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Greater St. Louis

• Led Ameren's Network Engineering-OT team to design and implement network infrastructure for energy transmission and distribution.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Scott AFB, Illinois, United States

• Led 80 personnel responsible for integrating new IT into the Air Force (AF) network
• Managed one of the world’s largest cloud migrations, a $1 billion effort which moved 690,000 accounts from 108 on-premises locations to Microsoft’s Azure Cloud; continual process streamlining enabled project to.
• Directed emergency, $19 million project to replace 200 domain controllers at 56 global sites; executed in under six months and dynamically adjusted schedules to repair highest-need locations before aged hardware failed.
• Oversaw AF mobile device program consisting of 60,000 managed mobile devices; transitioned AF flight planning from a paper to a digital, tablet-based process which saved $4.5 million annually and cut planning time from.
• Organized engineering and upgrade of airborne communications network, which supports the President and Cabinet Secretaries; cut network latency 80% and virtualized travel kits, eliminating the need for executive teams.
• Executed emergency virtual private network expansion during 2020 pandemic response; expanded AF telework capacity from 60,000 to 400,000 concurrent connections in just 3 weeks

Washington DC

• Advised AF Chief of Staff (CEO equivalent for 330,000-employee company) and Director of Ops (COO equivalent) on integration of cyber warfare capabilities into policy, plans, and exercises
• Led AF planning for Department of Defense’s (DoD) $300 million, global cyber training range; captured standards of performance and created contract specifications to create training platform for 6,200 cyber mission.
• Oversaw stand up of 39 cyber offense and defense teams (1,715 total personnel) to defend DoD networks; exceeded training and hiring deadlines to provide capability one year early
• Managed team of 26 senior cyber experts for standing Crisis Action Team; coordinated AF and state governors’ staffs to place satellite communications on-site for four hurricane relief efforts in under 24 hours.
• Conducted world-wide communications outage analysis for 108 installations; identified common root causes and justified $400 million in remediation funding

Baghdad Iraq

• Prepared the Commander of the U.S. Office of Security Cooperation for over 100 discussions with the Iraqi Prime Minister and cabinet ministers on technology transfers and foreign sales
• Managed DoD and Department of State information strategies in Iraq to synchronize Coalition diplomatic messages; enabled negotiations to prevent Iraqi-Kurdish territorial dispute
• Coordinated ten visits between U.S. Congressional delegations and Iraqi ministers to shape foreign policy; recovered 17 U.S. tanks, lost by Iraqi forces in ISIS invasion, from terrorist forces
• Composed weekly reports to the U.S. Ambassador, Iraq and the Central Command Commander detailing developments in military negotiations; enabled military equipment sales totaling $2 billion which secured the Iraqi.

Hickam AFB HI

• Led a team of 163 to operate and maintain a $500 million, state-of-the-art suite of 400 servers and infrastructure to support 800 intelligence analysts
• Oversaw 37 system upgrades, valued at $22.6 million; conquered 5-year standing challenge to re-task missions in the air, enabled AF to complete 28,000 imagery targets that otherwise would have been lost
• Managed 6,000 preventative maintenance actions and achieved the best on-time and uptime rates compared to the other six organizations performing the same mission
• Maintained network security standards and achieved perfect scores on two annual inspections
• Executed high-risk, $175,000 power upgrade project; cut scheduled 5-day project to just 36 hours and developed creative workarounds to keep systems online throughout
• Awarded Wing’s AF Association Award (#1 of 21 units) and the Bob Hope Foundation “Spirit of Hope” Award recognizing personnel “quality-of-life” contributions

Fort Meade MD

• Oversaw Top Secret network policy and security affecting 30,000 users at 90 sites globally
• Architected and, in just six months, executed a Top Secret network command and control center to oversee 108 sites, 28,000 users; hired 70 employees, developed procedures, began deployment of security patches and.
• Served as HR director for 170 cyberspace officers; provided career progression advice, vacancy filling, and job placement; achieved 10% higher manning than national average

Fort Meade MD

• Directed a 195-employee unit operating $4 million network supporting 2,400 users
• Oversaw 12-person helpdesk to resolve 7,000 customer tickets; achieved 37-hr avg closure rate
• Executed a $500,000 budget to virtualize 40 servers; project completed on schedule and realized 170% return on investment over 5 years

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Master Of Science - Ms, Cyberspace Warfare

Education record

Education record

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Management

Master Of Science - Cyber Warfare