Military
Former USAF MQ-9 Reaper Instructor & Evaluator.
Former USAF MQ-9 Reaper Instructor and Evaluator and General Atomics Evaluator, focused on how people learn, decide, and supervise complex remote systems.

In my operational experience, aircraft capability alone did not resolve the demands of maintaining context, managing attention, coordinating crews, and deciding under uncertainty. I see those human demands as central to instruction and evaluation, not as evidence that the aircraft could never be a limitation.
Operational experience does not establish named construct origins. Sky Smith’s reconstruction, quality, and recovery concepts remain attributed to her; my upstream continuity inquiry and Representation Stewardship remain provisional and adjacent, with prior-art and provenance review open.
Research scope & provenanceFormer USAF MQ-9 Reaper Instructor & Evaluator.
Former General Atomics Evaluator.
Former Assistant Professor.
The Reaper’s Shadow author; Remote Warrior founder.
My approach uses structured debrief analysis to examine focal decisions, identify recurring lessons and performance trends, and translate observations into specific instructional fixes.
Examine decisions, context, and crew coordination.
Identify recurring patterns and instructional needs.
Refine training priorities, scenarios, and feedback.
The three training examples are illustrative methods, not claims of client implementation or measured efficacy.
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Remote Warrior is a separate organization I founded for the remote-operations community, preserving practitioner knowledge through writing, conversations, and resources.
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