Expert in leading and building organizations working on innovative and cutting edge solutions to some of the world's most challenging problems in both the public and private sector to include critical infrastructure protection, business development, project management, counterterrorism, counterproliferation and integrating artificial intelligence into current infrastructure.• Expert at Special Operations with over 26 years of U.S. Army experience as a manager and operational director• Broad leadership expertise ranging from a 12-person up to a three thousand person organization• Skilled at aligning interagency, international, and private sector interests • Certified Contracting Officer Representative (COR) with extensive oversight and vetting experience of federal contracts• Expert at developing and executing long and short term plans at the strategic and operational levels• Expert at protecting critical infrastructure • Highly experienced program manager for consequence management throughout multiple layers of the U.S. federal, and local governments• Managed large, complex budgets and programs of more than $30 million• Incorporating unmanned aerial systems into government and civilian programs