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As Vice President for Corporate Outreach/Deputy for Plans, Dr. Patton is responsible for cultivating corporate memberships and increasing corporate participation. In addition, he serves as Deputy to Becky Nolan, Executive Vice President for Plans.
Prior to arriving at AFCEA, Dr. Patton was Director of Community Outreach for Military Advantage, a division of Monster Worldwide and the world's largest military membership organization known as ‘Military.com.’ In this position he was responsible for executing the grassroots outreach marketing and public relations program, managed the Military.com career transition fairs, and was the senior program manager for government projects, where he maintained a close liaison with contacts at all levels in the military community. Each year he personally came in contact with over 10,000 members of the military community including transitioning servicemembers and veterans through formal and informal presentations at a variety of events and has presented formal testimony before Members of Congress.
Dr. Patton served as the 8th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard from May 1998 until his retirement from more than 30 years of active service in November 2002. In this position he was the Coast Guard’s senior most enlisted member representing over 45,000 personnel as the principal advisor to the Commandant of the Coast Guard. His illustrious military career included staff and operational assignments throughout the country, both afloat and ashore in the occupational specialties first as a radioman and later as a personnel specialist. Among his numerous military awards includes the Distinguished Service Medal, which is the nation’s highest military peacetime recognition for performance of duty.
Dr. Patton received his doctorate of education degree from American University, a master’s degree in counseling psychology at Loyola University at Chicago, a B.S. in social work from Shaw College and a B.A. in communication from Pacific College. Since retirement from the U.S. Coast Guard he later earned a Master of Theology in Applied Religious Studies from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. His extensive military education includes the Department of Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy, and the Coast Guard Chief Petty Officers Academy.
A resident of Alexandria, VA, Dr. Patton is the father of an adult son and daughter who both reside in the Washington, DC area. He is also a member of the Board of Visitors for the National Intelligence University. In his personal time, he volunteers as a critical incident stress debriefing counselor/minister for the Unitarian Universalist Trauma Response Ministry Team.
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