Assignments around the world in a military career. Including a commander of camp david he has worked in private industries, the chief executive officer of the technology company. Headquarters of pittsburgh. He published his first book, inside camp david. It travels often speaking about the book. He has been on npr, cspan and many other radiotelevision elements. After a conversation my will be taking questions from our live audience. Please use the the chat, well get to as many as possible in the program. Thank you colleen, wonderful to be here. I appreciate the time you talk. But we start from the beginning. Tell us how you were selected and with this thought process was. Well, it is actually a navy command nearby. I was operated and maintained by president roosevelt. Civil engineer officer so 1998. Possible officers being considered with the white house and interviewed with the executive director. Interviewed by the camp, by the staff. Amazing. First a little bit about your own person