CEO and founder of Compass Manpower Experts, LLC, helping Government, Businesses, and Non-profits to optimize the use of their most precious resource: people. Compass ME LLC uses analytic management techniques to help you determine total staffing levels required based on workload and to create tools to project future needs. Compass ME LLC can also help point your team to achieve peak performance through a variety of strategic planning, process improvement, and management analysis products, services, coaching, and training. In the past several years, guided HR Planning and Workload Analysis efforts supporting US Agency for International Development “Changes for Justice” (C4J) Project overseas. Served on a National Academy of Sciences committee project to perform a Congressionally-mandated study of staffing models for a major agency within the Department of Transportation. Currently working several significant longer-term federal sector projects relating to business process reengineering, transformation and leveraging knowledge and staffing levels. Actively engaged in mentoring and consulting with a variety of government and private enterprises.

As the Service’s senior manpower and management engineering officer, led 700-member, $33M/year organization with 7 geographically-separated squadrons engaged in defining, defending, and optimizing the Air Force’s $34B annual manpower allocation. Directed the Department of Defense’s premier manpower determination capability, developing and approving Air Force and Defense manpower tools, executing the Air Force’s commercial activities (outsourcing/insourcing), productivity improvement programs, leading grade reviews, conducting Service-wide surveys, delivering centralized civilian classification for over 150K civilians, and conducting special studies and assessments.

Co-leader of 150-person Directorate orchestrating AF Total Force Human Capital activities, processes, policy, and transformation. Led, developed, and synchronized manpower, personnel, and services enterprise-wide strategic planning and concepts of operation, interfacing extensively with all stakeholders within muli-service, joint, and defense establishments. Guided stewardship of Air Force’s $500M HR information technology portfolio investment and $92M/yr program. Integrated personnel actions to achieve service and national objectives in senior planning forums.

Senior officer directing a staff of 20+ to manage human resource requirements determination and alignment of skills for 700,000-plus members of global enterprise, an annual $34 billion activity. Managed human resource program for preparation of the President’s Budget presentation to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Office of Personnel Management, and Congress. Directed execution of centralized human resource support programs valued at $370M per year. Developed models to support recruiting and training allocations for 35,000 personnel per year. Guided integration of human resource metrics into Service performance management measures and the Defense Balanced Scorecard.

Led a multi-service team to provide comprehensive manpower management, organization, and resource planning and control services to support USEUCOM missions. Focal point for defining/defending joint military, civilian, and reserve manpower program encompassing the Headquarters and over 106 thousand personnel based throughout 92 countries in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Lead special studies for USEUCOM leadership, and served as their key manpower advisor for planning, programming, and budgeting efforts.

Led squadron of over 260 personnel in support of the 9th AF HQs/USCENTAF and the 20th Fighter Wing directing execution of annual budget exceeding $15M. Lead, mentored and trained six diverse flights—Airman Leadership School, Military Personnel, Civilian Personnel, Education and Training, Family Support and First Term Airmen Center—serving 15,000 military members, 14,000 dependents, and 30,000 retirees. Ensured welfare, discipline, morale and personal readiness of squadron and wing staff personnel. Responsible for comprehensive HR services and accountability, family care, deployment processing, ancillary training and family readiness programs. Advised all commanders on sensitive personnel issues. Director of Wing Survival Recovery Center during crisis and contingency operations.

Managed Air Force presentations to Congress on the Total Air Force manpower program encompassing military and civilian resources in all components costing over $30B per year. Served as core member of the Air Force Issues Team and Posture Team. Prepared senior AF officials, including the Secretary and Chief of Staff, for testimony before Congress, represented the Service at Congressional staff budget hearings and responded to any Department of Defense or Congressional inquiries concerning manpower.

Taught and performed research at the Ira C. Eaker College for Professional Development. Chief Air Force Educator for all facets of Department of Defense Manpower and Quality Management. Responsible for total curriculum analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. Directed the Air Force Professional Manpower Staff Officer Course and graduate seminars, work groups, and training sessions for Air Force and DoD mid- and senior-level leaders. Engaged with policy-level leaders and executives throughout Air Force, OSD, and other high level specialists in government, inter-agency, corporate and academia to provide the finest manpower and management educational offerings. Conducted Air Force applied research and consultant services.

Directly responsible to the senior base commander for all actions regarding 5800 manpower resources at Europe’s largest fighter wing. Interfaced daily with senior staff, commanders, and higher headquarters, directing efforts of 14 engineering technicians providing all manpower services, process/productivity improvement, manpower contingency support and suggestion programs. Led and directed transition projects, performed special studies, and assisted wing leaders in employing best management techniques to deliver optimal use of manpower resources. Employed industrial and systems engineering tools, guided wing strategic planning efforts, unit self-assessments using Malcolm Baldridge criteria, and provided full-spectrum consultant services and training on total quality management competencies such as team approaches to problem-solving, tools, statistics, metrics, benchmarking and more.

Directed the entire command’s requirements determination, management engineering and productivity programs through 17 worldwide command management engineering teams, leading 19 headquarters and 198 field personnel in support of worldwide airlift missions. Led the development of wartime and peacetime manpower standards employing industrial engineering and quality management methodologies. Worked directly with Air Staff and Air Force Management Engineering Agency experts on Office of the Secretary of Defense-directed functional reviews. Guided and directed logistics composite model (LCOM) operational research studies of maintenance activities and managed all Productivity Enhancement Capital Investment Programs to maximize effectiveness and efficiency of command missions. Guided, facilitated, and performed special command industrial engineering, operations research, and management studies and projects to deliver the optimal use of command manpower and resources in peace and war.

Responsible for technical direction and supervision of five engineering technicians in all aspects of base-level manpower management. Provided comprehensive manpower management and advisory services for over $90M in mission manpower resources at Travis AFB and supported Military Airlift Command activities throughout the entire Pacific region. Directed industrial engineering processes to develop manpower standards for multi-location applicability. Responsible for management advisory, process improvement and productivity enhancement projects on behalf of organizational clients and conducted cost comparison studies. Managed and determined wartime and contingency manpower requirements.