SHSU Military Science Alumni Profile

Early Years: (Personal, HS and College story)

1. Born and raised in Houston Texas. 2. Graduated high school 1986 Heidelberg American Canadian high school, West Germany. 3. Used GI Bill started college 1990. Graduated DMG ROTC, AA Military Science, AA History BS Criminal Justice 1993. Graduate School Naval Postgraduate School MS Defense Analysis 2004 Military:

1. Defense Intelligence Senior Level, Senior Executive Service (DISL-SES) 09/2009 – 03/2011 2. G-2 (Intelligence) Special Mission Unit, Department of Defense (JSOC) 04/2008 - 09/2009 3. J3 (Operations) Special Mission Unit, Department of Defense (JSOC) 04/2006 - 04/2008 4. J2 (Intelligence) Special Mission Unit, Department of Defense (JSOC) 04/2004 - 04/2006 5. 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) 07/2000 - 11/2002 6. United States Army Special Operations Command (Airborne) 07/1999 - 07/2000 7. 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry (Air Assault) 04/1998 - 07/1999 8. 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) 1994-1997 9. United States Army, Enlisted Assignments 1986-1993 • Golf Company, 143rd Long Range Surveillance Battalion • Detachment-Delta, 102nd Military Intelligence Battalion (Long Range Surveillance Detachment) • Alpha Company, 3rd Ranger Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment (JSOC)

Regional Experience: • AFRICA: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Mali, Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia, South Africa • CENTRAL AMERICA and CARIBBEAN: Panama, Haiti • EASTERN ASIA: Korea (2 DoD tours), Japan, Thailand • EUROPE: Germany, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, France, Spain, Austria, Italy, England • MIDDLE EAST: Afghanistan (4 DoD tours), Iraq (4 DoD tours), Qatar, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia • NORTH AMERICA: Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador

Post Military: Executive Director, Cotton Holdings, Inc. 01/2016 – Present Executive Director, Cotton Global Disaster Solutions 03/2011 – 01/2016

WHAT A SAM GRAD SHOULD Insert Favorite Leadership Quote: High performance organizationsBE: do routine things routinely. Stick with the basics, stay One of the great things about America is disciplined, repeat your skill set, and never we should not judge until we know the stop learning. You can’t boil the ocean, control facts. GEN (R) Stanley A. McChrystal what you can, observe and make note what you can’t. Always tell the truth.