Uncommon Analytics enhances the accessibility of publicly available government information.As the Chief Analytical Officer, Dr. Weko • Plans, accesses, and carries out the launch of information products;• Resolves most of the conflicts between customers and sub-contractors as they arise;• Coordinates the work of multiple-cross functional teams operating worldwide;• Interprets Federal policy and regulatory documents;• Keeps investors informed of progress and potentially controversial problems, concerns, and issues; and• Develops and implements improvements to meet program objectives.• Applies statistical principles, theories, and methodologies to: • provide expert consultation to a customer base with diverse educational backgrounds; and • formulate, test, and evaluate new theories, principles, concepts, and practices

Provide SME support to research, analyze data and information, and produce the Army’s C4IT/Cyber Activities budget submission (IT/CA Exhibits)Support three major projects: 1- Provide input to the development of the IT/CA component of the Army's IT Program Objective Memorandum submission2 - Develop and submit the IT/CA Budget Submission3 - Manage and maintain the cPROBE Cyber and IT Button and IT Budget Communities of Interest (COI)Support planning, preparation, participation and follow-up actions to the IT budget forums.

• Lead the Programming of the US Army Reserve's $8B appropriations.• Manage the Operations Research and System Analysis career field.

• Oversaw the $18B Army's Installation Portfolio.• Represented over 160 unique command program issues for the Chief of Staff of the Army.• Spearheaded the Army's accounting for over $14B in Information Technology investments.• Represented the Army financial interests in the development of the Army Climate Action Plan.

• Justified and defended over $4B in funding for all formal Army courses at 32 schoolhouses.• Rewrote the Statement of Work for the Army Training Models contract.• Consolidated PPBE data structure to reduce unnecessary complexity.• Initiated an internship program and oversaw 4 interns.• Co-Chaired the Army's process to expand training to support Army end strength growth.

• Taught leadership to Supply Chain Master's students.• Developed Power and Negotiation Training Material for Pentagon Staff Officers.• Studied Public Policy and Finance theory to refine my understanding of fiscal decision making in practice.• Studied the historical basis of Gender to influence the implementation of the Army's transgender policy training.• Explored the use of the Watson Ecosystem (Natural Language Processing) for assisting the Army staff in policy revision.

• Supervised the funding decisions for over $12B of Army resources to pay for over 500K Reserve Soldiers.• Oversaw an Army-wide analysis of the effects of full-time support personnel on unit readiness.• Coordinated HQDA Staff Action Officers for the revision of the National Guard Bureau Charter.• Spearheaded the Army's fiscal analysis on the Reserve Component Duty Status Reform working group.• Initiated an Army study critical of assumptions used to institute retirement reform across the Department of Defense.• Aided the Army Director of Training in quantifying the implications of the so-called "sustainable readiness model".• Drafted the Army's position on "fully burdened costs" for the National Commission on the Future of the Army.• Brokered an accouning solution enabling opposing Army stakeholders to comply with the National Defense Authorization Act of 2016 without compromising their positions.• Recrafted the Army justification for reserve funding to reduce funding uncertainty.• Sucessfully challenged a Secretary of the Army decision denying the commander of Army Recruiting control of the local marketing budget.• Negotiated the transfer of $240M from manpower planners to training planners.• Casualty Assistance Officer (SGT Hipsley)

• Defended $600M of institutional training funding for the Army Reserve.• Mapped the Army's institutional training decision process and identified conflicting practices.• Consolidated the disparate laws and policies governing non-traditional education help Army leaders understand electronic based distance learning.• Established guidelines and models to rapidly conduct cost estimates of policy decisions on Army Soldiers.• Contract Board Member for re-bidding the Army Training Models contract.• Served as Hiring Board Member for Army Civilian Analysts.• Conducted analysis of factors effecting selection for promotion to Colonel and briefed the results across the Army staff.

• Conducted predictive analysis of Army Reserve manpower attrition and recruiting to ensure compliance with Congressional strength requirements.• Neotiated with Headquarters of the Army and Recruiting Command to formalize the annual accession mission for the Army Reserve.• Represented the Army Reserve to the Secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) at the monthly Military Manpower and Resources Review.• Prepared Army Reserve general officers to meet quarterly with the Secretary of the Army on recruiting and retention issues.• Created spreadsheet models to train Army Reserve general officers on factors impacting manpower forecasts.• Performed a study focused on Army Reserve Soldier suicides which showed that the at-risk groups in the Reserves were different than those in the Regular Army.• Casualty Assistance Officer (SSG Patton)

• Developed a discrete event simulation of the transportation of all US military equipment out of Iraq (see link).• Performed analysis of Iraqi police and army readiness indicators.• Automated the conversion of raw data into standard PowerPoint briefing slides.

• First Army Reserve officer selected to join the US Navy in developing their future warfighting concepts.• Drafted recommendations for the integration of unmanned systems into the Navy force structure.• Team member of the Legal & Ethics research team.• Originated the position that "The Navy has and will continue to use and value human judgement in the application of lethal force".

• Identified and corrected property losses for units returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom.• Coordinated over 50 investigations of lost property.• Oversaw the change of command inventories of subordinate units.• Developed training sessions to help individual Soldiers protect themselves against administrative errors leading to the loss of property accountability.• Casualty Assistance Officer.

• Transformed a military clothing warehouse from a small scale seasonal operation to a full service retail operation capable of outfitting 6,000 Soldiers per month.• Streamlined the issue line to double hourly throughput and improve inter-issue inventory control.• Installed warehouse racking, caging, loading docks and security systems.• Contracted for the lease of forklifts and temporary storage containers.• Transitioned from borrowed military manpower to contracted manpower.• Organized chemical defense equipment to shift from pre-ordered unit distribution to customized distribution.• Established multiple inventory control measures to enable rapid, accurate, and frequent inventory. • Court Martial Board Member• Army Administrative Seperations Board Member

• Wide Web Flexigraphic Prining Department- Negotiated a long term trial of infrared dryers to collect sufficient data to support a capital purchase.- Reduced change time using peristaltic pumps.- Revamped scheduling rules to dramatically reduce press downtime.- Upgraded a press control panel from primitive relay logic to modern programmable logic control.- Performed root cause analysis to indentify a machine setting error which was causing under production of printed paper.- Specified a printing shaft design below the capital purchase threshold that significanly improved print quality and print-plate lifespan.- Identified a 0.0007% error in our printing plate manufacturer's product which was causing systematic waste in our process. - Attended the Mead-Westvaco Paperboard Course.• Paper Plate Forming Department- Established inventory contol and maintenance tracking system for blanking and forming dies.- Developed a revised department layout and transition schedule to reduce labor inefficiencies.- Adopted standardizied components to reduce spare part inventory.• Paper Bag Department- Reverse engineered a glue application technique.- Conducted a study linking paper quality problems to machine downtime and waste.- Performed workflow study to reduce labor costs while minimizing strain on workers.• Material Handling- Worked with 3M to make 7 product improvements to their Random Automatic Case Sealer.- Led bid process to upgrade warehouse deck plates.• Labor-Management Relations- Convinced management to hire the Union vice president as the printing department supervisor.- Designed spreadsheet models to compare competing absentee policies.- Hired mechanics and production supervisors.- Helped craft contract language that reduced inconsistencies and contradictions.• Safety and Quality- Automated statistical process control procedures.- Analyzed forktruck near-miss data.- Specified custom guards and emergency stop stations.

• Resposible for property accountability for 2/1st infantry battalion.• Duties included providing logistical support to 28 remote observation points along the Egypt-Israel border.

• Petroleum products platoon leader.• Managed construction material warehouse• First warehouse manager to deploy the Army's automated inventory system to an arctic exercise.

• First Army fire support officer to sucessfully field the Army's digital artillery communications system.• Responsible for observing over 90% of all artillery rounds fired during this time period.• Wrote the Army's Laser Range Operations Standard Operating Procedures for arctic training areas.

• Evaluated leadership performance of Army cadets conducting night squad exercises.• Converted the entire Field Artillery School Officer Basic Course from physical overlays to PowerPoint.