I lead the day-to-day operations for a private investment firm that invests in commercial real estate projects primarily around hotel/hospitality and medical office. We also provide private commercial loans to renewable energy infrastructure developers. Our target market is mostly focused on the Texas Triangle but will look at deals nationally if they are a fit with our investment thesis or through strategic partners.

Multifamily Real Estate Investment & Syndication

In my service as a Reserve Army Officer, I serve as a faculty instructor at the Army's Command and General Staff College. I teach, train, coach, and mentor the Army's junior and mid-career field grade officers to be prepared for the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

My job is to make everyone better — together. As the Director of Technology Alliances, I develop relationships with strategic partners, including Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, to create go-to-market strategies and implement business plans that will enable our collective sales and marketing teams to succeed. Together with our partner alliances, we open business opportunities, drive sales, and expand mindshare.I work across functions with solutions engineering, product marketing, corporate communications, and demand generation teams to develop potential joint offerings in conjunction with our technology partners. We all work together to influence millions of dollars in bookings, increase win rates, and develop creative solutions to solve our customers' challenges.

I set the partnership business development and marketing vision and strategy for LogRhythm, a security intelligence firm. I worked across functions to build industry-leading technology integrations across all the key security segments, with partners including Google, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Okta, ServiceNow, Box, and Cylance. I also developed strategic go-to-market plans with technology and global systems integrators to drive new business and mindshare.

PivotDesk helps companies with excess office space market, manage, and monetize their space to firms — usually startups — that need may need more square footage for their own operations.As VP of Operations, I led strategy, finance, human resources, business intelligence, and partner alliances for this venture-backed startup. I implemented a growth strategy that increased revenue more than 85% over a two-year period. As part of this strategy, I also created a customer retention initiative that increased predictability of churn and created processes and interactions with customers to improve their experience, which led to a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of +50.

I led the overlay sales team for the western region of Zayo Group, a communications infrastructure services firm. I developed and managed relationships with data center ecosystem partners to generate multi-site, multi-million-dollar opportunities with customers, including Walmart, Google, Netflix, and Akamai. I also negotiated joint marketing and alliance agreements with key hardware vendors, data center operators, and commercial real estate brokerages to increase revenue by $1MM per quarter.In addition to managing a team of direct reports, I frequently met with senior channel partner and sales executives to create new distribution channels, market expansion opportunities, and form new alliances.

I came aboard Zayo Group as a project manager in the inaugural class of the firm's Rotational Leadership Management Program. I learned the particulars of the parent company's various business divisions through quarterly rotations where I assisted with projects in corporate development, finance, product development, pricing strategy, and operations.As a result of that training, I was later promoted to become a member of Zayo's corporate development and strategy team, where I led the company's M&A activity totaling $3B in transaction value. I served as an advisor to the executive team to guide growth and exit strategy, and developed and implemented an equity value creation methodology that was used across the entire company as a key measure to assess quarterly performance.

As one of two student managing directors for this institution focused on teaching students the principles of entrepreneurship, I led development and operations of the Deming Center Venture Fund. I managed deal flow, internal and external university relationships, and internal processes.

I conducted research and compiled reports on emerging industry segments within the Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS) space for this investment capital firm. I assisted with deal flow, due diligence, and raising institutional funds.

I led a satellite control organization that provided secure communications to key customers within the Department of Defense. Prior to my role in company command, I held a progression of leadership positions in which I trained personnel in preparation for combat operations in Iraq.