Serve as the Executive Director and Secretary to a 5-member Board of Directors to lead all aspects of the District’s operations, implementing the District’s business plan, ensuring District resources are focused to meet the operational, political, informational, and economic needs of the irrigation district. Interact with local, regional, and National elected officials to inform government policy.

Elected as K.I.D.'s alternate representative to the Klamath Water Users Association and KWUA Operations Committee Chair.

Direct the daily operations of a small equine ranch to maintain and restore grazing areas, control access, oversee health, fire, and safety programs. Implement natural resource program development, policy formulation, and budget accomplishment to ensure effective veterinarian support, equipment maintenance, and investment in resources to improve and maintain ranch infrastructure.• Natural Resource Management: Employed risk management practices to implement fire controlmeasures. Successfully implemented range management to minimize grazing impact on land andstreams to maintain healthy livestock and agriculture. Analyzed and evaluated the effectiveness of therange management program in meeting established goals and objectives to ensure multi-use andsustained yield.• Financial Plans: Developed life cycle cost analyses to ensure funding priorities provided adequateresources to procure infrastructure and farm equipment. Utilized automation to improve the efficiencyof administrative support to maintain records, communications, directives, forms, files, informprocurement, and documentation related to equine sports.• Workplace Safety: Standardized ranch safety instructions and procedures to ensure informed oversightof high-hazard equine activities resulting in no workplace accidents.

Elected as a regional representative for the Klamath Basin to advise OWRC on Klamath Basin issues and to be the conduit from OWRC to inform Klamath Basin irrigators about the activities of Oregon Water Resources Congress, Oregon State Legislatures, and activities in D.C. Participated on the State affairs committee and Federal affairs committee.

Planed, developed, and directed multiple projects to set conditions for a successful transition from military service. Managed a 40K budget to facilitate the relocation of a family equine ranch from Virginia to the western U.S.• Mentored transitioning military Service members across the Department of Defense in leadership, planning, and education. Shared 20+ years of leadership experience with the Defense Security Service (DSS) to improve leaders across the Department of Defense (DoD). - Analyze and apply project management skills through Syracuse University Onward to Opportunity program.- Explore and analyze City and County Management opportunities offered through the International City Managers Association.

Policy Formulation: Consolidated conflicting National, Department, and Agency regulations into single, easily understandable policies for six organizations. Authored Army policy providing strategic communication to internal and external audiences.Leading People to Provide Results: Received over 50 military honors in recognition for outstanding leadership, training, and coalition building while leading organizations with over 1000 members in support of organizations exceeding 38,000 members. Commitment to obtaining, training, and retaining a highly skilled and diverse workforce needed to accomplish exciting and challenging missions.Program Management and Business Acumen: Synchronized the planning and execution of the a 500 member, multi-disciplined, interagency, intelligence enterprise resulting in maximum productivity across all elements to improve Department of Defense decision making. Led Department of the Army projects, including the management of multiple $100M annual budgets and diverse workforce to achieve maximum efficiencies.Coalition Building and Leveraging Diversity: Served as the primary interface and coalition builder with over 21 government and non-government organizations. Recognized on 6 separate occasions for orchestrating individual multi-million-dollar training events enhancing teams and leaders.Leading Change: Recognized as a leader of change to flatten intelligence communication and developing challenging, multi $3M+ training events across numerous agencies. Developed the Army's strategy for sustaining modern information technology.

Leading Change: Effectively communicated vision and establish trust with various stakeholders in the planning and execution of the Army-wide Windows 10 deployment of nearly 1 million computers; Hack-the-Army events; weapons systems vulnerability assessments; critical infrastructure vulnerability assessments; and responding to active persistent threat activities in cyberspace.Leading People: Led 14 Army officers and Government Service employees responsible for planning and synchronizing Army resources to defend the Army's information technology networks. Encouraged team members professional development, fostered trust across staff echelons, improved efficiency of defensive cyberspace operations.Program Management and Business Acumen: Recognized as an expert across the Department of the Army in providing program and operational guidance compatible with laws, regulation, and government-wide policy. Resolved exceptionally difficult and sensitive issues. Routinely prepared and defended major program objectives to Department of Defense senior leaders resulting in well informed updates to Congress.Results Driven: Developed and monitored multiple operations through the establishiment of plan of actions and milestones (POA&M) to manage risk. Developed and reviewed policies and directives to ensure currency with the rapidly changing information technology resulting in 100% compliance with Department of Defense directives.Building coalitions: Coordinated with offices across the US Government on a daily basis to synchronize actions and resources. Daily coordination with DoD Chief Information Office, United States Cyber Command, HQ Department of the Army, Defense Health Agency, and Army Service Commands, and Direct Reporting Units resulted in a team of trusted experts working in concert towards clearly defined goals.

Policy Formulation: Consolidated nine conflicting national, agency, and installation policies into a single, easily understandable security policy for the Army’s Doctrine Directorate. Developed strategic approaches to implement Army and Executive Branch vision in the development of both Army capstone manuals. Ability to Implement Laws: Ensured over 187 doctrinal publications adhered to Executive Orders, the United States Code, and other laws addressing issues in managing interconnected variables during operations that impact political, security forces, economic, social, infrastructure, information, and time aspects upon the environment. Received excellence ratings during two annual inspections into the adherence of laws and regulations for anti-terrorism programs, information security, operations security, personnel security, physical security, and resource management. Building Coalitions and Leveraging Diversity: Solved complex problems through critical thinking and expert communication skills while routinely coordinating between 15 outside organizations. Influenced leaders across the Department of Defense and other agencies concerning doctrine relating to defense support of civil authorities, civil control, civil security, restore essential services, support to governance, and support to economic and infrastructure development tasks to include elements of land management, economic issues, social demands, and resource management. Results Driven - Program Management: Recognized for integrating cultural resource program development, resource management, policy formulation, and top-level government decision making into Department of Defense publications. Maintained accounts with the Department of Homeland Security Information Network in areas of intelligence, law enforcement, and emergency services resulting in military doctrine remaining consistent with national policy.

Leading people: Recognized for exceptional leadership as the direct, on-site extension of the commander for a 400+ member organization deployed to the Philippines, Guam, Africa, Afghanistan, and Europe. Developed creative and innovated solutions to build flexibility and resilience to solve problems into a high-demand organization with a consistently high operational tempo resulting in efficiencies by engaging all members of the organization. Built and managed workforce based upon organizational goals, budget considerations, and staffing needs. Ensured employees were praised and rewarded for their achievements; built individual and organizational resiliency; took action to address performance problems as required. Exercised supervision over training, operational, and deployment budgets. Instituted effective and efficient human capital management principles and techniques to train, organize, sustain the health, and equip the organization to simultaneously deploy over 400 individuals worldwide. Developed a comprehensive professional development policy leveraging live/virtual/constructive systems to build teams. Building Coalitions: Effectively coordinated across twelve government agencies to ensure successful execution of over 30 simultaneous high intensity operations. Routinely presented, discussed, and defended objectives involving sensitive issues with senior leadership resulting in clear, concise guidance for all mission partners.

Business Acumen: Coordinated for over $120,000,000 in resources to successfully train, maintain, and execute operations for a 400+ member organization. Organized and built 43 separate multi-intelligence teams to expertly manage a variety of operational requirements. Acquired, fielded, and trained 86 separate innovative technological equipment packages to simultaneously support training and operations of specialized collection teams. Leveraged automation systems to communicate mission orders to four subordinate organizations daily. Results Driven - Program Management: Excelled in a results driven position requiring the exercise of unit accountability, decisiveness, entrepreneurship, problem solving, and business acumen for a multi-disciplined organization. Personally led a $2,000,000, multi-unit, three-week, expeditionary training event to develop multi-function intelligence teams resulting in national level recognition and the successful development of 20 multi-disciplined teams to conduct operations in Afghanistan. Coordinated and synchronized support for six external organizations simultaneously preparing for crisis response. Coalition Building and Leveraging Diversity: Served as the primary interface and coalition builder with over 18 outside organizations on all matters of training and operations. Elicited great performances from a diverse population of employees to build 43 strong, independent, professional teams supporting coalition members. Leading Change: Provided vision and exercised strategic thinking to synchronize the resetting, regenerating, and retraining of a multi-intelligence discipline organization to implement the commander’s intent. Took control of an untrained staff and operations team; improved every process and employee within the organization in under 120 days. Recognized by Army senior officers as a leader of change to flatten intelligence communication and developing multi-million-dollar training events across numerous agencies.

Business Acumen and Resource Management: The focal point and principle spokesperson for an intelligence enterprise supporting over 38,000 mission partner members (including international, governmental, private, and special interest groups). Recognized for orchestrating multi-million-dollar training events enhancing teams and leaders. Led change through the synchronization of intelligence operations to solve complex and multi-faceted problems with regards to governance, development, communications, and security through the coordination with efforts from special operations, national level agencies, and indigenous organizations. Superb business acumen skills set conditions for a 21-day turn-over of 4,200 Soldier unit with no loss of momentum. Directly responsible for leading the daily analysis of numerous aspects of the environment to include land management, control of resources, political considerations, security forces, economic conditions, social issues, infrastructure assessments, information systems, and time management. Advocated and led the intelligence enterprise to implement initiatives directly and indirectly affecting a large workforce in the accomplishment of all assigned missions utilizing knowledge of laws, regulations, and executive orders. Results Driven: Led the Army's largest brigade level intelligence enterprise in 2012. Provided intelligence support for a combat deployed organization consisting of over 5,300 Soldiers. Responsible for the synchronization of intelligence operations through the development and execution of training, maintenance, and mentoring programs to achieve a high standard of cooperation, discipline, morale, esprit de corps, and mission accomplishment. Led the production of all source intelligence and provided support to targeting and information operations. Responsible for the managing of intelligence assets through accounting, securing, maintaining, and prioritizing allocation of resources to accomplish these tasks.

Leading People to Provide Results: Received numerous laudatory comments as the exercise control chief serving as the on-site extension of the exercise director in the accomplishment of emergency management exercise responsibilities and building coalitions for 5000+ member organizations. Lauded for decisiveness and customer service provided to training audiences, trainers, and senior leaders. Leading Change: Developed six realistic, strenuous training scenarios integrated with interagency partners to meet goals and priorities designed to challenge leader responses to the political, security, economic, social, cultural, infrastructure, information, and time variables placed upon organizations with limited resources; the challenging scenarios addressed specific issues in land management, land control, and managing resources. Supervised the development of policy, resource management, technical support and administrative management programs within the parameters of national policies and authority. Business Acumen: Advocated and led the use of automation to enhance training realism and depth. Provided executive leadership, efficient human capital management, and direction for a diverse 100-member team of active duty military, government civilian, and contracted personnel. Resolved exceptionally sensitive operational problems on a continuing basis by consulting with the training audience, trainers, exercise director, and staff when exercise problems emerged.

Results Driven: Demonstrated a leadership style and customer service that directly influenced the success of 38 multi-echelon missions with participating mission partners. Trained over 60 leadership teams to improve their capabilities, promote strategic thinking, expand external awareness, increase flexibility, decisiveness, customer service, and build resilience. Recognized by Army senior leaders for more than tripling the quality of every team’s ability to communicate, analyze, and execute operations by over through external awareness products and policy formulation. Demonstrated creativity and innovation to increase proficiency and leverage diversity. Published four articles in professional journals providing lessons learned on coalition building and understanding elements of the operational environment. Recognized for incorporating operational experience into mentorship designed to develop leader skill-sets to understand the environment, including land management issues. Coach, teach, and mentored Army battalion and brigade leaders in planning, preparation, and execution of Emergency Management exercises focused on stability and counter-insurgency operations. Developed and presented workshops. Assisted in the development of Operations Orders and After Action Reviews.

Program Management and Business Acumen: Served as the deputy intelligence executive, and interagency liaison officer during combat in Iraq. Built coalitions and exercised control over hundreds of intelligence collection assets supporting 38,000 Soldiers, police, governmental, indigenous, and nongovernmental representatives stabilizing conditions for over 3 million people in Northern Iraq over 9 million acres of agriculture, range-land, and high-desert. Synchronized the planning and execution of the largest tactical intelligence enterprise in Iraq to collect and analyze political, security forces, economic, social, cultural, infrastructure, information, and time variables in relation to stabilizing a population, understanding land management practices, and controlling resources.

Leading People: Served as the commander of a multi-disciplined organization with 71 employees focused on air, ground, human, signals, chemical, biological, radiological reconnaissance, surveillance and interrogations. Provided results driven leadership and customer service using technical expertise in problem solving to improve organizational accountability. Took command of a largely dysfunctional, diverse organization and transitioned it into a cohesive team prepared to conduct combat operations in under 120 days. Built 16 strong, independent teams capable to integrate with mission partners at any echelon. Recognized for outstanding ability to leading people; developing others through mentorship, coaching, and assessing formal education needs. Partnered with U.S. Border Patrol and other law enforcement agencies supporting border surveillance operations. Developed a comprehensive policy to enhance organization and team performance. Received awards for outstanding contributions to leading people through selfless service with results driven focus. Business Acumen: Built and managed a 71 member, multi-sector workforce and the care of their families in training, at home-station, and in combat. Established and published program goals. Supervised the maintenance, serviceability, and accountability of $37,000,000 worth of equipment. Communicated mission orders for four subordinate elements on a daily basis using technical systems. Supervised a $500,000 dollar training budget.

Planning and Evaluating: Updated the organizational planning operational procedures and developed eight training exercises to evaluate combat organization consisting of 700-5000 members capable of deploying anywhere in the world within 96 hours resulting in successful combat operations with minimal losses. Developed, implemented, and sustained the organization security plan to include information security, cybersecurity, physical security, and personnel security resulting in excellence ratings during routine evaluations. Intuitive Critical Thinking: Developed sound tactics, techniques, and procedures resulting in the full integration of the intelligence enterprise of a 5000+ member organization which required minimal changes during execution. Simultaneously developed detailed threat analysis products for separate theaters supporting the training of multiple mission partners.

Leading People: Led, trained, and employed a 36 member organization prepared to conduct surveillance operations forward of combat forces, conduct sniper operations, and report threats related to current operations. Business Acumen: Supervised and maintained supply accountability functions for a 144 member organization.

Business Acumen: Provided management and administrative support for a 665-member organization prepared to deploy worldwide within 96 hours. Managed personnel strength, health service support, legal, postal, financial services, public relations, retention, equal opportunity, awards, publications, morale and welfare programs. Prepared personnel estimates, plans and orders. Performed strength accounting, personnel readinesss reporting, casualty reporting, and replacement operations. Supervised the reception, integrations, welfare, education, welfare, and professional development of all assigned personnel.

Leading People: Provided training, management, and maintenance of a 44 member department responsible for world-wide crisis response. Successfully implemented and employed the Army’s first integrated digital communication systems.

Leading People: Trained over 400 Army and Marine officers to lead and fight surveillance and security organizations. Provided 90 hours of small group instruction in threat tactics, intelligence, demolitions, reconnaissance, surveillance, and security operations. Trained and evaluated students during an intense and rigorous 132-hour field training exercise. Revised scout platoon doctrinal literature and lesson plans.

Desert Storm 1991JTF-6 1992