort Bragg, North Carolina: 

• Synchronized the training management of 300 Green Berets & special skills Soldiers as they prepared for combat operations in Afghanistan
• Deployed 72 Green Berets & a forward logistics node as part of the “Surge”

2006, Commander, Task Force “Bushmaster” 2006-2007, Camp Morehead, Kabul, Afghanistan: 

• Commanded 72 “Green Berets” & a small city of over 300 employees in hostile territory
• Duties / Responsibilities:
  • Neutralize terrorist networks
  • Train and fighting alongside Afghan commandos
  • Manage informants
  • Intercept cell & radio signals
  • Establish satellite communications networks.

2002-2005:  Observer Controler, Fort Polk, Louisiana:

• Led 2-man team of Green Berets (ODB O/C)
  • Responsible for Coaching Teaching & mentoring Special Operations Forces during Pre- Mission Training events at the Joint Readiness Training Center
    • Train & Prepare Operational Detachment Alpha’s for employment
    • Infiltrate & Exfiltrate Special Operations Forces
    • Foreign Internal Defense at the Regimental or Brigade size
    • Special Operations Command & Control Element or Special Forces Liaison Element
    • Advanced Operating Base to expand Command & Control for a Joint Special Operations Task Force or Special Operations Task Force
    • Isolation facility
  • Led a 3-man team of Green Berets (ODA O/C)
    • Responsible for Coaching Teaching & mentoring Special Operations Forces during Pre- Mission Training events at the Joint Readiness Training Center
      • Unconventional Warfare
        • Subversion
        • Sabotage
        • Guerilla warfare
      • Training partner nations security forces
      • Counter Terrorism
      • Hostage rescue
      • Reconnaissance & surveillance

1999-2002:  Special Forces Commander, Okinawa, Japan:

• Commanded 12 Green Berets
  • Unconventional Warfare
    • Subversion
    • Sabotage
    • Guerilla warfare
  • Training partner nations security forces
  • Counter Terrorism
  • Hostage rescue
  • Reconnaissance & surveillance.

1993-1996:  Platoon Leader, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii & Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia: 

• Commanded 30 Army Infantry & Rangers
  • Small Unit Tactics (Rifle Platoon)
  • Reconnaissance & Surveillance (Reconnaissance Platoon)
  • Direct Action & Forced Entry Operations (Ranger Rifle Platoon)

Education

1992:  Bachelor of Science, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky.  BS from WKU focused on Physical Education. 

2005:  Masters of Arts, The School of Advanced Military Studies, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.  MA focused on “Design Thinking” & Strategic planning.  Apple & Nike have used “Design Thinking” to outperform the S&P 500 for over 10 years.

2015:  Masters of Arts, United States Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.  MA focused on strategic leadership & the development of U.S. military policy.

Additional Training & Education

• Infantry Basic Officers Course
• Airborne School
• Air Assault School
• Pathfinder School
• Ranger School
• Master Fitness Trainers Course
• Infantry Officers Advanced Course
• Special Forces Selection
• Special Forces Qualification Course
• Combat Diver Qualification Course
• Joint Personnel Recovery
• Advanced Personnel Recovery
• Advanced Special Operations
• Jump Master Course (Master Rated)
• Command & General Staff College
• Combined Arms & Staff School
• Special Forces Advanced Reconnaissance & Target Acquisition Exploitation Course