I'm a Professor of Management at the United States Air Force Academy.  My current research and teaching interests include new venture strategies, strategic planning, technological innovation, project management, and research & development management.

I graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1982 and majored in Management. I received my MBA from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989.  I completed my doctoral dissertation on organizational adaptation and firm performance in 1998 at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado in Boulder under the supervision of Professor Anne Huff.

While on active duty in the Air Force, I served as an acquisition officer for MILSTAR (a joint service communication satellite program headquartered at Los Angeles Air Force Base).  I was an Education with Industry Fellow, a program sponsored by the Air Force Institute of Technology, at Hughes Aircraft Company and worked primarily in the Space & Communications group. I was also a contracting officer for advanced and applied technologies at the National Reconnaissance Office in Los Angeles and worked primarily on highly classified, small satellite programs. I returned to the Air Force Academy in 1990 as an Instructor and  Associate Professor of management. I retired from active duty in 2002 and accepted a civilian faculty position in the Management Department.  I was promoted to Full Professor on 1 January 2007.