During his almost 29-year Navy career he achieved the rank of captain and served ultimately as Navy’s Deputy Chief of Information, a key advisor to the senior civilian and military leadership.  He served more than three years as Chief of Information and Spokesman for NATO operations involving Bosnia, which received extensive international media and public attention.  Previously, he was the Navy’s Chief Spokesman during a period of controversy and intense public interest, including the Gulf War, the so-called “Tailhook scandal,” the explosion of the battleship USS Iowa, and an extended series of accidents.  His prior public affairs assignments included the U.S. Pacific Fleet, the Trident ballistic missile submarine force, Navy Recruiting, the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the western Pacific and Japan-based U.S. Navy forces.  His Navy career included extensive travel in East Asia, Australia, and Europe. 

            Upon Retirement, he joined an organization engaged in oceanographic research and education.  He later operated an independent communications practice, before joining Booz-Allen & Hamilton.  Later, while senior manager for communications at a Washington, DC law firm, he accepted an appointment as director of public affairs for an agency of the U.S. Department of Transportation (US DOT), where he also served temporarily as the first public affairs officer for the Transportation Security Administration.  He later assumed an agency chief of staff position. 

            In 2004, he joined the office of the Coalition Provisional Authority Inspector General (CPA-IG), established to audit, inspect and investigate reconstruction activities in post-war Iraq.  As Assistant Inspector General for Congressional and Public Affairs, he fostered the public presence of CPA-IG, and worked with Congress to extend and re-designate it as the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. 

            In April 2007, he was appointed Director of Communications for the U.S. Special Counsel, an independent Executive Branch investigative and prosecutorial agency with jurisdiction over the Hatch Act, whistleblower laws, prohibited personnel practices, and the law that protects jobs for military reservists and members of the National Guard while they are serving on active duty.   In July 2008, he was assigned additional duties as chief of staff.  He left the Office of Special Counsel in August 2008.