Thirty years of fire service leadership, built rank by rank. Fire Chief of a regional fire and emergency services department, member of the management team that bargained a labor agreement covering about 640 employees across eight bargaining units, and the authority having jurisdiction coordinating a ten-agency unified command for annual mass gatherings of more than 300,000 people.

Selected from more than 60 fire departments across the Navy’s global enterprise as Fire Chief of the Year in 2023, the same year the department was named Large Fire Department of the Year. Its fire prevention program earned Fire Prevention Program of the Year in 2022.

An MBA with executive education through the IAFC Fire Service Executive Development Institute and the Texas A&M Fire Service Chief Executive Officer Program brings enterprise management to public safety organizations of any size. Author of IAFC national guidance on special events and digital resilience, and a speaker at national and international conferences.