Charlie enlisted to serve as a Counterintelligence (CI) Agent in the U.S. Army in the fall of 2000. Upon completion of Basic and Advanced Individual Training, he was assigned to a CI Team with the 202nd MI Battalion at Fort
Gordon, Georgia and deployed to Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt in support of Exercise Bright Star in the fall of 2001.
Selected to attend Officer Candidate School, Charlie earned his commission as an Infantry Officer in January of 2003 and subsequently graduated from Infantry Officer Basic Course, Airborne School and Ranger School. His first
assignment was as a Rifle Platoon Leader with the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team. He was then selected to serve as his battalion’s Reconnaissance Platoon Leader and remained in that position while deployed to Mosul, Iraq
in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. He successfully led more than 500 combat patrols to include raids on High Value Targets (HVT), long range surveillance, and close target reconnaissance. Charlie’s platoon was responsible
for the capture of more than 200 HVT’s and over 450 total enemy personnel. In June of 2006, he was seriously wounded in a Suicide-Vehicle IED attack and reassigned to Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Unwilling to accept medical
retirement, Charlie was offered the opportunity to re-branch and continue serving as a Military Intelligence (MI) officer.
Following attendance at the MI Captains’ Career Course, Charlie was assigned to the 66th MI Brigade where he was selected to command the Stuttgart Military Intelligence Detachment and Communications Technology Detachment-Europe
(COMTECH) of the 2nd MI Battalion. His detachments provided vital counterintelligence and force protection support to one of the most critically important garrisons in Europe and to senior leaders in two combatant commands,
European Command and Africa Command. Charlie then pursued an assignment with 3-21 Infantry Regiment of 1-25 Stryker Brigade Combat Team in Alaska where he served as his battalion’s Senior Intelligence Officer and deployed
to Panjwai District, Kandahar, Afghanistan in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM.
Following deployment, he was assigned to the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY where he served as a Military Science Instructor. After being named his academic department’s Instructor of the Year, Charlie was
selected to serve as Aide-de-Camp to the Academy’s Superintendent, LTG Robert Caslen. He was then given the opportunity to earn a Master’s Degree in Social-Organizational Psychology from Columbia University before being assigned
to the 25th Infantry Division (ID) at Schofield Barracks, HI where he served as both a Brigade Senior Intelligence Officer and Chief of 25ID’s Analysis and Control Element.
Complications related to the injuries that Charlie sustained in 2006 surfaced during the summer of 2016 and led to him being medically retired from active duty. Following transition from the military, Charlie became the Senior
Director of Site Development and Operations for the United Service Organizations’ (USO) Pathfinder program where he helped design and scale a program that connects thousands of transitioning service members and military to
critical information and resources. After 15 months with the USO, Charlie accepted an offer to serve as Director of Operations for The COMMIT Foundation. He remained with COMMIT for 15 months before making a move to workforce
development. He then led a team who provides employment and educational opportunities to underprivileged young adults across 5 counties in western Washington state before accepting an offer to serve as a national Account
Manager for EMCOR Group, Inc.
Charlie also serves on the Veterans Advisory Board for the Concussion Legacy Foundation, has been married to his wife (Jennifer) for over 20 years and they are the proud parents of six beautiful children.
