"By Endurance We Conquer" - Sir Ernest Shackleton's Family Motto.I have been profoundly inspired by that motto since I was a child. I've deployed around the world as a Special Operations Medic with Force Recon, an elite unit within the United States Marine Corps. In my 20 years of active duty, I've performed surgeries in austere settings, I've caught cancer in patients, and I've saved lives with my bare hands. The day-to-day job of an SOIDC can have you jumping from a plane, diving on a rebreather, setting demolition under night vision, patrolling triple canopy jungle, treating dive casualties in a recompression chamber or seeing patients in a clinical setting. Through the haze of maintaining operational requirements and deploying I felt that my job was not hard enough, so I did what anyone would do and started a business. Completely unaware of the challenges that lay ahead, I did what I was trained to do, move aggressively and navigate any barrier. A few years later, a few hundred thousand dollars in revenue, I'm just hitting my stride. Of the many personality traits unique to Special Operations men & women, I felt that compassion was my greatest quality. As an INFJ-A personality, I've always gravitated towards helping people. The business I've created and the problem I have subsequently been solving are the disjointed processes associated with the transition from active-duty military to civilian life. NO ONE has invested more time or money into understanding this multi-faceted problem than me. To date, I have spent over $100,000 and dedicated thousands of hours of research and development to better understand the gaps in services provided by the DoD. The goal is simple; create technological solutions to more effectively transition from the military in the form of SaaS for the DoD. The trajectory of a military professional's life can dramatically improve when foresight and priorities are co-aligned in the transition. Give a service member a distance and a target, they will hit it. When not running my business you can find me next to my young son, Atlas or my wife, Willemijn. We are avid adventurers and on any given weekend you can find us in a National Park. I love skiing, mountain biking, backpacking and overlanding. I now shoot with a Sony A7RIII, and I will be chasing the milky way for the perfect astrophotography shot throughout my retirement. I have an insatiable appetite to read and aim to read a book a week. (Please send me recommendations!) If you're in Utah, let's link up for a coffee or hit the trails.