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Selectively staffed, critical Joint Staff (JS) billet. Serves as Pentagon Information Services Division (PITSD) Chief for Information Technology Services (ITS) Directorate, Command, Control, Communications and Computer (C4)/Cyber Systems Directorate, the Joint Staff. Leads and directs the activities of Service Delivery and Management staff, that consists of over 200 military, civilians and contractors,directly supporting the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), the Joint Staff, National Military Command Center (NMCC) and COCOM liaisons. Directs operations and maintenance of geographically dispersed networks, with IT infrastructure and assets that exceeds $50M. Responsible for the oversight of $61M annual operation and maintenance budget for unclassified, secret, secret/REL and top secret/SCIinformation technology requirements of the CJCS and staff that consists of over 6000 warfighters and includes 70 Flag, General Officers and Senior Executive Service Personnel. Synchronizes all JS IT service delivery activities involving OSD, DISA and NSA.

Selectively staffed, critical Joint Staff (JS) billet. Serves as an Action officer supporting the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), Combatant Commands, Services, and Agencies (CC/S/A’s) ability to conduct full spectrum operations with integrated Command, Control, Communications and Computers (C4) networks & systems. Advises the Director C4 / Cyber, Chief Information Officer, Joint Staff, J6/CIO on Information Technology (IT), enterprise services and capabilities that deliver a single joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational information environment to and from the tactical edge providing full spectrum superiority that provides a decisive information advantage to the Warfighter. Advocates filling capability gaps that address COCOM requirements with current & future IT systems and resources that ensure interoperability, security, mission effectiveness.

Development of strategic leaders - In broad terms, the programs and curricula of the USAWC are built around the concept of mastering the strategic art, which the USAWC defines as "The skillful formulation, coordination, and application of ends (objectives), ways (courses of action), and means (supporting resources) to promote and defend the national interests." Depending upon the specific program, curricula may include: strategic thinking (critical, creative, systems, ethical, historical), theories of war and strategy, strategic leadership (leading and managing change in large complex organizations within volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environments), national security policy and strategy (the art and science of developing, integrating and applying the instruments of national power-diplomatic, informational, military, and economic-during peace and war), theater strategy and campaigning, and the development and employment of landpower within a Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental and Multinational environment. Successful completion of all of the requisite requirements established by the USAWC for granting a degree will result in the awarding of the Master of Strategic Studies Degree (MSS) degree. Upon program completion, many graduates begin operating in the national strategic or theater strategic environment-either directly or as advisers to the senior leadership of the Armed Forces, the Department of Defense, other governmental agencies, or in foreign militaries.

Serves as Engineering Branch Chief for the USCENTCOM J6; supervises 25 civilians and 3 military personnel. Responsible for data, transmissions and voice architecture and network engineering of four security domains: NIPR, SIPR, CENTRIXS-MCFI and CENTRIXS-GCTF solutions for the USCENTCOM AOR, allocating resources as required. Translates mission requirements into information system and network architectures for theater C4I networks to meet warfighter requirements in USCENTCOM AOR; Provides technical guidance and assistance to 5 Service Components and 4 Joint Task Forces. Manages commercial and military SATCOM resources; Designs implements, manages, theater ISR comms for mission critical systems supporting OIF, OEF, and GWOT.

Serves as Data Services Chief for the U.S. Army’s only forward deployed Corps. Responsible for providing continuous Tactical and Operational automation service to the V Corps Headquarters via a Windows 2003 Active Directory Enterprise and to the Corps Command Post operation, maintenance and Information Assurance of 2 security domains: NIPR and SIPR. Performs as the Executive Officer to the Corps Automation Officer; supervises 16 Civilians and 13 military personnel. Translates mission requirements into information systems architectures for the Corps Commander. Designs, implements, tests and deploys new and emerging technologies to enhance the war-fighting command and control capabilities of the Corps Commander, his major subordinate commands and their supporting staffs. Provides technical guidance and assistance to Corps major subordinate commands.

Serves as the Data Services Chief for Multi-National Corps-Iraq (MNC-I). Responsible for enterprise and site operation, maintenance and Information Assurance of three security domains; NIPR, SIPR and CENTRIXS-MCFI for the MNC-I and Multi National Forces-Iraq (MNF-I). Performs as the Executive Officer to the Chief of Information Systems Division; supervises 75 civilians and 31 military personnel. Translates mission requirements into information systems architectures for the MNC-I and MNF-I commanders for the Iraq theater of operations; designs, implements, tests and deploys new and emerging technologies to enhance the war fighting capabilities of the MNF-I and MNC-I commanders and their supporting staffs; provides technical guidance, develops policy and manages configuration control for three divisions, one COSCOM and nine separate brigades.

Serves as Tactical Automation Plans and Operations Officer for the U.S. Army’s only forward deployed Corps. Responsible for providing continuous Tactical and Operational automation service to the V Corps Headquarters via Windows 2003 local area networks (LANs) of nearly 1000 workstations and servers, valued at nearly $8 million; translating mission requirements into information system architectures for the war fighter; designing, implementing, testing, and deploying new and emerging automation technology for tactical LANs and secure LANs to enhance the warfighting capability of V Corps and provides technical guidance and assistance to two U.S. Divisions, one COSCOM and nine separate brigades. Assists with Information Assurance and Computer Network Defense initiatives.

Responsible for providing continuous automation service to Battle Command Battle Laboratory (BCBL) Fort Leavenworth via a Windows NT and Windows 2000 network of 100 workstations and servers. Responsible for managing automation assets valued a nearly $5 million to support all experimentation, operations, and administrative projects and activities in the Battle Command Battle Laboratory (BCBL) Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Responsible for the day-to-day operation of all activities inside the state-of-the-art Futures Laboratory. Responsible for coordination, experimentation and research of various automation and information technologies in the Modeling and Simulations arena for all Battle Lab experiments. Major additional duties as Information Systems Officer (ISSO), I.M.P.A.C. credit card holder, property book officer and security manager officer.