I served 16 years 10 months and 8 days in the infantry. In the Army I held lots of amazing jobs, from Machine Gunner, to Squad Leader, Combatives instructor, to Primary Stryker instructor for the Stryker leadership course on JBLM. After retiring in 2018 I began my mortgage career with Clear Choice Mortgage. With the goal of educating veterans on there VA Loan benefits, because I understood that earning the right to use your VA loan is not the same as understanding your benefits from the VA Loan. I treat every client like they are part of my first fire team and take every opportunity to educate them on there benefits. I am dog lover, my two spoiled pit bulls Stitch and Seinna are major parts of my life. My favorite hobbies are drag racing my twin turbo challenger and photography. You can find me and my family on any warm Friday night at the local track, with either my helmet in my hand or my camera.

VVA4s are the professionals have earned this rank with time in service as well as exceeding minimum performance standards of VVA3. They have served a minimum of six months as a VVA3, met all performance metrics, and continued to submit their accountability tracking on time regularly. They will answer every question perfectly in accordance with the VA Lender Handbook guidelines, VA resources and, not just one lender's overlays. During these 6 months we are testing their hearts and minds. They will be the embodiment of our institutional core values of honor, courage, and commitment. We want to see the best showing up in VVA4; we want to see how they engage you, respond to your direct questions, and respond to questions that could benefit them but they will never take an individual position to gain through solicitation. We aim to achieve the change we want to find for you and protect you as a Veteran and Active Service Member. Changing the hearts and minds of those helping you is the only authentic way to make a difference. No regulation or rules will help because people are still the same in trying to find easy ways around rules. VVA4 are there to serve you because you serve our Country.

At VVA4 the professional will be eligible to serve as a Squad Leader. This challenge is to begin training peer to peer leadership in a unique way. These peers are not employees, they are not subordinates, they are unique peers that choose to follow and whose leadership must be earned. The minimum time spent in VVA4 will be approximately 1 year.