John Boland, Mssi, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Springfield, Virginia, United States

Springfield, Va

SETA support to DoD

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Springfield, Virginia

- Advanced acquisition of commercial GEOINT data across the Intelligence Community through standing up and running business operations for the Commercial GEOINT Working Group of the Geospatial-Intelligence Committee. - Initiated contact with potential sponsors for an assessment of commercial Radio Frequency geolocation services resulting in accelerating the project timeline by at least one month.- Established business processes to improve the efficiency of information flow in the division by 50% resulting in increased time for core operations.

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Springfield, Va

- Demonstrated consistent leadership excellence recognized by selection for NGA Field Grade Officer of the Quarter for 1st Quarter, CY 2017 and Source Directorate Field Grade Officer of the Year for CY 2018.- Led pioneering effort to shape a ~$70 million program to make motion imagery from FMV, MTI, and WAMI as easy to use and exploit as still imagery leading to major efforts to increase data capacity, leverage automation, and develop improved tools.- Completed a 5-year, $6.7 million project to enable “fortuitous bonusing” of airborne imagery to satisfy national-level collection requirements resulting in a demonstrated 67% improvement in collection efficiency over legacy tasking methods of heavily-tasked space-based sensors in high-competition areas of interest.- Helmed innovative solutions to increase the capacity and speed of moving data around complex architectures to get information to analysts faster, decreasing production timelines and increasing key intelligence questions answered.- Drove emergency activation of 15 critical FMV feeds that accelerated an increase from 16 hours/day to 110 hours/day of FMV collect in critical areas of Syria and Iraq and enabled better NGA support to Operation INHERENT RESOLVE.- Directed movement of over 900 TB of WAMI data from secret-level libraries to commercial cloud services which increased accessibility to analysts and resulted in customers receiving vital missions one month faster than the previous process. - Orchestrated physical transfer of US Navy RQ-4 imagery from Navy archives after a break in data transmission; uploaded 602 images of an important adversary exercise and moved up analytic production by at least a week according to the project lead.- Oversaw numerous successful initiatives to share airborne imagery with FVEY and NATO partners.

Office Of The Deputy Chief Of Staff, G-2, Pentagon

- Revised and improved Priority Intelligence Requirements approved by the Army Chief of Staff that enabled policy and operational decisions by senior Army leadership. - Briefed the Secretary of the Army and Army Chief of Staff on current intelligence developments, providing decision advantage to command at the highest levels of the Army during developing crises in Ukraine, Syria, the Sinai Peninsula, and other conflict areas.- Rapidly gathered information on numerous terrorist attacks in Europe; enabled senior leaders and staff to begin crisis management actions within hours to ensure the safety of Army personnel and shape US policy response.- Hired two reserve captains to fill key active duty operational support vacancies that excelled as watch officers and provided valuable contributions to the mission.

Joint Staff J2, Pentagon

- Supported NJOIC crisis response to Russian aggression, coordinating multi-INT collection operations leading in increased US and NATO ISR operations in eastern Europe. - Successfully provided NJOIC staff advanced warning of foreign test and operational missile launches and ensured collection assets were in place to close critical intelligence gaps on missile capabilities.

Defense Intelligence Agency, Washington, Dc

- Selected over peers to serve as acting branch chief to complete a major reorganization of the branch that supported collection requirements for four analytic divisions. - Coordinated successful collection of missile and nuclear activity in North Korea resulting in successful numerous key intelligence questions answered.- Implemented a collection strategy process to improve collection capacity for Asia-related targets.- Successfully supported US forces deploying for relief operations after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan by anticipating requests and pre-coordinating collection- Constructed and presented over 20 daily intelligence briefings to DIOCC two-star director, enabling timely decisions to allocate ISR and collection assets globally.

National Intelligence University, Washington, Dc

11Th Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Irwin, Ca; Mosul, Iraq

- Selected to command two units - the Air Defense Battery and a Tank Company.- Led engagement of the Nineveh Provincial Council to support rebuilding projects in Tal Afar after a major combat operation to remove insurgents from the city resulting in reinstallation of civic government and restoration of order.- Conducted tough Opposing Force operations that trained units from over 20 brigades in counter-insurgency operations, enabling success of “The Surge” campaign in Iraq.- Executed the Regiment’s first Stinger live fire exercise in two years, destroying 7 of 8 aerial targets, and completing all training objectives for the battery.- Successfully trained all tank crews on Table VIII gunnery tasks, qualifying 100% of crews to maintain deployable status, twice personally leading the highest scoring tank crew.

4Th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Tx; Bayji, Iraq

- Tank Platoon Leader for 22 months; selected to be Executive Officer of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, the largest company in the battalion.- Platoon’s superior equipment readiness and weapons qualifications led to selection over other platoons to assume important duty as the tank platoon for the FORSCOM Immediate Ready Company, prepared to deploy globally in less than 24 hours.- Orchestrated the deployment of over 60 vehicles from Fort Hood, TX to Kuwait and a tactical convoy of over 300 miles into Iraq with over 90% operational readiness, enabling the armored battalion to successfully seize and secure Bayji.

Graduate Certificate, China Intelligence Studies, 3.95 Gpa

Study focused on the history and current developments of Chinese political, military, and economic drivers of Chinese grand strategy.

Graduate Certificate, Military Strategic Intelligence, 3.95 Gpa

Studied tradecraft for indications and warning analysis, as well as political, military, and economic factors contributing to early.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Strategic Intelligence, 3.88 Gpa

Activities and Societies: - Focused study on US intelligence analysis of the Yugoslav Wars, 1991-1999. - Concurrently completed.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Military History, 3.3 Gpa

- Major in Military History with emphasis on American warfare from the Mexican War thru the Vietnam War. - Minor in mechanical engineering.