Eric Riley Email & Phone Number

San Diego, California, United States

• Led a department of 39 Sailors providing oversight to 270 students through the Train-to-Qualify process. Expertly navigated compressed timelines, personnel issues, and deployment manning requirements to successfully man, train, and equip crews with proper Billet Training Profile requirements.• Trained 2 Carrier Strike Groups including 2 Cruisers and 9 Destroyers in Strike Warfare fundamentals and conducted over 50 challenging scenarios, including real-world staging objectives to optimize mission readiness and training standards while assigned to Naval Support Activity Bahrain as an Individual Augmentee to fill a critical forward deployed Tomahawk Strike Manager gapped billet.• Facilitated and set-up the Conflict Kinetics Simulator, providing over 12 simulated fire training events enabling successful small arms gun range events as well as Force Protection Exercise certification grading average of 95 percent. • Coordinated over 60 Sailors for force protection certification events, as Personnel Manager, which additionally provided Anti-Terrorism watch support overseas for two commissioning ceremonies, and over 60 Sailors to various command events, enabling successful high visibility evolutions.

San Diego, California, United States

Led over 90 Strike Warfare scenarios training 2 officers and 6 enlisted Sailors on Tomahawk Land attack fundamentals culminating in a successful employment of over 2000 simulated engagements flawlessly over more than 150 exercise scenarios. Additionally trained and qualified 5 Sailors as a Surface Warfare Coordinator.Led, managed, and trained 15 officers and enlisted service members through multiple Naval Fires Control System, Tactical Tomahawk Weapons Control System, and Vertical Launching System upgrades including a combat systems groom yielding in successful testing, training, and 49 qualification and certification events.Trained, coordinated, and supervised 200 Sailors as an Anti-Terrorism Training Team leader and Anti-Terrorism Watch Officer on force protection fundamental skillsets and conducting exercises and drills critical to certifications enabling a successful force protection posture in multiple countries and environments with multiple requirements.

San Diego, California, United States

Trained 24 Sailors totaling 75 hours of rate specific and warfare fundamentals. Trained 5 junior Sailors and 2 junior Officers in Strike Warfare communications and task execution fundamentals for 52 missions during assessed exercises while leading a division of 12 Sailors through an arduous and unpredictable Cruiser modernization yard period.Executed 6 sessions in a simulator providing 36 hours of Strike Warfare training and Engagement Control Officer training for 7 Sailors. Facilitated 81 drill sets as Anti-Terrorism Training Team member resulting in certification with an unprecedented 94 percent overall score qualifying and training 227 Sailors on Anti-Terrorism and response tactics.Dedicated 18 hours of Naval Surface Fire Support Training while temporarily assigned to USS Mobile Bay in preparation for a critical re-certification and enabled the execution of Operation Steel Knight while filling a critical Tomahawk Strike Manager billet onboard.

Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States

Trained over 45 Atlantic Fleet and Forward Deployed Naval Surface Fire Support and Naval Fires Control System teams with a throughput of over 400 students as Lead Instructor and Spotter. Enabled the Expeditionary Warfare Training Group, Atlantic, to increase throughput from 2 to 3 team training evolutions per week answering the demands of arduous ship training cycles and accommodating ship scheduling challenges.Organized and trained students as Naval Fires Control System Course Manager on the Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System to be able to conduct Digital Calls for Fire mission in direct support of Naval Surface Fire Support certifications. Conducted 3 Naval Surface Fire Support curriculum reviews as a curriculum manager with multiple sites. Qualified as spotter to fill a training gap and increased qualification capabilities to certify.Led 6 instructors in the tactics, techniques, and procedures for Naval Surface Fire Support. His leadership and mentorship on the Master Training Specialist board yielded 4 Sailors within the Department certified as Naval Surface Fire Support instructors and Master Training Specialists.