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Huntsville, Al, Us

Redstone Arsenal, Al, Us

Huntsville, Alabama, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Designs, develops, and delivers transformational capability to ensure Army Aviation maintains the Army’s asymmetrical advantage over peer adversaries in 2030 and beyond.● Serves as FVL CFT deputy director for support, operations, and strategic communications; manages daily operations, organizational support requirements, and external engagements.● Provides critical input to strategic planning, process analysis, technology assessments, and integration of initiatives across all FVL signature modernization efforts.● Leads diverse team in developing future Army assault, medical evacuation, reconnaissance, and attack manned and unmanned systems to deliver lethal and non-lethal effects.● Provides oversight of FVL user evaluations, experimentations, and demonstrations to inform materiel, organization, training, and sustainment requirements for future aviation systems.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Arlington, Virginia, Us

US Army Holistic Aviation Assessment Task Force (HAATF)Review all aspects of Army Aviation focused on leadership, readiness, training, maintenance, and sustainment policy and resources to ensure Aviation forces are capable of operating in complex environments around the globe.● Appointed by the Chief of Staff of the Army to conduct a comprehensive assessment of Army Aviation; provided 63 far reaching recommendations to improve aviation operations.● Developed framework for the Aviation Maintainer Training Program that has since been implemented Army wide leveraging experiential learning for training aviation mechanics.

Fort Eustis, Virginia, Us

Recruits, trains, educates, develops, and builds the Army; establishes standards, drives improvement, and leads change to ensure the Army can fight and win on any battlefield now and into the future. ● Spearheaded the integration of a standardized progressive and sequential leadership education model for the Army’s Noncommissioned Officer Corps. ● Strong communicator; led multiple working groups comprised of active-duty Army, National Guard, and Reserve stakeholders transforming more than 200 programs of instruction.● Authored a comprehensive leader development strategy outlining a strategic framework for an integrated professional development system for the US Army’s 390,000 NCOs.

Fort Novosel, Al, Us

Develops agile and adaptive Army Aviation professionals, while integrating aviation capabilities across the aviation enterprise, enabling commanders and Soldiers on the ground to fight and win.● Served as senior enlisted leader of the US Army Aviation branch providing initial skills training, continuing education, and career management for over 50,000 aviation personnel.● Coordinated a comprehensive re-design of the aviation enlisted training and education curriculum improving the learning outcomes of 15,000 maintenance technicians.● Provided critical input into the Aviation Restructure Initiative principally focused on the impacts to personnel and how best to convert military occupational specialties to facilitate changes.● Identified critical requirements for unmanned aircraft systems and associated personnel gaining marked efficiencies in areas of maintenance and training.

Riley, Kansas, Us

On order delivers aviation capabilities spanning air movement, medical evacuation, re-supply, attack, and reconnaissance through manned and unmanned aerial systems in support of ground maneuver commanders.● Led an organization with over 5,500 employees operating and maintaining more than 250 aircraft conducting training missions throughout the U.S. and combat operations while deployed overseas.● Trained and resourced five subordinate organizations to conduct aviation operations and integrated two additional battalions into the brigade while deployed to Iraq. ● Provided senior level leadership, management, and oversight of several disparate units in 17 different locations while creating a climate of trust throughout the organization.

Master Of Science (Ms), Leadership

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), History

Strategic Leadership Seminar