SITUATION: I’m completing my third term in the NH House and am running for reelection in a new district as a result of the redistricting done based on the 2020 census. District 31 is a floterial with two State Reps based on the excess populations of Auburn, Candia, Chester and Deerfield. I’ve been elected in the past by the voters of Auburn, Chester, and Sandown. I need to get more involved in Candia and Deerfield so that people can vote for me with confidence.
THUMBNAIL DESCRIPTION: I’m a constitutional conservative who runs as a Republican. My subject matter expertise includes healthcare systems, information technology, project and privacy management. Most recently, I have chaired the subcommittee of Finance that resources the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and am the vice chair of the HHS Oversight Committee. My other significant duty is to be one of six (of 400) Representatives serving as a voting member of the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee. Other committee assignments include the Governor’s Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery; Commission to Study Telehealth Services; NH Health Care Quality and Safety Commission; Commission to Evaluate NH Granite Advantage Health Care; Joint Committee on Dedicated Funds; Long Range Capital Planning and Utilization Committee – Alternate; Committee to Develop a Plan for the Closure and Replacement of the Sununu Youth Services Center and the Rockingham County Long-Term Care Services Committee. Locally, I’m a member of the Auburn Citizens Fiber Broadband Advisory Committee and an alternate to Auburn’s Planning Board. My voting record and sponsored bills can be found by following the URL to my NH General Court biography.
MILITARY DESCRIPTION: I retired as an Army Medical Services Corps (MSC) Officer (Lieutenant Colonel) in 2009 after a third of a century of a hybrid career among the various components. The military put me on scholarship to earn my Finance bachelor’s degree and sent me to graduate school for a degree in Computer Science. Additionally, they paid most of my costs to earn a graduate degree in Systems Management. As an MSC, I led field medical units, functioned in the role of senior information systems leader overseeing and supporting all fixed medical facilities in the Army. I also served as a budget and manpower officer for the 18th Medical Command managing all Army financial and human resources within the Republic of Korea. I later became a healthcare operations planner and was recalled to active duty to deploy to Afghanistan. I’m likely the only hospital administrator in US history to have established a combat arms institutional training school to organize and field battalions and brigades. While serving in Afghanistan, I came under direct hostile fire and was awarded the Combat Action Badge. Other awards include the Expert Field Medical Badge, Parachutist Badge (Airborne), and Air Assault Badge. I received four Meritorious Service Medals, an Army Commendation Medal and other lesser medals.
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CIVILIAN DESCRIPTION: After leaving Army active duty in 1991, I began my civilian career while continuing in Army Reserve and National Guard roles. My first job after active duty was as a radiology administrator at Creighton University and I followed the department chair to West Virginia University. I became a faculty member at Georgetown University where I worked under contract to the Department of Defense as the Deputy Program Manager of the DOD Telemedicine Testbed. I authored a textbook chapter on Military Telemedicine during that time. The Sisters of Mercy Health System then hired me to prepare our ten hospitals for radiology imaging networks and the virtualization of other clinical services such as tele-dermatology along the Rio Grande. The next phase of my career took me to a few different global medical device manufacturers as a product and project manager. I transitioned to serving as an IT security and privacy officer for Carestream Health and Philips Medical Systems. I retired from my paying career to serve full-time as a state rep in 2016.
PERSONAL: My wife of over 40 years passed away in February 2022. Our two grown daughters live very near and we’re close. Both are successful and motivated. Our eldest is expected to delivery our first grandchild in August 2022 and enjoys the love and support of her wife of six years. Brody and Pepper are two great rescue dogs and do a great job of taking me for long walks in the woods.
