• Serves as the Chief, Strategic Initiatives & Sr. Reserve Advisor (J-0), Joint Functional Component Command - Integrated Missile Defense (JFCC-IMD), United States Space Command (USSPACECOM) and Space Operations Officer (FA40).• Provides Joint Space and Integrated Missile Defense (IMD) technical expertise, strategy analysis, leadership and support to JFCC-IMD’s execution and support of United States Space Command’s assigned Unified Command Plan tasks of Global Sensor Management and Trans-Regional Missile Defense.• Reviews and updates emerging strategy and policies, plans and directives from Congress, Office of Secretary of Defense, and the Joint community that impacts JFCC-IMD's technical and organizational ability to execute its IMD mission.• Leads a highly qualified team of 25+ Soldiers that provide support across all directorates within the Command and advises JFCC-IMD on the implementation of United States Army Reserve Soldiers and of staff augmentation to perform its mission in time of steady state operations, competition, crisis, and conflict.• Previous positions held include Senior Space Wargame Planner (Joint), Battalion Commander, Division Chief, Senior Space Exercise Planner Team Chief, Space Innovation Officer, Strategic Plans Officer (Joint), Exercise Branch Team Chief, Division Current Operations Integration Center Officer, Division Assistant Chief of Staff (Intelligence), Battalion Operations Officer, Division Operations Officer and Division Assistant Chief of Plans.

• Led the Space Sector daily operations for Space, Missile Defense, and Cyber programs in support of the DoD and other Government customers; to include a team of 70+ employees and the execution of a $45M (P&L responsibility) portfolio.• Improved culture, communications and team, business partners, and customer engagement within the Space Sector. Implemented process and procedures leading to improved communication, coordination and synchronization with the business office that resulted in improved financial accuracy, reduced business rhythm cycle times, and overall business partner and customer satisfaction.• Provided direct leadership, program management, and technical direction for Task Orders supporting Space Rapid Capabilities Office (SpRCO), Rapid Resilient Command and Control (R2C2) Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract for the development of ground-systems software. • Led and supported successful business development, capture management, and proposal activities in pursuits and contract awards for the United States Army, United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command, and United States Space Force.

• Led and managed an agile execution cross-functional and matrixed team of 50+ employees and contractors and oversaw the execution of a $64M (P&L responsibility) Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contract, Other Transaction Agreement/Authority (OTA), to develop and maintain a software factory for satellite-based applications for the Space Development Agency (SDA) Battle Management Command, Control, and Communications (BMC3) Application Factory (AppFac) Program and Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA).• Ensured identification of key deliveries and interdependencies between the BMC3 Ecosystem, associate contractor deliverables, and planned BMC3 integration, test and deployment activities.• Participated in milestone reviews and other National Defense Space Architecture (NDSA) activities to maintain situational awareness and ensure interoperability with other aspects of the NDSA; including Space Vehicle Vendor milestone reviews; Operations and Integration (O&I) Contractor milestone reviews; BMC3 Application developer software development milestone events; SDA Engineering Review Boards.• Collaborated with Space Vehicle and Operations and Integration Vendors, other team contractors, government civilians, and military members of the Space Development Agency and United States Space Force.

• Led a team supporting a $94.5M Technical and Engineering Support (STS-3) task order to deliver services to the Space Systems Integration Office of Space Systems Command (SSC) as a Space System Integrator across Program Executive Offices, Space Operations Command and Rapid Capability initiatives.• Collaborated with the Space Warfare and Analysis Center (SWAC) for Force Design formulation and flow down and developed new roadmaps and architectures beyond Force Design.• Collaborated with cross-mission teams to identify technology and material solution needs and gaps and influence and existing reference architectures, program requirements, and planning, programming, budgeting, and execution (PPBE).• Focus areas included Data Fabric, Cross Mission Data, Space Data Transport, Edge and Distributed Compute and Storage, Space Command and Control (C2), Space Domain Awareness (SDA), Battle Management, Command, Control, and Communications (BMC3), Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), and Department of Airforce (DAF) Command, Control, Communications and Battle Management (C3BM) initiatives in support of Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2).• Participated in corporate business development, pursuit, and capture activities that resulted in multiple contract awards.

• Led and managed a high-performing team of 30+ employees and contractors to improve delivery for a Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP) Acquisition Category (ACAT) Level III military satellite communications and control system capability to the Warfighter.• Provided leadership and oversight for functional leads, engineers, and subcontractors to ensure timely and accurate execution of contractual requirements, manages and mitigates program risk to achieve program objectives.• Managed control accounts for program management and subcontractor control accounts using Earned Value Management System (EVMS) and coordinated with other account managers on the status and impacts to the program Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).• Led and supported business development engagements and strategic growth strategies.

• Led and managed a team of 20+ software engineers providing leading-edge solutions to directly support Rapid Capability Offices (RCOs), United States Space Force (USSF)’s Space Systems Command (SSC), Space Warfighters, and the Advanced Ground Systems (AGS) program, state-of-the-art Space Battle Management Command and Control (BMC2) systems leveraging advanced technology across a diverse portfolio of applications and programs.• Managed software engineer’s program execution, staffing, and performance, developed and executed project execution plans, implemented policies and procedures and tactical goals, provided technical oversight.• Developed and maintained relationships and partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, partners, and direct reports.• Led and oversaw the employment of agile methodologies for design, development, and delivery using a DevSecOps continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline for applications built specifically to support modeling and simulation, satellite systems, system integration and data architecture.

• Led and staffed a contract support team consisting of 50+ intelligence subject matter experts and managed all phases of the Intelligence Directorate (J2) Space Command (USSPACECOM) contract valued in excess of $20M (P&L responsibility); to include daily execution of mission requirements and worked closely with members of the Intelligence Community (IC).• Directed program operations to meet production schedules and employed resources exceeding customer requirements and expectations and delivered timely, objective, and cogent military intelligence to warfighters, defense planners and national security policy makers.

• Headed program and engineering management and software agile development and systems engineering for the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Modeling and Simulation Program leading Model Based System Engineering (MBSE), Digital Engineering (DE) and Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) for Missile Defense and Space System of Systems (SoS) across all aspects of the Engineering ‘V’.• Led planning and execution of a program budget in excess of $100M.• Guided and synchronized digital integration and operations program management team consisting of government, system engineers, architects, integrators, cyber security specialists and software developers.• Led development and operations of a secure cloud-based computing and data management system and integrated software system simulations meeting schedule, budget, technical and Risk Management Framework (RMF) requirements.• Led integration, test and verification engineering activities for MDA's mission to develop, test, and field an integrated, layered, ballistic missile defense system (BMDS) by developing and delivering robust modeling and simulation capabilities.

• Provided management consultation including strategic planning, business transformation, organizational design and change management, program and project management, business process improvement and software development and system integration using agile and scrum methodologies.• As the Director of Strategic Initiatives for an Aerospace and Defense company; oversaw strategic direction to develop and achieve business objectives through strategic stakeholder engagement, development of technology roadmaps, organizational change management system implementation, pursuit of new business development opportunities and oversight of program management and enterprise process improvements. Developed organizational capability by developing and leading high-performing software development teams to transition algorithmic solutions for data visualization, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and neural networks to programs of record and/or commercialization.• As the Senior Program Manager for an Information Technology company; delivered a complex software and hardware system and associated organizational change management system implementation solution for a technology industry client. Rescued a $70M troubled software program, recovered 30 days of schedule; completed data migration, testing and defect remediation and met scheduled “go-live date.” Prevented damage to company reputation and avoided $2M in liquidated damages. Led a diverse and dispersed and matrixed software project team with 100+ employees both on and offshore.

• Managed $20M in engineering, scientific, technical and management consulting to 3 Fortune 500 clients. • Led organizational change management and system implementation of streamlined project scoping, scheduling, project and risk management tools, resulting in increased quarterly profitability of 9.8%.• Managed project scope, cost, schedule, risk, quality and safety to ensure client satisfaction and sustained revenue growth were aligned with key business objectives and business strategy.• Led and managed delivery execution teams of more than 20 technicians, scientists and engineers.

• Managed a $10.6M execution plan and a $35M 3-year business plan, delivered injury-free operations on schedule and within budget and more than $2M in lean sigma and cost avoidance savings.• Led and facilitated organizational change management and system implementation of an enhanced change management process of enterprise risk management procedures and tools for a $36B liquid natural gas major capital project and $2B offshore deep-water major capital project.• Advanced a $2B offshore major capital project through critical decision points and milestones by managing assurance, interface and risk and engaging with senior organizational leadership.• Supervised 6 employees and 50+ contractors in support of an operating business unit’s new production construction, environmental management and asset retirement obligations.

• Managed a matrixed program team of 50+ personnel with $75M+ in total program commitments.• Led Defense a Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP) Acquisition Category (ACAT) Level II programs for both the Command, Control and Communications-Tactical, Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System and the Naval Surface Warfare Command Center’s Distributed Tactical Communications. • Executed continuous improvement and total quality management initiatives resulting in $80M in new revenue.• Led major pursuits with the Department of Homeland Security resulting in $350M in new revenue.

• Oversaw systems engineering and technical assistance support services for a Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP) Acquisition Category (ACAT) Level IA, II and III programs for the Joint Improvised Explosive Defeat Organization.• Delivered multiple mission-critical projects, providing expert leadership and management for procurement and delivery of material and nonmaterial solutions to fill urgent combat related requests.

• Led and managed a Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP) Acquisition Category (ACAT) Level III program for the Joint Program Executive Office, Chemical Biological and Defense, Joint Program Manager Guardian.• Implemented a Capability Maturity Model Integration Level 5 software program for a team of 20+ personnel.

• Supervised 7 employees, 30+ personnel and $50M in defense contracts through the Joint Capabilities Integration Development System and critical acquisition decision milestones.• Managed program portfolios and led project management and systems engineering for Defense Acquisition Category 1D and III programs for the Joint Program Executive Office’s Joint Tactical Radio Systems - Ground Mobile Radio and Chemical and Biological Defense - Joint Program Manager Information Systems.

• Led and managed project engineering, subcontractor management, interface and coordination for the Engineering Office of the United States Department of Veterans' Affairs San Diego Building 1 Seismic Correction Project. • Led planning and execution of all phases of a $52MM+ project and managed 13 subcontractors ensuring cost, schedule, performance benchmarks, customer expectations and company profitability goals were met. • Completed project 18 months ahead of schedule.

· Led and conducted direct combat operations; leading 223-person company, managing $250M+ in equipment and sustaining a 775-person combat task force.· Led a Division Battle Staff consisting of 35 personnel in planning of operations and contingency plans in response to events of September 11, 2001 in support of the Global War on Terror.· Prior positions include; Battalion Staff Officer Logistics and Assistant Operations Officer, Division Plans Officer, Heavy Mortar Platoon Leader, Company Executive Officer and Rifle Platoon Leader.