Seek election to Lafayette City Council, 2025. I hope to do my part to heal a divided political system, starting at home. I believe that fixing national or even global problems starts with local solutions.
10 Year U.S. Navy veteran with multiple leadership roles and significant responsibilities including disaster response coordination, medical supply chain management, and emergency medicine.
Senior Devops/Software engineer with 9 years experience designing and building low-level high-performance software applications.
Father of two and Lafayette resident for the past 10 years.
Team lead of 9 engineers developing internal frameworks for long-term data storage products.
Organized and led multiple initiatives to redesign and improve efficiency and performance in key software components. Identified bottlenecks in code and procedure to improve performance.
Wrote and maintained network control software to handle internal networking, redundancy, and load-balancing of network flows across a software-defined networking Linux cluster.
Communications head for the Naval Hospital Okinawa emergency operations center. Directed medical communication flow during the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan, assisting in planning and staging equipment for disaster relief response.
Manager of an overseas military hospital warehouse, managed the procurement, storage and issue of all required hospital equipment and supplies with an annual budget of $6.2 million. Lead a process improvement initiative that improved accuracy and delivery time by 40%.
Caregiver deployed in Iraq, 2006-2007. Assisted in the care of Iraqi civilians, police, and military as well as U.S. Military personnel.
Nursing assistant in Naval medical center’s cancer ward from 2003 - 2005. Cared for retired military personnel and their family members fighting cancer.
M.S. Computer Science (Incomplete)
B.S. Computer Science (summa cum laude)
B.S. Computer Information Technology (cum laude)
A.A. Japanese Studies