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Kansas City, Missouri Area

Lead a team of developers and DBAs to sustain the Army Training Management System (ATMS).

Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

Combined Arms Training Strategies (CATS) provide a descriptive, task-based, strategy designed to assist unit commanders in achieving training readiness. The strategy is Table of Organization and Equipment (TOE) based and focus training on the units mission, capabilities and functions. The CATS reflect a Crawl–Walk–Run training progression, with subordinate strategies nested so subordinate training plans support the higher unit. CATS help determine the collective tasks that need to be trained; the commander modifies the training strategy by selecting the appropriate tasks and associated events to train.

Doral, Florida

•Supervised all reserve personnel matters to include: recruiting, training management, payroll, career counseling and administrative support to 50 Marines.•Developed annual personnel requirements and submitted them to headquarters for funding allocations. After funding allocation, managed a temporary personnel budget of $2.6M to hire personnel to support the company mission. •Coordinated individual reserve Marine and unit participation to support operations in South America. This included issuing orders, arranging travel, obtaining country clearances and ensuring that proper authorities were in place.

Quantico, Virginia

•Coordinated reserve training activities on the Marine Corps Base and executed battalion sized (1000+ personnel) training events. •Assigned as Camp Commandant of Camp Upshur (over 50 buildings and a waste water treatment plant); supervised a multimillion dollar renovation of the camp, responsible for the safety program and enforcement of safety regulations. •Supervisor of a staff of 10 Marines and 4 civilian personnel. Wrote performance appraisals, conducted performance counseling and adjudicated employee grievances. •Supervised development of personnel requirements; managed temporary personnel budget of approx $500K.

Quantico, Virginia

•Planned and executed manpower planning conferences which established a recruiting mission for Marine Corps Recruiting Command.•Monitored execution of recruiting mission and developed mid-year adjustments to achieve congressional mandated end strength of 39,600 reserve Marines.•Program Manager of the Individual Mobilization Augment program. Directed operational managers at 78 different commands that spanned the entire United States and 4 overseas locations. Wrote policy guidance in compliance with applicable law and Marine Corps regulation.•Supervised development of a budget and implementation policies for incentive programs that totaled over $2.8M per year. •Developed Officer Accession Programs which increased the number of junior officers in reserve units by 10% in the first year of execution and an additional 12% the following year.•Directed and supervised the daily actions of 12 Marines assigned to the Plans Section. Wrote performance appraisals, conducted performance counseling and ensured employee compliance with company policies.• Awarded end of tour Meritorious Service Medal.

Kansas City, Missouri

Responsible to supervise and instruct Headquarters Company in attaining standards of operational excellence and maintaining a continuous state of readiness for immediate deployment.•Prepared five detachments for combat deployments to Iraq and the Horn of Africa.•Led Headquarters Company during disaster relief operations in Saint Bernard Parish and Cameron Parish following hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Established emergency operations center site and began operations to coordinate primary search of the effected areas. Awarded Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal and Humanitarian Service Medal for service in this operation.Deployed to Iraq with 1st Battalion, 24th Marines. Assigned as the Headquarters and Service Company Commander. Responsible for 300 Marines on Forward Operating Base Baharia and the surrounding battalion security area.• Assigned as Camp Commandant of Camp Baharia (over 100 buildings/ tents and a water treatment plant); supervised security improvement projects for the camp, responsible for the safety program and enforcement of camp regulations. • Responsible for the seven entry control points (10 personnel per) to the city of Fallujah. Established and enforced entry policy, provided logistical support, conducted personnel rotation, provided emergency support.• Directed and supervised the daily actions of 50 Marines assigned to the Camp Guard; created schedule and provided logistical support.• Wrote performance appraisals, conducted performance counseling and ensured employee compliance with company policies.• Awarded Navy Marine Corps Commendation Medal.

Honolulu, Hawaii

Performed duties as the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) Coordinator for U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific. • Major Command Transition officer responsible for all subordinate units. Provided written transition guidance to eight sites and ensured a smooth transition to the new network .• Legacy Applications Coordinator that identified and tracked status of legacy applications to ensure compliance and interoperability on the new network construct. • Enterprise Sustainment Initiative (ESI) Coordinator. Enterprise hardware refresh of over 2000 client computers on the network.

Wake Forest, North Carolina

• Responsible for ensuring up-time status of all campus communications systems; computer networks and telephones. • Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with Exchange Admin elective.• Cisco Certified Network Associate. Configured routers and switches.• Hardware purchaser for information technologies. Used competitive bid process to do a complete overhaul of the campus servers, switches, fiber optic cabling and client computers.• Scheduled and supervised a staff of 8 technicians and programmers. Conducted performance counseling.

Bachelor'S Degree

Activities and Societies: Beta Sigma Psi, Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps, Semper Fidelis Society.

Cohort 4, Leadership

Leveraging Military Leadership Program hosted by Excelis and Korn Ferry.