Public service
Foreign Service work combines policy, representation, writing, coordination, and the practical work of moving things forward across institutions and cultures.
Professional
Diplomacy, leadership, and systems work.
I am a U.S. Foreign Service Officer with experience across military service, cyber training, technical programs, and aviation. I tend to gravitate toward work that requires judgment, coordination, and steady execution.
Selected themes
Work I tend to come back to
Operations
Marine Corps service built habits around accountability, team leadership, intelligence work, and calm execution under pressure.
Training and technology
Cyber exercises and learning systems taught me how to turn complex material into practical training.
Builder mindset
Engineering, business, and aviation all reinforce the same instinct: understand the system, improve the process, and keep the user in mind.
Background
Selected foundations
- The Citadel B.S. in Electrical Engineering.
- United States Marine Corps Aviation and signals intelligence service, including combat service in Afghanistan.
- University of Maryland MBA work focused on entrepreneurship, strategy, and execution.
- Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute Cyber exercises, R&D programs, and readiness-focused learning systems.
Selected speaking
Selected public speaking
Virtual Cyber Exercises with Moodle
MoodleMoot Global, Barcelona, 2019.
Constructing Large Scale Cyber War-Games
International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, 2019.
Dynamic Cyber Training with H5P
H5Pcon, Melbourne, 2018.