Medical School and Residency
I am currently the Chief Resident of the Psychiatry program (official site) at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP). I graduated from the University of North Florida (UNF) with a B.S. in Biology and then graduated from Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine (OUCOM) on a Navy HPSP scholarship, earning the CORE Outstanding Student Award for Cuyahoga Falls General Hospital. I graduated (Intern of the Year) from NMCP's Psychiatry Internship in 2006 and am currently a PGY4 resident.
Marine Corps
I
enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1989. After completing recruit training
at Parris Island, Marine Combat
Training at the School of Infantry
at Camp Geiger and
Marine
Corps Engineer School, I was stationed at Camp Lejeune, 2nd Marine Division,
Second Combat Engineer Battalion, where I served my first three years as
an M60 machine-gunner.
During my last year in the Second Marine Division, I served in multiple
capacities: Training NCO, Battalion Close Combat Instructor and also earned
the secondary MOS of 8531, Marksmanship Instructor. From 1993 to 1995 I
served in an administrative capacity working as the Assistant to the Comptroller
Chief at 2nd Force Service Support Group.
Work, college, and research.
After my discharge from the Marines I worked as an Administrative Assistant to the CFO of national transportation company, where I progressed to data mining projects employing data mining software to extract data from AS400 systems into the Microsoft environment for further analysis and reporting. As an undergraduate I earned a competitive volunteer research assistant position at the Mayo Clinic in in their Neurogenetics Lab (now called the Familial Parkinson's Disease research lab), and after six months was hired as a Special Projects Associate. The research scientists I worked with at Mayo were, at once, brilliant and unpretentious, and selflessly driven to achieve a greater understanding of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. It was during my time in that lab I became interested in bioinformatics while working on a project using Vector NTI (sequence analysis software) to generate vector maps of recombinant plasmids and their restriction enzyme sites. I was also given a unique opportunity to gain teaching experience while still an undergraduate at UNF, who hired me as a Laboratory Instructor for Freshman Biology, a position previously offered only to graduate-degreed Biologists.
Powerlifting
Outside
of school and work, my primary focus was Powerlifting. I qualified as a
Masters lifter in my first competition in April 1997 at the USPF
Alabama State Championships in the 220lbs weight class. After winning the
Southeastern Cup and USPF Region III (Atlanta, GA) in that weight class,
I moved into the 242 weight class where I again won the Southeastern Cup.
I was nationally ranked for three consecutive years and had a qualifying
score for the Nationals. My best competition total was 1780lbs at 242lbs.a
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