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● Advised senior organizational stakeholders on the employment and allocation of narrowband and wideband ground radios, multi-band satellite terminals, broadband telecommunications equipment, networking devices, servers, and end-user assets to support strategic objectives.● Supervised, coached, and mentored cross-functional, diverse teams of up to 407 uniformed, government civilian, and contracted personnel to overcome complex institutional challenges.● Led a systems planning and engineering team comprised of professionals across the following disciplines: space and waveform integration, network engineering, data systems engineering, electromagnetic spectrum operations, and maintenance management.● Maintained readiness and accountability of organizational equipment worth nearly $139M. ● Fostered crucial client and stakeholder relationships to facilitate IT interoperability across agencies, departments, services, and international stakeholders.● Provided strategic consultation to foreign officials responsible for telecommunications services in support of 53K subscribers across a challenging 140,000 sq. km area.● Directed IT operations for 103 sites and 1300 customers across an austere 24,000 sq. km area.● Formally recognized by senior leadership for innovative UHF/VHF repeater, retransmission, antenna, and radio-over IP solutions to mitigate traditional line-of-sight limitations.● Provided technical and helpdesk support for 3,000 geographically dispersed personnel.● Established targeted departmental vision and mid-range objectives to support institutional strategy.● Designed, developed, and delivered instructional materials to further group attainment of mission essential tasks.● Developed and implemented organizational policy across the following areas: operations, human capital management, administration, logistics, safety, risk mitigation, and change management.

● Facilitated the global assignment program of 1400 personnel to meet institutional staffing requirements.● Served as deputy director for the officer career counseling program supporting ~21K personnel.● Developed educational materials and delivered 37 presentations on the institution’s performance evaluation system. ● Provided individualized counseling sessions to 2900+ clients to support attainment of personal goals. ● Conducted 10 human research studies and 14 research briefs on the institution’s personnel selection processes.● Led a continuous process improvement project resulting in a 53% gain in institution-wide, middle and senior manager counseling efficiency.

Kailua, Hawaii, United States

● Delivered the Marine Corps University Expeditionary Warfare School professional military education curriculum to commissioned, mid-level managers and supervisors.● Provided evaluations and assessments to capture student learning outcomes, provide for courseware improvements, and enhance student professional development.

Jamestown, Virginia, United States

● Researched, developed, and delivered an interpretive tour to more than 1500 park visitors.● Engaged with park visitors at the visitor center orientation desk and park entrance.● Developed a self-guided tour and associated educational materials in support of classroom field trips. ● Delivered more than 30 iterations of the children’s pinch pot, primitive pottery program.● Collected $9232 in park entrance fees, sold 73 Jamestown Island passes, 21 National Park passes, 10 Golden Access passes, 17 Colonial National Park passes, and 79 Golden Age passes totaling $12,257 in revenues.

United States

● Supervised, resourced, and documented the preventative and corrective maintenance activities of a multidisciplinary team of 32 mechanics and technicians.● Integrated spectrum-dependent equipment and systems into the electromagnetic environment.● Proficiently employed schematics and technical publications to troubleshoot complex ground communications equipment, including mobile and stationary HF, VHF, and UHF radio sets; antennas systems; and telephone switching equipment.● Responsible for the installation and removal of mobile radio systems in military and commercially-leased vehicles.● Routinely employed RF signal generators, multi-meters, oscilloscopes, watt meters, and satellite simulators daily to accurately isolate faulty circuitry and components affecting mission-critical radio and telephone equipment and to facilitate corrective maintenance activities.● Led multiple teams of operators and maintainers during VHF retransmission missions to mitigate terrain interference.● Programmed, installed, and operated military and civilian ground radios manufactured by Harris, ITT, Thales, and Motorola.● Employed knowledge of RF theory and the effects of grounding and voltage standing wave ratio to construct expeditionary antennas, while maximizing RF transmissions from manufactured antennas.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Education

Master Of Arts - Ma, Leadership Studies

Command And Staff College

Expeditionary Warfare School