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San Diego, California, Us

NuFund Ventures (formerly Tech Coast Angels (TCA) San Diego) is the largest angel investor group in the U.S., and has been fueling the growth of innovative companies and entrepreneurs in Southern California since 1997. TCA identifies, mentors, and funds early-stage companies to help get their ideas to market, and where TCA members devote their time, expertise, and capital to help companies grow and succeed.

CoreTech is an equipment provider and owner/operator of our proprietary ThermGen® environmental green technology. Our goal is to provide best in class solutions to the global environmental demand for onsite waste processing and environmental remediation.

San Jose, California, Us

Led a global team of software cloud account executives and sales engineers covering the US Navy, USMC, Defense Health Agency and CYBERCOM.

San Francisco, California, Us

NeuroTrainer is a virtual reality software product that measures, trains and improves vision, cognition, decision speed, and accuracy. Currently in use by multiple professional sports teams to screen and enhance their athletes. Currently expanding into the military, law enforcement, and traumatic brain injury therapy.

Denver, Colorado, Us

EVP of Sales for Keyavi Data, a disruptive cybersecurity SaaS startup. Keyavi breaks new ground by making data itself intelligent and self-aware, so it can protect itself anywhere, any time even when it has left your possession.

Lewis Center, Oh, Us

Our team has worked at startup companies, public companies, VC's, and accelerators and has been on both sides of the table in startup investing. Unlike investor matchmaking platforms or crowdfunding sites, SmartMoney Startups provides you with fundraising experts who will teach, coach, mentor, and accelerate your fundraising.

San Jose, California, Us

Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. The Nutanix enterprise cloud platform leverages web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge compute, virtualization and storage into a resilient, software-defined solution with rich machine intelligence. The result is predictable performance, cloud-like infrastructure consumption, robust security, and seamless application mobility for a broad range of enterprise applications. The Nutanix solution enables easy deployment of any virtual workload, including large-scale virtual desktop initiatives (VDI), development/test apps, private clouds, big data (Hadoop) projects and more. Nutanix customers can radically simplify and seamlessly scale out their datacenter infrastructures with cost-efficient appliances that can be deployed in under 30 minutes for rapid time to value.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Airspeed Equity is a private investment, entrepreneurial capital, management firm and leading edge, multi-project business development enterprise that creates and supports new technology companies. We were formed by business executives with decades of operating experience who have ushered multiple companies from formation to exit, generating over $2Billion in market capitalization.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Instrumental in helping close the $133.4 M Navy Enterprise License Agreement which was the largest public sector deal in the history of Red Hat. Assisted the US Navy in its evolution to a DevOps and cloud-native technology culture. Worked closely with the customer to develop their DevOps pipeline and technology stack built on Red Hat's enterprise Kubernetes product, OpenShift, several JBOSS middleware components and Ansible Tower. Ensured proper implementation of this stack with Red Hat's award-winning consulting solutions.

Austin, Texas, Us

Responsible for ensuring key Naval ISR and classified program challenges are met with Oracle's software, hardware, and services solutions. Business development and sales liaison to C-level Government and Federal Systems Integrators executives, and technical decision-makers.

Austin, Texas, Us

Created campaign to penetrate new territory within the aerospace and defense industry for advanced big data analytics and business intelligence. Captured hardware market share by capitalizing on a software licensing agreement and superior systems performance.

Doubled revenues in eight months of the San Diego Chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association. This revenue directly benefitted deserving local students by scholarship awards to pursue Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Hand-picked by Senior Executive Service Director to lead the Navy’s crucial cost savings initiative to consolidate over 100 decentralized data centers and legacy applications and systems into a centralized, streamlined, virtualized and secure private cloud architecture, targeting a savings of over $1 billion dollars in 6 years.- Led aggressive FY12 consolidation of 19 data centers (646 servers) in six months- After analyzing legacy data center engineering surveys and cost data, developed a matrix of prioritized closures based on return on investment and relative technical risk- Planned aggressive FY13 effort which will achieve four times the server transition count year over year with only a 45% budget increase, accelerating the planned savings profile- Expertly managed a diverse team of over 200 military, government civilian and contractor personnel, multiple contracts and a six year budget over $625 million(Note: DCC Task Force has stood down and transitioned to a permanent office in the SPAWAR Fleet Readiness Directorate and a new Director and Deputy Director are in place. I remain attached to the unit in a Program Management role until I transition from the Navy in February).

Board-selected to fill this critical Navy Communications Program Office (PMW-170) Program Management position. Responsible for the cost, schedule and performance of 6 vital Navy position, navigation and timing (PNT) programs of record. Led Navy’s PNT research and development programs maturing critical future technologies.- Awarded a $102 million developmental (and procurement options) contract for the Navy’s next generation shipboard navigation and timing system which was 27% less than the independent cost estimate for the effort- Achieved “effective and suitable” operational test reports for two Navigation Warfare programs, enabling accelerated fielding of systems critical for effective operation in GPS-denied environments.- Created contracting strategy combining GPS antenna procurements across ships, submarines and aircraft which achieved a saved 22% from the independent cost estimates- Managed the installation, upgrade and sustainment of over 130 in-service shipboard PNT systems (Navy, Coast Guard and Foreign Military Sales) with less than one-third of the programmed sustainment budget without significant operational degradation- Managed over 50 military, government civilian and contractor personnel, multiple contracts and a six year budget over $200 million- In conjunction with the Intelligence Community, developed and presented to multiple Flag Officers and DoD executives, a briefing package highlighting threats to GPS and the potential impacts to satellite, terrestrial and line of sight voice and data networks resulting in additional investment in this critical technology area

ACAT ID (most critical DoD program category) Program Manager responsible for the development engineering, test, procurement and fielding of MIDS JTRS, a software defined, four-channel, airborne tactical networking radio for joint service aircraft including the F/A-18E/F Hornet, JSTARS and Rivet Joint aircraft. - Appointed to lead program just after a major cost and schedule slip; negotiated a cost-capped contract with the industry partners (where, after certain expenditure points, industry would share and then fully take over the costs) in order to save the program- Expertly managed $478 million development program, implementing an innovative contracting strategy involving two prime vendors operating in a ‘co-opetition’ acquisition strategy (two vendor cooperative development in order to qualify both for future competitive procurement awards) which was sited by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Technology and Logistics as a model for DoD programs- By establishing close working relationships with multiple entities in an integrated product team construct, led the program through the rigorous NSA Security Verification Testing, achieving the first NSA certification for a software defined radio - Expert briefer at all levels, made a persuasive case for the maturity of the program eventually resulting in a Milestone C initial procurement and fielding decision- Awarded a $14 million Limited Production Procurement contract, which was 25% below CAPE estimation pricing, saving the taxpayers over $3 million- Led a diverse team of over 50 program office team members (including government, civilian, military and contract support) and SPAWAR Systems Center engineering and lab personnel

Program management for the Tomahawk cruise missile mission planning, targeting and command and control suite during the upgrade to an updated TLAM Block IV missile, including the introduction of a Services Oriented Architecture and in-flight missile communication and retargeting operations. - Selected to right program in the wake of a major test failure; implemented a cross-program Tiger Team to fix critical hardware and software issues; resulted in an “Effective and Suitable” test result being achieved 3 months earlier than the projected schedule slip - Proposed and led complex effort to realign Tomahawk Mission Planning and C2 from carriers to ashore Maritime Component Commander locations, saving over $20 million across the FYDP while increasing planning capacity by 40%- Managed a geographically diverse team consisting of a program staff, three prime vendors, two government fielding activities, and an integration and test laboratory - Successfully steered next system increment through Critical Design Review and first software drop

Provided program technical direction, systems engineering and project management for a high technology special program involving mission planning above the collateral secret level.- Led 39 program office staff (government and contractor support), 2 field activity labs (SPAWAR Philadelphia and NAWC-WD Point Mugu), and two contractors- Managed large scale integration including Mission Planning and intelligence systems integration onto the CVN-21 (CVN-78) and CVN-77 baselines- Created a Joint Services requirements adjudication board to collect and prioritize requirements across multiple programs - Successfully managed multiple phases of program at once, including the Operational Test and fielding of one portion program, sustainment of the fielded product and passing a CDR on a future development effort

Washington, Dc, Us

Selected to lead critical Strike Planning unit into combat. Senior advisor to two-star Strike Group Commander on the planning and employment of cruise missiles and precision guided munitions. Decorated for leadership of nine Mission Planners, Intelligence Specialists, and Fire Controlmen in combat during OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM- Personally commended by Commander of the US FIFTH FLEET for the timely distribution of Tomahawk Command Information to over 30 firing units (ships and submarines) during the initial strike phase of the operation and the subsequent precision mensuration of over 1500 precision-guided munitions targets for TACAIR aircraft- Personally planned 38 Tomahawk missions that were successfully fired against regime and military targets with no collateral damage- Authored new training curriculum for the updated in-flight retargeting capabilities of the Block IV Tomahawk missile

Washington, Dc, Us

Obtained two masters degrees and completed the Joint Professional Military Education Phase I curriculum at night.

Washington, Dc, Us

Decorated and combat-tested Naval Flight Officer. Completed two aircraft carrier deployments supporting OPERATION DESERT FOX and SOUTHERN WATCH.- Only Lieutenant (O-3) in over 100 aviators qualified as Strike Lead (Level V); additionally qualified as Mission Commander, Staff Tactical Action Officer (TAO), NATOPS (The Naval Air Training and Operating Procedures Standardization), and Instrument Instructor- Served as Maintenance Branch Officer, Conventional Weapons and NATOPS Officer at various points in squadron tour- Selected as Squadron Wolf Hunt Mission Commander (annual air exercise competition)- Selected as Mission Commander for squadron’s successful Harpoon missile shot

B.S. Economics, Economics And Engineering

B.S. Economics, Economics And General Engineering

M.S. Systems Engineering And Integration, Systems Engineering, Integration, Operations Research, Program Mangement, Test And Evaluation

M.S. Management, Economics, Financial Management, Systems Planning, Programming And Budgeting

Education record

Systems Engineering And Integration, Systems Engineering

Mangement, Financial Management / Economics