- New Horizons Learning Center Business Administration : PMP Certification, LSS GB Certification, ITIL Certification, MAED Adult Education, iTeach Texas Alternative Teacher Certification

As a valued member of a specialized professional authentic leadership consulting firm, assist in the conduct of balanced readiness seminars at the US Army School of Command Preparedness (PCC) and individualized executive level leadership coaching. Interpret, analyze, reflect, and provide succinct personalized feedback to Battalion and Brigade Level Command Sergeants Major using proprietary True Growth® Authentic Leadership 360°introspective/interpersonal assessments survey. The True Growth® Authentic Leadership 360°, a psychometric assessment that synthesizes a multi-source feedback survey to collect introspective viewpoints about a leader's performance from a wide range of team members. Personally, conducted over 80 executive level authentic leadership coaching session, focusing on seven core competencies of leadership skills and twenty-five individual behaviors. Assist executive leaders filling Command Sergeants Major billets in Active, National Guard and Reserves components to embrace the transformational power of authenticity to improve themselves and the lives they touch. Provide assistance in shaping and ultimately implementing a positive work/life balance through interactive conversation, collaborative exchange of experienced practices, and provided references for inquiry-based learning. Personal confidante for leaders, advising on management, leadership challenges; provide follow up and advise on whatever management and leadership challenges they face.

Perform emergency management duties, primarily supports the organization's Emergency Preparedness and Natural Disaster Programs. Primary planner and principle coordination lead for annual installation/community all hazards emergency management full scale exercise. Primary planner for three-year emergency management training cycle, directly coordinating, planning and facilitating the implementation of discussion-based seminars and work shop as well as operational based functional exercises, drills, and full-scale exercise. Facilitated planning conferences using hybrid exercise development processes of Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Program (HSEEP) and Military Decision-Making Process (MDMP). Actively partnered and coordinated with state and county emergency management coordinators to enhance regional emergency management program. Established an installation emergency management working group that included community partners, primary installation directorate emergency management coordinators, and tenant mission organizations. The working group recertified incident management response annexes that support the installation all hazards plan and validated a T-P-U Report of the new (27) USAG Installation Core Capabilities supported by the National Preparedness Goal and AR 525-27. Coordinate actions with Federal, state and local emergency management agencies to ensure response and operations plans meet the requirements of the USAG Incident Response OPLAN (All Hazards Emergency Management Plan). Initiated a community profile that provides a one source research reference for historical floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, storms, and manmade disasters which include installation mapping product that are cyclically used for EOC Functional Exercises and Directorate specific training drill.

Personally, develop comprehensive relocation briefings for military personnel and their families. Coordinated for, developed lesson plans and curriculum for a 150-minute workshop, and teach an adult learning sponsor mentorship workshop. The workshop applied adult learning principles, mastery learning theory, various academic and evidence based instructional strategies and methods of instruction. Develop specialized family services for families of deployed soldiers and/or bi-cultural families where English is a second language. Directly coordinated with the Central Texas College English Second Language course provided insights and feedback on adult education ESL objectives and formative assessment tools to develop personally reliable English language skills. Lead planner and operational coordinator for installation Army Community Service (ACS) Monthly Naturalization Citizenship Ceremony. Personally, coordinated with United States Citizenship Immigration Services (USCIS) in San Antonio, Texas, USAG Fort Hood Directorates, and III Corps senior mission leadership in planning and executing this large scale complex ceremony, enhancing the combat readiness and power projection capability of the installation. Publicize available services through post newspaper, radio announcements, and fliers for families. Conduct surveys to evaluate specific information or services for relocating personnel. Develop lesson plans for workshops targeted for transitioning military families returning from overseas tours to better integrate into the local community and installation.

Provide high quality interactive classroom instruction at a private Christian academy as a middle school teacher. Taught approximately 35 students, at the 6th, 7th and 8th Grade levels. Personally planned, coordinated and implemented classroom management plan for approximately 35 students in five different classes. Facilitated effectively a classroom management plan that academically focused students who are in a transformative complex and challenging adolescent age group to achieve academic success. Daily developed learner centered lesson plans for the following; Mathematics, Life Science, Earth Science, Special Topics Science Elective, and English Language Arts for students from 6th through 8th Grade. On a weekly basis coordinated, planned and implemented testing for content knowledge development using Microsoft office software (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), and cross referenced five different lesson curriculum data bases in middle school mathematics and science class presentation standards. Counseled students individually on their academic progress and how it ties into being accepted into higher learning at the undergraduate level, additionally counseled on higher learning preparedness.

Actively participate, teach, and facilitate an outcomes-based learning model that is part of a transformative initiative within the US Army to develop 21st Century Soldier Competencies. Assisted TRADOC Center of Excellence staff and faculty incorporate adult education methodology of deliberate constructivist, building upon prior knowledge approach. The focus enhanced mastery of knowledge, skills and intangible attributes through outcome statement development that fused the primary learning domains (affective, cognitive and psychomotor) with Blooms revised six levels of category mastery (remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating). Teaching and facilitation experience includes molding an outcome statement and subsequent designing perceptual learning intelligences (visual, audio, and kinesthetic) activities that ultimately support a formative assessment rubric design to help learners truly develop with feedback based on observed behavior.Applied educational methodologies that enhance and influenced independent learning, using research from Universal Design for Learning, Differentiated Instructional Strategies, Understanding by Design, Curriculum Based Assessment, Pedagogical Content Knowledge. Created formative rubric assessment tools that enable clarity of academic progress, see attachment for assessing a students adaptability, teamwork, navigation, small arms fire, and communications within M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle Sections, Squads & Platoons.

• Senior enlisted advisor to NATO Headquarters Commanding General, directly coordinated and executed organizational and strategic level leadership tasks. • Managed through providing guidance and direct influence of subordinate commands the training, development and sustainability of Afghanistan National Security Forces; National Army, National/Regional & Local Police, Air-Force, and Special Operations Forces that numbered in excess of 350,000 indigenous security force members.• Supervised indigenous security force training curriculum and established advisor/mentor training programs with direct oversight of 5,000 multi-national trainers from 38 countries, 2,100 Indigenous Trainers, and over 3,500 US Military, DoD and Contracted logistics, quality management, human resource and support personnel in support of national defense requirements.• Managed the daily training of 28,000 students at; 79 training sites, 12 specialty qualification schools, distributed across 7 Regional Training Commands• Principle chairperson of an executive steering group that developed an Afghanistan National Army Wounded Warrior Program, Coordinated the execution in hosting 15 executive level international conferences and strategic leader theater visits, in addition provided dynamic insights as principled guest speaker at senior multi-international leadership conferences.

• Senior enlisted advisor to Commanding General of US Army Operational & Training Installation Headquarters that directed military power projection and power generation capability, daily coordinated and executed organizational and strategic level leadership tasks that directly impacted the US Army readiness that focused on Brigade Combat Teams being prepared for full spectrum operation in the Global War on Terrorism.• Managed through organizational supervision, shared guidance and direct influence that provided training preparedness and sustainment of eight brigade size organizations that crossed four Army level strategic commands, with a total force and support structure including family members that number approximately 40,000. • Provided critical advice and recommendations to senior subordinate commanders, senior executive staff officer and civilian directorates with a focus on morale, organizational transformation, doctrine, engaged leadership and professional ethics. • Coordinated directly with local and state elected leadership that resulted in eight large scale community relations based events that enhanced the military and civilian activities to integrate superb future community support for deploying soldiers and their family members. Fostered an interpersonal relationship between military and civilian organization through guest speaking that included state level organization as well as senior military leadership mentorship program.

Senior Executive/Advisor (Brigade Command Sergeant Major) Senior Enlisted Advisor/E9) to Brigade Command Level Chief Executive Officer (Brigade Commander, CEO) in First Cavalry Division; directly responsible for the combat skills preparedness training, professional military development, and family service readiness of over 4,800 Soldiers, Department of the Army civilians, Department of Defense civilians, contractors, and their family members. Provided advisory, consultation, and experienced insights on combat deployment/redeployment to Brigade Commander and Principle Staff through detailed analyzing of mission operations orders, fragmentation orders, and defined theater operations plans. Assisted the Brigade Executive Officer (XO) and Operations Officer (S3) refined the Brigade Combat Teams understanding of the assigned deployment/redeployment taskings and aligning the most efficient essential units to complete required tasks. Provided direct management guidance to Rear Detachment especially focusing on high to medium risk financially challenged families. Provided senior level mentorship in financial preparedness of financial “at risk families”, which included the incorporating the insights of subordinate command financial readiness specialist and their respective Rear Detachment senior leadership within the organization (Brigade). Intimately engaged in advising and consulting between rear-detachments and forward deployed commanders on wounded soldiers, fallen soldiers and the notification process for wounded soldiers or fallen Service Members, personally addressed families on an individual basis to determine their individual needs and other referrals. Personally participated in Gold Star Family survivor outreach opportunities with family members of fallen soldiers, expressing our unit’s deepest condolences, heartfelt appreciation, and followed up with assisting with any needs, concerns or challenges.

• Senior executive/adviser to CEO of US Army Installation Garrison Headquarters directly coordinated and executed organizational and strategic level leadership tasks.• Managed through direct influence of subordinate organizations, providing recommendation to the installation senior executive to ensure effective efficiency of 7 Primary Directorates and their efforts to support an installation community of 57,000 Soldiers; 10,000 civilian employees; 75,000 family members.• Chaired or principle adviser for various meetings and boards to include Family Action Council, Community Action Council, Juvenile Review Board, Risk Management Review Board, Safety Council, and Sexual Assault Review Board, Strategic Planning and Contingency Working Group • Served as lead adviser to senior installation executive leaders in managing installation directorates; Resource Management; Logistics; Family Morale Welfare Recreation ; Public Works; Human Resources; Information Management; Public Affairs; and Plans, Training, Mobilization and Security• Served as lead adviser to senior installation executive leadership in formulation of installation strategic planning; analyzed, planned, and conducted extensive coordination, regarding various highly complex projects associated with installation management. • Established and continued to foster a close liaison with the surrounding Central Texas communities and independent school district, develop a close working relationship with federal and state agencies in support of real world crisis events that impacted Fort Hood and the entire state of Texas.

Served as Senior Advisor (Battalion Command Sergeant Major/E9) in Airborne Infantry Battalion, responsible for advising the Senior Executive (Battalion Commander) on all enlisted employee matters. Led and trained unit members (approximately 700) to plan and conduct combat operations with multiple subordinate units (approximately 15 different locations) across 800+ square kilometers. Supervised deployment, reception, staging, onward movement and integration from Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, Italy to into Paktika, Afghanistan. Integrally involved in the design, development and implementation of combat skills training programs for all personnel that ultimately saved lives and ensured mission success on over 800 combat missions. Widely regarded as most respected professional and competent noncommissioned officer in unit. Directly supervised, mentored, and managed assignment and professional growth of over 150 senior noncommissioned officers. Served as the primary focal point of subject matter expertise for the Battalion Executive Officer, Battalion Operations Officer, and Staff principles in developing training policy and special skill qualification programs. Interfaced directly Battalion, Brigade Staff, and Joint Multinational Training Command in preparing combat readiness training center objectives based on individual deployment locations and unit mission taskings. Actively engaged as a senior advisor in the combat deployment after action review process identifying capability gaps that would impact future combat readiness posture. Through the use of stakeholder response analysis, prioritization, and continuous stakeholder management, we develop an 80-hour M240 Machinegun Leaders Course. Directly coordinated, planned, scheduled ranges in another country (Germany), transported and trained 15 three-man M240B Machinegun crews. This action increased unit lethality, readiness and ultimately saved countless lives during the next combat deployment to Afghanistan.