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Lexington Park, Maryland

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Provide senior project management of the planning and execution of the Army’s, multi-billion dollar, tactical network modernization for 2014 and 2015; entrusted with the synchronization and prioritization of executive.
• Conducted cross-functional coordination between multiple senior level and external agencies to ensure requirements compliance, adherence to timelines, and de-confliction / resolution of short notice budgetary and.
• Lead the Plans and Execution branch in support of the Army’s Capability Set Fielding; the modernized tactical network from the division level to the Soldier level, integrating terrestrial and satellite network.
• Utilized the Agile process and KanBan throughout the SDLC, emphasizing resource requirements, scheduling and production development, risk analysis, and fiscal responsibility from project identification to project.
• Developed and manage distributed collaboration capabilities to address the change management and configuration management adjustments that had to be established due to sequestration and governmental budget adjustments.
• Coordinated with multiple vendors and material providers to ensure production, integration, testing, and budget schedules remain within approved constraints.

Ft. Drum, NY

• Logistics operations manager of a major international logistical port (multi-modal) located in Afghanistan, supporting over 10 nations and 50,000 military forces with vital supplies.
• Sustainment Automation Support Management Officer for the 10th Mountain Division by providing analysis, technical guidance, and resolution for Logistics Information Systems (LIS); to include acquisition planning.
• Coordinated over $6M of industrial infrastructure improvement projects designed to increase port productivity while decreasing the processing time for imported and exported goods throughout the port by 11%.
• Conducted business and system analysis on logistical operations at the Port of Hairatan, resulting in savings to the Afghanistan government of over $50M annually in service, usage, and demurrage fees.
• Tracked and monitored the movement of supplies from the United States, across various routes throughout Europe and Asia utilizing active and passive RFID tracking devices and scanning systems.
• Developed 80 military and civilian personnel from five separate organizations into a cohesive team focused on tracking and facilitating the movement of all logistical supplies entering the country to support all ISAF.

Izmir, Turkey

• Overall communications manager, supporting the NATO Air headquarters in Izmir, Turkey with all network transport systems, messaging systems, and nuclear communication systems.
• Utilized Bandwidth Management Equipment (BME), SCREAM, and Packet Transfer Command (PTC) to control all routing, switching, messaging, and nuclear communications supporting a primary HQ and emergency hot site.
• Merged over 20 senior level technicians from 8 countries into a cohesive network management team at two separate locations supporting over 500 users.
• Reduced the unplanned messaging outages by 90% through identification of the systemic root causes of the system failures and served as the project manager to relocate the system to a secured emergency hot site.
• Coordinated Role Based Access Control (RBAC), authentication, and privileged access for the management of all NATO transport systems supporting the Air HQ at Izmir, Turkey.
• Chairman of the Configuration Management Board (CMB), ensuring all hardware and software systems were consistent across their performance, function, and interoperability within operational network throughout its.

Ft. Hood, TX

• Primary manager of all communications, information systems, and information security utilized throughout the organization, supporting operational, training, and planning efforts.
• Constructed and deployed Enterprise services consisting of Microsoft Servers, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft IIS, WSUS, VMWare virtualization, file and print servers, and network attached.
• Leveraged Solar Winds Network Monitoring tools to manage network utilization and identify potential throughput choke points before they became a problem across the network.
• Planned, implemented and maintained a mesh voice and data network in the National Capital Region to support homeland defense and protection of national assets.
• Integration of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities from four divergent organizational platforms and technologies into one cohesive network.
• Planning, implementing and maintaining the first-ever tactical Air Defense radio network in the National Capital Region to support homeland defense and protection of national.

Associate Of Science - As, Turf And Turfgrass Management

Bs, Information Systems Management

Education record

CISSP PMP (PMBOK) Advanced Tactical Networking Digital Leader Planning and Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Planning and.