Operations Superintendent, Strategic Planner / Cv-22 Aircrew Instructor & Evaluator
England, United Kingdom
Directed operations for 1.2K member international workforce across Europe, Africa, and middle-east theaters, spearheading and shaping mission goals and discussions while facilitating the theater commander’s oversight. • Planned and executed presidentially directed special operations missions, including the longest hostage rescue in a single period of darkness in DoD history, saving the life of an American Citizen, yielding 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses and the 2020 Air Force Red Erwin Enlisted Aviator of the Year Award.• Managed $26M operations, assets, and activities wing program; overseeing over 250 operations across 27 countries, specifically flight planning, advancing strategic objectives, priorities, and lines of effort.• Designated action officer for multiple international civic engagements, leading cross-functional teams to bolster host nation and NATO ally cooperation and communication.• Led 68 personnel and oversaw $380K in equipment; directing program initiatives that fielded and validated deployable capability, and authoring governing unit policy that doubled established performance standards. • Overhauled tactical over-the-horizon communication training programs, modernizing strategic requirements for use of SAMS-ESA and codifying standardization of Simple Key Loader (SKL) platforms, HF/UHF/VHF radios, and the CV-22 mission planning suite; increasing unit capabilities and readiness 40%.• Managed 3 deployment UTCs, modernizing flight/ground egress weapons, ammunition, evacuation equipment, UATVs, PRC-152 & PRC-117G radios, and mobile tactical operations center kits.