Brian Stephens Email & Phone Number

Huntsville, Al, Us

Redstone Arsenal, Al

Serves as the senior executive technical advisor to the Program Executive Office (PEO) with six Program Managers (PM), in all matters related to usability, maintainability, and sustainment requirements at the user/maintainer level for 36 Programs of Record. Provides feedback on Limited User Testing (LUT), Initial Operational Test & Evaluation (IOT&E), Soldier touch points, missile test fires, Logistics Demonstrations, and other Department of Defense acquisition test events and evaluations to the PEO. • Direct link to the tactical organizations on program issues relating to sustainment, ensuring a rapid resolution of materiel deficiencies affecting operational readiness.• Review all Life Cycle Sustainment Plan’s and provide feedback to the Product Support Manager (PSM) on the 12 Integrated Product Support (IPS) Elements.• Provide Senior level oversite for Maintenance Management/Execution, Logistics Policy Management, Standardization of Technical Data, Sustaining Engineering, Training Support, and Logistics Readiness Reviews. Review capabilities documents (CD), IPS related program management documentation, test plans, and contract and solicitation documents.• Worked with rapid prototyping and expressed ways to get ahead of logistics requirements before transferring to a program of record. • Worked with stakeholders across programs to mitigate concerns from the evaluation and user community.• Extensive travel in and outside of the US to touch basis with units and stakeholders during evaluation events.

Fort Lee, Virginia

Reviews and assesses Joint Capability Integration Development Systems (JCIDS) and Defense Acquisition documents to identify key performance parameters that impact logistics supportability, reliability, maintainability, training requirements, and force structure for Army Combat Systems. Provided technical expertise to Program Executive Offices (PEO), Army Evaluation Command (AEC), and various stakeholders to set conditions for achieving operational readiness objectives of Army Combat systems.• Performed operational and developmental tests on 25 Acquisition Category I-III systems for the assessment of safety, suitability, and supportability to ensure materiel cost, schedule, and performance requirements were met for Army Modernization programs. • Evaluated Life Cycle Sustainment Plans (LCSP) and developed organic maintenance solutions to reduce contract logistics support (CLS) that enables a $2.2M dollars in cost savings.• Analyzed key performance indicators and developed solutions for Army Modernization programs valued at $10B in support of National Strategic Guidance to ensure timely project completion and the integrated product support strategies met customer supportability requirements. • Revised and evaluated 100+ Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETM) during government verification test events to ensure 100% military standard compliance, stakeholder concurrence, and usability for conducting field level maintenance.• Extensive travel requirements to support all Soldier Touch Points, validations, and evaluation events. • Served as the Missile Systems Branch Team Leader for 6 personnel, overseeing the product support package being delivered or updated on all products for Missile defense.

Fort Sill, Oklahoma, United States

Maintenance Program Manager of a Field Artillery Brigade responsible for the daily operation and tracking of multiple projects in six separate organizations, coordinating repair, replenishment, and turn-in of over 2,500 pieces of multi-million-dollar complex combat equipment resulting in a 95% operational readiness rating of the entire fleet. Streamlined scheduled and unscheduled maintenance with pass back capability to contract maintenance personnel helping increase equipment readiness. • Oversaw the movement, distribution, and storage of materials in an organization valued at over $2.2B which led to increased material accountability.• Senior maintenance manager of the largest Field Artillery Brigade in the Army consisting of 64 Multi Launch Rocket Systems, 16 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, and a Transportation Company that had 80 prime movers to support III Corps.• Coordinated the integration of SAP software into the enterprise supporting over 2,000 personnel; provided resource planning program with ZERO disruption to operations.• Facilitated training amongst logistical support agencies which resulted in increased productivity by expanding personnel knowledge and becoming self-sufficient. • Implemented Supply Chain strategies and discipline that resulted in increasing the movement of repair components by 25% and ensured a timely turn-in of unserviceable repair components resulting in a cost savings of over 200K per week.• Identified and evaluated requirements; made appropriate organizational changes to increase productivity by 22%.

Camp Casey, Korea

Program Maintenance Manager of a Field Artillery Brigade responsible for the daily operation and tracking of multiple projects in five separate organizations, coordinating repair, replenishment, and turn-in of over 2,000 pieces of multi-million-dollar complex combat equipment resulting in a 92% operational readiness rating of the entire fleet. Streamlined scheduled and unscheduled maintenance actions within a high training frequency brigade to ensure readiness goals were met. Restructured repair parts storage capability to allow for quicker movement response times by 50%. • Oversaw the movement, distribution, and storage of materials in an organization valued at over $1.8B which led to increased material accountability.• Forecasted repair parts requirements by analyzing order frequency at each organization and the average time of transportation if coming off the Korean peninsula. • Conducted bi-annual inspections within all six organizations to ensure Department of the Army standards and processes were being conducted properly.• Provided oversight for the flow of incoming materials, after receiving, and outgoing finished products to ensure customers receive products on time, to include oversight of warehouse, inventory control, material handling, and transportation workers valued at over $250K per week.

Joint Base Lewis Mcchord, Wa; Kandahar, Afghanistan

Operations manager for a Stryker Brigade Support Battalion that over saw maintenance and logistics operations for six internal maintenance shops that provided support to six other organizations consisting of automotive, electronic, generator, environmental control unit, refrigeration systems maintenance and machine fabrication. Managed an annual budget $4.4M. Published, revised, and established maintenance policies and procedure within the organization in accordance with Department of the Army standards. Direct shop manager for maintenance on the Javelin Command Launch Unit (CLU), Modified Improved Target Acquisition System (MITAS), Long Range Advanced Scout Surveillance System (LRAS3), and Firefinder Radar Sytems. Deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.• Led teams consisting of 60+ personnel including local nationals in support of 100+ vehicles in the operation, maintenance, maintenance planning, and logistics efforts of the organization’s equipment valued over $150M while maintaining an operational readiness rate above 95%.• Manager of an overhaul program after a deployment and managed a budget off $4.6M with more than 1,000 parts requisitions in a two-month time frame.• Established the brigade battery program supporting the recycle, reduce, reuse concept which provided savings of $51k over a six month period• Managed and reviewed reports to upper echelons for accurate reporting and budget savings. • Planned and executed expeditionary movement of logistical support during combat operations enabling the organization to successfully conduct its mission.

Camp Casey, Korea; Schweinfurt, Germany; Baghdad, Iraq; Joint Base Lewis Mcchord, Wa

Fort Riley, Ks; Camp Casey, Korea; Kaiserslautern, Germany; Kandahar, Afghanistan

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Master Of Science - Ms, Logistics Management, 4.0

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business Administration And Management, General