A little about me:

From the time I was very young, I loved to figure out how things worked.  I would take things apart and put them back together, usually having some extra parts leftover. Over time, this evolved into learning how a system works by understanding the connections in the system and how those connections interact. I learned that connections communicating in a system produce data that I can extract and use to learn how the system is working.  

I spent fifteen years in the United States Army and served in various Intelligence roles throughout my career. The last position I held prior to my Honorable Discharge was the acting Intelligence Officer for a Combat Engineer Battalion. While an acting Intelligence Officer, I deployed to Slovakia to mentor and advise a Slovakian Army unit and served as a SW Border (US/Mexico) Joint Task Force Intelligence Officer. I deployed to Iraq in 2004-05 where I established a comprehensive Human Intelligence collection, reporting and tracking program for the Tal Afar, Iraq, area of operations. I conducted daily intelligence briefings for combat commanders; assisted in the planning and execution of Company and Squadron level combat operations and trained and led squads on over seventy-five successful combat missions. I was an Intelligence Analyst for a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Intelligence Support Center and worked in a Brigade Tactical Operations Center as the Intelligence Section Current Operations Non-Commissioned Officer in charge (NCOIC). I have also worked as an Operations NCOIC and Intelligence Analyst, conducting joint operations with Counterintelligence officers on threat identification and mitigation.

Certificates

·          Power BI Data Modeling

·          Data Analytics 1&2

·          Excel Essential Training

·          Excel Database

·          Managing and Analyzing Data in Excel

·          Excel Data Visualizations

·          Forensic Psychology

·          Machine Learning in GIS

·          QGIS for Spatial Analysis

·          Intro to Intelligence Analysis for Security Management

·          Level 1, 2 and 3 Intelligence analyst certificates

·         HUMINT Advanced 1 Certificate