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United States

• Led a department of 100+ personnel, coordinating the activities between MCIA Command, MCIA IMA Det, and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Joint Reserve Intelligence Program (JRIP).
• Prepared administrative guidance, information systems administration, training and facilities support for reserve intelligence personnel and other IC members utilizing the JRIP, resulting in zero man-hours lost
• Served as the principal advisor to the program directors on all reserve matters
• Maintained continuous operability of the JRIC infrastructure by coordinating the maintenance and installation of equipment upgrades, asset replacements and required security totaling over $3.6M dollars

• Directed and supervised the training and professional development of the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command (SPMAGTF-CR-CC) and Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Section.
• Oversaw the production, quality control, and dissemination of over 5,000 GEOINT products for crisis response exercises and operations, and general intelligence operations; ensured all products followed all established.
• Ensured all GEOINT requests for information and support were completed and disseminated in accordance with SOPs and customer requirements, resulting in 100% satisfaction rate
• Administered direct mentorship, leading training instruction to junior analysts within the GEOINT team, improving efficiency by 30% and saving over 480 man-hours annually

• Served as the principal advisor to the Senior Defense Official/ Defense Attaché, directing and coordinating operations for the Defense Attaché Office (DAO) at the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Directly.
• Produced, processed, tracked and distributed over 450 sensitive reports to the U.S. government/ interagency community; received laudatory comments from the U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia
• Liaised on-site for the U.S. President, cabinet members, congressional delegations, and 15+ military VIP visits
• Coordinated all on-site counterintelligence, personnel, information, and security programs, managing force protection responsibilities and noncombatant evacuation operations
• Managed operational, financial, administrative and logistical support for DAO operations and stayed consistently under budget
• Supervised all overflight/ landing clearances for U.S. Government aircraft and ground movements of U.S. Government property in Ethiopia, resulting in zero safety violations and fines

• Represented the Marine Corps as the Departmental Requirements Officer (DRO) at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
• Interfaced with MCIA Geospatial Intelligence Directorate (GID) staff and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency key components to conduct program advocacy, systems engineering of operational GEOINT architectures, and.
• Provided technical assistance to MCIA GID in establishing relationships with National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG) functional managers to promote service-specific GEOINT requirements and resolve shortfall.
• Served as the SME providing inputs to programs and organizations on necessary software/ hardware solutions designed to enable MCIA GID to support Advanced Geospatial Intelligence (AGI) analysis and production operations
• Assessed the feasibility and affordability of integrating new GEOINT sources for various providers including National Technical Means, foreign, commercial, and airborne programs into the MCIA GID enterprise, increasing.
• Developed training seminars and materials to improve the competency of military and civilian analysts in applying advanced remote sensing techniques, improving capability by 30%

• Performed as an Imagery analysis team leader supervising seven analysts in the production and dissemination of the first phase imagery intelligence reports and secondary imagery transmissions.
• Produced over 250 customized imagery products in support of exercises during Marine All-Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 225 Unit Deployment Plan (UDP) to Japan
• Applied advanced softcopy exploitation analysis techniques to imagery from national reconnaissance systems in a time sensitive, current intelligence environment
• Initiated tasking and re tasking of national systems, and authored sensitive intelligence reports
• Processed raw imagery data from various sensor platforms and sources to develop tailored, focused, and time-sensitive products for a variety of users
• Demonstrated technical proficiency in various imagery source products to include synthetic aperture RADAR (SAR), thermal electro-optical (EO), non-imaging infrared, and motion sensor video