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Arlington, Virginia, United States

Herndon, Virginia, United States

Springfield, Virginia

Dual-hatted as Director of the Office of Ventures and Innovation. As NGA’s first CVO, led start-up of a new agency element charged with creating partnerships, pathways, and solutions to accelerate GEOINT innovation and acquisition within NGA. OVI brings together NGA’s lean start-up practices with the agency acquisition functions, helping innovators.

Springfield, Virginia

Led an office responsible for assessing the alignment and efficacy of agency activities to agency strategy. Function included developing agency programming guidance, cost estimations, business intelligence, and program evaluation. Oversaw merger of agency Program Assessment and Evaluation and customer intelligence functions, creating a first-of-its-kind.

Springfield, Virginia

Drove a culture of customer centricity and data-driven decision making as deputy director of a 500+ person organization charged with improving NGA's customer experience. Oversaw customer relationship management, web, content, and services design and delivery, business intelligence, and future experience technologies and innovations. Fostered an agency.

Springfield, VA

As Deputy of the Office of Corporate Communications, oversaw and participated in development of all corporate communications strategies, vehicles, plans, and events. Activities included all agency public affairs, internal communications, outreach and branding, congressional and intergovernmental affairs, speech writing, visual communications, and plans and.

Washington, DC

Led team of 15 employees responsible for development and execution of advocacy marketing strategies, focused on the House and Senate authorization and appropriations committees to support an organization of 16K-plus employees. Briefed Congress on organization-related matters.

Washington, D.C.

Led team of 100+ employees in programming, budgeting, strategic planning and execution of resources for the operations directorate, an organization with annual budget of $1B+. Championed projects that employed use of Lean/Six Sigma methodologies.

Washington, D.C.

Managed day-to-day operations, personnel and processes of Programming and Evaluation Division of the Resource Management Office. Created unified, long-term budget forecasts for multiple agencies to avoid duplicative efforts; identified need for annual supplemental funding requests related to specific agency operations.

Washington, D.C.

Managed staff of 20 charged with all financial activities related to a $750M program budget. Led cross-functional collaboration to develop and defend budget. Chosen to represent directorate in quadrennial financial review. Served as Acting Deputy Chief Financial Executive for Operations, the equivalent of directorate CFO, from March 2004 to February 2005.

Washington, D.C.

Oversaw Technology Acquisition program. Rapidly given incremental responsibility for strategic planning, programming and budgeting for organizational operations. Synchronized operations and staff division budgets with federal budgets. Developed post-9/11 program plan for largest budget increase since department inception. Represented program and budget.

Oversaw approximately 10 cross-functional engineering project teams charged with reverse engineering of foreign weapons in support of multiple government and private research, development, testing and evaluation entities. Developed and administered multi-million dollar budget; managed supplier contracts; forecasted and secured incremental funds, as required.

Naples, Italy

Led all and foreign partner collaboration for information sharing and acquisition throughout Europe and Africa. Built and maintained relationships with foreign partners. Exercised refined diplomacy skills; cultural intelligence to represent organizational interests with foreign partners.

Managed foreign materiel acquisition projects; conducted extensive due diligence to identify, acquire funding and procure emerging foreign technology. Worked with engineering, RDT&E, federal policy and government finance and operations professionals to develop acquisition plans and deliver projects on time and on budget. Negotiated with foreign governments.

Washington, D.C.

Trained extensively in cross-cultural relations; conducted data gathering in foreign language.

M.S., National Resource Strategy, Financial Services Industry

Distinguished Graduate

Master Of International Management, International Commerce, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Irkutsk Business Development Committee

B.A., Russian And English

Activities and Societies: Gamma Phi Beta, Fall Fest Committee, Dobro Slovo (Russian Honor Society)