Tamas (Tom) Szaloczi Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

(part-time) Located in all 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., U.S. territories, and over 40 countries worldwide, Members of the National Language Service Corps (NLSC) under Department of Defense (DoD) Management now account for 5,900 multilingual individuals who represent more than 330 languages and various occupational and cultural backgrounds.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

(full-time)As Foreign Service General Services Officer (GSO) manages physical resources and logistical functions at United States embassies and consulates, where they serve not only the Department of State but also other U.S. Government agencies. Responsible for the overall management of acquisition and supply chain operations (or some portion of these operations), the supervision of US and Locally Employed subordinate staff, and the actual performance of some or all of the following functions:Serves as post contracting officer and manages contracts. Identifies procurement support needs and conducts procurement planning. Manages procurement of goods and services for post, responsible for the accuracy and completeness of procurement documents and official records; prepares budget requests; and monitors vendor performance and costs.. Coordinates contracting at post, with State Department offices and other USG agencies. Obtains diplomatic customs clearances and serves as liaison with host-country customs officials. Advises post management, other USG agencies, and the Department concerning diplomatic import-export regulations. Manages vehicle fleets. Identifies and manages real property requirements. Negotiates commercial and residential leases. Coordinates with landlord on maintenance and other issues related to leased property. Responsible for warehouse and inventory management. Manages travel and transportation programs for in-country and international official travel.

U.S. Air Force Foreign Liaison Office, Pentagon, Washington, D.C.

(full-time) The United States Air Force Foreign Liaison Office (FLO) is responsible for foreign military air attachés and their administration, the SecAF and CSAF counterpart visit program, and the global and regional air chief's conferences. Provided support to 170 military Air Attachés from 110 nations globally, including personnel in-processing, awards and decorations processing, attaché conference, meeting, travel planning and execution. Instrumental in the preparation for briefings, presentations, and discussion material for the U.S. Air Force’s top leadership, including the Secretary of the Air Force and the Chief of Staff of the Air Force. Established, maintained, and updated internal controls (databases, regulations, schedules, policy decisions, and operating guides) to aid daily operations and long term strategic planning of attaché programs, event support, and travel-budget planning. Planned and organized attaché ceremonies. Coordinated on a daily basis foreign military attaché diplomatic accreditations between other military services and the U.S. State Department’s Office of Foreign Missions (OFM).

Washington D.C. Metro Area

(part-time)Surveillance Role Player, vehicle Surveillance Team Member. Utilized prior surveillance detection and avoidance training and work experience in support of several federal agencies in national security Role Playing and Training in the core areas of the Human Domain.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Retired active duty military with 28 years of service. Actively involved in investments and trades, learning and education about stock and options market strategies. Pursuing global travel, family time, remodeling home, hobbies, and generally enjoying retirement.

Canada, U.S. Embassy Ottawa, Defense Attaché Office

(full-time)As Operations Coordinator (OPSCO), provided advice to the direct supervisor, the Senior Defense Official/Defense Attaché (SDO/DATT). Responsible for administrative, logistical, financial, personnel programs in support of five military attachés (four O-6 and one O-5 ranks), leading four subordinate support staff (GS-12 civilian, one military, two locally employed staff) in Defense Attaché Office (DAO) Ottawa. Managed $400K office budget, $233K ICASS account, $260K office properties, vehicles valued over $100K. Managed to bring $130K travel budget of 60-89 trips annually under $102K with smart airfare purchases. Served as primary Support Liaison with State Department and 16 various U.S. agencies in the Embassy, the Canadian Government, the U.S. Combatant Command. Was member of the Embassy Employment, Awards, ICASS Budget Committees, and the Unit's Communications, Facilities, Safety, Information and Security Officer.Mentored GS-12 in newly established NSDD-38 Information Reports Manager billet resulting in a 198% Information Report output increase FY to FY with a 98% Reports' Evaluation increase.Lead U.S. Embassy logistical and operations support for three visits by SECDEF, the U.S. Secretary of the Navy, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, Chief of Staff of U.S. Air Force, Commander of NORAD-NORTHCOM, the Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, the Commander of U.S. Central Command, other VIPs, overall 45 visits by 3-star or above senior executives in 30 months for which received the State Department's Meritorious Honor Award.Upon completion of tour, the Defense Intelligence Agency Staff Assistance Visit (SAV) final inspection report noted: "the best office the inspector has ever inspected during his career". Additionally, the inspector took away several "best practices" for dissemination within the 134 DAOs in U.S. Embassies worldwide.

Pentagon, D.C., Headquarters Air Force, International Affairs

Performed Senior Functional Manager duties overseeing and managing the Enlisted Attaché Support Staff career field at the U.S. Air Force-level. Liaised with Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), with Headquarters U.S. Air Force, with the State Department, and with U.S. Air Force Personnel Center. Organized, conducted inter-agency attaché selection panels, interviews, provided briefings to nominees and senior supervisors, prepared nomination and instructions for assignments. Developed, implemented, and communicated Air Force and Defense Intelligence Agency policy for 125 enlisted attaché specialists located in 101 countries worldwide in U.S. Embassies. Managed enlisted assignment and personnel actions for over 60 newly selected members for attaché duty annually. Performed duties as Senior Enlisted Adviser (SEA) for Secretary of Air Force International Airman Division providing guidance to senior military leaders about morale and performance issues. The Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force for International Affairs noted a significant increase of the quality of evaluation and awards during my tenure. As USAF attaché support staff program manager, my team increased worldwide enlisted attache staffing levels from 96% to 99% for 125 enlisted attaché billets in U.S Embassies. Expanded my portfolio 50% due to manning shortfall, still maintained the 99% billet fill-rate.Developed a nomination tracking matrix that eliminated delays and streamlined a process that previously increased by threefold its normal size. Skillfully managed new critical attaché billets by executing the nomination process in two months versus the standard one year.

Philippines, U.S. Embassy Manila, Defense Attaché Office

Assigned as Office Manager and Operations Coordinator in a selectively staffed Joint Service assignment at Defense Attache Office (DAO) in U.S. Embassy Manila, Philippines. Served as the Operations Coordinator as directed. Supervised DAO daily operations in support of six attaches, nine support staff and more than 10 long-term temporary duty personnel. Assigned priorities, established suspenses, coordinated requirements and allocated resources to support operations. Managed DAO station administration, $380K Information Technology (IT) equipment, a $440K vehicle fleet and $110K travel program. Ensured compliance with regulations, directives, and US law. Planned and executed all logistic, administrative, and fiscal support for official visitors. Trained incoming personnel on local administration, security and safety procedures. Served on the Embassy's Interagency Housing Board and facilitated the acquisition, maintenance, and repair of nine DAO Government-Leased residences with annual lease value of $330K at multiple locations. Arranged support and cooperation from other U.S. government agencies to ensure mission success.Embassy site officer for Secretary of Defense Gates visit to Manila. Organized and led 60-men joint US-Philippines wreath laying ceremony detail. Overcame cultural and communication hurdles by tactful and smart diplomacy that allowed U.S. and Filipino troops to work in unison in honor of their veterans.Served among State Department colleagues on Embassy foreign observer team for recent elections in the Philippines, received Certificate of Appreciation from State Department.During my team's tenure information production and evaluation levels improved so significantly that our unit received the prestigious National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation for the Jul 2006- Jan 2007 period.

Poland, U.S. Embassy Warsaw, Defense Attaché Office

Responsible for administering DAO's Information Reporting Program, involving 430 Information Reports annually. Supervises two Foreign Service National employees. Serves as the Acting Operations Coordinator in his absence. Responsible for managing a $41K special office budget and processing claims. Created auto-linked, auto-calculating budget spreadsheet system that extracts data to populate master budget file. Cut DAO budget preparation staffing hours by 60%. Forwarded to Headquarters for potential worldwide application. Served as liaison to host nation military service. Represented DAO at bilateral meetings with host nation military service and became mentor and key contributor to ground-breaking joint U.S.-Polish military analytical project, a first ever. Trained O-4 TDY analyst on reports strategies. Assisted in coordinating all logistical support for U.S. aircraft and crews supporting diplomatic delegations traveling to Poland. As senior DAO representative in Krakow during VPOTUS visit, deconflicted support for US delegation amid near-simultaneous arrival of 40 heads of states.Processed an average of 260 diplomatic aircraft clearance requests annually. Redesigned diplomatic aircraft clearance database and reduced clearance approval time by 80%.Lauded by Defense Attache as best Information Reports program manager he's seen in his career. Overhauled 455 annual reports program, achieved 100% accuracy using clever computer-based interface and innovative cross-querying update process leading to 30% more Information Reports evaluations FY to FY. HQ visit noted about his program: "supervises the best run Information Reporting program among all 21 units in East Europe/Eurasia...and lead most productive Information Reporting meeting I've attended in 19 years of this line of work".Won DIA Senior Enlisted Member award of 3rd Quarter of FY 2005 and ranked as #1 of 315 senior enlisted members for the quarter..

Various Bases In U.S. And In Philippines, Republic Of Korea, Japan, Germany

During 16 years of Air Force Civil Engineer career, worked as a civil and maintenance engineer technician, strategic planner and programmer; combat communications HVAC support technician; Non- Commissioned Officer in Charge (NCOIC) of Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Shop; Base Energy Manager; Chief of HVAC.As Chief of HVAC, managed, lead and trained 32 personnel to install, operate, maintain, repair 2,500 base HVAC systems in 251 buildings supporting the majority of the 25,500 logistics center personnel at Warner Robins, GA. Managed the shop's annual $630K expenditures.Responsible for the development of 5-year comprehensive energy plans totaling $10 million in utility expenditures for Spangdahlem Air Base and 98 geographically separated military units in Germany. Immediately identified $200K in "easy" conservation savings on base by developing a Personal Computer power saving policy that HQ Air Force energy team adopted program for their template.Experience with monitoring agreements and contracts. As Subject Matter Expert for $84M tender evaluation team for Energy Savings and Performance Contract (ESPC) in the European theater selected to sit on board as the only military representative.Selected to represent his unit from Germany to brief the National Defense Industrial Association symposium in Long Beach, California. Teamed with Ph.D. engineer to present facility energy model to 1,500 industry experts. Unique modeling sample used to extrapolate results to 4,116 facilities to identify $470K in real energy savings.Developed computer database for assessing 1,700 HVAC components, completed base-wide survey, derived strategic $9 million 10-year HVAC investment plan guiding replacement projects in over 500 buildings.During my Base Energy Manager tenure, conservation levels exceeded the federal energy program goals by 100% and the Air Force average by 25%. My $10.8M energy plan was chosen to compete in the FY00 DoD Energy Awards.

Master'S Degree, Master Of Arts In Diplomacy (International Relations) With Concentration In Terrorism, 3.8

Activities and Societies: Norwich University AlumniPrepares working professionals with a broad understanding of global communications.

Bachelor'S Degree, Bachelor Of Science In Management And Politics/Government

Activities and Societies: UMUC AlumniThe curriculum includes a foundation in business, accounting, economics, statistics, communications.

Associate'S Degree, Mechanical And Electrical Systems

The degree program prepares graduates to install, maintain and inspect operational systems in a variety of maintenance occupations..