Experienced leader, facilitator, and doer with demonstrated performance history in the national defense sector. Skilled in leading and advising project teams and organizations in tackling complex, multidisciplinary problems. Drawing on a broad experience base including military service (USAF officer), space technology R&D, program and project management, general operations management, and leadership of IT operations and cyber security, application development and deployment (agile, devops), enterprise data management, analytics, and machine learning initiatives. Most recently served as Chief Data Officer for a mid-size government R&D organization.Currently providing project leadership support and data management advisory services to clients in the defense innovation and regional retail space. Always open to opportunities to work hard, challenging, high payoff challenges.