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Arlington, Virginia, United States

Pentagon, Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Leads and supervises a 27-person division implementing Mission Assurance and manages a $6.9M budget ensuring critical asset resiliency. Develops policy for Mission Assurance, Critical Asset Risk Management and Continuity of Operations. Aligns 17 disparate program and activity policies with Department of Defense and Joint Staff guidance. Chairs Air Force level Mission Assurance Working Group and prepares senior leaders for Office of Secretary of Defense decision Forums. Provides detailed, decision ready responses to Congress, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Air Force and other key stakeholders.

Pentagon, Washington, District Of Columbia

Leads and supervises a 13-person division in developing policy and procedures for training and force development for 38,000 personnel worldwide. Manages mission training to ensure course quality and operational currency for 10,000 trainees annually. Develops human capital management and development, analyzes personnel trends, and implements mitigation measures ensuring quality and availability of 700 security police officers.

Randolph Afb San Antonio, Texas

Leads and supervises a 9-person staff implementing air base defense (security), antiterrorism, force protection and intelligence fusion. Establishes policy and directives for the organization, training, equipping and employing of 2,300 personnel. Serves as the senior antiterrorism and Force Protection advisor to the Air Education and Training Commander.

Schriever Afb, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Commander for 672 personnel across five distinctly different support units providing security, logistics, engineering, contracting and human resources to 8,200 personnel. Supports 12 geographically separated units providing command, control and communications for $57B of on-orbit Department of Defense assets and equips and deploys 1,620 personnel for worldwide missions. Operates and secures all facilities, directs installation planning and administers $1.8B in contracts. Plans and executes development of 4,172 acres and 63 facilities valued over $4B while managing a $25M annual budget.

Pentagon, Washington, District Of Colombia

Leads and supervises 19 personnel developing policy and doctrine for a 40,000 person military police force worldwide. United States Air Force lead for nuclear and weapon system security, law and order, corrections, antiterrorism and force protection and liaisons with all military branches, Department of Justice, Department of Energy and State Department for these functions. Additionally, represents the Department of Air Force on the Department of Defense Law Enforcement Working Group and co-chaired the Office of Secretary of Defense Security Police Verification Committee.

Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Completed graduate level course focused on strategic studies, warfighting, national security policy, and planning and execution of strategic and operational warfare. Examined the nature of leadership in a strategic environment to include ethical considerations. The course also included the study of US national security policy, national military strategy, and civil-military decision making processes in a joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational security environment. Additionally, completed 3 elective courses in strategic communications, negotiations, and intelligence. Completed Defense Support to Civil Authorities course (certification) covering inter-agency and governmental emergency response. The culmination of this program was completing a strategic research project on command, control and communication issues in a post 9/11 response era focused on the need for interoperable communications across all responder agencies.

Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska

Leads 642-person organization consisting of US Navy, US Air Force, National Guard, government civilians and contractors securing $9B in national level, one-of-a-kind assets and installation community of 40,000 people. Protects US Strategic Command complex, the Global Operations Center, and provides personnel security for 4-star generals and national level distinguished visitors. Chairs the threat working group, secretary for the force protection working group, and primary member on the battlestaff (24-hour crisis action team). Advises the installation commander on threats and security risk mitigation. Works closely with the FBI, State and local police agencies on threat information sharing and incident response.

Langley Air Force Base, Virginia

Chief, Operations Branch (contingency ops, training)Description: Leads and supervises 19 personnel across 4 sections; antiterrorism, law enforcement, resource protection and nuclear operations. Develops security policy protecting 16 installations, 110,000 personnel, 1,200 aircraft and nuclear weapons and associated delivery vehicles. Establishes security evaluation criteria for nuclear surety, operational readiness and unit compliance inspections. Responsible for planning and programming physical security and electronic security system modernization for 16 installations. Additionally, executed crisis action and deliberate planning for 5,400 security professionals ensuring they were properly organized, trained and equipped to meet daily and wartime taskings.

Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras

Leads a 55-person unit composed of service members from the US Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine Corps responsible for installation security, police services and force protection. Prepares and deploys security forces in support of Drug Enforcement Agency and Central Intelligence Agency counternarcoterrorism and humanitarian relief operations. Coordinates force protection requirements with applicable host nation embassy, military, police, and contract security forces. As the antiterrorism and force protection lead, advises the Task Force Commander on a wide range of force protection issues and threats to include mitigating vulnerabilities to assigned US personnel throughout the 7-country Joint Operations Area in Central America.

Ramstein Air Base, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Leads 530 US military and German civilians in securing $1.2B in special weapons and national level critical assets. Secures 12 restricted areas including the largest Weapons Storage and Security System in NATO (Europe). Implements and oversees the most comprehensive and complex antiterrorism, force protection and installation defense programs in Europe. Directs police services, to include; law enforcement operations, criminal investigations, resource protection, protective services and K-9 employment for the largest and most populous installation in Europe. Ensures security for all logistical convoys and organizes, trains and equips personnel to support host installation and worldwide deployment requirements. Responsible for $12.5M in resources to include 8 facilities and 63 armored response and general purpose vehicles.

Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas

Identifies innovative concepts for protecting US Air Force personnel, facilities, and weapons and rapidly measures their potential for advancing using field ingenuity, modeling, simulation, and actual employment of exploratory capabilities in operational environments. Conceives and executes initiatives valued in excess of $4M affecting every AF mission and member around the world. Analyzes mission and technological needs of the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Air Force’s global engagement vision and leads experiments to project revolutionary advances to AF doctrine. Leads modeling initiatives for the only US Air Force modeling and simulation division dedicated solely to force protection. Develops experiments combining live play, along with virtual and constructive modeling to simulate and evaluate force protection (security) concerns. Assesses industry and government technology for use in force protection roles.

Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts

Responsible for supervision of 125 personnel providing law enforcement, installation security and resource protection for an installation community of 25,000 military, civilian and defense contractors. Responsible for criminal investigations, K-9 employment, reports and analysis, 24-hour control center, confinement facility and weapons firing range. Maintains resource protection programs in 3 states, with a value exceeding $2B. Coordinates police services with federal, state, local and contract agencies. Ensures facilities, equipment and personnel are in compliance with federal and Department of the Air Force policies, mandates, laws and standards.

Aviano Air Base, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy

Manages and supervises 25 personnel spanning 6 sections; armory, vehicles, supply warehouse, small arms range, training, and budgeting. Plans, programs, and controls an annual budget of $250K, $850K in on-hand supplies and equipment, and 75 daily vehicles worth $1.4M. Responsible for the training of 400 security and law enforcement personnel monthly. Supervises the small arms firing range which trains over 3,000 installation personnel for qualifications for 7 types of weapons. Additionally performs duties as the installation firing range safety officer, unit vehicle control officer and self-inspection compliance officer.

Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota

Flight Leader and Convoy CommanderDescription: Leads a 40-person security force providing continuous site security for 15 launch control facilities and 150 alert Minuteman III missiles and facilities covering 8,500 square miles. Directs and controls all security personnel in responding to significant security situations, directs actions to stabilize, neutralize and correct threats or problems. Additionally, leads a 90-person section responsible for the safe and secure movement of off-base nuclear weapons. Coordinates with the US Marshal Service, state and local police, helicopter operations, and missile maintenance to ensure safe and timely completion of convoys. Reviews duty schedules, training materials and completes convoy reports. Manages the $72K Deputy US Marshal program.

Master'S Degree, Military Strategic Studies, General

Master'S Degree, Criminal Justice/Law Enforcement Administration

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Criminal Justice