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United States

Sumter, South Carolina Area

Shaw Afb, Sumter

• Leads a 58 military/contractor staff to provide 24/7 technical support for $250M network at a 99.99% uptime for more than 76K deployed Air Force personnel while tracking all Authorized Service Interruption for USAFCENT’s Area of Responsibility• Directs and coordinates the prioritization of the US Air Force Central Command’s (USAFCENT) network by evaluating project plans, cost estimates, timelines and monitoring project status• Develops/builds project status reports & briefs for current/future projects to senior officers and stakeholders inside and outside of USAFCENT• Ensures USAFCENT compliance with all DoD/Air Force policies & network standards• Train and mentor junior officers while motivating them to take positive action and responsibility for their assigned tasks• Identifies/resolves issues and conflicts for 17 Expeditionary Communications Squadrons and several Geographically Separated Units • Deployed/led standup of $3M Air Force communications network at Kabul AB which delivered back-up capability for Combined Forces Air Component Commander (3 Star)• Directs and manages Network Operation & Security Center which handles over 400 trouble-tickets per month from initiation to resolution. Follows up with users to ensure requirements are met• Directs USAFCENT Cyber defenses/Info Assurance program; protects against thousands of insider/outsider malicious threats; implements network defense and metric collection• Maintains state of the art network monitoring tools to track circuit status in order to quickly devise contingency plans for network outage resolution

Shaw Afb, Sumter

• Managed division of 41 military, civilian and contractors while proactively managing $400M budget• Led communications directorate to its first year of “no interest penalties” on invoices which saved Air Force over $300K in charges• Directed coalition interoperability operations with South West Asia partners and provided Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems subject matter expertise• Performed duties for US Central Command & USAFCENT Single Service Postal manager for theater postal operations by providing administrative supervision and policy guidance to 70+ APOs, 320K personnel, spanning 40 countries• Oversaw resource management, manpower, computer security (COMSEC) accounts, computer equipment accounts, Freedom Of Information Act request, Knowledge Management and Standards & Evaluation

Tinker Afb, Oklahoma City

• Managed 211 military, civilian, and contract programmers/analysts supporting the Air Force's $9.6B Airborne Warning and Control Systems (AWACS) fleet• Oversaw software test lab upgrade by organizing civilian engineer’s focus on risk reduction enabling the $2B software upgrade AWACS program• Deployed to fill senior communicator position (J6) for the Special Operations Command & Control Element in the Horn of Africa• Led 10 person team, managed $6M Special Operations Forces tactical networks and executed its $1M computer replacement project

Masters Of Science, Management

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science