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Fort Belvoir, Virginia, United States

Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

• Provided strategic direction and executive leadership to 75 personnel, managed $10M worth of organizational property, and responsibly executed a $8.7M annual budget.
• Responsible for all aspects of unit performance to include: readiness, safety, quality, training, and morale of the command (O-5 level, non-CSL).
• Provided testing services to 6,355 unique UICs from all US military branches within the USINDOPACOM, USCENTCOM, and USNORTHCOM areas of responsibility. Tested and reported over 1.5M service members specimens without a.
• Transformed the unit's performance from the worst in the DoD to the best as evidence by a 13-month long streak of better performance metrics than similar units.
• Facilitated unit earning its first Army Safety Excellence Streamer after a multi-year effort.
• Devised and led two separate professional development forums, one for military personnel and another for civilian supervisors.

Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

• Led daily operations and ensured safe laboratory practices for an Army forensic toxicology drug testing laboratory.
• Provided direction and oversight for the production division (consisting of six subordinate section supervisors and 55 personnel) that accomplished the unit’s assigned mission of conducting urinalysis drug testing of.
• Devised and orchestrated a metric-based, systems approach to testing that removedinefficiencies plus increased supervisor responsibility and accountability for their leadership of assigned missions.
• Supervised the senior civilian leader responsible for the scientific and forensic integrity of results for the over 55-60,000 service member samples tested per month.
• Provided direct training support to the USAG-HI Army Substance Abuse Program.

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Managed the daily operations for a Combat Casualty Care research program with $48 million in funding and over 320 personnel.
• Assisted development of the strategic direction for a research mission that consists of 21 sub-tasks accountable to ASA(ALT) through USAMRDC.
• Oversaw current-year programmatic management of entire portfolio ensuring accountability for deliverables within cost, schedule, and performance.
• Led major reorganization that established 3 subordinate divisions (12 departments) empowered to manage assigned research portfolios, personnel, and finances.
• Spearheaded multiple efforts to improve business practices for increased efficiencies for mission accomplishment and accountability to stakeholders.

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Led a multi-disciplinary team of 35 scientists and surgeons to execute a $4.8 million combat casualty related research program for extremity trauma.
• Provided programmatic level leadership for Extremity Trauma and Regenerative Medicine tasks with oversight from the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisitions, Logistics, and Technology (ASA(ALT)).
• Developed scientific strategy (research projects, spend plans, performance objectives, and schedules) plus project management processes for the entire portfolio.
• Managed daily operations to ensure efficient business processes, safe laboratory practices, and personnel activities.

Sembach, Germany

• Facilitated the command group administrative requirements for the only strategic level medical command servicing USEUCOM, USAFRICOM, and USCENTCOM.
• Authored strategic level RHCE command briefing that was presented to distinguished audiences including MEDCOM, USAREUR, Army, and Congressional leaders.
• Developed the model for all DV strategic visits to the RHCE area of operations and created templates for action officers to execute future visits.
• Revamped a broken headquarters staff action process that increased tracking fidelity, transparency, and action officer visibility throughout RHCE.

Landstuhl, Germany

• Primary leader responsible for the health, welfare, training, discipline, safety, and morale of over 170 Military plus the training management of 187 DA Civilians.
• Provided company-level mission command, administrative, and operational support to 9 hospital divisions.
• Managed the accountability and safekeeping of over $12 million worth of organizational property and the only Consolidated Arms Room for LRMC.
• 397 days DUI free for all personnel and won inaugural USAG Rheinland-Pfalz Best Barracks Competition.

NATO Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit (MMU), Kandahar, Afghanistan

• In support of Operation Enduring Freedom, helped to capture medical lessons of combat casualty care to sutain/improve future military medicine. Responsibilities for several multi-site protocols included 1) performing.
• Managed efforts of researchers at three separate Role 3 Medical facilities that resulted in the enrollment of 151 patients and zero HPA audit findings that increased risk to subjects.
• Planned and managed redeployment of KAF team with 100% accountability for personnel and over $430, 000 of equipment.
• Voluntary service as Public Affairs Officer (PAO) to NATO Role 3 MMU and US Navy leadership recognized with US Navy award.DoD News Article:http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=122030

Frederick, MD

• Directly supported duties of the Commanding General (MG Caravalho) responsible for a global command consisting of 13 subordinate commands.
• Served as command group liaison to key leaders of subordinate commands, the Army Medical Department, and US Army.
• Managed information flow, executive correspondence, and staff coordination.

Frederick, MD

• LEADERSHIP:
• Spearheaded command initiative to increase enlisted Soldier effectiveness in laboratory research. Developed a training and certification program for new USAMRIID Soldiers. Implemented and managed successful program.
• Suite supervisor for multi-division laboratory with several principal investigators (PI) and 70 personnel. Responsibilities included oversight of safety, physical security program, and facilities management.
• Member of Officer Professional Development (OPD) committee. Developed OPD schedule, identified speakers and arranged logistics for events.RESEARCH:Led two challenging drug-discovery projects focused on identifying.

Determined minimal protein interaction sequences for Staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) through bacterial and yeast display screens.Kogot JM, Pennington JM, Sarkes DA, Kingery DA, Pellegrino PM, Stratis-Cullum DN. (2014). Screening and characterization of anti-SEB peptides using a bacterial display library and microfluidic magnetic sorting. J Mol Recognit..

Investigated the leaving group charge state for the ribosome catalyzed peptidyl transferase reaction.Kingery DA and Strobel SA. (2011). Mechanistic Enzyme Studies through Brønsted Analysis. Acc. Chem. Res. 45:495-503 (Epub 2011 Nov 8).

Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, New Haven, CT Molecular Biophysics and BiochemistryThesis – “Determining the Transition State Formal Charges for the Ribosomal Peptidyl Transferase Reaction.” Advisor – Scott A. StrobelOkuda K, Hirota T, Kingery DA and Nagasawa H. (2009). Synthesis of a Fluorine-Substituted Puromycin Derivative for Brønsted Studies of.

• Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
• Demonstrated that three phase partitioning (TPP) method was viable for the purification of varying proteins.

• Wyeth Research, Princeton, NJDiscovery Analytical Chemistry
• Developed atmospheric pressure photoionization (APPI) mass spectrometry screening method for routine characterization of pharmaceutical compounds.Cai Y, Kingery D, et al. (2005). Advantages of atmospheric pressure.

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Department of Animal ScienceSenior Honor Thesis – “Upregulation of IGFBP-3 mRNA in Response to Anisomycin Treatment.” Advisor – Wendie Cohick

• Graphic Controls Corporation, Cherry Hill, NJ
• Research and development of new graphical inks
• Quality control for ink products

Ph.D., Molecular Biophysics And Biochemistry

M.Phil, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry (January 2007)

B.S., Biochemistry

Activities and Societies: George H. Cook Scholar, Honor Thesis Program Golden Key National Honor SocietyGraduated with Highest Honors

A.S., Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa, International Honor SocietyGraduated Valedictorian