Dan Keener Email & Phone Number

Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, United States

Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin Area

Assisted the VP of Partner Relations with connecting U.S. defense-sector corporations with foreign partners to expand business opportunities around the world.

Fort Belvoir, Virginia, United States

Led a 250-person organization of highly skilled medical civilians and military personnel committed to helping wounded, ill, and injured (WII) service members recover and either return to their units or transition out of the military with every opportunity to thrive in the civilian workforce.

Provided leadership, direction, and guidance to a group of over 50 specially selected professionals from across the Inter-agency. Focused attention on helping inter-agency partners build trust, increase collaboration, and effectively coordinate efforts. End state was improved dialogue, informed policy makers, and overall improved US policy.

Director for a multi-nation, information sharing platform collaborating through publicly available information, Collected Exploitable Material (CEM), and analysis from different cultural lenses to disrupt radical extremism around the world.

Joint Special Operations Command Representative to the U.S. Department of State. Synchronized complex efforts between multiple offices, bureaus, departments and agencies to ensure interagency priorities were effectively coordinated. Developed and maintained key relationships and built trust with integrity and transparency.

Led 12+ senior military and civilian Special Operations Forces (SOF) planners to develop unique, challenging training exercises for SOF units; focused on seamlessly incorporating SOF and conventional force battlefield integration while maintaining realism and free-flow exercises with an emphasis on cause and effect.

Served as a senior trainer and exercise controller at the Special Operations battalion and company level, leading a team of 30 Special Operations senior advisors to properly train SOF units preparing to deploy overseas.

Served as the commander of a 100-person Crisis Response Force (CRF) responsible for quickly reacting to highly-sensitive geo-political events throughout the Middle East.

I led a staff of 17 persons supporting a 560-member organization with 26 subordinate operational support detachments conducting special operations across the Middle East.

Led 9 military and civilian subject matter experts with the task of overseeing the evaluation and validation of training, preparation, scheduling, coordination, and execution of multi-service, large-scale military exercises.