Twenty years leading sailors at sea. Certified and degreed to run programs. Still ships production code on self-hosted infrastructure. Any two of those is a resume. All three is this page.
Hover anything in the orbit — every claim traces to a document.
Twenty years and ten days of active duty, documented in a service record signed by commanding officers — not self-reported. Highlights below; every quote is verbatim from an evaluation or citation.
Recruit Training Great Lakes — entered the fleet as an E-3 — then Intelligence Specialist “A” School, Dam Neck VA.
Attached to the 7th Fleet staff, embarked aboard the flagship USS Blue Ridge — forward-deployed to Yokosuka, Japan. Seaman to Petty Officer Second Class; earned Surface Warfare insignia.
DIA attaché staff. Air Operations Manager — 3,600+ DoD ship/aircraft movements, 798 aircraft clearances in one year.
Leading Petty Officer, then Ship's Intelligence Officer — a billet above his paygrade. 2012 Senior Sailor of the Year; selected Chief 2013.
ISR & Collections Leading Chief. $4.8M in intelligence system procurements for 27 units; authored Navy-wide CONOPs.
ISR program manager, Operation Inherent Resolve. 9-person SME team, 34 ISR platforms, 73,850 collection missions; 239 air strikes supported. Defense Meritorious Service Medal.
Plans & Tactics department chief — 42 Sailors, 5 divisions. Unit earned 4× consecutive Battle Efficiency Awards and the Battenberg Cup.
Honorable. Chief Petty Officer (ISC, SW/IW), Operational Intelligence Analyst. 10+ years of sea service.
"Remains my highest performing Chief! A true superstar!"
"Unequivocally the best Intelligence Specialist I have observed in my 18-year career. A Chief Petty Officer in every respect but the uniform."
"Led 9 contractors in the successful integration of 34 ISR platforms which executed 73,850 intel collection missions."
"Masterfully led 45 officer, enlisted and civilian personnel in 5 divisions during a 4-month leadership gap."
Defense Meritorious Service MedalNavy & Marine Corps Commendation Medal ×2Joint Service Commendation Medal ×2Navy & Marine Corps Achievement Medal ×4
Joint Service Achievement Medal ×2Navy Good Conduct Medal ×6
National Defense Service MedalGWOT Expeditionary Medal
GWOT Service Medal
Battle “E” ×6Enlisted Surface Warfare SpecialistEnlisted Information Warfare SpecialistAdmiral Claude V. Ricketts Award for Inspirational Leadership (Navy League, 2019) · Senior Sailor of the Year (2012)
Twenty years of managing projects (since 2006), formalized: certifications, a degree earned mid-career with a 3.8 GPA, and civilian programs from robot fleets to a multi-billion-dollar grant portfolio.
PMI, February 2024. Active.
Scrum Inc, September 2021. Active.
University of Charleston WV, 2023. GPA 3.8 — Provost List. Earned while serving full-time.
University of Charleston WV — in progress.
$2.2B behavioral-health infrastructure grant portfolio (BHCIP); training and technical assistance to 300+ grant recipients.
Industrial computer-vision deployments on Spot robots. 82% internal cost reduction via a standardized deployment template; 6 teams × 9 people, on time and under budget.
Ran the theater processing-exploitation-dissemination program as AI tooling entered combat operations. Managing AI programs before it was a job title.
Every role above shows the same move: standardize the method first, then cut the cost — 82% at the robotics firm, 50-minute reporting reductions in theater, PM methodology standardization across a national grant program.
Not a list of tutorials completed — a map of systems running right now: GPU inference nodes, a segmented network, a NAS full of containers, shipped SaaS products, and a house that automates itself.
Most leaders stopped building. Most builders never led. I led departments at sea, run programs by the book, and still ship production code — and this page is the evidence for all three.