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Salado, Tx, Us

Jarrell, Texas, United States

Kcen-Tv Studios, Bruceville-Eddy, Tx

Around two nights a week, generally on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I appear live on the 6 p.m. newscast and offer some brief analysis of a military-related topic.

Harker Heights, Tx

From National Security to Texas Energy Security.Co-founder, co-owner, and partner of Central Texas’s only solar PV panel design, installation, and monitoring company. Annual sales for this successful startup exceeded $750,000 in the first year. Solar CenTex continues to bring solar energy to Central Texas! "Energize, Educate, and Engage"...takes all three to communicate the importance of solar and what it can do for Texas energy security, Central Texas jobs, and most importantly - to lower consumer electricity bills TODAY and in the future.

Fort Hood, Tx

Senior communications and public relations strategy advisor and planner to the commanding general of one of the largest military bases in the world. Supervise a staff of Department of the Army civilians and military personnel. In charge of internal and external communications as well as community relations, to include a robust social media presence, a weekly newspaper with a distribution of over 1 million copies a year, an internal television station, and an internet radio station.• Overhauled the Corps’ media relations program and methods of internal communication. These initiatives included building, from scratch, a world-class television studio and a world-class internet radio station, securing weekly time for the command, live on-the-air, with the region’s top-rated television and radio programs, establishing a solid social media presence for the command, and increasing the reach of the Commanding General’s weekly newspaper by making it a quality, online product. These efforts geometrically increased the reach of the organization’s message, and they were instrumental to the command’s successful communications during the tragic Nov. 5th, 2009 shootings at Fort Hood. I developed and refined the organization’s Standard Operating Procedures for tactical environments, validating these procedures in exercises in Korea, at Fort Hood, and eventually in a wartime environment in Iraq. Lead architect and executor of the communications strategy during and since the tragic Nov. 5th, 2009 shootings at Fort Hood and subsequent legal proceedings. Planned, managed, and executed messaging, press conferences, analysis and feedback, and media logistical requirements for the command with over 300 national and international media on site during the event, including a memorial ceremony attended by the President and First Lady.

Baghdad, Iraq

Served as the trusted advisor, sounding board, and action officer to the United States Forces Iraq 2-star general in charge of civil affairs and communications for the theater. (He would also become the Army’s next Chief of Public Affairs). Was also responsible for messaging for the 3-star Commanding General of III Corps, accomplished with in-theater international media and, via live satellite and embeds, central Texas media. Responsible for the largest single public affairs operation by the US Military in Iraq, when, during the withdrawal of the last combat units from Iraq, synchronized messaging and executed live coverage by numerous national media outlets throughout Iraq and Kuwait, including live interviews with senior military leaders.

Various Locations Worldwide

Principal external and internal communications advisor to the commanding general responsible for Army operations and logistics in a 27-country area ranging from Kazakhstan to Kenya, with extensive travel over a 24-month period. As the Speechwriter and later Special Assistant to the Commanding General, United States Army Central/Coalition Forces Land Component Command, I served as the commanding general’s primary communicator, preparing speeches, correspondence, and selected presentations and briefings for the commanding general both in the United States and, in particular, during the commanding general’s extensive travel in the 27-country US Central Command Area of Responsibility.

Throughout Alaska

Served as the principal public affairs adviser to the 2-star United States Army Alaska (USARAK) Commander and his 9,200 assigned soldiers and DA civilians in Alaska's three geographically separate posts. While leading a staff of soldiers and Department of the Army civilians stationed more than 350 miles apart, I developed, coordinated, synchronized, and executed vital communications operations for the command at the local, state, and national levels on issues as diverse and controversial as land encroachment, the fielding of a Stryker Brigade, the transfer of Fort Greely, multiple environmental assessments and impact statements, and reorganization and deployment of multiple units to combat, including the 20th Public Affairs Detachment, a unit under my operational control in garrison. The results were superb. During this period as the command’s primary spokesman, speech writer, and community relations officer, I was also responsible for publication of the command’s award-winning weekly newspaper, for the production of the two television command channels, and for control the organization’s internet presence, all of which were formally lauded at the US Army Pacific level and above. My consistent and personal role as the liaison between the command and the Alaska State Legislature, as well with as congressional delegation staffers, not only allowed the command to focus their attention in other areas, but empowered legislators to be in the best-informed position to assist the command.

United States Military Academy

Responsible for instructing cadets in introductory philosophy (with heavy emphasis on logic, moral thinking, ethical theory, just war theory, and discerning the moral complexities of war and the officer’s moral responsibilities in combat) as well as advanced composition. Served as the executive officer for the Introduction to Philosophy course my last year, with a total enrollment of 900 students.

Various Locations Worldwide

Promoted rapidly through a series of increasingly responsible leadership and management positions with the U.S. Army. Led various combat organizations as an Armor officer, including distinguished service for valor in Operation Desert Storm.

Bs, General Engineering

Ma, Mass Communication (Public Relations), 4.0

Activities and Societies: Vice President, Graduate Students in Mass Communication, University of Florida Chapter.Selected as Outstanding.

Ma, Philosophy