I manage a $1B asset portfolio of the DoD's only weather reconnaissance aircraft. I'm also responsible for ensuring the wartime readiness of AF Reserve weather forces. In this role I set the strategic direction for the command's weather operations, manage weather personnel career progression models, and oversee the planning, budgeting, and execution of functional initiatives.

As an evaluator, I am responsible for ensuring standards of job performance are adequate to meet mission requirements while also ensuring those standards are consistently applied in the certifications of the only 20 aerial reconnaissance weather officers in the world trained for operational reconnaissance of tropical cyclones. An Aerial Reconnaissance Weather Officer (ARWO) is the onboard mission director for the reconnaissance flights into tropical storms, hurricanes, and winter storms in support of national security objectives. They collect customer requirements, play an integral role in mission planning, and direct recon missions within the storm environment. While in flight they conduct complex data quality control measures and analysis, qualitative storm structure analysis, and interface with the National Hurricane Center in real time. As mission requirements change they assess available resources and determine the most efficient and effective method to meet customer expectations.Aerial Reconnaissance Weather Officers also conduct media events from speaking with kids in the local community to conducting nationally televised interviews during hurricane season. This requires ARWOs to be able to communicate highly technical information in a simple and effective way.

Consult and advise the Air Force Reserve Command's (AFRC) operations air staff, operations division chief, and airfield operations branch on challenges, opportunities, and official positions concerning reserve weather force wartime contingency and aerial weather reconnaissance capabilities in support of US national security objectives.

Commander of the 5th Operational Weather Flight, a group representing half of Air Force Reserve Command's enlisted weather corps, supporting ongoing military operations within the US Central Command area of responsibility. As commander I work with my leadership team to set the strategic direction for the organization in providing unique solutions to accomplish/expand upon mission while operating in a challenging budgetary environment. I collaborate closely with Active Duty, Guard, and Reserve peers to develop innovative new ways to increase safety to operators, maximize mission effectiveness, and optimize taxpayer investment.

As an instructor, I am responsible for ensuring standards of job performance are exhibited, instructed, and retained by new ARWOs as well as ARWOs upgrading to instructor status. Training is conducted in the classroom environment where syllabi and course material are developed in advance as well as in hands-on training in-flight to include reconnaissance missions into tropical cyclones. In these scenarios, instruction style may vary from demonstrating proper procedures and judgement to students to impromptu instruction on the nuances of directing flight missions in the tropical cyclone environment. An Aerial Reconnaissance Weather Officer (ARWO) is the onboard mission director for the reconnaissance flights into tropical storms, hurricanes, and winter storms in support of national security objectives. They collect customer requirements, play an integral role in mission planning, and direct recon missions within the storm environment. While in flight they conduct complex data quality control measures and analysis, qualitative storm structure analysis, and interface with the National Hurricane Center in real time. As mission requirements change they assess available resources and determine the most efficient and effective method to meet customer expectations.Aerial Reconnaissance Weather Officers also conduct media events from speaking with kids in the local community to conducting nationally televised interviews during hurricane season. This requires ARWOs to be able to communicate highly technical information in a simple and effective way.

An Aerial Reconnaissance Weather Officer (ARWO) is the onboard mission director for the reconnaissance flights into tropical storms, hurricanes, and winter storms in support of national security objectives. They collect customer requirements, play an integral role in mission planning, and direct recon missions within the storm environment. While in flight they conduct complex data quality control measures and analysis, qualitative storm structure analysis, and interface with the National Hurricane Center in real time. As mission requirements change they assess available resources and determine the most efficient and effective method to meet customer expectations.Aerial Reconnaissance Weather Officers also conduct media events from speaking with kids in the local community to conducting nationally televised interviews during hurricane season. This requires ARWOs to be able to communicate highly technical information in a simple and effective way.

Key leader in the merging of operations for two iconic brands within the bedding industry. As the Manager of Strategy Deployment & Analytics I have provided critical insights into understanding the nuances in the way each brand operates it's manufacturing facilities as well as pioneered several efforts to begin merging cultures.Lately my role has leaned heavily on my strategy deployment responsibilities as I have acted as the project manager (and at times the subject matter lead) on a number of initiatives from business process alignment (7 specific efforts) to acting as the primary Operations point of contact for a data warehouse installation and roll out of tableau for metric dashboarding. Prior to my project management focus, I was responsible for facilitating the performance management process for the operations division of Serta Simmons Bedding through complex data collection and analysis. My efforts in this arena led to the first consolidated scorecard displaying the performance results for both brands within 60 days of the effective merger date.

Responsible for the design/creation/production of all analytical support for the operations division. Manage the entire analytics cycle from data collection to intelligence execution/feedback. Analyses cover a range of scope from day to day operations decisions for plant leadership teams to strategic level decision support for the executive vice president.Also conduct financial analyses for daily operations, project go/no-go decisions, and head up the budgeting process for the operations division of a multimillion dollar company. Heading up the transition to Lean deployment through the development and implementation of multiple user-friendly tools and processes to build a customer centric focus within the operations group.

I worked with the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (SCRC) at NC State University as both a consulting and research fellow. The SCRC works to connect it's members to the latest research, top professors in Supply Chain Management, and motivated students to overcome challenges impacting their supply chain.At the SCRC, I had the opportunity to guide member companies through difficult challenges through by integrating their current business model, industry best practices, and the latest in supply chain research. Through my interactions with these companies, we were able to develop business intelligence programs to assist in commodity price forecasting, strategy for win-win agreement compliance vertically in the supply chain, and demand forecast process improvement.

Specialized in Supply Chain and Technology Innovation ManagementMy coursework included the development of Supplier Scorecards, Process Flow Analysis for optimization and streamlining, development of Business Intelligence programs, setting Supply Chain Strategy to support corporate strategy, data analysis, model and simulation, demand forecasting, advanced forecasting techniques.I received specialized training in the use of MS Excel (advanced), SAS, JMP, SAP, MS Project, MS Visio.

As a small business consultant, I was able to assist entrepreneurs with a host of challenges. This allowed me to gain the unique perspective of a business owner in looking at issues from a holistic perspective rather than simply from the standpoint of one division within the organization. I developed business plans that were lauded by angel investor firm as the new "Gold Standard" for business planning and research. This enabled one small business to secure the funding necessary to enter the highly competitive outdoors equipment market. I also worked with a young biotech company on a market segmentation analysis that shifted their marketing perspective and provided a clear path to market for ground-breaking new medical diagnostic innovations.

Officer in Charge of a team of 30 forecasters responsible for forecasts covering a geographic area from Egypt to Pakistan and Oman to Kyrgyzstan. Developed young forecasters ability to interpret numerical forecast models as well as complex atmospheric situations to produce airfield forecasts vital to both Operations IRAQI FREEDOM and ENDURING FREEDOM.

Facilitated the exploitation of weather data for wartime operations. Acted as a liaison for Air Mobility Division assisting in providing key forecasts to maximize efficiency of critical resupply to forward locations in Afghanistan, Iraq and throughout SW Asia.