Bob is a doctor of public administration, a lawyer, a project consultant, and the author of the forthcoming book, Plato and the Founders: A Centerline Liberal Perspective. He is a thirty-year veteran in implementing public-private programs and projects (P3) and a fifty-year poly sci major. For ten years he was a civilian real property specialist in the Department of the Air Force. In 1995, he joined the DOD office responsible for executing the newly enacted Military Housing Privatization Initiative (DOD's P3 program for revitalizing housing).

For fourteen years, Bob served as the Deputy Director of the DOD Directorate responsible for implementing the department's public-private programs and projects. He has been involved in all aspects of the public-private process, including concept development, contract solicitation, deal structuring, portfolio management, budget scoring, Congressional reporting, and financial analysis. He developed the long-term policy and guidance as well as the program evaluation framework for DOD's housing and utilities P3 programs.

Bob holds a Juris Doctor from the George Washington University Law School, and he is a member of the Maryland Bar. He also holds a Master’s Degree in International Policy and Economics from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and Bachelor Degrees in Political Science and French from California State University at Long Beach.

Bob served as a co-chair of the American Bar Association Privatization, Outsourcing, and Financing Transactions Subcommittee from 2014 to 2020 and as a member of the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) Task Force on Public-Private Partnerships. He recently completed his Doctorate of Public Administration at the University of Baltimore. His doctoral dissertation, entitled Public Value in Privatization: The Military Housing Privatization Initiative of 1996, is now published and available on ProQuest.com.  It provides an analytical framework for assessing co-produced (P3) infrastructure projects and programs.