David Molina Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Greater Seattle Area

A business brokerage firm that helps entrepreneurs buy and sell their businesses. I help owners navigate valuations and address pain points to sell and go onto the next chapter. Feel free to book a discovery call on my Calendly.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Fuerza is a boutique H-2A government compliance firm in support of American family farms, U.S. food security, and economic opportunities for foreign workers to provide for their families.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Veteran-founded and led, Molinas is a mission driven government contracting firm specializing in leasing, equipment and material equipment support services.

Portland, Oregon, United States

After a decade in uniform as an enlisted soldier & officer, I was disappointed I couldn’t use my New GI Bill to pay for tuition, room and board to learn to code at the Flatiron School. At the time zero code schools across the country accepted the GI Bill due to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs bureaucratic red tape. Undeterred I began attending Ruby on Rails meetups in Baltimore while still on active-duty, RailsConf, Calagator, and several Ruby meetups once back in Portland. After learning enough, I wrote and deployed the first line of code of operationcode.org on August 21, 2014 to petition Congress to expand the GI Bill to include code schools. This little website took off like a rocket as I discovered thousands of veterans who were in the same boat, as well as code schools who needed help navigating the regulatory hurdles.The entire team operates in a remote, decentralized operating environment using Slack as our central nerve center. During my tenure, when not on Slack I spent the majority of my time coordinating national efforts with the board of directors, tweeting, recruiting & retaining the best & brightest software engineers at tech conferences to become mentors, lobbying Congress, ensuring there was enough money in the bank, judging hackathons, and speaking at forums and events on the need to invest in our nation’s finest to fill the nation’s technical talent shortage.After over 30 code schools across 20 states accepting the GI Bill, service members receiving software mentorship in our Slack channel, secured $75 million funding over five-years to help veterans learn software development through the VET TEC Act, and chapter leaders hosting hundreds of meetups globally across 19-time zones creating talent pipelines impacting communities around the globe I stepped down to allow new leadership to take the organization to the next level.Learn more about Operation Code at: https://operationcode.org/.

Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, United States

Mobilized as a 1st Lieutenant and promoted to Captain upon arrival in a unique war-time, joint assignment comprised of active, reserve, guard, DoD civilians, GS-employees and every branch of the services represented. I served in a key executive staff role to support the transition of the Joint Personal Effects Depot transition from Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland to Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. As the S-2/3 OIC, I was the action officer on the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony that hosted hundreds of VIP, senior military and Pentagon officials and point on public affairs and protocol.During 24 months on active-duty in a battalion staff role, I authored Standard Operating Procedures for new Dover AFB processes, established public affairs/protocol procedures coordinating all unit visits in conjunction with Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations (AFMAO)/Armed Forces Medical Examiner System (AFMES) and Wing, including flag officers and Members of Congress. In this role, I served as the Army Liaison to the Secretary of the Army and Sergeant Major of the Army during President Obama’s visit to Dover in August 2011.On the public affairs front, I launched our intranet website–SharePoint, to better coordinate cross departmental efforts, and trained department personnel on HTML and page maintenance. Externally, I launched the command’s external website, a top-level domain at www.jped.mil using DotNetNuke, a CMS-platform.I was honored and humbled to work alongside two of the finest Noncommissioned Officers, Sgt. First Class Dana Waite (S-2 NCOIC), and Sgt. First Class Chester Craig (S-3 NCOIC), and great mentors in Commissioned Officers Lt. Col. Kelly Kyburz (Commander), and Lt. Col. Harvey Baker (Executive Officer), and some of the most caring souls dedicated to preserving the lasting memories of those who gave the ultimate and our wounded service members.Learn more about leading and serving your country at: https://www.goarmy.com/.

New York, New York, United States

I worked with co-founder & software engineer, Vitaliy Dikker, who I met at AngelHack Hackathon Summer 2012 on social note taking app, NestNote, which aimed to help users on Twitter capture reminders, to-do’s, notes, and store them privately for later viewing. Organic to Twitter, NestNote converted hashtags into “digital files” and tweets into reminders and notes. Users could use NestNote to create reminders and notes by simply adding a #hashtag (filename) and the user-handle @nestnote to the tweet and NestNote did the rest. Example: #books Read Good to Great @nestnote.In this role, I wrote press releases and wrote copy, pitched bloggers and influencers to try out NestNote. Unfortunately, NestNote didn’t get the traction we expected, but I got hooked on building a startup and began my transition to learn to code, apply to code school, and exit active-duty.

Portland, Oregon, United States

After returning from an 18-month active-duty mission at Aberdeen Proving Ground and a very short stint at the Oregon legislature I relaunched our bilingual recruiting and consulting company into a bilingual (Spanish/ English) staffing business and landed a few clients placing bilingual talent for temporary admin roles. During this period, I served on the Oregon Staffing Association Board of Directors as Legislative Director, maintained an e-newsletter, and interviewed dozens for our BilingualHire podcast using iPhone voice memos and hosting them on Posterous (since acquired by Twitter). We put the company on hiatus during our mobilization to Dover AFB, but learned a ton about flexible workforce development.

Salem, Oregon, United States

Fresh off active-duty, I spent 6 months staffing the House Committee on Veterans & Emergency in the Oregon legislature. During my tenure, I managed Representative Jean Cowan and Committee Members veterans & emergency services legislative priorities with precision and drive. I learned how legislation becomes law and treasure the great mentorship by the Chair, Rep. Jean Cowan and her Chief of Staff, Patrick Sieng, as well as my Committee Services mentor, Patrick Brennan. My favorite memory was working on the WWII Memorial Highway legislation with Medal of Honor Bob Maxwell and retired Lt. Col Dick Tobiason of Bend, Oregon, and the many veterans organizations across the state doing amazing work. During this period I met a great mentor in Navy veteran Tony Ornelas who served on the Oregon Department of Veterans Affairs Advisory Council, and Tom Mann in the agency’s public affairs.Committee managers, Rick & Patty, took a chance on a young Army lieutenant w/ this very cool job at the state’s capitol and through the process helped him become a better writer and understand how ideas become law.Highlight: meeting other fellow veterans serving as legislators and continuing their service to country. Would inspire me years later.

Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, United States

Mobilized and served 18 months active-duty in support of a unique joint organization responsible for the collection, inventory and return of the personal effects of Fallen Services Members and Wounded Service Members. Upon arrival from Fort Riley, Kansas we were assigned to stand up the night shift (4pm - midnight) and responsible for a 8-person team comprised of military and DoD contractors. During the latter half of my tour, I transferred over to staff and was tasked to co-author the Department of Defense Center for Army Lessons Learned Joint Personal Effects Depot (JPED) Handbook. After this extensive writing assignment, I continued to author dozens of operational improvement memos, authored and revised Standard Operating Procedures, and was assigned assistant billing official with additional coursework at the Pentagon. Prior to departing I created performance measures and cross training certifications for improved readiness. The assignment was forever humbling and life changing and would’ve never thought I would be called upon by the incoming Commander to join the unit again a few years later.

Vancouver, Washington, United States

As a fresh Army 2nd Lieutenant I was selected as an Aide-de-Camp for Army Brigadier General Eldon Regua, Assistant Division Commander-Operations, the number two (2) in the entire division, and helped the General fulfill his duties at a 36,000 foot view.In this role, I traveled extensively with General Regua coordinating all transportation and lodging, coordinate protocol, schedule meetings and visits, helped draft and provide editorial support on speeches, and worked closely with the Secretary of the General Staff, Maj. Ignacio Perez. Sometimes I would Aide-de-Camp for the Commanding General, Maj. Gen. TK Moffett with travels throughout the western United States and downrange where unit Drill Sergeants were mobilized including Ft. Knox, Kentucky. It meant not just protecting his time, but make his time on the ground count by helping get soldiers promoted, soldier issues resolved, and one-one-time with senior staff.Left assignment due to pending mobilization.

Portland, Oregon, United States

Served as the first Director of Fund Development & Special Projects for the Susannah Maria Gurule (SMG) Foundation, a Latino serving community-based organization dedicated towards reducing health disparities by educating families and children, empowering young Latina women and breast-cancer preventative awareness.During my short tenure, I coordinated the three (3) day Salud Familiar Latina/o Family Health Fair & Conference at the University of Portland, the one (1) day Latinos & Diabetes Seminar for Primary Care Providers at the World Forestry Center, and won a $10K grant from the Lowe’s Charitable & Educational Foundation for organizational facility improvements. I was also a member of the Willamette Valley Development Officers, a nonprofit dedicated to training area development officers. I worked under the guidance and mentorship of Executive Director, Marie Dahlstrom, and founder/board chair, Clara Padilla-Andrews, a former New Mexico Secretary of State.I was really bummed to leave this position to become co-founder at RED Consulting Group and lead bilingual executive searches, but it certainly prepared me for anything and I credit the incredible mentorship and watching two of the most humble, forthright and fierce Latina leaders anywhere in Portland at the time.

Portland, Oregon, United States

After a 6-month international internship in Costa Rica I returned to the states determined to write and own a newspaper. I reached out to this historic Hispanic publication, and owner Clara Padilla-Andrews, and editor-in-chief, Julie Cortez gave me an opportunity to learn the trade. I wrote just a few articles in-between finishing up my B.A. in political science, including:Los Angeles, California: Dec 17, 2003, “Series of Spanish Rock Concerts Raises Scholarships for Hispanics.”Woodburn, Oregon: Oct 29, 2003, “Latino Educational and Recreational Network Receives High Award.”Highlight: representing El Hispanic News y Mas in Los Angeles, California at a concert where Maldita Vecindad, Molotov, and Gran Silencio played live.

San José, San Jose, Costa Rica

Accepted to an international internship (IE3) in San Jose, Costa Rica, I researched, drafted and published articles for the Institute for Central American Studies (ICAS) monthly journal, Mesoamerica, that focused on the realities of Central America and understanding of the region.I cut my teeth here writing/ editing copy and credit the Executive Director, Linda Holland, for her persistence and helping me improve my writing. In 2014, ICAS was renamed to the Institute for Central American Development Studies. During my time in-country, I joined the Club de Montañismo at La Universidad de Costa Rica and trekked a ton on weekends to places that were not on tourist maps. I also improved my Spanish during this time, and along with other ICAS interns got to explore the city and its people, and the countryside.Tips for college students? Get on an international internship and learn more about the world and how folks live and work.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Political Science And Government

Activities and Societies: Army ROTC, Sigma Nu, and ASOSU

Scaling Up Excellence- Lban

Activities and Societies: Stanford Latino Entrepreneur Initiative

Education record

Between Southeast Portland Grind coffee and NedSpace, Portland’s original co-working I spent the first few months of 2014 learning HTML.

Infantry Officer Basic Course (Iobc), Military Science, Leadership And Operational Art

Selected Infantry as first choice during college/ Army ROTC because of the natural fit. When I was enlisted and assigned to the 364th.