ABOUT PULSE O2DA

Pulse was founded by Ron Danielowski a former active duty Marine and security consultant operating in the Middle East and Mike Smock a competitive strategist and expert on maneuver theory. The founders met back in early 2001 over a common appreciation for the theories of John Boyd.

Ron Danielowski is the Chief Instructor at Pulse O2DA Firearms Training Inc. Ron has 25 years experience training thousands of civilians, soldiers, sailors, Marines, and law enforcement officers. As a multi-agency accredited instructor, he has organized, developed, implemented, and overseen training for numerous federal agencies such as the Department of Energy, Federal Air Marshals, and the Department of State. He has worked extensively in both Afghanistan and Iraq in support of America’s military and federal agencies. While in the Middle East he provided high threat protection services to senior US dignitaries and diplomats. Ron started his instructing career in the Marine Corps, both as an coach and a Primary Marksmanship Instructor in the Fleet Marine Force and at Weapons Training Battalion, San Diego, where he also shot competitively for the both the MCRD and the USMC Shooting Team. Ron is a Distinguished Marksman, member of the “President’s Hundred” winner of the Marine Infantry Team Trophy Match, and numerous other awards for shooting excellence. Ron has worked with some of the finest operators and combative instructors in the world, and it is his experience that provides the foundation for the Pulse O2DA training process.

Mike Smock is the founder of a strategy consultancy specializing in the application of maneuver theory to business process. Clients range from start-ups and small privately-held enterprises to large, publicly-traded, international conglomerates. The focus of the firm is conflict - small enterprises engaged in market share battles against larger better provisioned enterprises, and, industry leaders defending share against smaller, more agile, industry challengers. His firm developed a proprietary, battle proven methodology that utilizes maneuver theory to generate competitive advantage. The methodology which is based upon the theories of John Boyd, speed up competitive cycles, allowing combatants to shape the conflict to their advantage and the disadvantage of their adversary. In his early career he spent 15 years in senior management positions with major national and international enterprises and was the founder or co-founder of several start-ups. Mike was Chairman and CEO of an engineering services firm and spent several years in Asia negotiating trade agreements in China, Japan and Taiwan. He runs PulseO2DA Strategic Services operations.

The History of Pulse.
The Pulse principals originally met back in 2001 over a shared appreciation for John Boyd and William Lind. At that time, Danielowski was working in the private sector for a federal agency which specialized in anti-terrorism tactics utilized to protect national resources. The attacks of 9/11 compelled him to re-enter the defense business as a private security contractor. Over the next several years the principals conducted an on-going conversation regarding the application of John Boyd's "OODA" loop to business and military operations. The result of these conversations led to the development of a business concept for a firearms training group that was originally presented to a major security contractor. Initially called "O2DA Training" (in tribute to John Boyd), the concept was to provide firearms training to private citizens. While there are many firearms training options available today, the distinguishing feature of O2DA was it's application of maneuver warfare theory to reality-based firearms training. The development of the business concept and methodology was refined and continued while Ron worked in both Afghanistan and Iraq. The summer of 2010 saw the finalization of what is now called Pulse O2DA and was formally launched October 15, 2010 with a full slate of training courses and security services.

Supporting Ron Danielowski in both curriculum development and training operations are senior instructors Mark Rahzen and Tim Sayer. All three worked at Blackwater in Afghanistan and/or Iraq. Tim Sayer was a private security contractor working for Blackwater supporting the Department of State’s diplomatic mission in Baghdad as a Protective Security Specialist and Tactical Commander. He developed and instructed his team and others in multiple small-team urban combat techniques and logged hundreds of successful high threat missions throughout Baghdad. Tim is also a law enforcement officer where he instructs SWAT teams on room clearing, active shooter response, tactical exterior deployment, land navigation, tactical rappel, combat pistol and rifle techniques, and various hostage rescue methodologies. He has been a Senior Instructor for Pulse O2DA since 2008 and sits on the Pulse O2DA Tactics Committee. Mark Rahzen has spent the last several years as a Protection Security Specialist in the Middle East for both Blackwater and Triple Canopy. Additionally he has worked as designated defensive marksman, firearms instructor, and tactics instructor. Mark has trained thousands of operators from multiple agencies during his career. Prior to his private security contracting career Mark served in the Marines in several specialties including Reconnaissance Marine, Infantryman, Scout/Sniper,and Military Policeman. Mark is a Senior Instructor at Pulse O2DA, has been with the company for 3 years, and currently sits on the Pulse O2DA Tactics Committee