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I was 17 on 9/11 and would enlist and leave for Navy Bootcamp on the 1-year anniversary, 9/11/2002.
- Made it through Nuclear Power School
- Went to a "C-School" to become a Chemistry & Radiological Controls Technician
- Selected to be a junior staff instructor at the nuclear training facility where I had been trained
- Selected into the Navy's Seaman to Admiral 21 (STA-21) commissioning program
- Accepted to Auburn University as part of STA-21 and went off to officer school up in Rhode Island
- Arrived in Auburn, AL just 1 week after my first child was born
- Spent three years (9 semesters, including summers) earning a B.S. in Chemistry
- Studied a criminal amount and neglected my wife and children during that time, but got a 4.0 GPA (no one ever cared again)
- Commissioned as an Ensign in the US Navy
- Returned to Nuclear school in Charleston, SC
- Went to Submarine School in Groton, CT while my wife moved our family 3,000+ miles away to Bremerton, WA
- Reported to the USS Nevada (SSBN 733), drydocked at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
- Deployed immediately as a "rider" on the USS Kentucky (SSBN 737), worst experience of my life, first experience of detrimental mental health
- Returned and served about 30 months on Nevada, including 5 strategic deterrent patrols
- Got a call 2 days before last patrol, "Do you want to go to UNC? You have 60 minutes to decide."
- Moved to NC, having never before been there with wife and now 5 kids.
- Served as the Submarine Officer Instructor at UNC Chapel Hill; taught Naval Engineering.
- Six members of the UNC Women's Field Hockey team (including 1 future Olympian) took my class because they thought it would be an "easy A" - joke was on them.
- Separated from the Navy after 12 years and took my first "real" job as a Sales Engineer at Validic.
- Spent three years at Validic, became Director of Operations, effectively.
- Joined Spreedly as their first Sales Engineer.
- Met Ryan Walsh, future founder of RepVue
- Ryan encouraged Spreedly to pull me into sales. Became the first Enterprise Account Executive at Spreedly
- Made quota every year at Spreedly, but left in late 2019 to join a consulting firm
- Horrible, awful company run by a maniac (should've seen the signs)
- Covid hits, consulting business tanks, went part-time
- Got a professional coaching certification, helpful for raising teens
- Did freelance consulting during the pandemic to pay the bills
- Rejoined Spreedly as an ENT AE
- Ran Enterprise Sales at Spreedly
- Ran Key Accounts and Partnerships at Spreedly
- Building the sales team at RepVue, doubling ARR YoY