Jeff joins the University of Wisconsin – Madison after serving as the Executive Director of the Master’s Across Boundaries program in the Opus College of Engineering at Marquette University. Prior to that, he served on active duty in the U.S. Army for over 25-years. His assignments included the 82nd Airborne Division, the 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade (PATRIOT), the National Security Agency – Georgia (NSA/CSS-G, and U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). In his final assignment, he served over seven years as an Academy Professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He has completed several operational deployments in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan), Operation Inherent Resolve (Syria), Operation Desert Fox (Kuwait), Operation Desert Thunder (Kuwait), and Operation Safe Haven (Panama).