Deputy Division Head & Senior Analyst, Operations/Intelligence Directorate
CurrentOversee activities accounting for nearly 50% of a new military agency, including uniformed, government civilian and contractor personnel to perform “market analysis” of potential areas for influence operations/strategic communications and to conduct operations worldwide. Accountable for internal functioning of directorate, policy, plans, programming, budgets, and staff supervision of Intelligence personnel, training of all personnel and supporting activities within the agency. Perform quality control on all analytical products. Maintain relationships with the Intelligence Community to leverage their expertise and products, to not “reinvent the wheel,” and provide advice to agency leadership on the efficient functioning of the directorate and agency. • Established structure and provide guidance for directorate operations, including staffing, budget, and training; recruited and developed key Analysts to support the 1st teams sent to Afghanistan within 8 months of opening.• Took charge of the agency’s civilian hiring effort in February 2012, making more progress in 2 months than the agency had made in the past 2 years to push the hiring effort. Includes marketing agency to recruits, overall administration of civilian hiring in a military agency. • Developed directorate reputation for quality work within 6 months by functioning as the Latin America media analyst to support humanitarian assistance mission to Haiti in January 2010; results of work were cited by the Commanding General of Marine Forces South as a key indicator of measures of the effectiveness of the approach taken by U.S. Forces in Haiti.