Joshua Liles Email & Phone Number

Tampa, Florida

Embedded program manager at US Special Operations Command managing a broad defense acquisition portfolio. Specific projects include medical diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, public health infrastructure, and emerging science and technology interfacing with DARPA, U.S. National Research Labs, academia, and Department of Defense research facilities to provide equipment to Special Operations Forces across the globe.

Various Domestic And International

Project management:

IT system development. Two year project developing a portal integrating multiple information sources into a geospatial interface to support military deployment planning and public health risk assessment. Fully integrated agile program management increasing development and fielding of an IT system 24 months faster than the average.
Logistics and readiness. Seven years focused on supply chain management, maintenance, and readiness in domestic and international regions. Maintained and increased equipment, personnel, and organizational readiness through adaptive planning and system design approaches.

Operations. Five years focused on operational management and organizational training. Planned and supervised 20+ engagements across 15 countries between US military and foreign military units promoting international partnership and developing and fostering foreign partnerships. Directly supported humanitarian assistance and disaster relief in Port-au-Prince Haiti following the 2010 earthquake and Indonesia and Sri Lanka following the 2004 tsunami.

Program management:

CBRN Defense focused over three years integrating all training, defense acquisition, Human Resources and talent management, and operational planning projects under a single unified strategy combining resources and consolidating services where necessary.

Consulting:

Logistics, CBRN Defense, Training Design and Management, Organizational Readiness, and Medical Care. Final two years providing expertise to the Commanding General (CEO-level) as a senior advisor. Developed scenarios and exercises to train and evaluate a 9000-person Military organization to support crisis response. Provided opinion and guidance to support organizational strategy.

Tampa, Florida

****Included in Marine Corps work history****


Program elements included defense acquisition projects, medical devices, information technology, training and certification, operational planning and crisis response, product life-cycle management, strategy and modernization, business analysis, and risk management comprised of 11 internal departments with 20 managers, five external program management offices and three major external stakeholders. Total value exceeded $100 million.

In addition to managing the program:

Served as the US Project Manager for a multinational Department of Defense project partnership. Achieved budget and cost savings over $7MM by optimizing seven unique tasks utilizing existing overhead and schedule slack advancing multiple research and development projects by more than 12 months. Internationally recognized for exceptional leadership and commitment.

Served as acquisition project manager for an information technology cloud-based portal. Delivered initial capability in 24 months, a full 36 months ahead of benchmark programs, by transitioning from waterfall development to Agile project management. I communicated with the development team through sprint planning and sprint reviews, prioritized customer stories and features for the development team, documented changing customer needs through user feedback sessions, marketed capability to external stakeholders who would adopt follow-on iterations to meet their organizations needs, and encouraged the adoption of an agile project management mindset across the entire program office. Lessons learned were documented and incorporated into three additional information technology projects.

Master Of Science - Ms, Project Management

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Emergency And Disaster Management

Level I, Project Management

DAWIA Level I Program Management

Pmp, Project Management

Training for PMP test in August

Level Ii, Program Management

Level Iii, Program Management, Program Management