United States
I'm a growth leader. I build organizations — and I'm at my best building them from the ground up. Growth, to me, is the whole stack, not just a pipeline number. It's finding and hiring the talented people who do the work, opening and closing business, running capture, and building the marketing, brand, and event presence that makes a company known in its market. I've owned all of it. I'm especially strong in the 0→10 phase — standing something up from scratch, landing the first wins, and assembling the team and the motion that turn a good idea into a real business. I've also done the 10→100 work: taking an established motion and scaling it into something repeatable. What makes me an unusual growth leader for this market is where I came from. I started as an enlisted Force Reconnaissance Marine, commissioned as a U.S. Army Special Forces officer, and later served as Director / Deputy Director of the AI Division in the Force Modernization Center at U.S. Army Special Operations Command — where I authored the command's first enterprise AI strategy and architected its cloud-based AI landing zone (AWS, RMF, ATO). So when I grow a business in the special operations and broader defense community, I do it as a peer. I can hold the mission conversation and the technical conversation myself — the seam most growth and BD leaders can't cover. That rigor isn't just operational. My graduate research at the Naval Postgraduate School applied quantitative modeling to one of the hardest questions in irregular warfare, and I hold an MS in Data Science from Northwestern. I bring a data-driven discipline to growth decisions, not just instinct. Today I lead Growth & Strategy for LMI's Robotics & Autonomous Systems business, focused on the SOF market — owning the full growth engine and connecting the people who own the mission with the autonomy, AI, and data capability that supports it. Always glad to connect with people working at the intersection of special operations, autonomy/AI, and growth.
As an executive in the Digital & Analytics Service Line, I was responsible for the P&L, Growth, Strategy, & Talent Management of a diverse portfolio of programs that primarily revolve around providing Technical Solutions Provider (TSP) support to a wide range of clients & Mission Partners. Led capture & business development efforts across the DOD with a specific focus on the Army market. Oversaw and guided the architecting, development, feature release, & delivery for LMI’s Modular Solutions Environment or MSE. I managed the go to market strategy & ensure the product has an advocate for the user. Provided strategic technical advising both internal to LMI & to clients & senior leaders leveraging more than two decades in the defense sector & a broad technical acumen across Cloud, Data, DevOps, & Platform Engineering.
I was responsible for a portfolio of programs supporting US government clients, including the Army’s Next Generation Command & Control (NGC2), primarily focused on Technical Services across DevOps, Platform, & Data Engineering along with Technical Product & Program Management. As Program Director across my portfolio, I organized and synthesized cross-functional teams ensuring harmony across efforts and a unified focus on tasks & deliverables. I led business planning, strategy, & capture efforts across multiple verticals including the Defense, Intelligence, & 4th Estate Markets