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Fredericksburg, Va, Us

Alexandria, Va

Develops a Live Fire Testing and Evaluation concept that supports the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation action officer review and input to the live fire strategy. Identify mission and performance requirements and the Critical Operational Issues (COI) for effectiveness and survivability. Review potential adversary threats. Identify necessary data and analysis sources and the role of modeling and simulation.

Dearborn, Michigan, United States

Greater Detroit Area

Leads a group that provides support to General Auditor Office (GAO) by providing analytical products that help to identify parts of the business that have the most inherent risk and greatest impact. (1) Leverage analytical competencies of classification, anomaly detection, optimization, metric development, and technical support for democratization to support GAO’s continued transition to risk-based auditing. (2) Minimize manual interventions and make modeling, simplification, standardization, and automation more of a rule when dealing with risk assessment. (3) Leveraging continuous monitoring in order to integrate live data connections that monitor Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) and incorporate results into a risk-based audit approach that focuses on the highest areas of risk at any point in the system. (4) Help GAO become a stronger advocate of corporate values and principles through a more robust risk culture that is defined by GDIA and GAO, communicated and reinforced by GAO.

Atlanta, Georgia

Responsible for developing creative ways to ensure the Delta system runs as efficient as possible when faced with delays caused by weather and/or air traffic control restrictions. Integrating simulation into the Delta business process to test new ways to quickly recover from irregular operations.

Warren, Mi

Created a way to estimate customer happiness using logistics regression. Created a virtual market basket simulation that is used to forecast consumer choices based on preference and a constrained budget. Simulation creates virtual customers by assigning opinions on individual features based on distributions from current market research data, Then the simulation maximizes the customer utility under the constraint of a budget. Manage the creation of conjoint studies to develop efficient content packages for GM products. Created a method to determine appropriate features to use in conjoint studies.

Pentagon

Responsible for help coordinating the Army's effort to reduce expenses by eliminating excess capacity in Europe while ensuring our remaining base structure supports our operational requirements and strategic needs. Creates methods to analysize potential European scenarios. Advises leaders on the process used during the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Process. Advises the Office of the Secretary of Defense on the optimal way to calculate costs and savings to use as a comparison tool between different scenarios. Prepared a capacity analysis report in order to determine the available capacity for European stationing options. Developed military value criteria in order to assess the value of the remaining infrastructure in Europe. Set up a process for scenario development and analysis. Created a new algorithm to measure the change in base costs with a change in population. Prepare products that may help future stationing decisions. Formed a team of analysts to support the Army working group and the headquarters and support working group.

Fort Belvoir, Va

Serves as the deputy division chief for the Resource Analysis Division at the Center for Army Analysis and the senior military officer within the division. Acts as the division's expert in optimization and as an advisor on all modeling and simulation projects within the division. Leads multiple high profile studies as the study director while developing younger analysts through teaching and mentoring. Acts as a subject matter expert for analytical review boards to ensure that studies are thoroughly vetted for completeness and sufficient academic rigor. Contributes to the Center for Army Analysis' strategic communication effort by submitting articles for publication in refereed journals.Provided timely support to a complex project involving a study on European Infrastructure directed by the Secretary of Defense. The Department of Defense (DoD) expert on the Cost of Base Realignment Actions (COBRA) model and I advise DoD working groups on how best to account for costs and savings from European consolidation. Using the algorithms from COBRA, I developed and improved the revised model for use in estimating the cost and savings associated with consolidating installations in Europe. I also developed several cost algorithms and standard factors that will be used in this final model, and trained other analysts so that the Army will have sufficient subject matter experts for the upcoming installation studies. Developed a method to forecast long term resource requirements for army aviation modernization. This method was expanded to investigate long term investments in other Army future fleet studies.

Chief of Irregular Warfare research and analysis for CAA. Created the Irregular Warfare Team from scratch. Responsible for identifying, coordinating, and implementing Irregular Warfare (IW) capability development initiatives across all divisions in order to increase, improve, and enhance Army capabilities and capacities to conduct operations across the spectrum of war against irregular threats. Synchronizes efforts across all divisions within the Center to develop sufficient analytical methods and tools in order to support both institutional Army and warfighting commanders in IW analysis. Develops analytical models and simulations to contribute to the Irregular Warfare effort. Developed contract requirements for work outside the center. Recognized as an expert on irregular warfare.Created a coalition withdrawal model that was used to analyze troop requirements during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Developed and presented three cutting-edge analytic techniques that directly led to force size and structure decisions for the Afghan National Security Forces – an effort that won runner-up honors for the MORS David Rist Prize for the best implemented study in DoD. The Department’s foremost expert on violence in irregular warfare, and is driving doctrinal changes to FM3-34, “Counterinsurgency”. Directed several additional studies to created new methods to answer real-world operational questions. Developed a new measure of instability that helps commanders gain strategic perspective and created a method to apply epidemic theory to violent behavior to predict how insurgencies will spread. Both of these efforts were accepted for presentation at the MORS Symposium. Played a leadership role at CAA and among the IW community. Expanded the constructive partnerships with the Naval Postgraduate School and the Air Force Institute of Technology.

Led the effort to assess the effectiveness of the coalition efforts within Operation Iraqi Freedom. Developed metrics to determine the effectiveness of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Interior. Created reports that assessed Iraqi governance that were sent to the highest levels of the US government. Acted as the operational plans deputy in order to integrate assessment metrics into the plan for the reconstruction of Iraq. Developed a functional and task mechanism to determine the work requirements for the successor organization as the coalition force size dwindled. This work examined all of the tasks and missions and removed redundancies in order to create a more efficient organization. This was the basis for a major organizational redesigned that created the organization that exists in Iraq today.

An operations research analyst in the modeling support team for the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Analysis and the Army Basing Study (TABS) Group. Responsible for DoD's Cost of Base Realignment Actions Program (COBRA) with the task to provide an auditable COBRA model for the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Analysis. Led a 24 member team responsible for reviewing, refining, verifying, and validating COBRA input, outputs, algorithms, operations, and functionality. Responsible for developing a method to determine Army risk and uncertainty associated with selecting closure and realignment scenarios. Considered the DoD expert in infrastructure costing. Received the American Society of Military Comptroller's group analysis award fro my leadership in developing the BRAC costing model. Also worked on a team that developed an economic model to measure the impacts realignment had on the local communities.

West Point Ny

Course Director for Single Variable Calculus. Led an organization in teaching concepts and applications of single variable calculus to a freshman class of over 1000 cadets. Responsible for course design, instructional material, and assessment within the program. Supervised and mentored 20 faculty members in their roles as leaders, analysts, and developers of cadets. Integrated new technologies such as laptop computers in the classroom. Was the lead investigator for the embedded training concept and acquired a $20,000 grant to study embedded simulation training with soldiers at Fort Hood Texas. Prepared a report to the program manager on the concept and was an advisory member on the Embedded Trainer Integrated Product Team.

Ph.D, Operations Research

Dissertation focused in applying classification methods to predict aircraft arrival rates from the terminal aerodrome forecast

Ms, Applied Math

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Aerospace Engineering

Education record