A founding partner in Duty First Consulting, LLC, a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB). Duty First Consulting is a management, systems integration and applications maintenance consulting firm that works with clients to successfully deliver mission critical business solutions. Duty First consultants execute with deep knowledge of our clients’ businesses by leveraging strategic advisors, forming world-class teams, and dedicating ourselves to the missions of our clients’ and the constituents they serve. Duty First comprises experienced consultants, delivering differentiated services in the areas of Enterprise Content & Information Management; Human Capital Management; Information Security; and Management Consulting and Business Process Improvement.

Senior subject matter expert and business stategist working in the DoD/Veterans Affairs federal healthcare space. VA expertise and involvement covers all other VA business liines in addition to healthcare.

Chief Operating Officer for a a 14,000 employee organization comprising 57 major offices in the United States, Puerto Rico and the Philippines, an annual operating budget of $1.45B. Organizational mission is to deliver financial benefits to veterans and their families through five separate business lines, including programs for disability compensation and income security, educational assistance, home loan guaranties, life insurance, and vocational rehabilitation and employment. Annual benefits payments for all programs totaled over $45B in 2007

Supported the Secretary, Deputy Secretary and Chief of Staff in managing the day-to-day operations of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Scope of responsibilities were broad reaching, involving operational management, and policy development and implementation across all of VA’s diverse missions of providing healthcare, financial benefits, and burial and memorial services to our Nation's veterans and their families.