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Augusta, GA, US

Augusta, Georgia, United States

Headquarters, U.S. Air Forces In Europe/Air Forces Africa, Ramstein Air Base, Germany

• Advises senior regional leadership, ensuring safety of 35,000 assigned personnel, 203 aircraft, NATO partner resources and personnel, and the sustainability of an explosives materials stockpile valued at $55.6 billion.
• Represents the United States by performing consultancy for 104 partner nations, identifying explosives operational risks to personnel and resources and providing risk reduction solutions for cooperative engagements.
• Conducts quality assurance reviews of project contractor and sub-contractor, developed documents (explosive site plans, maps, diagrams) validating regulatory requirements.
• Ensures all documents, drawings and plans comply with Defense Explosives Safety Regulation 6055.09, Explosives Safety Standards, (NATO) Allied Ammunition Storage and Transport Publication Standard 1.
• Leads explosives safety programs for Europe and Africa regions, organizing/supporting 32 explosives safety managers and implementing explosives safety management across nine Air Force installations and 88 sites.

Headquarters, U.S. Air Forces In Europe/Air Forces Africa, Ramstein Air Base, Germany

• Reviewed plans and specifications for new construction, major building alterations, and/or changes in installation equipment worth over $8 billion.
• Monitored projects ensuring compliance of U.S. Air Force, Dept. of Defense, NATO, UK and miscellaneous host country explosives safety regulations.
• Led six Headquarters Air Force evacuation planning charrettes, identifying vulnerabilities and directed installation re-sites ensuring the reduction of B-61 nuclear movements exposure by 89%.
• Guided explosives safety/nuclear surety evaluation teams to assess supported units’ compliance and assessed 98 programs ensuring strict compliance and adherence to explosives safety and nuclear surety regulations.
• Developed explosives safety, nuclear surety and directed energy policy for over 70,000 personnel and assigned aircraft.
• Conducted multiple site surveys to assess explosives storage capability and explosives safety in multiple European locations.

628 Air Base Wing, Joint Base Charleston, SC

• Coordinated with and briefed installation leadership and higher headquarters to resolve safety issues and investigate mishaps while determining applicable human factors and procedures for controlling and eliminating.
• Ensured the safety of 67 tenant units and 309 ammunition sites supporting 90,000 personnel and $7.8 billion in assets.
• Authored Air Force Explosives Standards manual 91-201 Joint Base Charleston Supplement; outlined explosives safety procedures for air, waterfront, rail and truck operations.
• Led 120 explosive safety inspections through 160 facilities ensuring an "Effective” rating during the 2018 Unit Effectiveness Inspection.
• Hand selected to support the critical DoE and National Nuclear Security Administration nonproliferation and nuclear security mission with removal of separated plutonium and assisting with the single largest transport.
• Exposed Federal Law Enforcement Training Center weapons shooting range hazard, executed time-critical risk reduction measures and safe operations establishing an ammunition vetting process mitigating bullet hazards to.

366th Fighter Wing, Mountain Home Air Force Base, Mountain Home, ID

• Served as principal weapons safety officer while analyzing and determining applicable human factors and procedures for controlling and eliminating hazards while resolving diverse issues and explosives safety risk.
• Provided oversight for 44 Additional Duty Explosives Safety Managers across 33 organizations, explosive licensed locations and multiple joint service organizations, ensuring no explosives mishaps.
• Gathered factual mishap data, identified causes, and recommended corrective actions to prevent recurrence of a comparable mishap, while performing trend analysis and advocating for measures to correct negative.
• Cited for taking on the role of the Wing Safety Superintendent during a critical manning shortfall.
• Managed oversight of safety practices for munitions maintenance; aircraft loading/unloading of explosives, and transportation and handling of hazardous materials by conducting 300 quality and safety site/spot/ annual.

Worldwide

Performs and manages munitions production and material tasks and activities. Identifies munitions and equipment requirements. Operates/maintains automated data processing equipment (ADPE) to perform munitions accountability, computations and research. Stores, maintains, assembles, issues and delivers non-nuclear munitions.