Private & Public Sector - Environmental/Safety Consultant; Renewable Energy Business Development; Facility Security Officer/Clearance/FOCI Compliance.Independent counsel and business consultant providing support to veteran and for-profit start-ups with business development, contract negotiations, litigation support, compliance and regulatory review, policy development, and federal contract sourcing/procurement. Provides policy recommendations for veteran related policies and programs to local, state, and national leadership.Public Sector - Executive Director and Principal - Stoic JourneysPilot Program in development supporting Veteran Mental Health with rehabilitation/regeneration farm-to-community and alpaca herding program. Program involves oversight of veteran cohort ventures to indigenous/global communities while working with mental health support team and geographic displacement modalities - and reengagement with US based/HOR communities.

Private Sector - Promoted to Vice President of Compliance within Birdon's Enterprise Support Services. Attorney of Record for Environmental Programs in support of five program sites in five states. Environmental Permitting and Land Management. Environmental Regulatory Compliance. Responsible for ESH and OSHA programs. Lead Action Official for Export Controls and Classified Programs. FOCI Mitigation. Responsible for Quality Management across all programs. Appointed as Facility Security Officer for the company Special Security Agreement and Facility Clearance - serves on the Board of Director's General Security Committee. Oversight of the company's Facility Clearance and implementation plan - serves as the companies SSA Empowered Official. Consultant in support of Facility Security and Export Control Programs (June - October 2024)Active Security Clearance.

Private Sector - Attorney of Record coordinating legal representation and support to four principal sites and programs; legal overview of employment law matters/policies; ESH legal support and policy implementation; OSHA/Workers Compensation legal support and policy review. Director of Human Resources responsible for the support of increasing employee base located in four states. Planned and supported the integration of new personnel platform. Investigated and provided recommendations to senior leadership for personnel actions.

Public Sector - Legal Director for Department of Environmental Services. Director of environmental regulatory rulemaking for agency and three departments (Air, Water, and Land Management). Coordinated and supported compliance actions with the State Attorney General. Appointed as Administrative Hearing Officer for environmental compliance actions, providing rulings and decisions for permitting, licensing, and compliance matters. Coordinated and supported department legal actions and policy reviews. Agency point of contact and reviewer of hundreds of Right-to-Know requests (FOIA's) ensuring timely responses and legal review. Established internal procedures and systems for legal record keeping and responsive filings. Represented the agency at three state-wide councils, providing legal oversight and support. Provided legal support to the Attorney General for numerous hearings and deliberations.

Private Sector - COO and GC to start up logistics company with two New England based last-mile service delivery contracts. Built the company's operational footprint and leader of a 200+ employee team, with over 80 delivery vehicles and supporting office and terminal space. Safe and on time delivery of over 3.5 million packages. Leader of a volunteer delivery service of over 200 tons of food items to food insecure communities thoughtout New England during the COVID pandemic. Represented the company in state benefit and claims actions; employment law/policy matters; contract negotiations and execution; safety programs; vehicle delivery maintenance; and development of all training curriculum to include a new Spanish bi-lingual training program.

Public Sector - Selected to lead the premier statewide collaborate public private partnership committed to the public administration of programs and services to military members, veterans, and families throughout the State of Illinois. Established systems and created processes while exceeding planned project management outcomes. Created a client based business development model recognized by the federal VA as a national standard. - Implemented three-year strategic plan, exceeded first year metrics in mission outcomes with effective and efficient planning, budgeting, and marketing. Daily coordination and liaison building with dozens of local-state-national non-profit organizations and associations/stakeholders resulted in increased service support and policy realignment.- Created statewide community level solutions focused on rural, aging, and women veterans; initiated relations and established cross-state-boundary veteran services with five states; increased daily outcomes from statewide veteran call center 93%; implemented aggressive social media campaign increasing marketing/program support.

Public Sector - Led the development and working environment for statewide legal services to military members, veterans, and dependents. Established systems and created processes while exceeding planned project management outcomes.- Responsible for all of the program development, networking, technical support, data metrics, and developing stakeholder relationships while leading my pro bono attorney team(s) to service clients through a host of civil legal issues. Trained and advised legal aid organizations and practitioner’s on veteran advocacy law and federal and state law and regulations.

Responsible for non-profit/corporate integrity and ethical climate of >700K national-level non-profit. - Counsel for board governance – elections/terms, policies, legal review of strategic development, employment law.- Published new organizational policies after holistic legal review of programs that positively impacted >1,300 SVA chapters. Negotiated and interpreted federal and private contracts and agreements with stakeholders resulting in 100% contract and grant compliance.

Public Sector - Executive staff leader for >5K State employees and contractors responsible for the operational planning of daily transportation and inter-modal systems for the State of Illinois across eleven departments with oversight of all staff functions to include human resources, budget, operations, procurement/acquisition, and policy. - Project management lead directing a network of eleven staff directors in the execution of the capital and operational budget for all transportation and inter-modal projects, proposals, programs, procurement, and government contracts and administration in the State – coordinated directly on a daily basis with trade associations, vendors, policy makers and local and community leaders to increase customer relationships.- Managed complex federal and state level contract review process and administration of these contracts valued at 43M and implemented systems for regulatory and technical construction specifications, procurement, formalized inter-and-intra agency agreements, and dozens of State agency licensing programs required for executable contracts.

Public Sector - Chief Senior Counsel in support of State services, benefits, and government contracts for 1,200 State employees and >700K veterans - Agency Ethics and Freedom of Information Act Officer – transactional attorney: regulatory, government contracts, claims, and employment legal issues.- Served as the agency lead for all legal support and complex federal and state contract and agreement development/drafting, proposals, negotiation, and execution for >1,200 veterans receiving care at State long-term care facilities. Procurement experience in providing direct supply support to four long-term care facilities.- Drafted and published new agency regulations unanimously approved by the State of Illinois Joint Committee of Administrative Rules and codified into State regulations for effective program management throughout the agency – adjusted to emerging and new regulatory outcomes to policy as USDVA issued federal policies and regulations.

Public Sector - The John Marshall Law School Veterans Legal Center & Clinic is a premier law school veteran legal assistance clinic that trains law school students legal skills to assist veteran disability compensation claims and criminal and civil legal issues. (Now the University of Illinois - Chicago Veterans Legal Clinic)• Daily legal oversight of all veteran claims before the Department of Veterans Affairs. • Served as the attorney of record for discharge upgrade cases before the Army Discharge Review Board and local jurisdictions for civil legal relief. • As Adjunct Professor created a real-time curriculum that effectively prepared every clinical law school student to immediately entered the job market. • Organized and led pro-bono legal clinic at veteran homeless shelters.

Career promotion track with increased leadership responsibilities in operational infantry assignments, policy advisor roles, and during multiple combat deployments. Policy development and implementation experience at the White House, United States Senate, Department of Defense, and the Department of the Army. - Commander of a multifunctional combat infantry battalion with >900 of the Army’s premier Soldiers (2008 – 2009)- Principal director for legislative/government relations with Congress for the number two Army civilian leader and senior Army leadership during wartime (2008)- Military Fellow and advisor to Senate Arms Services Committee and principal staff on national security and defense related legislative policies and operational issues (2007)- Lead executive staff director and chief of staff leading combat operations for >5K US paratroopers and Allied service members in Afghanistan for two repetitive combat deployments (2004 – 2006)- Staff director of operations cell in support of continuous combat operations for >3,500 Soldiers in Iraq (2003)- Staff Secretary and Policy Advisor in support of National Security Affairs for the Vice President (2001 – 2003)- Military Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense and senior civilian and military leaders (2000 – 2001)- Selected to command three infantry companies with over 41 months of combined leadership experience (1996-2000)- Multiple staff assignments in Human Resources, Operations, Logistics, & Training (1993 – 1996)- Infantry & Scout Platoon Leader – domestic disturbance deployment (Los Angeles Riots) (1991 – 1993)- Enlisted Rifleman, Paratrooper, and Sergeant – combat deployments to Panama and the Gulf War (1984 – 1991)