Mark Hobson Email & Phone Number

Scott Air Force Base, Il, Us

• Liaison between Senior Executive Service Deputy Director and senior leadership working in a high security area, ensuring seamless syncing of St. Louis and East coast daily operational needs.• Using diverse multi-tasking administrative skill set maintaining assigned tasks and developing problem solving solutions in a timely and accurate manner.• Manages scheduling and travel arrangements for Deputy Director, provides read ahead materials.• Coordinates all elements of S2 senior level management meetings and off-site planning seminars

St Louis, Missouri, United States

In Secret Clearance Position with Current Valid Top Secret/SCI InvestigationSpearheaded organization of quarterly company-wide employee award presentation; morale upheld.Exceptional time management skills; supports 160+ personnel all with diverse daily requirements.Administrator of the Defense Travel System, Approving Official for the Government Purchase Card program, and Government Travel Card Manager; over $800K in annual funds properly managed.Schedules and facilitates 20+ monthly video teleconferences with locations around the globe; conducting video teleconference vs. travelling to locations results in a savings of $200K annually.

Driving force of 6 member Executive Staff team providing direct support to Senior Military leadership; directly impacted quality & accuracy of information presented at Pentagon level meetings.Led daily administrative task management in high-pace, and high stress executive office environment; tasks from higher headquarters were coordinated and completed correctly on-time.Molded subordinate to focus on mission; provided big picture view to subordinate and turned his vision from one of self concept to team concept.Completed major rewrite of supplemental directive to Air Force level regulations; ensured uniformed compliance of 12 global-wide locations.Selected as 1 of 7 SharePoint program subject matter experts on base to test run new training program; recommendations were implemented and are now part of the course curriculum.

for a 40 person joint intelligence activity, directly supported intelligence experts from three services and Department of Defense civilians; enabling them to concentrate on job.Managed administrative, pay, personnel actions, reports, and official correspondence for individuals in three military services, as well as Department of Defense civilians at two separate locations.Coordinated movement of all classified materials for 31 mobile training teams throughout the Pacific; ensured materials were packaged & transported by approved means or securely pre-positioned at site.Ensured 32 mobile training teams were able to provide intelligence training at 9 different locations throughout the Pacific; fiscally smart management of a travel budget of over $90K annually.Successfully executed unit's $1.4 million overall yearly budget-ensured efficient use funds.

System administrator for critical network providing 58 emergency action computer positions 24/7; positions represented every agency and were kept "war ready" to be activated during emergencies.Excellent crisis management skills demonstrated during 9/11; ensured base command center fully functional within minutes of first attack allowing direct communications with the Pentagon.Senior manager of administrative cell during initial 63 days after 9/11 ensured 24/7 operations; coordinated all administrative support to include coverage of 3 classified high-level briefings daily.While deployed to Kuwait, managed quarterly budget of $1.2M; lauded for his fiscal responsibility.

Bachelors, Criminal Justice; Terrorism/Counterterrorism

Associates Of Applied Science, Information Management