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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...

It Took Me Nearly 40 Years to Figure Out What I Want to Do with My Life

Originally published on LinkedIn For as long as I can remember, I always had a word to describe myself. From early childhood through graduating college, it was very easy: I was an athlete. After college, I enlisted in the U.S. Army the day after the 9/11 attacks and...

Trick or Treating on the Lawn

It's an annual tradition every fall in Charlottesville that started in the late 1980s. A day when the masses of costumed children get to interact face-to-face with costumed University of Virginia students and faculty on the famed UVA Lawn. The candy... donated by...

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

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

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

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

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

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...