Mike H. Email & Phone Number

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

I am now able to focus full time on my passion as a writer, painter, and photographer to raise public awareness of the hidden wounds of war.

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

I provided strategic communications leadership, advice, review and support to the Department of Defense’s largest warfare center. I served as a senior communications advisor to the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Commander, Executive Director, subordinate commanders and other senior leaders. Through concise messaging, I informed leadership.

As the Strategic Communications Cell Director for the F-35 Joint Program Office, I led the communication effort for developing, using and acquiring the F-35. The position involved media outreach, legislative affairs, stakeholder communications and social media management along with extensive work and coordination with industry, U.S. Military services.

Pentagon

As a Department of Defense spokesperson, I provided public affairs guidance and support to senior Defense officials. I served as Public affairs officer for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict and the Defense Security Cooperation Agency while advising U.S. Special Operations Command on public affairs matters.

Fort Myer, VA

As the public affairs director for Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, I led a dynamic and highly visible public affairs program in the National Capital Region. The Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army for Washington D.C. credited this program with changing the profile of the joint base through outreach and open communication.

Fort Carson, Colorado

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

I became a Department of the Army civilian public affairs officer in 2001. I designed, created and managed the Army Space Journal as editor-in-chief. The publication was a professional journal for space and missile defense. I also led communication efforts for national security space-based capabilities and missile defense.

Worldwide

I served as a public affairs soldier from 1979 to 2001. For the first ten of those years, I served as a photojournalist and editor for Fort Sill Cannoneer, Pacific Stars and Stripes and KORUS magazine. This included covering military and community activities in Oklahoma, the DMZ in South Korea, the 1988 Olympics, and U.S. Presidential visits to Seoul. In.

Master'S Degree With Honors, Strategic Studies

Master'S Degree With Honors, Human Resource Management

Activities and Societies: Delta Mu DeltaProfessional Certificate, Organizational Change

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Journalism, Sociology