As the lead TIC he is responsible for the successful completion of over 20 pre-underway checks, and over 500 hours of troubleshooting links. He was instrumental in the successful completion of Automated Management Battlespace and AS-1 comms certification.

Deployed with Carl Vinson strike group to the Seventh Fleet AOR and performed over 1,000 hours of troubleshooting of links as a tactical information coordinator and relayed an accurate and complete tactical picture to both, the Strike Group and Seventh Fleet.

Assigned to USS GRIDLEY (DDG-101), he was deployed to the Fifth Fleet AOR with the Ronald Reagan Strike Group, during which he tracked over 2,000 surface contacts.