James Mendelson, Mbcp, Cem Email & Phone Number

Round Hill, Va, Us

Round Hill, Va, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

- Appointed under a re-organization to serve as the chief subject matter expert in mission resilience programs and the lead for the Intelligence Community (IC) mission resilience governance board and supporting committees and working groups. - Managed and collaborated corporate initiatives and activities with other directorates, centers and offices to ensure strategic alignment with the mission, goals, and objectives of the ODNI. - Coordinated tasking responses, work activities, assignments, and projects internal to the office, within the ODNI, and across the IC and which ensured the efficient and effective completion of initiatives, activities, and requirements. - Managed and led a programmatic data call where my analysis identified fourteen key findings in programmatic gaps leading to a strategic work plan from the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (PDDNI) to IC element heads that instituted significant change. - Worked across the IC to address a lack of engagement from IC element leaders on mission resilience initiatives and led IC-wide resilience oversight efforts, elevating IC continuity programs to the assistant secretary level. - Participated in a Leadership Symposium conducted by the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense where my comments on the future of the continuity profession were very well received.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

- Appointed to provide administrative and technical management of 2 supervisors and 4 personnel to lead IC elements in bringing their resilience programmatic functions back online post COVID-19 outbreak. IC oversight included policy, programs, and data science evaluation of: - - Crisis and emergency management mission areas of prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery. - - Business continuity strategies, continuity of government and continuity of operations. - Established a Deputies Executive Level (DEXCOM)-level Governance Board led by the PDDNI that established annual strategic goals for the IC elements to complete. The Governance Board included supporting IC committees that assign action items working groups that execute. For my efforts, I received personal recognition from the PDDNI and an Exceptional Performance Award citing my creative thinking and collaborative leadership. - Managed an exercise program that oversaw and leveraged current IC-wide training, exercise, and resilience governance programs to include best practices and lessons learned and aligned them to the Director of National Intelligence's (DNI) strategic objectives. - Recruited, hired, managed, rated, and reviewed the evaluation of personnel in coordination with Human Resource Management. - Managed formulation, programming, and execution of budget processes that involved crafting and coordinating 7600A Service Level Agreements (SLA), assisting in developing Basis Contracts Requests (BCR) to issue funding to the OGA/vendor, and reviewing 7600B Authority to spend documents to ensure all work was completed and services were provided in full.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

- Appointed by the ODNI Chief Operating Officer to provide administrative and technical management of an IC-wide task force of 3 managers, 5 supervisors, and 25 personnel to integrate and coordinate IC COVID-19 requirements, activities, and data/resource management to achieve unity of effort and effect on behalf of the Director of National Intelligence and Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence. - Recruited, hired, managed, rated, and reviewed the evaluation of personnel in coordination with Human Resource Management. - Managed formulation, programming, and execution of budget processes that involved crafting and coordinating 7600A Service Level Agreements (SLA), assisting in developing Basis Contracts Requests (BCR) to issue funding to the OGA/vendor, and reviewing 7600B Authority to Spend documents to ensure all work was completed and services were provided in full. - Developed a system that leveraged IT solutions to process sensitive IC element-wide COVID-19 data that included Personal Identifiable Information (Pll) that had to be coordinated with HRM and the Office of Civil Liberties, Privacy, and Transparency. - All Hazards ICS Incident Commander (Type 1) that coordinated COVID-19 mission area operations and resources over the eighteen federal jurisdictions (enterprise level) with the Intelligence Community: - - Developed and implemented operational management and transition plans for incident response and recovery; - - Delegated Management tasks by assigning objectives to Command and General Staff to fulfill mission areas;- - Approved all plans and operations outlined in the Incident Action Plans (IAP); - - Coordinated operations with multiple federal, state, and local first responders and public health officials; - - Ensured that all eighteen IC elements were responding to / recovering from the COVID-19 outbreak within their delegated authorities.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

- Competitively selected to provide administrative and technical management of 2 supervisors and 7 personnel executing and coordinating ODNI resilience programs that included mission resilience, data science and evaluation, communications/lT networks, cybersecurity and resource management: - Managed the emergency management mission areas of prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery. - Managed the business continuity mission functions of program initiation/ management, risk assessment, business process analysis/business impact analysis, business continuity strategies, continuity of operations, awareness/ training, exercises, and assessments. - As a Contracting Officer Technical Representative (COT R) I managed the formulation, programming, and execution of budget processes that involved crafting and coordinating 7600A Service Level Agreements (SLA), assisting in developing Basis Contracts Requests (BCR) to issue funding to the OGA/vendor, and reviewing 7600B Authority to Spend documents to ensure all work was completed and services were provided in full. - Represented a broader IC perspective on a hiring panel for a position that would manage a response program to joint-IC campuses in the Washington Metropolitan Area. Here, I worked with the other panel reps to select the best candidate, while championing the DNI l s IC-wide values and professional elements by highlighting applicants who demonstrated support of individual differences and diversity. My efforts resulted in a selectee who enhance the effectiveness of the program and build a team that reflected the values and diversity of the IC. - Awarded the Order of the Sword & Shield in 2018 for demonstrating master-level professional knowledge and career excellence.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

- Senior Intelligence Educator assigned to manage, coordinate, and execute educational programs, initiatives, requirements, training, and other opportunities; for a workforce of over 1000 employees. - Instructed analysis and tradecraft skills, firearms, tactics, active & defensive counter measures, first aid and ballistic injury mitigation, curriculum development, and site support logistics and resource management. - Managed formulation, programming, and execution of program management budget processes. - Received the Sherman Kent School of Analysis Award for Excellence for developing/delivering education to the CIA Directorate of Intelligence.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

- Assigned to manage a team of 5 supervisors, 65 employees, and 40 contractors that executed the 24/7 industrial security, law enforcement, emergency response, and access control operations of the largest CIA domestic facility. - Recruited, hired, managed, rated, and reviewed the evaluation of supervisors and personnel in coordination with Human Resources. - Managed formulation, programming, and execution of program management budget processes. - Developed a process that leveraged IT systems to track and record all security service requests and employee complaints that came in and the volume and types of tasks that my employees conducted. This information not only justified current manpower, it reinforced requests for additional staffing. - Received the CIA Director of Support Award for Outstanding Service in 2012, for demonstrating the ability to assume leadership of a problematic team, reduce operational expenses, and build a culture of diverse opinions and perspectives that increased productivity and morale while decreasing workforce complaints by 70%.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

- Law enforcement officer assigned to perform 24/7 industrial security, law enforcement, emergency response, protective operations, and access control. Performed the management of construction security-sensitive infrastructure projects, project security coordination and security reviews for projects, studies, and assessments. Managed security clearances and personnel suitability operations.- Served as Chief, Emergency Operations where I established and managed the emergency management and critical infrastructure protection program for CIA. - Served as the Business Continuity and FCD-1 Continuity of Operations Lead for the Office of Security. - Challenged with needing to provide high-risk security support to the execution of an ongoing operation without hindering collection results, I volunteered to develop and coordinate nontraditional methods that leveraged a risk-based list of priorities that the team could comfortably work within that maximized both safely and efficiency. For my efforts, I received personal recognition from the CIA Director of Operations and an Exceptional Performance Award citing my on-site leadership.- While providing high-risk security support to an ongoing operation, the program and location of our site came under media attention, and I was challenged with having to rapidly plan the unscheduled emergency evacuation of program participants. I worked with onsite-personnel, local embassy security, and at home senior leadership to develop and coordinate a plan that would quickly and quietly relocate personnel to an airport where a plane would immediately transport them. For my efforts, I received personal recognition from the CIA Director of Security and an Exceptional Performance Award citing my on-site leadership.

Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States

• Executed the emergency management mission areas of prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery for the local jurisdiction of Middlesex Borough, NJ. • Executed the response to and recovery from Category 4 hurricane Floyd, which triggered the fourth largest evacuation in US history.

Master Of Science (Ms), Engineering Management: Crisis, Emergency And Risk Management

I studied the management of crisis, disaster and risk from an engineering management perspective. Specifically, concepts in disaster.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Criminal Justice

At John Jay, I studied criminal justice procedure and law enforcement organizational leadership. Much of my focus involved studying.

Associate Of Science (As), Criminal Justice/Police Science

I studied Criminal Justice and Police Science.