Thomas is a retired UASF lieutenant Colonel with 20+ years software and systems experience. A graduate of the Air Force Academy with a masters in computer systems management, he received the Presidential Citation as logistics software lead for Desert Storm. He built a built an 80 company, game-changing technical solution for healthcare professionals as CIO and as director of R&D at Xerox. As Dean of Technology and Computing at Utah Valley University, his department was awarded the ABIT certification, which qualifies graduates for fortune 500 candidacy.