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Newport, Rhode Island, United States

Newport, Rhode Island

Oversight of the War Gaming Department, responsible for 40 personnel, their performance, and the team dynamics. Coordinates detailed, cross-functional, planning across key departments over the course of 24 top secret war games, integrating all branches of the government while managing resource constraints. Liaises between the military and civilian workforce throughout the installation, resolving conflicts, cultivating collaboration, and engaging with executive-level personnel.Performs all administrative duties within the department. Develops data collection and created a database to easily track incoming and outgoing correspondence, awards, evaluations reports, and procurement requests. Responsible for providing over 200 variations of classified and unclassified documents to support multiple conferences and events; provided badge issuance for all war games and conferences.● Monitored and reported activity for 25 tenant commands with Naval Station roving security patrol● Managed watch standing procedures for 32 top secret-cleared personnel with zero violations● Trained and counseled more than 80 employees, providing professional career guidance● Formed a ten-person Data Collection and Analysis Team, reinvigorating the academic environment and informing tactical decision-making● Designed EO curriculum and training, attaining positive increases in multiple EO categories

• Operates radar and associated equipment; operates a radar/console screen, observing objects detected by the radar and displayed on the radar screen; identifies the objects detected, determines their movement, and disseminates this information to users by internal communications systems; operates radiotelephones; plots and maintains current display of objects detected; knows basic functions and interrelations of the modulator, receiver, antenna, control, and indicator units; reads electronic block diagrams; tests radar and associated electronic equipment; supervises and trains personnel operating radar and associated electronic equipment, plotting display information, operating radiotelephones and keeping logs.• Assigns duties to operations specialist personnel and supervises their performance; performs as supervisor of a watch section directing the task performance of plotters, radiotelephone operators, and other members of the watch sections; prepares weekly preventive maintenance schedules.

Managed 24 personnel in executing the tactical integration of controls communication, ship and aircraft track processing, sensor information correlation, and link integration for joint operations. Planned and implemented inspection programs, prepared reports, and managed maintenance. Responsible for the implementation of warfare scenarios, enhancing multi-national cooperation and combat readiness.● Qualified as Surface Warfare Coordinator and Combat Information Center Watch Officer● Designed and implemented Level of Knowledge, technical training, for 250 personnel● Specialized in situational awareness, surpassing all critical exercises and contextual requirements

• Duties include air control; Antisubmarine Warfare (ASW) aircraft overview; emergency procedures; basic underwater sound familiarity; mission planning; special alert recognition; Recovery, Assist, Securing & Traversing (RAST) pre-launch/launch procedures; tracking procedures; dipping procedures; relief on-station procedures; ASW plot stabilization procedures; attack/re-attack procedures; ship and air system failure; data link failures; CZ (convergence zone) re-detection tactics; ship/aircraft sensors; Over-the-Horizon (OTH) targeting tactics; damage assessment; shallow water considerations; combat Search and Rescue (SAR); dissimilar aircraft.• Controls and directs the communications, overall tactics, sensor information correlation and integration, flight safety, sonobouy, and data link operations of USW/SUW aircraft.

• Provided administrative assistant contributing to the management of training billets for 12,000 Reserve man-days supporting 26 Naval War College Departments.• Responsible for providing over 200 variations of classified and unclassified documents to supportmultiple conferences and events

• Operates multiple Tactical Digital Information Links; directs the tactical integration of joint inter-service link operations, controls communications, overall track processing, sensor information correlation and link integration within the theater of operations; resolves link operation problems and communicates joint hierarchy interface faults to higher authority.• Coordinates combat information from detection to engagement; performs tactical and administrative message drafting and assists junior personnel and officers in current warfare doctrine and problem solving under all conditions of ship readiness.

Oversaw a team of 15 personnel with responsibilities of planning and implementing inspection programs, report preparation, and maintenance schedules. Managed 5 divisional training programs ensuring ship safety, security, and advancement. Controlled a wide array of helicopters for counter-narcotics and counter-terrorism missions. Operated Tactical Data Links, Global Command and Control Systems, and ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore communication.● Qualified Chief of the Guard, topside roving security patrol, access control armed sentry● Conducted over 250 pre-flight briefs for embarked pilots and crew members● Delivered 750 + successful flight hours, 560 flight launches, & 99% flight completion rate

Performs all basic seamanship functions aboard ship that involve line or wire and rigging used to secure the ship to a pier, mooring, or anchor; is able to identify functions of navigation and shipboard equipment; lowers, raises, and launches lifesaving equipment; handles small boats; navigates by using several different types of compasses; keeps records by degrees or points; knows navigational aids, nautical rules of the road, and the buoys of inland waters of the US; knows the nomenclature of decks; superstructures, and parts of the hull; knows the purpose and limitations of first aid and the first aid treatments for electrical shock, simple and compound fractures, heat exhaustion, heat stroke, and burns; knows how to determine the classes of fire hoses and how to use carbon dioxide, dry chemical, and water portable fire extinguishers; knows the function of the typical fire main system, fixed carbon dioxide system, water wash down system, and magazine sprinkling system; knows the difference between flooding and progressive flooding and the danger involved.

Associate'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General

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Activities and Societies: Future Farmers of America.

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