Entering the US Naval Academy at the age of 17, I have now taken the Oath of Office to "support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" six different times in my life. Upon graduating ("with merit") and completing 16 months of nuclear power plant operator training and certification and attending submarine school, I served almost 3 years on a fast attack nuclear submarine. In this role I made special operations patrols in both Cold War and Vietnam War zones, receiving a Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet Letter of Commendation, the Vietnam Service, Navy Expeditionary and Navy Unit Citation medals. I then served as an Instructor and Division Director at the Nuclear Power School in Mare Island, California and completed a Master of Science degree ("Dean's List") in Systems Engineering at San Jose State University.

Leaving the Navy, I joined the Procter & Gamble Company in the Brand Marketing program. I served as a Brand Manager on Bonus, a liquid laundry detergent in Japan, then as Brand Manager on Era, also a liquid laundry detergent in the US. My team developed a new product and package for an improved Era product that included the uniquely designed "self-draining" no mess measuring cap. This product and package initiative was introduced as the first Liquid Tide brand. I then became the Tide power detergent Brand Manager, the company's largest brand. At the time, the business was $500 Million a year in sales, but had not grown in 9 years. The initiatives and marketing strategy my team developed, when combined with Liquid Tide sales, resulted in the total business doubling in 4 years to become P&G's first $1 Billion brand.

I also served as Advertising Manager in Taiwan, launching products in 6 different consumer goods categories and becoming the market leader in 5, and growing the business from start up to a $40 Million profitable business in 4 years. Returning to the US, I served as the company's first Global Environmental Marketing Director and worked with several elected government leaders in several states, regulatory groups such as the Federal Trade Commission and leaders of environmental groups to stimulate recycling and reuse initiatives for P&G plastic packaging, including the first use of recycled plastic in new bottles, helping to reduce the number of P&G brand plastic bottles in landfills

Following 15 years at P&G, I served as Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Household Products at Church & Dwight, the Arm & Hammer company, and earned two back-to-back years of record sales and profits. I then moved to Boston and spent the next 12 years working in several promotional, digital marketing and internet companies before returning to Cincinnati in 2006. I started a business and executive coaching firm to help executive and small business owners grow their businesses. In 2014 I began working part time as an Adjunct Professor teaching leadership courses at the University of Cincinnati until the pandemic of 2020. In that year, in the midst of the pandemic before vaccines were available, and at the age of 71, I volunteered to serve as a Census worker and a Precinct Election Officer during the 2020 election.

I began researching and writing a blog about politics and public policy in 2015. I translated that material into a course entitled "Getting a Congress to Serve the Nation" and taught the course in Adult Lifelong Learning programs at Miami University, the University of Cincinnati and the University of Dayton. The class was attended by about 250 students over 3 years on 6 different campuses and in 5 different counties in Southwest Ohio. The very positive responsive responses from those classes and students led to the idea of writing the American Turning Point book. My other key activities, beyond spending time with friends and family, include serving on the Leadership Council for Millennium Reign Energy, the leading "Green" Hydrogen Refueling Infrastructure company in Dayton, and on the Leadership Committee for the USS Cincinnati (SSN 693) Cold War and Veterans Memorial.