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Arlington, Virginia, United States

Leadership and Relationship Building:• Lead senior staff in annual strategic planning meetings, prioritizing staff and budget recommendations.• Manage end-to-end projects, including establishing vision, evaluating proposals, mapping timelines, allocating resources, and tracking tasks monthly to ensure completion. • Oversee 17 teams of 15+ people.• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and resolve complex security issues.Process Improvement:• Reorganized staffing patterns to match technical expertise and enabled dual concurrence for work approval, decreasing rework by 25%, and ensuring consistent high-quality work.• Cut customer ticket times 15% with improved decision-making structure, documentation, and training.• Applied cost control through enhanced workflows, client evaluation, and engagement processes.• Implemented cloud integration, SAFE Agile, and other automation improvements.Budget and Resource Allocation: • Oversee budgets covering salaries, bonuses, procurement, and travel, achieving 99% staffing and procurement targets. • Expanded IT staff and collaborated with recruiters and subcontractors for effective candidate sourcing

Program and Financial Management:• Managed network cybersecurity services for federal government, overseeing endpoint security, network security, and incident handling. • Negotiated subcontractor agreements to include administrative, clearance, and reporting requirements. • Presented monthly in-progress reviews, including evaluations of program activities.Team Management and Coaching:• Initiated weekly and monthly meetings with team members to address issues, boost morale, and enhance program performance through input from diverse staff. • Reorganized team structures to create team leads with elevated levels of authority, resulting in greater accountability and confident managers. • Created mentorship methodology to determine needs in communication, training, and professional development for yearly mentorship role. Operations and Strategic Planning:• Introduced procedures to clarify steps for advancement, leading to 75% staff promotions and retentions.• Established organizational charts and communications plan to map team dynamics, chain of command, and information protocols.• Planned and achieved long-term strategies and goals, setting implementation schedules, contract alignment, cost and resource allocations, and cost verification plans.• Replaced outdated equipment and incorporated management of software licenses.• Maintained compliance with standards

Anti-Submarine Squadron HSL-45

Mba, International Business

Ba, Corporate Communication

Activities and Societies: Delta Sigma Phi