I'm a filmmaker, currently directing and producing a feature length documentary film called PATROL BASE JAKER (www.patrolbasejaker.com) about the US Marines and the practice of counter-insurgency in Afghanistan.
I was the Executive Producer (along with Gary Sinise) of the award-winning feature-length documentary film BROTHERS AT WAR (www.brothersatwarmovie.com) about an American military family and the Iraq war. The film won best documentary at the 2008 GI Film Festival, received theatrical distribution in 2009 from Samuel Goldwyn Films and nationwide DVD distribution by Summit Entertainment in 2010 (including a box set exclusive release in Walmart with THE HURT LOCKER).
I have been in entrepreneurial mode for the past twenty years at a variety of small, medium and large sized businesses. I've led start-up technology teams at Uprizer, Econex, Grey Haven and Storage Continuity. As a senior executive at IBM, Hewlett-Packard and the US Department of Defense, I worked on major business transformation, Internet and telecommunications initiatives. In 2008, I earned the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service for my work in Iraq on economic development and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) during 2006-7. Back in the day (1991), I graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a BA in Philosophy and International Peace Studies (Go Irish!).
I live in Akron, Ohio, with my wife Molly (a physician and Medical Director of the Akron General Hospice Care Center) and our 6 children.
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