Soldier, strategist: How Hurricane Harvey redirected an Army captain’s path to a technology career in banking

U.S. Army Captain Jake Cortez came home to Houston from a tour of duty in Afghanistan to take care of some momentous business – attending the birth of his very first child.

But his homecoming was more life changing than he anticipated. Two days after returning from the hospital with his wife and newborn son, Houston was swamped by the relentless fury of Hurricane Harvey.

“My whole neighborhood was under water. We lost our house; we lost everything,” Cortez remembered.

The young…