Eric Balough Email & Phone Number

Alexandria, Virginia, United States

-Project lead supporting Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Joint Support Ship (JSS) evaluation.-Land domain lead for effort supporting Australian Defense Force (ADF) Force Design analytical agenda.-Analyst supporting Australian Army Aviation Command force option study.

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Portfolio Manager in the Deputy Under Secretary of the Army for Test and Evaluation (DUSA-TE) Executive Office. Monitors 20 key designated acquisition programs placed on Congressional oversight and monitored by Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD), Director Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E). Advises Director of DUSA-TE about sufficiency of test plans for determining whether a material solution meets stated requirements, and meets Army’s modernization needs. Reviews scheduling, resourcing, and sequencing of tests in the Test and Evaluation Master Plan, and reviews individual test events to ensure test objectives, procedures, design of experiments and data collection are in compliance the TEMP.• Acted as principle working group member for eight test and evaluation working groups. Oversaw development of test plans from concept to approval and execution. • Managed review, revision and approval for research and development documents for 20 key Army modernization programs worth more than $28.7 billion in annual research, development and acquisition expenditures.• Provided significant contributions to five test and evaluation policy impacting all 87 Army programs on DoD oversight.

Washington, District Of Columbia

Izmir, Turkey

Served as a Team Lead in policy, plans and assessments directorate for a 600-person international headquarters that coordinates Allied land operations across 29 member nations, 11 partner nations and two theaters of operation. Formed working groups to scope and define problems and recommend solutions. Provided leadership with objective, structured, data-based recommendations regarding strategic problems facing the headquarters and the Alliance. • Challenged the conventional wisdom governing strategic situation of NATO, and role and purpose of headquarters.• Lead international, interdisciplinary working group to review strategic situation and the headquarters’ capability to accomplish its missions and assigned roles. The resulting study prompted changes to nearly the entire structure of the NATO Alliance headquarters structure.• Authored the NATO strategy for adapting to new conditions facing the alliance, designed the planning framework for the headquarters’ 2018-2020 plan, and lead the development of the headquarters restructuring plan.• Routinely authored correspondence for headquarters’ senior leader for use in communicating ideas to senior NATO officials and international chiefs of defense.• Received personal recognition from headquarters’ leadership for contributions to the organization.

Alexandria, Virginia

Market Research Assessment Analyst in the Army Marketing and Research Group (AMRG). Responsible for developing and monitoring key performance indicators, and leading market research initiatives to ensure the Army's $700M marketing and advertising program for enlisted, officer, and civilian recruiting is efficient, effective, and successful. Produces information papers to help senior leaders communicate to the Army, DoD and Congress about budgetary, strategic, and policy decisions that affect Army-wide advertising and marketing activities.• Wrote strategic and annual planning guidance used to allocate the annual $700 million Army marketing budget.• Published an article discussing the fundamental changes to Army branding and marketing in “Army Magazine”. • Lead the implementation of market segmentation analysis, marketing assessments, and 21st Century marketing concepts for FY ’16 and FY ’17 Annual Marketing Plans, and fundamentally changed the Army’s approach to marketing.

Fort Belvoir, Va

Served as a junior analyst in a 150-person organization supporting Army-wide research initiatives. Conducted analysis and decision-making support for major regional military headquarters, overseas military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and major DoD planning scenarios. Produced clear and logical analytical reports and briefings for senior leadership of the Army and DoD to inform programmatic, budgetary, operational war planning and strategic policy decisions of national significance.• Rewrote DoD doctrine (business best practices) governing evaluation of plans and decision-making support for complex operations. Concepts adopted throughout subsequent DoD, Army and Marine doctrinal publications.• Selected to travel to Afghanistan as part of an international team; provided analytical wargaming support to identify risks and opportunities for the following year’s campaign. This led to changes in operations across the country. • Adopted best practices to revised theater-campaign assessment which reduced information requirements and improved decision making while deployed to Afghanistan.• Worked as part of several analytical teams that supported analysis of planning scenarios used to determine capability and structure requirements for the U.S. Army, Afghan security forces, and Libyan security forces.• Mentored two junior analysts while deployed to Afghanistan.

Fort Hood, Tx; Fort Riley, Ks; Iraq; Afghanistan

• Served as an infantry officer in primary leadership and staff positions of increasing responsibility from junior- to mid-level leadership in high-stress and fast-paced organizations operating in hazardous conditions. Responsible for translating higher-level organizational goals into understandable tasks for subordinate leaders. Train, develop and mentor assigned personnel to perform organizational functions and then lead execution of assigned missions. Maintain calm under pressure, take initiative even in the absence of clear direction, and make sound decisions during tense situations.• Cited for valor in Afghanistan for sound decision making and leadership under extreme circumstances. • Conducted over 150 faced-paced, high-stress missions in hazardous conditions requiring sound planning, clear thinking, calm decision making and close attention to detail.• Demonstrated capability for handling increased responsibility. Progressed from leading 40 people and managing equipment worth $40 million to leading 130 people and managing equipment worth $110 million.• Reorganized four units ranging in size from 25 Soldiers to 130 Soldiers, and supervised the receipt of inventories ranging from $500,000 to $110 million worth of equipment.• Planned and executed eight separate logistics and movement missions to move 190 Soldiers, inventory worth $700 million, and 50 vehicles with no losses.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Operations Research And Systems Analysis

Activities and Societies: WKDT Radio Station, Theater Arts Guild

Master Of Science - Ms, Systems Engineering

Master'S Student Systems Engineering, Systems Engineering