Lead 85-member headquarters personnel department. Manage projects and oversee contractor support for Capital Region Coast Guard facilities. Oversee $1.5M contract, staffing the headquarters fitness center with a professional management team providing gymnasium services, nutrition counseling, and sports equipment maintenance. Manage human resources services for 2.8KCoast Guard National Capital Region personnel. Supervise administration of personnel, payroll, and military records management functions for 4.4K+ service-wide members. Address staffing challenges during the pandemic by restructuring daily crew assignments to cover mission tasks, while respecting staff work-life concerns.

Led 54-member cutter support team. Managed planning and execution for four cutters for the Pacific area, including augmenting in-port cutter watches, assisting in cutter maintenance, and maintaining pool of qualified members to support critical fills for deployed cutters. Obtained $70K in financial contracts to reallocate government property supporting unit decommissioning. Directed cutter patrol planning for two six-month Western Pacific patrols. Collaborated with U.S. Navy liaisons to plan foreign port calls, sanctions of enforcement operations, and joint exercises. Managed $76K annual unit budget and $2.1M in Western Pacific Command funds. Briefed Pacific Command Commander and Coast Guard Commandant on highly sensitive issues.

Supervised crew of 19 military personnel stationed aboard the Dauntless. Oversaw training for bridge operations, combat information center, and law enforcement personnel. Led ship operations as senior ship representative during sea trials. Directed safe vessel navigation during long-duration and restricted-waters transits. Responsible for the safety of 75+ crew members. Oversaw six counter-drug patrols, ensuring law enforcement initiatives were in concert with governmental regulations. Enforced international laws and treaties during migrant interdiction, counter-drug, and defense readiness operations.

Oversaw program compliance of a $5B national security cutter project. Directed high-endurance cutter decommissioning and ensuing sale to allied foreign governments. Managed a $700M national security and in-service major cutter fleet of 10, including formulating long-term policy, configuration control, homeporting, testing, evaluation, certification, safety, budgeting, and decommissioning. Reviewed and revised directives, instructions, and regulations used to define service needs in new cutters. Planned and executed weapons trials and certifications while stationed aboard ship and as program officer representative.

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