I am an inaugural member of the Office of Ventures and Innovation at my agency. I spend most of my time assisting pilot programs and their owners into the enterprise. I coach and mentor teams trying to foster innovation and new ideas. Constant learning and improvement go hand in hand with this job and we not only teach our processes, but we utilize them ourselves within our offices. I helped to create the original I-Corps/Fast Forward curriculum based on the Business Model Canvas and Lean Startup methodologies, as well as teach a few courses. I have helped to run innovation experiences that are a competition for seed resources to for anyone interested to create a minimum viable product that can then be used to obtain more formal resources to get the idea into the enterprise. I have crafted methodologies for comparing and contrasting pilot programs and metrics used to determine value in a non-profit organization.

I have worked two major projects, thus far for the federal government. The first, I supported project management for a hardware/software solution that had overseas deployed capabilities. On this project I worked stakeholder management, schedule management (with Microsoft Project), risk management, and managed team communication and tasking.The second project, is an innovation project that is utilizing a government challenge competition to find new solutions from nontraditional vendors. In this I worked stakeholder management, scheduling management, team communication, and drafting all major documents including federal registry notices, challenge postings, and judgement criteria. I am activity working on this project.I also now help run hackathons where we crowd source for ideas toward solving tough problems.

-Additionally assigned as the Operations and Assistant Branch Training Officer.-Conducted ten short notice inspections and exhibitions in the Russian Federation and six escorts for inspections and exhibitions hosting inspectors of the Russian Federation. Responsible to Team Chief for 10 man joint military and civilian teams conducting the inspections and escorts.-Board member for fifteen qualification boards certifying new inspectors.-Planned and executed two deployed training inspections and planned and facilitated three week long training courses for 50-70 students each. -Concurrently completed an MBA through Colorado State University in 21 months.

I enlisted in the military as a nuclear trained submarine sailor. After eleven years, one submarine, and a maintenance facility tour, I was commissioned by the Enlisted Commissioning Program and returned to the submarine force as a nuclear trained officer. I served on two submarines and I am ended my time in Naval service as a Deputy Mission Commander supporting implementation of the New START Treaty with the Russian Federation.

-Responsible for safe navigation of the submarine to include piloting parties, ship's communications, operational planning, and the ship's LAN.-Additional duties: Nuclear Weapons Safety Officer, Refit Coordinator (Project Management - repair)Officer of the Deck, Engineering Officer of the Watch, Ship's Duty Officer, Ship's Weapons Duty Officer-I arrived at the submarine for sea trials that ended a two year refueling overhaul. I was responsible for standing up the Navigation Department for the new crew.-I was responsible for standing up a new division within my department, IT Division, that was responsible for the ship's LAN. I was required to find talent from within the crew and train them in maintaining the new LAN that was installed during the overhaul. The division was the only one on the waterfront that maintained 100% compliance with security requirements over a two year period.-I established the Nuclear Weapons Safety Program, which is a monitoring and audit program that ensured safe handling and operations within the Nuclear Weapons program on board.-As refit manager for two very complex maintenance periods covering over 1000 jobs, I ensured over 95% on time completion rate. The jobs were prepared by ship's force, turned over to be worked by the maintenance facility, and returned to the ship for retest and verification of operability. This required coordination between the four departments on board as well as all of the civilian and military representatives at the maintenance facility.-Trained the piloting party, a group of fifteen sailors responsible for safe navigation of the submarine during transits in and out of port. Conducted over 30 transits with no incidents.-As a watch-stander, I was responsible for ship's safety and operation, reactor safety and operation, safety during maintenance procedures, and for the health and welfare of 15-40 man watch teams.

Division officer for Electrical division, Reactor Laboratories division, Communications Officer, Ship's LAN Officer, Assistant Engineer. Ship's Diving Officer (for deployment through overhaul dry-docking)Officer of the Deck, Engineering Officer of the Watch, Ship's Duty Officer, and Engineering Duty Officer-I was responsible for the operation of the Ship's LAN that was maintained as a collateral duty by the radiomen when I was the Communications Officer-As the ship's diving officer I was responsible for ensuring ship's safety during the submarine's transition from surfaced to submerged, as well as the Rig-for-dive Program that help to ensure ship's safety while submerged. Additionally, I was ship's representative during the docking of the submarine into drydock for the overhaul, a complicated and hazardous evolution.-As a watch-stander, I was responsible for ship's safety and operation, reactor safety and operation, safety during maintenance procedures, and for the health and welfare of 15-40 man watch teams.-As the Assistant Engineer, I was responsible for assisting the Drill Coordinator in establishing and running training evolutions. I was also responsible for administering continuing training and testing to the officers to meet the training requirement for safe operation of the nuclear reactor.

Radiological controls for depot level maintenanceDosimetry monitoring and processing for shipyard workers

Radiological and chemistry controls for a naval nuclear power plant. Refrigerant technician for A/C plantsQuality Assurance InspectorQualified Engineering Watch Supervisor