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Kansas City

Golden, Colorado, United States

Support development, testing, and implementation of scheduling models tailored for specific steelmaking operations. Coordinate multiple related efforts, provide optimization and programming expertise, and produce data analysis tools.

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

Leavenworth, Kansas

Deputy Director for an analysis agency with a $45 million budget and a 300+ member workforce distributed across twelve locations. Oversee personnel and resource management for two of the locations. Lead study teams in formulating problems, applying advanced analysis techniques, and communicating results to decision makers. Author and edit reports and articles.Collaborated with fellow executives to plan, communicate, and implement organizational transformation that saw a change in parent headquarters, addition of eight locations, and increase of workforce by 25%. Mentored analysis team that evaluated options for transporting the Army’s heaviest equipment, enabling Army leaders to make a $6 billion decision to acquire more than 2000 heavy transport vehicles. Led analysis of sustainment implications associated with change in national strategy, informing future strategy development and organization design.

White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico

Deputy Chief for one of six directorates in a 140-person analysis agency. Coached and developed cross-functional analysis teams conducting operations research, modeling-and-simulation, and human-dimension analyses. Directed multi-organization analysis to define, describe, model, and evaluate a critical workflow process, which provided military service leaders with awareness and understanding of a critical system shortfall. Led a major component of a capability analysis that informed National Security Council decisions and received recognition for excellence in analysis. Authored and edited technical reports. Consulted with analysis teams as optimization expert.

Golden, Colorado

Earned doctoral degree in Operations Research, with core curriculum grounded in mathematical programming, computer science, statistics, and engineering. Researched mixed-integer optimization, with focus on decomposition techniques. Research insights applied to multiple classes of problems, including facility location, transportation scheduling, and infrastructure protection. Co-authored journal articles on facility location and application of big-data.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Developed strategies and plans that enabled Operations Research Proponent to attract, recruit, onboard, develop, distribute, and retain a population of 500+ military operations researchers. Planned and implemented a first-of-its-kind, targeted approach to recruiting that sustained personnel levels during an Army-wide transition to a market-style, talent-management system.

Killeen, Texas

Informed strategic decisions by leaders of a 15,000+ member organization through application of data analysis, statistics, and visualization techniques. Evaluated options to enable leaders to efficiently allocate resources across organization objectives, subordinate elements, and time. Assessed key indicators, over time, to distinguish between true environment changes and routine variation. Developed, coordinated, and published organizational plans to implement senior-leader strategy and intent.

Leavenworth, Kansas

Applied operations research techniques as an analysis team member and study leader. Co-developed an award-winning optimization tool to generate unmanned aircraft investment strategies, which underpinned Army-wide system-development decisions. Designed and implemented an innovative visualization tool that allowed a training organization's leaders to assess, understand, and more-efficiently conduct a critical training program. Provided aviation expertise to the team designing aircraft representation in large-scale, analytic simulation.

Ellensburg, Washington

Recruited scholars, athletes, and leaders interested in exploring opportunities to serve as military officers. Met Military Science Department recruiting goals for the first time in nearly a decade, contributing to the Department ranking 16 out of 271 nation-wide. Taught college-level leadership courses to military and non-military students. Mentored students personally and professionally while serving as a University academic advisor.

Pyongtaek, South Korea; Savannah, Ga; Ali Al Saleem, Kuwait; Daleville, Al

2000-2001: Led 136 personnel in providing all manner of logistical support for an aviation unit with 24 aircraft, 100+ ground vehicles, and 300+ personnel, located in Pyongtaek, South Korea. Contributed to organization earning recognition as Army’s best aviation unit.1996-1999: Led flight element with seven pilots, five aviation mechanics, $100 million in equipment, and a 1200-hour flight program, located in Savannah, Georgia and later in Ali Al Saleem, Kuwait. Advanced to serve as Deputy Support Operations Officer, assisting in providing logistical support for an aviation unit. 1995-1996: Flight Student - Daleville, Alabama. Completed advanced and initial-entry pilot training. Distinguished Honor Graduate for initial-entry class.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Operations Research

Master Of Science (M.S.), Operations Research

Master Of Science (M.S.), Organization Development

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering