[7] Reyes served with the RCN until 2000 as a Naval Combat Information Operator and then as an instructor at Canadian Forces Fleet School Pacific, located at CFB Esquimalt on Vancouver Island.
After a brief career as a civil servant in the federal government, Reyes opened two small businesses with his wife Cynthia, which they owned and operated for 16 years.
He was also named to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Commanding Officer's Cultural Diversity Advisory Committee in 2015 [citation needed].
In the 2016 election, Reyes defeated incumbent NDP MLA Dave Gaudreau for the St. Norbert constituency, and was subsequently appointed the Special Envoy for Military Affairs (SEMA) by Premier Brian Pallister.
[8] He has also represented the Province of Manitoba at the inaugural Seamless Canada Meeting at the Canadian Forces Staff College in Toronto held on June 27, 2018, and the second Seamless Canada Meeting in Ottawa on December 5, 2018, where he met with other provincial/territorial representatives to share a compilation of initiatives and services already in place for Manitoba's military community.
On January 8, 2022, Reyes was heavily criticized and made international headlines for posting a photo of his wife on Twitter shoveling their driveway after she finished a 12-hour shift as a nurse working during the COVID-19 pandemic.