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9/12/01 is the Day My Life Really Changed
Originally posted to Medium July 2001 — My first trip to NYC. Photo taken by my mom, the amazing photographer who made me a unicorn with the State of Liberty. I was very conflicted yesterday, just as I am on most anniversaries of 9/11 over the last twenty years....
My Personal Take: No Other Expected Outcome in Afghanistan
Kabul — former Soviet Officer’s Club near Darul Aman Palace Originally posted on Medium My final day in Jalalabad, November 2013 I deployed to Afghanistan three times as a DoD civilian intelligence officer from 2012 to 2015. Is the news out of Afghanistan...
Military Transition – My Story
Originally posted on LinkedIn Bottom Line Up Front - Every job I've had since the military involved networking, luck, and knowing what I wanted to do. If you skip to the end, I highlight my key lessons. I didn't have a typical transition from the military. I was...
A Day in the Life of a Product Manager
Originally published on LinkedIn Product Manager appears to be one of those ambiguous job titles that can mean completely different things in different industries or even different companies within industries. For the past 11 months, I’ve been a product manager of a...
Interview on Hazard Ground Podcast
Originally posted on the Life After Loyalty blog In 2017, I had the opportunity to share my story with Mark Zinno on the Hazard Ground Podcast. The episode published in April of 2018. It was honor to be able to share my story on the same platform as Medal of Honor...
I’ve Never Kept a Single New Year’s Resolution
Originally posted on LinkedIn It's that time of the year again, when so many of us will arbitrarily make very broad, hard-to-measure New Year's resolutions... "get healthy," "spend more time with my kids," "drink less," "exercise more." I'm not against New Year...
Ten Thoughts About My Darden Executive MBA Experience
Originally published on LinkedIn When I applied to the Executive MBA program at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, I didn’t even know what I planned to do with the degree. I figured the worst case scenario was my MBA would be a valuable tool for...
Books That Can Change Everything.
Originally published on LinkedIn Thank you to everybody for the tremendous support after my article earlier this week, "It Took Me Nearly 40 Years to Figure Out What I Want to Do with My Life." Not only the comments, but some of the heartfelt messages I received and...
9/12/01 is the Day My Life Really Changed
Originally posted to Medium July 2001 — My first trip to NYC. Photo taken by my mom, the amazing photographer who made me a unicorn with the State of Liberty. I was very conflicted yesterday, just as I am on most anniversaries of 9/11 over the last twenty years....
My Personal Take: No Other Expected Outcome in Afghanistan
Kabul — former Soviet Officer’s Club near Darul Aman Palace Originally posted on Medium My final day in Jalalabad, November 2013 I deployed to Afghanistan three times as a DoD civilian intelligence officer from 2012 to 2015. Is the news out of Afghanistan...
Military Transition – My Story
Originally posted on LinkedIn Bottom Line Up Front - Every job I've had since the military involved networking, luck, and knowing what I wanted to do. If you skip to the end, I highlight my key lessons. I didn't have a typical transition from the military. I was...
A Day in the Life of a Product Manager
Originally published on LinkedIn Product Manager appears to be one of those ambiguous job titles that can mean completely different things in different industries or even different companies within industries. For the past 11 months, I’ve been a product manager of a...
Interview on Hazard Ground Podcast
Originally posted on the Life After Loyalty blog In 2017, I had the opportunity to share my story with Mark Zinno on the Hazard Ground Podcast. The episode published in April of 2018. It was honor to be able to share my story on the same platform as Medal of Honor...