Some milestones in the journey of life…

Here are some lifetime highlights:

• Graduate of St. Albans High School, 1985
• Graduate of WV State University, Two Degrees, 1990
• AAS in Computer Science, AAS in Electronic Engineering
• Pursued Bachelors degree in Marketing, WV State, 160 hrs
• Founded Spectrum Technologies in 1990
• Joined WV Army National Guard, Federal & State Missions, 1990
• Completed Light Infantry BASIC Training, Fort Dix, NJ
• Served as a Tactical Communications Chief, 31V, 107th ACR
• Served as an Armored Calvary Scout, 19D, 107th Armored Calvary
• Distinguished Honor Graduate, 31V, www.army.mil/“>Fort Sill, OK (1st of 400)
• Distinguished Honor Graduate, Primary Leadership DevelopmentCourse (PLDC), Fort Jackson, SC, (2nd of 200)
• Received 1 Army Commendation and 2 Army Achievement Medals
• Completed Nuclear, Biological, Chemical (NBC) Recon Training
• Received Honorable Discharge, United States Army, 1996
• Built Spectrum Technology to $900,000/year business in 1994
• Co-Founded CityNet Corporation, 1994, WV’s First Internet Provider
• Served as President of CityNet from 1994-1997
• Sale of CityNet 1997 to City Holding (a $3.4B Bank Holding Co.)
• CityNet’s Regional Network Map
• Founded DataCorp Communications, Inc, 1995, Bell-Atlantic Agency
• DataCorp selected as one of top-performing WV sales agencies
• Completed Leadership Charleston Course, Chamber of Commerce
• Joined the CornerStone Technology Group as Executive Director of Marketing in 1997 – Served under first ownership group until 2000
• West Virginia Executive Magazine: Recognized as Young Gun 2000
• DataCorp secures national agency status for AT&T
• CornerStone has substantial revenue growth to $10M, 1997-2000
• CornerStone Technology Group sold to new investor group, 2000
  With related corporate acquisitions grows to approx 100 employees
• Promoted to President & CEO CornerStone Technology Group, 2000
• DataCorp’s AT&T Agency opens door to $10M of global provisioning of high-capacity data services from 2000-2002
• Responsible for leading corporate restructuring, mergers, acquisitions, turnaround and concluding workout with CornerStone Technology Group and various investor group assets, 2000-2002.
• Founded Premier Strategies, LLC in 2002, managing member of a Business Brokerage and Management Consulting Firm
• Accepted as member of International Business Brokers Association
• Served as President of Business Networking International, 2005 for the West Virginia Founders Chapter, Charleston, WV
• Active Member of the Charleston Rotary Club 7550
• Selected to serve as the Acting Executive Director (2004) of the
  West Virginia Venture Connection to assist Senator Jay Rockefeller’s initiative in it’s first year launch.
• MATRIC - Mid Atlantic Technology Research and Innovation Center
  Served as MATRIC’s Executive Director of Commercialization, 2004
• Currently serves on the board of Mid-Atlantic Holdings a commercialization portfolio for MATRIC spin-off companies
• Recognized Who’s Who in WV Business 2004 – State Journal - Video
• Founded Investor-Led Venture: Chat Cable, LLC, 2006
• Created CoalBroker,LLC, a business brokerage asset exchange. Creating a deal finder network for M&A and asset-based transactions in Coal, Oil, Gas, Timber and Technology Licenses in the Energy & Natural Resource marketplace.
• Founded and is currently leading national expansion of investor-led internet media company, StateNewslines.com. The company operates a portfolio of 100 interactive media properties and 50 mobile applications.  StateNewslines continually indexes over 10,000 local news websites and provides local news/sports/political websites in each state.
• Currently serves on the board of directors for WV’s Public Relations Society of America chapter
• Recently launched a new statewide and local press release service,StateNewsWire™, in all 50 states serving public relations professionals by providing an inexpensive way to distribute their news releases to local journalists and reporters.