WTC Agriculture, Specialty Food & Beverage Committee

His professional interests include fundraising, education, and the arts. His current focus is guiding the Louisiana 4-H Foundation through a time of endowed funds development primarily in its educational trips, camps, and conferences focus areas. Since 2015, the Foundation has increased its annual, major, and principal gifts by over $3.2 million to support a program that annually serves 200,000 Louisiana youth.

Innovative Security Operations and Management professional with extensive global experience executing security planning, training, and operations to minimize exposure to liability while protecting valuable personnel, equipment, resources, and facilities. Military veteran with secret security clearance well adept at governmental contracting, force protection, facility security planning, emergency response, and operations management. Proven track record developing and launching security programs focused on contract development and risk mitigation under dynamic and challenging environments. Skilled in communicating concepts supporting mission objectives, strategic plans, protocol, and contingency operations. Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills to lead, mentor, and evaluate staff while sustaining high-quality relationships with clients, corporate, and other stakeholders. Technical proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, SharePoint, Salesforce, Omniplan3, and iAuditor.