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Huntsville, Alabama, United States

• Lead an Integrate Product Team to complete a highly complex software project for an on-time delivery to the customer.
• Facilitates communication between government customers and industry partners to ensure requirements are clearly defined and met.
• Responsible for the development and implementation of cost proposals and spend plans.
• Collaborates with the DoD to receive feedback on the needs of the user community and implements changes to benefit a wider audience.
• Represents the company at conferences and trade shows, providing demonstrations and engaging with potential customers to determine how the software can be incorporated within other organizations and agencies.

Redstone Arsenal AL

• Lead and facilitate Cyber Test exercises to include Cyber Table Tops (CTT), Cyber Vulnerability and Investigations, and Architectural Vulnerability Assessments
• Work across multiple organizations to include local, DOD, and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) to build exercise teams and coordinate cyber test event exercise schedules and activities
• Set the stage presenting test exercise scenarios, introducing injects and discussion questions, and facilitating conversations between exercise participants
• Coordinate with Redstone Test Center team members and other organizations to identify requirements for building system modeling and simulation wrap around environments to support cyber testing
• Oversee software development test efforts and other related duties as assigned

Redstone Arsenal, AL

• SME for PM Assured Airspace Access System (A3S) responsible for program management control over functional inputs for both developmental and fielded programs; this role required formulation of maintenance processes as.
• Operated as a subject matter expert, providing critical operator feedback and perspective during the developmental and testing phases for aviation mission command and future systems, including ATC, airspace management.
• Served as a liaison between multiple government agencies and contractors to communicate user needs and system requirements during logistics and engineering product development. Primarily supported the Tactical Terminal.
• Represented PEO Aviation in numerous DoD and Multi-National test events and working groups such as Black Dart C-UAS experiment, NATO’s Bold Quest multi-national interoperability series of events, and the International.
• Provided recommendations related to ATC and airspace management operations to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the development of the Air Space Total Awareness for Rapid Tactical Execution.

South Korea

• Supervised and managed all ATC facilities at Desiderio Army Airfield, facilitating more than 50,000 safe aircraft movements throughout the Korean Theater of Operations
• Provided liaison on matters of ATC and airspace with Installation Management Command (IMCOM) and airfield commander
• Revised local training and operating procedures to increase operational efficacy by 25%
• Spearheaded efforts to cross-train assigned personnel multiple ATC systems, enhancing the organization’s posture to serve as an operational enabler

South Korea

• Managed Airspace and Aviation operations administrative actions for 36 personnel and $7 million dollars of equipment facilitating daily aviation operations which supported a 27,000 person organization
• Supervised flight hour program of more than 69,000 hours involving more than 200 aircraft
• Selected by executive level leadership to form a multi-agency, multi-nation airspace management working group to synchronize and address issues and streamline collaborative processes

Fort Irwin, California, United States

• Analyzed and evaluated air traffic control management teams and operational efficiency, training and equipment utilization
• Provided realistic and relevant assessments to organizational leadership along with recommendations for improving operations and associated processes to make their teams more successful
• Advised on the integration of aviation capabilities with external enablers through coordination in order to make the best use of a limited set of assets
• Revised and implemented new airspace clearance procedures for operations at the National Training Center, providing clear and concise guidance for airspace management personnel as well as military organizations.

Fort Bliss, Texas, United States

• Managed combat aviation logistical support and kinetic operations for a 5,000 person organization with operations conducted across northern Iraq
• Supervised all flight operations planning and processed daily flight schedules for 32 aircraft and 127 flight crews
• Integrated logistics support functions, data processing, aeronautical material identification, requisition management, and inventory management for the organization
• Coordinated aviation processes across several diverse staff level, multiple foreign countries, and several national agencies; Conducted deliberate planning for sustained operations in a joint collaborative environment

South Korea

• Responsible for training newly assigned air traffic controllers and assisting in the maintenance of proficiency records
• Received multiple commendable ratings on Department of the Army level inspections and audits
• Twice nominated for Army Aviation Association of America Air Traffic Controller of the Year