Owner & Founder, Military Heritage Works
A retired national security professional, he is in his second career as a small business owner and an independent scholar and writer based in Fairfax, Virginia, who is passionate about telling stories of overlooked episodes in American military history.
In June 2024, he retired from a 40-year career as a national security professional, combining parallel service as a U.S. Army officer for 30 years and as an analyst with the U.S. Intelligence Community for over 20 years.
Over those 40 years, he deployed four times and was privileged to command soldiers in the field during two national contingencies; first, an Army explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) unit during the Persian Gulf War, and later a special troops battalion with soldiers located at 13 sites in Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, and Djibouti.
He was inducted into the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps Hall of Fame in May 2025.
He has taught future strategic leaders as the DIA Chair at the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy of the National Defense University; future U.S. Intelligence Community leaders at the National Intelligence University; future U.S. Intelligence Community officers at George Mason University; and future Army leaders at the United States Military Academy.
When not writing or serving his various communities, he enjoys traveling with his wife and riding his bicycle.
Military Heritage Works, LLC
Virginia
As an independent scholar and writer, I am dedicated to illuminating overlooked episodes of American military history. My company is SBA certified as a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business.
Virginia
National Guard, Joint Intelligence Directorate-J2
Established a comprehensive intelligence and analytic architecture from the ground up as the first Senior Intelligence Advisor in the National Guard Bureau (NGB) J2.
Designed and implemented systems and processes that enabled the J2 staff to deliver timely intelligence, counterintelligence, security, and incident awareness assessments to the Chief of the NGB, senior Joint Staff leadership, and state, local, and tribal authorities.
Significantly enhanced decision-making by institutionalizing this structured analytic construct where none previously existed.
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
Multiple positions of increasing scope and responsibility, culminating as a GG-15, to include:
Deputy Chief of an office in the U.S. Joint Staff’s Directorate for Intelligence (Joint Staff J2); with ~45 personnel, the office serves as the primary focal point and action office for human capital and resource functions for the ~780 members of the Joint Staff J2 workforce.
Two positions in the Deputy Directorate for Analysis & Warning (J22) of the Joint Staff J2, leading ~120 civilian, military, and contractor personnel in producing national-level, all-source current intelligence products with a global focus.
Intelligence Briefer to the Deputy Secretary of Defense and Deputy Chief Management Officer.
Multiple positions with the Joint Intelligence Task Force-Combating Terrorism (JITF-CT) and its successor organization, the Defense Counterterrorism Center (DCTC), leading the production of national-level, all-source counterterrorism (CT) analysis.
U.S. Army
30 years of combined active and reserve service in multiple leadership positions, retiring with the rank of Colonel; leadership highlights include:
Mar 2007 - Apr 2008: Commander, 640th Special Troop Battalion, at Nashville, TN, Fort Bragg, NC, and then 10 months in Kuwait with 456 soldiers located at 13 sites in Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, and Djibouti (status: leave without pay from DIA).
Oct 2006 - Mar 2007: Commander, 378th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, U.S. Army Reserve, Fort Indiantown Gap, PA.
Dec 2003 - Mar 2004: Officer in Charge, Combined Explosives Exploitation Cell (CEXC), Baghdad, Iraq (status: mobilized reservist with DIA).
Sep 1987 - Jun 1991: Commander, 55th Ordnance Detachment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal), Fort Drum, NY; deployed with unit for four months in the Gulf War.