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Houston, Tx

•Ensures flow of passengers through the screening checkpoint facilitating efficient and orderly processing.•Implements security screening procedures in courteous & professional manner central to Transportation Security Administration goals while protecting the flying public preventing any deadly or dangerous items from entering any aircraft.•Conducts screening of passengers as assigned.•Provides assistance to passengers who require special screening/assistance.•Immediately responds to breaches of security or emergency situations, relaying in firm, professional commands to control situations, including those that may become confrontational.•Operates various screening equipment such as: Walk-Through Metal Detector, Explosive Trace Detection system, Advanced Imaging Technology body scanner, and/or X-Ray machines as assigned.•Performs regular and recurring level 1 maintenance on ETD to include operational checks, calibration of ETD and AIT systems, material cleaning to prevent unnecessary equipment downtime.•Diagnose malfunctions and uses technical manuals, standard operating procedures and other guides to ensure proper maintenance of all equipment.•Monitors passengers' behaviors through check point screening area and alerts supervision of any potential or actual hazardous or dangerous materials, items and persons from entering secure areas and aircraft.•Ensures occupational safety and health guidelines are met and any decontamination procedures are followed contributing to a safe working environment.•Maintains communication chain between myself, superiors and fellow officers regarding any issues that may expose security vulnerabilities of security screening discovered during the course of screening. Participates in information briefings concerning security sensitive or classified information, and makes suggestions to improve screening process.•Participated in pilot programs of pre-checkpoint area selectee screening, Known Crew Member installation.

Austin, Tx

• Managed graphic production projects and production team personnel from initiation of project to delivery of finished goods to the customer. • Estimated project costs and managed production and distribution of projects maintaining project-specific payroll, profit and expense. Responsible for bringing projects to completion within budget parameters and customer established deadline.• Kept consistent operational control of graphic production projects making quick choices in fluid operations to ensure maximum utilization of manpower, equipment and supplies.• Given unilateral authority to fluctuate workforce, manage inventory of supplies, and coordinate product drop off to and receipt of completed product from outside contract employees. • Made profit impacting decisions establishing time-line of projects, delivery method of finished materials as well as percentage of project to keep in-house and percentage sent out to other contract workers.• Stayed in constant contact with company owner/president with updates on multiple ongoing projects statuses while keeping employees abreast of current positions in project time line. • Kept employees informed of payroll issues and defused potential confrontation in situations of vendor late payments which adversely effected company payroll.

Various

•Surveillance Technician & Electronic Protection Technician in the Aerospace Control and Warning Systems career field. Identified, tracked and recorded information of both military and civilian aircraft to maintain & provide to higher headquarters a clear and precise air picture. •Followed specified parameters where only friendly aircraft were allowed to remain in designated Areas Of Operations. Participated in 100s of live and generated simulations of military intercepts of enemy aircraft. •In communication w/superiors to provide aircraft ID and type, gave suggestions as to the next steps in protection multi-million dollar equipment and Air Force personnel.•As EPT, in charge of setting up radar equipment using standard operating procedures and technical manuals to verify operational. Coordinated with Air Traffic Control and Air Surveillance Techs to ensure radar scopes processed aircraft at the same bearing & altitude. •Had go/no-go authority for all missions. In the event of radar jamming from enemy aircraft, attempts at electronic interruption or missile lock-on, performed steps to ensure the safety of personnel and radar equipment.•Attended classified briefings. Presented EPT section briefing to entire crew.•Had responsibility to create a manning schedule for 8 positions per mission from a squadron of over 100 based on personnel availability, position qualification and training requirements. •Produced weekly schedule of 8 missions during normal operations and 16 to 20 missions during 24-hour ops and field deployments. Post-mission in charge of compiling reports of mission success or failure of each position with substantiated reasons for either for forwarding to fighter squadron, Air Force Wing and Base commanders.•Presented informational briefing, both classified and unclassified, to squadron to increase knowledge of Air Force, Allies and enemy aircraft performance and evaluations as well as offensive and defensive air defense and missile capabilities.

Usa

• Managed both the on-line publication and writing staff of this sports orientated on-line publication. • Maintained a 9-staff writer pool covering all sports in North America, writing and editing columns and publishing weekly finished products distributed to subscribers as well as to the organizational web site for public viewing. • Successfully grew subscription base from 40 to over 400 in a three-year period by aggressively exploring all avenues of exposure for the publication.

San Marcos, Tx

• Assigned to cover San Marcos, TX city news as well as university student government and faculty senate meetings as well as given latitude to work independently on assignments I chose. • Worked with various city and university stakeholders to ensure proper coverage of timely news events from city council members and the mayor's office to university executives and president. • Promoted to opinions section editor. I was tasked with writing a weekly editorial to represent the opinion of the entire staff. M• Managed a staff of 10 opinion writers publishing a daily section.

Usa

• Coordinated all aspects of league operations and information releases with the media and prospective team owners as Women's Soccer Association (WSA) worked toward gaining Division 1 status from the United States Soccer Federation, the governing body of United States Soccer. • Contact point for prospective teams showing interest in joining the WSA from other leagues for the 2001 season.• Conducted interviews with various sports, women's and women's sports publications to educate the public and media on the progression of the league toward eventual sanctioning and the 2001 season.