It was an exciting year full of interesting opportunities. Here’s a quick summary of my last 13 months:

Developed the “Red Team” strategy for a Colorado company producing the world’s leading anti-drone site protection solution.
Serving as UAS Colorado’s Legislative Director, managed our lobbyist, organized testimony and events and worked directly with legislators to shape and eventually defeat Senate Bill 15-59 and House Bill 15-1115. The industry has already had some success this year, defeating HB 16-1020. (With great respect for the bill's sponsor, Paul Rosenthal, as he clearly wants to do a good job over and above "just passing something" or looking for headlines. And an equal level of respect goes to the smart group of legislators on the House Judiciary Committee.)
Developed a presentation for AUVSI's Unmanned Systems Expo on "Repeatable Sub-pixel Accuracy with UAS Photogrammetry" (http://bit.ly/1THEWZF).
Spent a month flying the Aeryon Sky Ranger in Nepal to support disaster recovery and deployed with Nepalese special forces to look for a missing US Marine helicopter in Sindhupalchowk. (http://cbsloc.al/1PKh3mo)
Certification as United Kingdom UAS Pilot.
Trained by CyberHawk (thecyberhawk.com) on power transmission tower inspection. Gained experience flying the Ascending Technologies Falcon 8.
Speaker at Colorado Safety Expo on "Drones in the Workplace."
Speaker at the Commercial UAV Expo on Search and Rescue. (http://www.expouav.com/session/uavs-in-action/)
Panelist at MIT/UAViator Panel on Code of Conduct and Best Practices for Humanitarian use of UAS (along side the UN, USAID, Doctors without Borders, Red Cross, Greg McNeal from Forbes/Pepperdine/Airmap.io, Brendan Schulman now at DJI)
In partnership with Patrick Meier, of UAViators, developed and taught first U.S. version of Humanitarian UAV class to UN, USAID, FEMA, AAAS, and others.
Moderated Government Affairs Aerospace Forum panel of UAS at CU Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics.
Spoke on the current and future direction of UAS industry at the Electrical Power Research Institute’s (EPRI) "Unmanned Systems for Transmission Applications" conference. It was one of the most intel-rich conferences I’ve yet attended.

Let's see what comes next!