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• Manages 366th Fighter Wing’s $187 million annual Flying Hour Budget, providing analysis and funding for Depot Level Repairable, Consumable and Aviation Fuel requirements with Air Combat Command Financial Analysis.
• Responsibilities include budget formulation and submission for Flying Hour Program, with secondary duties as Wing Fuels Analyst and Non-Fly Depot Level Repairable Analyst providing budget formulation and analysis
• Utilizes General Accounting and Funds System (GAFS/BQ), Commander’s Resource Integrated System (CRIS), Air Force MICROBAS funds reporting system, Air Force Supply Reports, and Microsoft Office software in performing.
• Additional duties include secondary Funds Control Analyst responsible for compliance with funding limitations established by law, Government Purchase Card holder responsible for micro-purchases in compliance with.

• Provided supervision for 22 production personnel, to include hiring of new employees, training, promotions, employee recognition programs, disciplinary actions, and if necessary termination of employment
• Responsible for application of thin film layers to semiconductor wafers to include Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) and Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition (LPCVD), Sputtering of ALCU, TIN, and COTI layers, Rapid.
• Utilized four Watkins/Johnson TEOS/PMD/Hydride CVD tools, four AST RTA tools, two STEAG RTA tools, three High Density Plasma tools, three Novellus TEOS LPCVD tools, two Novellus OXY/NIT LPCVD tools, and three wet hood.

• Responsible for providing leadership and supervision for 44 Enlisted and 20 DoD Civilian employees in the largest Comptroller Organization in Air Force Space Command
• Provide management and control of $2.2 billion dollar annual budget with 86 separated accounts for Peterson AFB, NORAD Headquarters Cheyenne Mountain, Schriever AFB, Buckley ANGB, Thule AB, Woomera AB and numerous.
• Supervise customer service for over 12,000 military and DoD Civilian personnel while processing all pay affecting documents and travel claims
• Led squadron through preparation and active phase of 1999 Air Force Space Command Inspector General Operational Readiness Inspection resulting in 100 percent compliance, contributing to the 21st Space Wing’s.
• Leadership skills credited with units selection as Fiscal Year 1998 “Best” Comptroller Organization in Air Force Space Command and “1st Runner-up” at Air Force level

• Senior enlisted member providing leadership and supervision for handpicked detachment of 23 Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine, and DoD Civilian personnel responsible directly to the Secretary of Defense
• Budget Officer responsible for management of detachment’s $1.2 million annual operating budget reducing it to $502,000 through implementation of cost saving initiatives
• United States National Escort for Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) and Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) for former Soviet Union Arms Control Inspectors
• Deputy, Team Chief entrusted with responsibility to grant or deny access to Inspectors during course of INF and START inspections designed to verify U.S. Government’s compliance
• Support Officer responsible for coordination and payment for all travel, lodging, and meal requirements during INF and START inspections
• Selected as Inspection Operations Command Senior Noncommissioned Officer of the Year for 1997

• Led 26 Enlisted and DoD Civilian employees responsible for settling travel claims for over 16,000 Military and DoD Civilian personnel, totaling over $10 million in annually payments
• Vastly improved travel claim settlement processing time reducing customer payment period from 3-6 weeks down to one day while eliminating a 2,400 voucher backlog
• Revamped Travel Pay customer service area for better customer focus attitude; results from customer feedback surveys showed satisfaction rate increase from 60 percent to 90 percent
• Implemented Electronic Funds Transfer reducing payment time by four days; first wing in Air Mobility Command to make this payment method mandatory for its customers
• Deployed to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to make over $500,000 in payments for airlift task force moving an Ethiopian Mechanized Brigade to provide security during Rwanda crisis of 1994

• Responsible for the day-to-day operation of the paying and collecting section handling $230 million per year from 52,000 vouchered financial transactions from Korean Region Offices
• Developed implementation process and procedure, then spearheaded the effort to establish Electronic Funds Transfer as the primary payment medium in the Republic of Korea
• Maintained accountability records and reconciled account balances with other regional accounting section and consolidated accountability for Osan AB and Kunsan AB deputies
• Safeguarded and accounted for a stock of over 40,000 blank US Treasury checks
• Coordinated, received, and accounted for all funds shipped into and out of Republic of Korea to include U.S. Army shipments in excess of $4.5 million in cash

• As Chief, Material, responsible for the accurate and timely recording, reconciliation and certification of transactions relating to supplies, equipment, and investment items for Stock Fund Division worth over $20.
• Proactive leadership reduced office caused interest penalty payments from over $300.00 to zero while reducing lost discount opportunities from 18 percent to less than 5 percent
• Efforts directly contributed to office’s receipt of the final Strategic Air Command’s Accounting and Finance Quarterly Superior Performance Award for Jan – Mar 92
• As Noncommissioned Officer in Charge Commercial Services, responsible for maintaining accounting records pertaining to operating budgets for a $15 million dollar account
• Prepared, computed and audited vendor claims, performed fund certification, and maintained files of obligation documents
• Verified paid, unpaid, obligated balances and prepared monthly quarterly and yearly reports

• Operated the advanced KC-10A in-flight aerial refueling boom and independent drogue system; responsible for aircraft loading and unloading operations; computed aircraft weight and balance and associated documents.
• Responsible for in-flight refueling of all Air Force, Navy refuelable aircraft to include the only squadron qualified to perform F-117 “Stealth Fighter” aerial refueling operations
• Selected as “Current Operations” mission planner responsible for flight planning of operational and joint-service training missions
• Responsible for planning, coordination, and monitoring operational plans and policies pertaining to KC-10A tanker/cargo operations
• Planned KC-10A “Extender” operational support “Operation Just Cause” strike made by F-117 aircraft during the December 1989 invasion of Panama

• Hand-picked by Headquarters Strategic Air Command as top 10 percent of all Air Force Boom Operators to retrain in the new KC-10A “Extender” tanker program
• Qualified as fully mission capable crew member, exceeding all expectation after only 2 air refueling and 4 cargo loading training missions
• Represented the U.S. Air Force at the 40th Anniversary Aircraft Exhibition celebrating the Berlin Airlift at Tempelhof AB, Berlin and the 8th Air Force Reunion at McConnell AFB, KS
• Flew numerous combat support missions to protect re-flagged “Kuwait” oil tankers traveling through the Persian Gulf during Iran-Iraq War
• Selected to conduct cargo loading tests of large volume and high weight vehicles as a viable way to carry them to forward operating areas utilizing the KC-10A

• Insured readiness of squadron boom operators to provide critical in-flight refueling of Strategic Air Command B-52 and FB-111 aircraft under the Single Integrated Operation Plan
• Refueled Tactical Air Command, Military Airlift Command, Navy, and Marine aircraft
• Supervised and conducted individual and group training in flying safety, aircrew procedures, weight and balance calculations, cargo planning, load planning, and security
• Established training methods, procedures, and performance guidelines
• Recognized in Strategic Air Command’s Combat Crew magazine for handling multiple aircraft electrical problems, while flying over the middle of the Pacific Ocean, causing the crew to recover at an alternate base with.

• Supervised and instructed in-flight refueling operator personnel in the proper techniques and procedures for refueling bomber, fighter, transport and reconnaissance aircraft including the SR-71
• Determined training requirements for initial and upgrade training, while conducting individual and group training in aircrew procedures
• Graduated at “Top of Class” for instructor duty at Central Flight Instructor Course
• Successfully recovered aircraft during a serious internal jet fuel leak producing dangerous fumes in which the slightest spark would of caused total destruction of the aircraft
• Selected to represent the US Air Force at the 1981 Scottish International Air Show

• Computed and applied weight and balance data, procedures and techniques; performed aircraft flight crew inspections; accomplished celestial observations for aircraft navigation
• Operated and monitored air refueling systems and controls, performed load master duties
• Conducted flight duties in accordance with flight manuals and checklists, and instructed passenger in use of emergency equipment and procedures
• Performed alert duty as a combat ready crew member
• Distinguished graduate from 4017th Combat Crew Training School with a 96.5 grade point average, receiving a “Highly Qualified” rating during initial flight check (on average only three are awarded annual in all crew.
• Responsible for the delivery of 8 Navy “Sea Horse” helicopters, and initial set-up and mission training for the joint-service attempt to rescue US Embassy hostages held in Iran

• Responsible for preparing outbound Government Bills of Lading, estimating cost, and notifying commercial carrier for shipping
• Maintained Outbound Government Bill of Lading Log, obligation authority and current documentation, and operated keypunch machine utilizing Intransit Data Cards

• Prepared Government Bills of Lading from information shown on shipping documentation
• Maintained files on registers, researches and compiled data for required reports
• Prepared and distributes MILSTAMP documentation in accordance with current regulations and directives
• “Honor Graduate” as Freight Traffic Specialist from Technical Training on 22 Mar 77 at Sheppard AFB, TX

• Assisted Air Force Dentists on all dental procedures to include dental cleaning, X-Ray machine operations, dental re-constructive procedures, and surgery

• “Honor Graduate” from Basic Training 20 Dec 75
• Graduated in top 10 percent of class as Dental Technician 23 Mar 76

Bachelor Of Science, Industrial Technology, Manufacturing Engineering

Associate, Financial Management

Financial Management Staff Officer Course, Sheppard AFB, TX, Sep 99 Senior Noncommissioned Officer Academy, Gunter AFS, AL, Aug 98 Nuclear.