Joe Finnegan Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Agent licensed to sell insurance through New York Life Insurance Company.

Washington, Dc

Provide business consulting services to start-up and growing small businesses. Assist in the development of strategic marketing, business strategy, and financial plans to facilitate the realization of business goals.

Responsible for corporate strategy, capture, marketing, customer relationship management, and client service for an organization that provides program management and technical consulting services to the Department of Defense and Defense Industry. Build, develop, and maintain client and partner relationships in support of corporate sales goals. Provide business strategy, marketing expertise, research support, and guidance to a diverse client base. Materially contributed to company growth of 500%. Directly responsible for the acquisition of new clients and product areas amounting to 30% of the company’s total work portfolio.

Opnav - Pentagon

Planned, managed, and provided resources to support achievement of all program goals for the nearly $1 Billion Fire Scout Unmanned Aerial System (UAS). Coordinated the integration of the first UAS designed to organically support a Navy surface ship. Developed operational strategies to incorporate UAS and helicopter systems in order to meet rigid manpower and training challenges. Routinely provided briefing materials to Congress, responded to congressional inquiries, and briefed congressional staffs regarding program status and statutory program mandates. Responsible for internal marketing of Fire Scout to Navy leadership and quantifying a nearly 50% increase in operational effectiveness and manpower savings of 47% associated with the incorporation of this unmanned system into the Navy arsenal. Oversaw a Research & Development and procurement budget in excess of $950M. Served as the Navy Unmanned Aerial System representative to the FAA, providing expertise to address challenges associated with UAS’ operations within civil airspace.

Mayport, Fl

Led a diverse 350+ person squadron responsible for providing fully trained pilots to fleet units. Directly responsible for operations, aircraft maintenance & quality assurance, training, safety, manpower, financial, and administrative functions, in support of a 13 aircraft helicopter squadron with a $24 million budget. During this tour, HSL-40 earned the CDR Theodore Ellyson award as the best Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS) in the Atlantic Fleet and the Atlantic Fleet Retention Excellence Award. HSL-40 led all Navy FRS’s in the on-time production of Fleet Replacement Pilots and Naval Aircrewmen.

Pentagon

Hand selected for this highly desirable Joint assignment to provide direct decision support to officials at the highest levels of the U.S. Government, including personal briefings for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and members of Congress. Routinely produced complex briefing packages for the President of the United States. Led the effort to revitalize the decayed infrastructure within the alternate National Military Command Center. Following the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, led a team that established fully functional command and control capability in under 4 hours. Personally developed the Air Defense Plan that facilitated reopening of US civil airspace following September 11th. This plan enabled the resumption of commercial air travel less than 96 hours after the attack. The basic precepts of this plan are still in use.

Mayport, Fl

Leader of a 175 person aircraft maintenance department with a globally dispersed workforce. Responsible for overall management of all departmental functions. Effectively manned, trained, equipped, and provided logistics support for multiple globally deployed teams.

Pentagon

Coordinated and executed visits of senior foreign defense officials to include Secretary of Defense & Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff equivalents. Facilitated international marketing and Foreign Military Sales efforts of numerous large scale defense contractors and government agencies.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Ba, Economics

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