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Suffolk, Va, Us

Suffolk, Virginia, United States

Suffolk, Va

• Led a 90-person team, with a budget of over $20 Million, to define standards, design architecture, and develop technical training solutions for 14 Combatant Command Exercises, and over 70 Joint Exercise Life Cycle events in support of the combatant commander exercise program • Integrated over 30 tactically focused Service Component and Agency simulations through alignment of differing development timelines and resolution of 2358 test cases to form the Joint Live Virtual Constructive (JLVC) Simulation Federation, in support of strategically focused Joint training requirements• Drove dialogue with Service and Agency developers regarding adoption of a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) and a cloud-based, single digital, data-centric environment to minimize resource intensive duplicative efforts and converge stove-piped technical capability development

Fort Eustis, Va

• Led the Army Experimentation Community across 13 geographically distributed Battle Labs and 8 functionally focused simulations to a 96% runtime during experiment execution• Translated Non-Kinetic technical requirements for Cyber, Space, and the Electromagnetic Spectrum, allowing the Army to conduct experimentation within a Multi-Domain Operational Environment which drove development of a new operating concept• Balanced a $12.2 Million budget to ensure the sustainment and development of the Closed Restricted Network (Battle Lab Collaborative Simulation Environment) where all Army Experimentation is conducted

Fort Eustis, Va

• Coordinated with Army, Joint, and Multinational agencies to identify gaps in the G2’s operational environment and ensure accurate representation within the Army Modeling & Simulation Enterprise• Resourced ($1.2 Million) and led a data-centric approach to the delivery of force structure data, standardizing and simplifying G2 opposing force structure which enabled its use in all Army Mission Training Facilities and TRADOC schools• Managed development of a collaborative, web-based Exercise Design Tool that leveraged simulation-ready authoritative data, reducing the time and resources required to develop Training Support Packages by 75%

Fort Knox, Ky

• Managed the accession, training, worldwide assignment, career management, mentorship, and counseling of the 400+ Active and Reserve Component Army Officers within Functional Area 57 (Army Simulation Operations)• Maintained a 98% fill rate for all Army Simulation Operations duty positions despite an extended period of force drawdown that perpetuated an environment of increasing requirements and shrinking prospective officer inventory• Led discussions with Human Resources Command leadership for adoption of a more appropriate accessions model which ultimately offset retention challenges and enabled Functional Area 57 to exceed recruitment goals by 10%

Joint Base Lewis-Mcchord, Wa

• Coordinated across multiple commands in Hawaii, Japan, and Korea, as the lead simulations planner, to ensure the deconfliction of competing Flag Officer training objectives during Pacific Rim bilateral CPXs (YAMA SAKURA, ULCHI-FOCUS LENS)• Provided government oversight for a $27 Million, 107,000 square foot Mission Training Complex and campus to support 5 COMMEXs, 4 TOCEXs, 7 STAFFEXs, 8 CPXs, 5 FTXs, and operator-level digital mission command training for tenant I Corps and JBLM units• Directed the I Corps fielding and new equipment training for the Army’s brigade and above Constructive training simulation (JLCCTC-MRF)

Joint Base Lewis-Mcchord, Wa

• Directed the use of all Virtual, Constructive, Gaming, and Digital Mission Command training enablers to facilitate company and below training resulting in an average throughput of 4,837 Soldiers per month• Resourced and established a second Small Unit Training Facility, increasing throughput by 150%, to prepare 6 Brigade Combat Teams with abbreviated deployment timelines for Afghanistan and Iraq• Guided the fielding and new equipment training of Virtual Battlespace 2 (Army’s gaming capability) to support the training of Stryker vehicle crews in the absence of traditional vehicle platform simulators

Joint Base Lewis-Mcchord, Wa

• Trained, Deployed, and Led a 165-man Stryker Infantry Company through 15 months of combat and counter-insurgency operations in Iraq during the height of the troop surge• Mastered the fusion of intelligence and maneuver as the Brigade Commander’s time-sensitive raid force, resulting in the capture of over 30 brigade and division level High Value Individuals (HVIs)• Accounted for and maintained vehicles, organizational and installation equipment valued in excess of $50 Million with zero loss to the government

Joint Base Lewis-Mcchord, Wa

Fort Drum, Ny

Fort Drum, Ny

Fort Drum, Ny

Fort Bragg, Nc

Hunter Army Airfield, Ga

Master Of Science (M.S.), Modeling & Simulation

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

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Activities and Societies: Delta Chi Fraternity

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