Responsible for building the business operations and data driven field services for wildfire risk assessments, monitoring, and protection in order to bring capacity to the wildfire insurance and reinsurance market through better risk pricing tools, risk mitigation, loss prevention, property monitoring, maintenance, and protection services. Work closely with software engineering and machine learning team for business and product requirements, development testing, quality assurance, and field deployment. Support Insurance Operations in client development and customer success. Developing internal and partner contractor inspection, mitigation, and wildfire protection services.

Directs all California Military Department liaison officers and planners supporting the Governor's Office of Emergency Services and state inter-agency mission partners for military support to civil authorities during emergency and disaster response. Provide best military advice for capability, suitability, feasibility, and acceptability for civil mission support requests of military resources for all hazard response. Represents the California Military Department at the strategic and operational level at the State Operations Center as an "Agency Representative" in accordance with the State Emergency Management System, the National Incident Command System, and the National Response Framework. Provides situational awareness to California Military Department of current emergency response operations and emerging civil support mission requirements.

Principal advisor to The Adjutant General of California for the employment of joint military capabilities to domestic emergency response operations and homeland security. Commander Civil Support Task Force for units in support of border customs enforcement, chemical/biological/radiological emergency response, and wild-land firefighting and fuels reduction. Directed joint staff planning team for all hazard emergency response plans and exercises, and a Global Security Operations Center for 24/7/365 situational awareness, asset tracking, crisis communications, and interagency coordination. Coordinate with local and state law enforcement, fire and rescue, and emergency management executives for preparedness and emergency response operations within the National Response Framework and the California State Emergency Management System. Led the operations team during an unprecedented year of continuous emergency operations for COVID19 pandemic response, statewide riots, search & rescue, and wildland firefighting air and ground support, and statewide mass vaccination support.

Senior policy advisor to the director of the joint staff and the commander of the California National Guard. Integrates the analysis and synthesis of future force structure requirements, force structure growth opportunities, unit locations, facility re-capitalization, economic and demographic structural effects on recruiting and retention, personnel policies. Develop recommendations for budget priorities and managing strategic risk in order to meet state emergency response requirements and federal war time mobilization requirements.

Owner and performance specialist for tactical fitness, cognitive performance enhancement, and psychological resilience training services. Advisor for human performance product and program development. Overseas experience as a training assistant for NATO military and law enforcement special operations forces.

Director of Operations and Plans for Combined Joint Task Force 40, HQ for Train, Advise, Assist, Command South, approximatley 10,000 personnel. Directed the integration of all intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance assets, strike aircraft, attack helicopters, cannon and rocket artillery, to assist Afghan army and police forces defeat Taliban offensive objectives, eliminate Taliban field commanders, and secure the population of Kandahar, Uruzgun, Zabul, and Daykundi provinces. Planned, coordinated, and led expeditionary advisor missions to assist and amplify Afghan security forces clear Taliban from key terrain. Synchronized operations with special operations forces to achieve complementary effects. Assisted Afghan security forces increase their territorial control and secure the successful 2018 parliamentary elections. Set favorable conditions in the south for the first peace negotiations with the Taliban.

Develop training plans and direct operations for the synchronization of ground combat maneuver forces, joint fires, rotary and fixed aviation support, electronic warfare support, combat engineer, sustainment, and other combat enablers. Develop with the division staff operational campaign plans to meet US national security strategy objectives. Plan and command control National Guard forces for domestic emergency response and homeland security operations.

Senior staff officer responsible for strategic plans and coordination for military support to civil authorities. Provides military capabilities advice to civilian emergency response professionals during incident management, exercise development, and pre-incident planning. Conduct research and analysis to support California Military Department organizational improvement initiatives. Provide policy planning support, budget analysis, capabilities analysis and execution oversight of Theater Security Cooperation activities as part of the Sate Partnership Program with Ukraine and Nigeria to meet US National Security and Defense Strategy policies. Additional duty as co-chair of the Ukraine National Guard Subcommittee of the US-Ukraine Bilateral Commission. Additional duty as State Biathlon Coordinator to plan, budget, and supervise state training and competition in Olympic Nordic biathlon.

Command TRADOC multi-function training battalion performing OCS, WOCS, 92Y MOS-T, and state directed leadership, instructor certification, and special skill courses. Responsible for qualifying and certifying instructors in accordance with proponent standards. Plan and task organize to meet TRADOC and state directed training missions. Develop and discipline subordinate leaders and instructors to meet training and readiness standards in a climate of professional respect and esprit de corp. Additional duties as State Marksmanship and Biathlon Coordinator, responsible for organizing and managing military competitive teams and events. Traditional part time duty.

Lead a staff of 14 officers and sergeants that run a 24/7/365 Joint Operations Center. Maintain command, control, and communications through many voice and data systems for all military operations in support of civilian authorities. Supervise the dispatching of ground and air response forces in support of civil authorities. Develop and integrate technologies that provide near real time force tracking, incident awareness, and environmental information for an inter-agency common operational picture. Developed semi-automated spreadsheet conversion tools for geo-spatial coding. Lead the working group for integrating Department of Homeland Security Unified Incident Command Decision Support (UICDS) middleware with other operational enterprise data systems, such as WebEOC, Next Incident Command System (NICS), ESRI Arc/GIS Server, and Google Earth.

Led a five person joint Army and Air planning team to develop all-hazard response plans for military support to civil authorities in accordance with the National Response Framework, State of California Emergency Response Plan, and US DoD Joint and Interagency plans doctrine. Recommendations for improved training standards were incorporated into California Military Department Regulations. Selected for a short deployment to Africa to train Nigerian military HQ staff on joint planning for military support to civilian emergency response.

Program Director and team member for California National Guard Biathlon Team. Planned team practices, recruiting efforts, budget for team uniforms, equipment, weapons, and travel. Doubled the team from one four man male team to six man male team and a four woman female team. Improved performance from bottom 50% placement to two top twenty placers in the national military championship in 2017.

Planned and directed statewide competitive shooting program for California Army and Air National Guard service members resulting in the third year in a row win at the US Army Small Arms Championship at Ft. Benning, GA in 2015. Responsible for budget planning for pay and allowances, travel, ammunition, and equipment. Developed training and coaching plans for individual and team practices. Developed a fitness training program to enhance cognitive performance under competitive stress and improve performance in the physical events of combat shooting competitions. Set conditions for mentorship and development of the next generation of California National Guard champion shooters.

Advised and mentored Afghan National Security Forces in two operations centers to improve command and control and campaign planning for counter-insurgency and area security operations. Developed automated translation tools to speed contracted interpreter work flow. Developed associated automated Afghan patrol tracking tool to allow metric driven analysis of operational effectiveness of Afghan forces, resulting in changes to Coalition emphasis on embedded advisors and partnered units. Personally led Afghan officers on battlefield patrols to improve their awareness, credibility, and effectiveness with subordinate combat units.

Chief of staff and second in command of 500 soldier battalion providing an infantry brigade with engineering, infantry security, military police, chemical/biological/radiological reconnaissance, intelligence analysis, electronic warfare, remotely piloted vehicle aerial imagery, and satellite communications, network backbone for classified and unclassified domains. Part of the executive leadership team, led the creation of this new unit and took it from a ranking of 25th in the state, to fourth in readiness metrics of personnel, training, logistics, and maintenance readiness. Commanded the unit and five attached military police companies totaling 700 soldiers during the 2007 San Diego Wildfire emergency, successfully conducting over 50% of the missions assigned to the 2,500 soldier brigade. Staging and integration area operation was identified as standard for the nation to follow by the Deputy Commander National Guard Bureau.

Developed themes, messages, and talking points to meet The Adjutant General’s intent and the Governor of California’s policy objectives for the California Military Department. Analyzed questions by the Joint Legislative Audit Committee and prepared written and oral response The Adjutant General and other senior officers. Represented the California Military Department at Governor’s Public Information Officer bi-weekly cabinet staff meetings. Conducted media interviews an media tours for The Southwest Border Mission in order to support the Governor and president of the United States public information objectives. Exercised editorial quality control for photographs and written articles for command publication to ensure regulatory style compliance.

Selected as the stay behind commander for 250 soldiers in transition and 650 deployed soldiers. Represented the battalion commander in training replacements, supporting family members, caring for the wounded in action, and ensuring full support and honor for next of kin for killed in action. Led seven full time direct reports distributed in five statewide locations. Supervised the implementation of a new automated personal records systems ensuring all soldiers deployed overseas were prioritized. Developed a geospatial demographic analysis to drive an optimized organization realignment upon the unit return to the United States.

Led a four soldier logistics plans and operations staff for 650 man air assault infantry battalion. Revised the unit planning Standing Operating Procedure to speed mission analysis and course of action development. Developed a semi-automated Quality Assurance cross reference process between personnel systems and staff and logistic systems and staff, reducing government property loss by 23%. Awarded recognition for the load out and transportation plan that allowed soldiers deploying to Iraq an extra week with their families.

Selected to assist the commanding general in scheduling unit visits, act as driver and communications operator, coordinate aircraft, identify trends in unit readiness issues, write after action reports on all key leaders visited and organizational issues raised.

Commanded 141 infantrymen, responsible for personnel, training, and logistical readiness metrics. Improved a marginally performing unit with high absenteeism and poor property accountability during high operations tempo training cycle to certify for Congressionally mandated 90 day post-mobilization training timeline. Nearly doubled re-enlistment rates from a substandard 35% to 66%. Planned and led major training exercise deployments to Hawaii, Louisiana, and California.

Improved the logistical and maintenance operations, developed an effective training management program. Planned military support operations to the water district during El Nino Flood emergency of 1998, preventing the further breach of any levees.

Second in command and leader of the headquarters section. Developed new sniper training program. Improved inventory control and maintenance operations, improving operational readiness of unit vehicles from 80% to 95%.

Developed individual and collective training plans. Supervised three subordinate sergeants responsible for personnel and armored vehicle readiness. Led 27 cavalry scouts. Developed individual and section certification training program to improve technical recon skills and subordinate leader planning skills. Led the platoon during initial emergency response to the 1994 Northridge Earthquake in direct support to Los Angeles County Sheriff Office. Conducted point and area security operations in the restricted disaster area and crowd control at FEMA and Red Cross relief centers.

Selected by the battalion commander to fill an intel position two ranks higher. Rapidly organized a two man analyst team to support three major battle simulation exercises with terrain and enemy analysis. Provided accurate predictive analysis for the commander.

Developed individual and collective training plans. Supervised four subordinate sergeants responsible for soldier and vehicle readiness. Led 36 infantrymen on a three week emergency response in direct support to Los Angeles County Sheriff Office in South Central Los Angeles during the 1992 Riots. Conducted point and area security operations and first responder escort to restore rule of law and protect life and property.

Provided hands on performance oriented desktop application training for office productivity, database, basic HTML, project management, photo editing, and illustration software. Assisted the office IT manager in managing the local network and re-imaging student workstations.

Project manager for government environmental demolition, construction and remediation contracts.

Provided management consulting services for site supervision/contract management for government environmental remediation contracts

Project management of intermediate to large scale federal government remediation and construction contracts. Experience in estimating, field supervision, site health and safety, construction quality control, scheduling and cost control, hazardous waste handling/manifesting/and transportation, sampling plan development and implementation, contract modification proposals, and contract negotiation. Team leader for implementation of new information technology. Career highlights include site management of $3 million demolition and remediation of a remote radar site in Alaska, increasing the net profit by 8%; site supervisor of a $1 million underground tank removal and above ground tank replacement project at Naval facilities in San Diego and San Clemente Island, coming in below budget and ahead of schedule tripling the profit margin from 4% to 12%.

Ensure public beach and ocean safety, provide basic first aid, and perform ocean rescues. Coordinate with park peace officers to ensure beach and wildlife law and regulation compliance.

Conducted field research and developed competitive market analysis studies for real estate developer clients in order maximize profit per square foot and/or sales velocity and future market opportunities base don regional demographic and economic trends.