Dan received his Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in May, 1990. Upon graduation, Dan accepted a role with Ford Aerospace supporting NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on the Space Station Freedom Program. Dan was employed by Ford and Loral Space Information Systems (via acquisition) for five years in various capacities, including lead engineer and engineering supervisor at NASA JSC. In 1995, Dan accepted an offer to serve as lead engineer with Lam Research in Freemont, CA where he assisted with the design of semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

Dan returned to NASA JSC as a deputy program manager and program manager in the late-1990's, where he stayed until he joined The Dow Chemical Company as Global Reliability Leader in July of 2000. At Dow, Dan led a group of 25 engineers and managers at six global sites including Brazil, Germany, South Africa, Texas and Louisiana. The charter of this group was to improve productivity, which over a five year period, they were successful accomplishing, as plant production improved to over 96% of capacity. During his tenure at Dow, Dan was the only Aerospace Engineer in the entire company (over 50,000 employees). Dan has spent the last six years in the National Capital Region as a Vice President for ManTech International and Millennium Engineering and Integration Company.

Dan is a seasoned Program Manager within the Aerospace (NASA), petrochemical, and semiconductor manufacturing equipment sectors with experience managing large global teams of 100+ personnel, multiple subcontractors and at multiple CONUS and OCONUS sites. Dan also has extensive corporate management experience and subject matter expertise in several disciplines including Program/Project Management, Business Development, Six Sigma Methodology, Reliability and Maintainability Engineering, Risk Management, Systems Engineering, He currently serves as Millennium's Vice President for Corporate Development responsible for the corporate strategic plan, business development, business growth pipeline, corporate marketing, corporate infrastructure, and corporate employee satisfaction.

Dan is a Six Sigma Black Belt (achieved while working for Dow) and serves in volunteer capacities on several national committees. Dan enjoys spending time with his wife and family, flying (Dan is a private pilot currently working to achieve an instrument rating), and playing guitar in his church worship band. He has been happily married to Cathy for 20 years this year and they have four beautiful children, Kayleigh, Paige, Collin, and Jonathan.