Faculty

I joined the Maritime Operations Center (MOC) Assist and Assess Team (AAT) in February 2010 after completing the 5-week Maritime Staff Operators Course (MSOC).  I am a liaison officer for COMTENTHFLT (C10F) and COMPACFLT (CPF) for developing and optimizing their MOC organization, processes and overall performance.  I specialize in Joint Fires / Force Application (kinetic and non-kinetic) as well as information and knowledge management (IM/KM).

Prior to this tour, I coordinated Navy experimentation at the operational level of war at the Navy Warfare Development Command (NWDC), where I managed diverse teams participating in the design, conduct and analysis of such experiments as JEFX-08 and Operational Level Command and Control (OLC2) during Trident Warrior 2009 (TW09).

My operational tours spanned from 1992-2006, including JO and Department Head tours with Strike-Fighter Squadron Eight Seven (VFA-87) and a CAG OPS tour with Carrier Air Wing Fourteen (CVW-14).  I've accumulated over 2600 flt hours and 700+ carrier landings in the F/A-18C and E aircraft while flying from the decks of USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), USS Enterprise (CVN-65) and USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76).   I've completed five deployments to the Mediterranean Sea, Western Pacific and Arabian Gulf and served in Operations Southern Watch (Iraq), Deny Flight (Bosnia), Deliberate Force (Bosnia), Allied Force (Kosovo), Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) and Iraqi Freedom (Iraq).

 

My shore assignments include attending the Navy Fighter Weapons School (“TOP GUN”) and subsequently serving from 1996-1998 as an integrated Strike Warfare Instructor at the Navy Strike Warfare Center (“STRIKE-U”) which became the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center (NSAWC). From 2002-2004 I served on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO OPNAV N091) refining and implementing test and evaluation policy for tactical aircraft and airborne weapons acquisition programs. From 2007-2009 I served as an experiment coordinator at the Navy Warfare Development Command (NWDC) in Newport, RI. 

I graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1988 with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, and completed post-graduate education at the Naval War College, graduating in 2009 with a M.A. in National Security and Strategic Studies.