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Arlington, Va, Us

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Arlington, Va

Leads a contract team of 308 Master Resilience Trainers/Performance Experts, Performance Center Managers, and Administrative Specialists at 30 installations world-wide, to include Germany, Italy, Korea, and Japan, in direct support of the Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention (SHARP) Ready and Resilient (SR2) Directorate, HQDA, G1. The SR2 Directorate's mission is to execute the Army's resiliency and performance enhancement program designed to increase the physical and psychological health, resilience, and performance of Soldiers, Families, and Department of Defense Civilians. Our team members support this mission by conducting instructor-led resilience and performance training and education, developing a rapport with unit leaders to target and increase key individual and collective readiness indicators, continuously using the ADDIE model to update and improve SR2 program curricula, and providing operational coordination and support services across the enterprise.

Arlington, Va

Serves as Program Manager for the contract support element of the Army Wounder Warrior (AW2) program. Leads, a contractor team of 104 remotely located advocates, 4 regional supervisors, 2 trainers, a deputy program manager, a quality control specialist, and an administrative assistant. • Provides support to over 13,500 recovering Soldiers, their family members, and caregivers by coordinating providing non-medical case management services from 23 Army installation medical facilities, 57 Department of Veteran Affairs’ medical centers, the United States Army Medical Command, Department of the Army, and other internal and external stakeholders across the United States and Germany. Performs and/or monitors all contract performance and team management functions. Interfaces with government client staff, other Wounded Warrior Programs, Veterans Administration staff, and other Wounded Warrior stakeholders to ensure compliance with regulations, Veterans Administration protocols, and Army policy.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Led a team of 7 consultants to translate a strategic plan's mission statement, strategic vision, goals, and objectives into a campaign implementation plan with well-defined timelines, milestones, performance measures, risks, knowledge management, strategic communication, and governance to transform Army FM into an accountable, transparent, and fully integrated enterprise of 18,000 personnel. Focused on key cross-functional dependencies to overcome organizational change inertia. Identified critical enterprise integration gaps in process standardization, workforce training, organizational structure, systems and technology, internal controls, and cost management. Provided weekly updates to Army Financial Management executive leadership and completed the implementation project 6 months ahead of schedule.

Alexandria, Va

Provided expert staff and advisory services to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army, Financial Management and Comptroller’s to plan, develop, coordinate, and implement a transformation strategy. The strategic campaign plan detailed enterprise-wide change management, to include a mission statement, vision, goals, objectives and corresponding strategic communications plan and narrative, as the Army’s response to a Congressional mandate to become “auditable” by 30 Sep 2017. Supervised the contract team's employee engagement and change management activities, to include evaluating the effectiveness, efficiency and productivity of strategic communications initiatives. Used a wide range of platforms to include: executive leader site visits, presentations at national conventions, townhall meetings, employee surveys, journal articles, and website news articles and blogs.

Pentagon, Washington, Dc

Selected "by-name" to implement and expand the Active Component to Reserve Component (AC2RC) Training Program by conducting senior leader consensus building engagements, leveraging shared interests among key stakeholders, and leading interdepartmental work groups of 15 – 20 senior personnel to produce required policy and training options for up to 80,000 transitioning active duty Army Soldiers annually and potentially achieve an additional $400K in avoided annual accessions costs. Developed plan to expand the AC2RC program Army-wide to support transitioning active duty Soldiers seeking to join reserve component units and complete required military occupational skill reclassification prior to or just after their release from active duty and establish AC2RC as a program of record for the annual budget process.Wrote and coordinated an approved one-year exception to policy allowing transitioning Active Component Soldiers to contract with Reserve Component units and attend reclassification training up to 360 days prior to release from active duty, as opposed to 180 days under the prior policy. The new policy provided Soldiers more time to manage all aspects of duty status changes, while positioning them to start civilian careers and join Reserve Component units without an immediate reclassification training requirement.

Pentagon, Washington, Dc

Advised Assistant Secretary of Defense - Reserve Affairs (ASD RA)executive leadership on issues involving Congressional statutes and White House directives such as: Credentialing and Licensing initiatives for Veteran Employment and Transition Services, DoD’s Suicide Prevention policy and training program (Defense Suicide Prevention Program, DoD Directive 6490.14, 18 June 2013), and the Supreme Court’s striking of Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (repeal of Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell policy).Conducted Yellow Ribbon Reintegration program visits (obtaining feedback on Service and Family member experiences with deployment support programs and services; including financial preparation, Military OneSource, healthcare, employment, Strong Bonds, reintegration with family and employers, and other programs; planning and conducting town hall meetings; writing trip reports; and presenting findings with strategic readiness implications to ASD RA executive leaders. These engagements informed subsequent DoD statute, policy, and resource recommendations to support the mission readiness of over 1.1M Reserve Component (RC) Service members. Initiated and directed the 2014 Strategic Data and Trend Analysis Study. Presented its findings and conclusions to ASD RA executive leadership. The study suggested how subordinate organizations and senior staff members could increase the analytical rigor of statute and policy recommendations by accessing Military Service data repositories, analyzing readiness and deployment data, and identifying corresponding trends across all Services through a sustainable, repeatable research process to improve the readiness and mission effectiveness of 1.1 Million Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine R Service members.

Pentagon, Washington, Dc

Led a team of eight senior officers and two senior noncommissioned officers to analyze, write, coordinate, and evaluate statutes, policies, doctrine, programs, and resources that enhance the learning experiences of 1.1 million Reserve Component (RC) Service members.Wrote, coordinated, and submitted input for key strategic documents, such as the Quadrennial Defense Review and the Defense Planning Guidance.Developed, wrote, coordinated, presented, submitted, and defended two approved Cycle 16 Unified Legislative Budget proposals on behalf of the Assistant Secretary of Defense - Reserve Affairs (one incorporated into NDAA 2016 - addressing Joint Professional Military Education – Level II course locations and durations and another deferred until Cycle 17 – the awarding of retirement points to RC Service members for commander approved and successfully completed non-resident learning). Wrote, coordinated, submitted, and implemented 3 newly signed DoD issuances (Common Military Training, 1322.31, 26 Feb 15; Reserve Component Use of Electronic-based Distributed Learning Methods for Training, 1215.21, 10 Oct 14; and Reserve Component Representation, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) National Reserve Forces Committee (NRFC) and NATO Schools, 1215.22, 12 Nov 15) and provided expert advice and recommendations to improve 3 other DoD issuances (Support and Services for Eligible Organizations and Activities Outside the Department of Defense, 1100.20 (Innovative Readiness Training - IRT); Military Reserve Exchange Program (MREP), 1215.15, 1 Jul 14; and DoD Joint Officer Management Program, 1300.19, 4 Mar 14).

Kandahar Airfield

Coordinated the peer review of U.S. Forces – Afghanistan (South/Southwest)’s $262.2M Commander’s Emergency Relief Program to identify ways to address audit report findings. Developed a framework for a corrective action briefing and coached preparation for executive leader presentation. Guided the increased focus on planning and coordinating staff visits to conduct face-to-face new contractor employee training, reviewing and communicating best practices, identifying process improvement areas, increasing resource accountability, improving customer satisfaction, reducing administrative delays, and accelerating project velocity.Served as the Army Reserve Affair Liaison Officer, supporting the resolution of administrative personnel issues for 7,653 Army Reserve Soldiers, representing 44.1% of Army Reserve Soldiers deployed in Afghanistan. Responsibilities included providing advice or subject matter expert points of contact on issues to include: pay, leave, re-enlistment, promotions, separation from Service, eligibility for reduced retirement age, awards, annual performance evaluations, Service Member Group Life Insurance beneficiary changes, GI Bill eligibility, TRICARE health insurance enrollment, medical review boards, Soldier and Sailor Relief Act eligibility, etc.

Arlington, Va

Coordinated the development, communication, execution, and evaluation of the Chief of the Army Reserve's Legislative Priorities and Legislative Affairs Division Chief’s strategic engagement plans.Worked very closely with Strategic Communication Division peers to facilitate targeted outreach engagements with Congressional Members, Senate and House committee professional staff, veteran & military service organizations, and other internal and external stakeholders; coordinate the development, communication, execution, and evaluation of the Army Reserve Legislative Affairs Chief’s strategic legislative objectives and engagement plans; and write and submit significant annual posture statement content command.Directed and coordinated the Chief of the Army Reserve’s 2010 hearing season preparation by requesting and compiling staff briefing material submissions, facilitating multiple Army Reserve staff-wide video teleconferences, and ensuring senior leader feedback was incorporated into preparation for specific hearings. Led efforts to collect, analyze, and consolidate input and support from Army executive leaders, veteran and military service organizations, and legislative professional staff to write, coordinate, present, and defend Unified Legislative Budget (ULB) proposals. Proposals included predominantly HR and organizational structure topics with problem and impact statements, as well as a budget resource projection and cost-benefit analysis.

Fort Mcpherson, Ga

Led a team of 26 field grade officers, senior noncommissioned officers, DA civilians, and contractors to develop individual training policies and programs and provide guidance to subordinate commands. Managed all Army Reserve individual training and leader development programs including Military Occupational Skill – Training, Professional Military Education, and individual training programs to support the learning and professional development of 205,000 Service members.Provided oversight of Army Reserve inputs into the Army Training and Requirements Resource System, managed a $115M training budget, and supported the Structure Manning Review Decision and Program Objective Memorandum processes.Led, accelerated, and modified the implementation of the Army Reserve’s institutional training infrastructure reorganization which consolidated six institutional training divisions (25,000 positions) into three by aligning functions, harvesting redundant command and control structure, and anticipating future training requirements. Drafted, coordinated, and submitted responses to Congressional Member requests for information related to the institutional training transformation process.Developed, coordinated, and successfully presented a plan to remission the 84th Training Command (Leader Readiness) to the 84th Training Command (Unit Readiness) to establish an organic Army Reserve collective training evaluation capability to enhance Army Reserve unit readiness. Coordinated with Department of the Army G3, Forces Command, Training and Doctrine Command, and the Army National Guard on issues involving the Total Army School System, One Army School System initiative, Initial Military Training, strategic training base expansion plans and concepts, and individual training and readiness for mobilization and deployments.

Illinois State University

Responsible for the recruitment and retention of all Military Science Department students, administration of all federal and state scholarship programs, and teaching first and second-year courses.Increased average course enrollment 300%, student retention 200%, federal and state scholarship awards 100%, and annual commissions over 300% by refining the program’s identity and culture, effectively developing and communicating its strategic narrative, strengthening collaborative relationships with all learning community members and stakeholders, reengineering the program’s marketing plan, redesigning the recruiting process, reshaping first and second year course curriculum, and analyzing the factors influencing a student’s academic and social integration into learning communities.

Milwaukee, Wi And Minneapolis, Mn

Served 17 years in the Army Reserve as a traditional reserve component service member with the 84th Division (Institutional Training). Positions included detachment training officer, company executive officer, company commander (5 separate commands), brigade operations officer, battalion operations officer, and acting brigade executive officer. Commanded units between 20-50 personnel. Responsible for the manning, equipping, training, and readiness of each command. Operations assignments included planning, preparing, executing, and evaluating assigned missions, writing and publishing operations orders, and providing staff assistance visits to improve the quality of training. As an acting brigade executive officer, responsible for providing personnel, logistic, and budget support to six assigned school battalions (approximately 135 service members each), maintaining effective lines of communication, and building relationships based upon trust and mutual support.

Bloomington, Mn

Multi-line claims representative handling auto, personal injury, home, and personal property losses in Southeastern Wisconsin. Promoted to claims supervisor in November 1997 and relocated to Minnesota. Selected and managed independent adjusting companies to settle remote policy holder claims, Trained and supervised team of inside adjusters to investigate and settle small loss claims. As a claim representative, I estimated auto damage claims, obtained agreed repair prices with repair facilities, evaluated and negotiated settlements across a broad range of personal injury claims, managing legal services connected with attorney represented claims and law suits, and estimated and settled home and property losses.

Madison, Wi

Settled auto and personal injury claims primarily through independent adjusting service providers. Evaluated service provider performance and made recommendations to establish and maintain stable, regionally-based working relationships. Responsibilities including auditing independent auto adjuster repair estimates, evaluating and settling total loss claims, evaluating and negotiating settlements across a broad range of personal injury claims, and managing legal services connected with attorney represented claims and law suits.

Brookfield, Wi

Settled auto and personal injury claims. Specialized in high exposure, catastrophic loss accidents in 1992 and 1993. Handled both personal and commercial lines liability claims (long haul transportation and school bus accounts). Responsibilities including estimating auto damage claims, obtaining agreed repair prices with repair facilities, establishing and managing a direct repair facility program, evaluating and negotiating settlements across a broad range of personal injury claims, and managing legal services connected with attorney represented claims and law suits.

Masters, Military Strategic Studies, General

Activities and Societies: Army War College Alumni Association - Life MemberSuccessfully completed the two-year, non-resident Army War.

Masters Of Science, Industrial Technology, Training And Development Track

Activities and Societies: Most Outstanding Graduate Research Award, College of Applied Science and Technology, 2004. Runner-up, James L..

Law School

Activities and Societies: LSAT score = 84th percentile. Traffic CourtAttended the University of Kansas Law School from Sep 1988 - Feb.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Economics

Activities and Societies: Army ROTC - commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in Dec 1985. Minor in Pre-Law. Heavy concentration of English.

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