David "Bull" Kirkendall Email & Phone Number

United States

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area

Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam

Led a joint team of 580 personnel to provide comprehensive command and control to air operations covering over 51% of the globe. Develops operational plans to support the Commander, US Pacific Command and Joint Task Force commanders in the Pacific Theater. Directed training activities for over 20 specialties in the organization, and deployable mission ready personnel to support world wide taskings. Responsible for facility and communications infrastructure maintenance and sustainment and executes an annual budget in excess of $1M. • Discovered long standing training deficit; implemented training program overhaul and increased training compliance by 35%• Identified infrastructure sustainment shortfall; lobbied support from parent organization to garner overdue contract maintenance resulting in 100% mission assurance

Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam

Led of a combined military and civilian team of 3,500 employees to deliver safety, security, emergency management, facilities management, family housing, recreation, human resources, air and sea port operations, environmental compliance and religious ministries to a community of over 92,000 with a $600M annual budget and $23B asset plant replacement value.• $23M savings in energy costs; 20% reduction of water consumption• Oversaw 221 projects worth $987M; directed $200M expenditure to revitalize $7B worth of aging air and sea port• Achieved a 32% labor force reduction while avoiding 15 involuntary displacements; fullcompliance with program directives

Davis-Monthan Air Force Bace, Az

Led a team of 50 to direct and conduct command and control operations covering an area from south of Mexico and entirety of South America. Oversaw daily execution to include offensive, defensive, space, information operations, mobility and logistics, and personnel safety and recovery. Developed and executed annual training plan and an annual budget of $100K. Responsible for over $5M in assets.• Built new training exercise design integrating two complex scenarios; all metrics attained for 580personnel in two geographic locations• Designed and implemented division-specific exercise scenarios; increased dynamic training 500%--new enterprise standard and methodology

Maxwell Afb Al

Attended one-year Executive Leadership School; awarded Masters in Strategic Studies; core courses included studies in; Leadership, Strategy Development, Global Security, Organizational Decision Making, and Regional/Cultural studies.

Maxwell Afb, Al

Military lead for development and design of exercises and war games to support the Air Command and Staff College Joint Warfighting curriculum. Developed scenarios, tools and written materials to enhance experiential learning opportunities for students. As an academic instructor, developed curriculum to include to new courses, presented material, lead seminar discussions and evaluated student progress. Chosen to represent the school and Air Force at several International engagements to include German and Polish Staff colleges as well as The US Army Command and General Staff College. Invited to the NATO School in Oberammergau Germany to teach and execute Wargaming techniques to several senior officers from over 10 countries. • Designed and led course implementation to bridge emerging education gap in less than 4months and under budget; ensured curriculum delivery to 24 students• 300 hours of classroom instruction to over 160 students delivering multidiscipline curriculum to both U.S. and international students from 68 countries• Recognized academic expert; requested speaker internationally (Germany and Poland) and at US Army service school—7 invited speaking seminars

Osan Air Base, Republic Of Korea

Led a team of 75 personnel responsible for planning and executing command and control of over 20,000 US and Republic of Korea Air Force aerial sorties annually. Directed training activities for all personnel to maintain mission ready certification and world wide deployable status. Planned and directed the execution of an annual budget of $122K and was responsible for over $4M in resources. Maintained Combat Mission Ready Status as the lead instructor and evaluator in the organization.• Leadership and focus resulted in 'excellent' combat readiness rating; Inspectors quoted "best seen to date" as compared to similar organizations• Established and maintained essential relationships with Korean partners; coached and mentored peers and senior executives to achieve goals; relationships at all time high

Various

Fulfilled various flying, staff and leadership positions as an Air Force officer. Stationed globally, with time periods including several combat and combat support deployments. Performed duties as Lead Instructor, Flight Commander, Lead Evaluator, Director of Operations and Executive Officer in a flying Operations Group and also at the Pentagon.

Bachelor’S Degree, International Relations

Activities and Societies: Delta Kappa Epsilon FraternityBachelor of Arts with emphasis on Latin America and Foreign Conflict Resolution.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Defense Analysis And Irregular Warfare

Master of Science in Defense Analysis. Curiculum included study of low intensity conflict and counterinsurgency dynamics to include.

Master Of Human Relations, Organizational Leadership

Master of Human Relations with emphasis on Leadership as change agent and transforming organizations.

Education record

One week seminar providing emergency operations center director training on techniques and procedures necessary to effectively perform.

Education record

4 Week seminar to prepare for home station employment and deployment, beddown, and sustainment at contingency locations: crisis actions.

Education record

Five day executive seminar for emergency management professionals focused on Emergency Management planning, resource programming.

Education record

Ten day executive seminar of focused education and training in functional areas encountered at installations. Presentations, seminars.

Master Of Strategic Studies, Master Of Strategic Studies; Blue Horizons Participant

Activities and Societies: Pine Level Volunteer Fire DepartmentAttended one-year Executive Leadership School; awarded Masters in Strategic.