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Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Arlinton, Va

Arlington, Va

• Select member of a cross-functional team responsible for maintaining expertise on all F-35 operational requirements and capabilities. Instrumental in anticipated $10B modernization effort; maintains a detailed understanding of upgrade requirements, capabilities development, and mission capabilities/gap analysis.• Works with outside agencies (e.g. AF TENCAP & MIT Lincoln Labs) on cutting edge technologies. Identifies and coordinates potential capabilities into evolving F-35 air system requirements. Supports U.S. Services, Joint, and Partner Nation CONOPs development and analysis.• Displays outstanding interpersonal and communication skills in advocacy of emergent technologies; seemlessly integrates with program management/lead systems engineer in order to best support the warfighter.• Air System Requirements lead and subject matter expert for all Network Centric Warfare and Interoperability issues including all tactical data links (e.g. MADL & LINK 16) and Network Enabled Weapons development and integration.

Pentagon

• Principal advisor to Secretary and Chief of Staff US Air Force for operational readiness of 503,000 Airmen. Highly sought after thought leader; recognized operations intellectual expert providing senior executives key insights into realized value of $140B annual budget.• Led and directed multi-disciplined, cross-organizational teams responsible for developing strategies, garnering DoD advocacy and securing legislative priorities during multiple Presidential Budget Reviews. Ingenious, articulate, and tireless efforts compelled restoral of $9B to FY14 operational readiness accounts.• Team leader for Air Force FY13 sequestration planning. Identified critical impacts of $14B annual budget cut, directed Air Force-wide sequestration crisis action team, and built corporate strategy resulting in $1.7B Congressional reprogramming authority for flying hours allowing 31 grounded units to resume operations.• Select member of senior Air Force executive team responsible for developing and defending corporate positions as part of Secretary of Defense directed Strategic Choices Management Review and Congressionally mandated Quadrennial Defense Review.

Aviano, Italy

• Second in authority to the Commander responsible for the daily mission of a 5,100-person organization including military, government civilians and local nationals. Achieved all US and NATO unit objectives by guiding 4 Group Commanders and 15 Wing Staff Agencies through varied opportunities ranging from NATO nuclear surety, host-nation relations, community outreach and the generation of 1,936 combat sorties accumulating 13,059 flying hours from Aviano Air Base against Libya.• Managed substantive change as Air Force exemplar for Inspector General reorganization. Innovative organizational construct validated by Inspector General and adopted by Air Force as benchmark program.

Peterson Afb, Co

• Established visionary goals and led substantial revitalization of information operations programs. Rapidly expanded the command’s strategic information operation targeting transnational criminal and violent extremist organizations; recognized as the information operations model for all combatant commands.• Principal advisor to senior executives for all special access programs and integrated joint special technical operations. Led process improvement and developed strategy on numerous, highly-sensitive programs including the command’s offensive cyber operations and oversight of overall cyber portfolio reorganization.

Eglin Afb, Fl

• Led select 53-person unit responsible for all precision-guided weapons operational test and evaluation. Planned and executed $12.5M annual discretionary budget evaluating over 425 weapons valued at $36M. Key insights and recommendations briefed annually to the Chief of Staff of the US Air Force and staff.• Established multi-disciplined, collaborative relationships with government and industry teams. Innovative efforts led to first and largest GPS-denied evaluation, expansion of urban close air support scenarios and acquisition of high-speed moving targets—all required for accurate assessment of weapons performance in contemporary and future combat environments. Saved $425K annually in travel costs alone by conceiving of and executing the first combined air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons system evaluation program event.

Hill Afb, Ut

• Second in authority to the Commander responsible for the daily mission of a 62-person organization executing a 3,450 sortie peacetime annual flying hour program valued at over $34M and additional 1,400 combat sorties valued at $45M. Developed and implemented organization training plan; built foundation of unit’s recognized combat success; achieved all Coalition Forces Commander’s objectives while deployed to Iraq.• Designed innovative reconstitution plan upon unit return from combat operations. Aggressively managed 125-sortie upgrade plan creating 25 newly qualified pilots; produced best value at least fiscal cost.

Various Locations

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Political Science International Relations W/A German Language Minor

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Strategic Studies

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Military Arts And Sciences

Combat Airpower