Originally from the Midwest, RJ spent the last 20 years in the Pacific Northwest after graduating from Western Michigan University with a degree in Business and joining the United States Army as a post 9/11 Paratrooper assigned to 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) in Seattle/Tacoma Washington.

Upon transitioning from the military, RJ found his first corporate role at Microsoft where he rose to the rank of Governance Risk Compliance Lead under the Chief Information Security Officer.  In addition, to RJ’s corporate, cyber security role which enabled him to lead key IT projects such as, BitLocker, the first data loss prevention program and Windows Azure FedRAMP authorization-to-operate he also founded several special initiatives at the company to assist his fellow transitioning service members in finding meaningful employment as Veterans in the high-tech workforce.  RJ was a founding member of what is known today as the Microsoft Military Affairs team, which is comprised of an end-to-end, full desk recruiting service and also the first of its kind, Department of Defense endorsed career skills training program coined the Microsoft Software and Systems Academy (MSSA).

After combining his passion for serving under represented communities and driving purpose-driven technology initiatives, RJ found his way to technology sales & enterprise account management via multiple brands to include, KPMG, and several boutiques:  Launch Consulting, and REVTech.  In all of these roles RJ had a proven track-record for driving high-impact, high-visibility cloud computing initiatives in the multi-million-dollar range across enterprise customers such as, T-Mobile, Microsoft, AWS, Starbucks, as well as a host of Government clients.

RJ, a self-made Entrepreneur, is in the process of launching multiple other technology services brands in 2025 that are focused on having a high impact on the North American industry through continued purpose-driven focus and emerging technology solutions nationally.