Dave E. Saunders Email & Phone Number

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Assist the office of the Commandant of the Marine Corps with mapping the trajectory of the Service. Think and write about where the Marine Corps is headed. Support senior leaders understanding of how Marine Corps strategy nests with both higher headquarters and adjacent Services. Work with communication professionals and advisors from adjacent organizations to tackle complex problems and gain tempo through coordinated actions.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Duties: Assist the Service with ensuring our strategy is aligned wwith higher headquarters. Think and write about where the Marine Corps is headed. Support senior leaders understanding of how Marine Corps strategy nests with both higher headquarters and adjacent Services.Accomplishments:• Led multiple Service-level planning efforts to recommend solutions for Naval Integration and Command Arrangement between senior Navy and Marine Corps operational commands.• Conducted a needs analysis, and developed, and published a Marine Corps Strategic Assessment to better translate Marine Corps strategic vision into tangible actions to support the planning and budgeting process.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Accomplishments:• Translated national security documents into a Marine Corps Force Management Plan to direct action of forward deployed and operational forces, including prioritization of exercises, countries, and operations.• Regularly briefed Marine Corps senior leaders on possible impacts of strategic documents and made policy recommendations on how the Marine Corps should respond and/or incorporate those documents.• Wrote executive level documents for internal use, publication, and public engagements.

Okinawa, Japan

Duties: Lead operational, contingency, and crisis planning for all future operations of a large organization (over 30,000 personnel), including running both crisis and steady-state cross functional teams. Manage the organization’s long term operational strategy and implement future concepts into exercises and rehearsals that affect the organization’s posture during peacetime and at war.Accomplishments• Led large cross functional teams in support of 6 INDO-PACOM level exercises, including exercise design, scenario design, and synchronization across major commands. • Led a coalition / joint multi-week planning effort with over 70 participants in support of exercise Balikatan in the Republic of the Philippines, including exercise design, scenario design, the operational approach of the unit and building the operations order to support the conduct of the exercise.• Led a crisis cross functional team to stand up a Joint Task Force to respond to a typhoon in the Philippines.• Led a cross functional team in early 2020 to understand the impacts of COVID and organize all aspects of the military response on the island of Okinawa, including medical, operational, and logistics support to both military and family members, which laid the groundwork for the organizations COVID response.

Quantico, Va

Attended School of Advanced Warfighting; studying operational planning. Uses history and organizational behavior as frameworks to solve complex real world problems.

Camp Pendleton, California

Planning and supervising the conduct of a cross-functional logistics organization with more than 350 people in the areas of transportation operations, general engineering, health services and intermediate supply and maintenance. Currently we have an emphasis on the processes and procedures required to seamlessly support a shrinking organizational footprint to include assisting the removal/remediation of facilities and equipment that have been accumulated over a 5 year period.

Selected as an Olmsted Scholar (www.olmstedfoundation.com); studied Modern Standard Arabic, then moved to Rabat, Morocco to study at Mohammed V University."The greatest leaders should be educated broadly." General George Olmsted

Okinawa, Japan; Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; Iraq; Afghanistan; Camp Pendleton, Ca

As a junior military officer, I served as a company commander for an engineer company both in America and deployed overseas, a battalion staff officer, and in professional military education

Student at the Expeditionary Warfare School. Topics of study included leadership, communications, amphibious operations, expeditionary warfare, and conflict in the current operating environment

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Agdal, Rabat, Morocco

Student at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco and Olmsted Scholar. Dual charter to study at the master's level in a foreign language (Arabic) while also expanding leadership abilities through the deep immersion in another culture in order to improve performance inside the military construct.

Master Of Strategic Studies

Master Of Operational Art, Military Strategic Studies, General

B.S., Environmental Engineering

Activities and Societies: Naval ROTC Society of Civil Engineers

Master Of Arts (M.A.), International Relations

None Awarded, Contemporary History; Morocco And The Greater Maghreb

International Baccalaureate, H.S. Diploma

Activities and Societies: Senior Class President