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Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Head of unique team that defends the annual USAF budget and shapes future financial investment decisions in a high-visibility and rapidly changing environment. Focal point who evaluates, prioritizes, and integrates.
• Defense Budget and Programming: Commands an extensive knowledge of Department of Defense contracting solutions, ranging from Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programs to Programs of Records in the SPPBE.
• Strategic Communications: Crafts compelling narratives that weaves the national security vision into messaging, successfully defending the necessity of proposed modernization investments to the Secretary of Defense.
• Congressional Engagements: Directs the USAF’s Congressional budget engagements by fusing strategic messaging and preparing senior leaders for posture hearings, resulting in $2B of additional funding from Congress
• Partnership Development: Builds cross-functional teams of investment portfolio experts, fostering consensus on challenging decisions amid a $12B reduction in budget. The team produced a coherent, functional.

Shaw AFB, SC

• Vice President-equivalent role with full finance and operational responsibility for delivering 80K hours of surveillance, intelligence, and weather support to senior military leaders. Led 120 military and civilian.
• Creative Problem Solving: Won $1.8M in grants to invest in Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) technologies including simulators and virtual reality headsets that increased realistic flight training for new pilots by 400%.
• Organizational Leadership: Orchestrated a comprehensive restructuring from a dated cold war model into high performing, multidisciplinary teams which resulted in over 90% improvement in key performance indicators
• Customer Engagement: Regularly met with supported organizations around the globe to evaluate and differentiate mission effectiveness; successfully changed policies and regulations to increase scope and impact of.
• Team Building: Oversaw the recruitment, hiring, training, development, and evaluation of multidisciplinary teams while fostering an award-winning culture of belonging and inclusion
• DE&I Leadership/Workforce Culture: Awarded Air Combat Command’s DE&I Team of the Year Award and Air Combat Command’s General Vaught Visionary Leadership Award (#1 of 94K) for exhibiting innovation, commitment, and.

Developed and executed the base’s innovation strategy, overseeing $1.5M investments in workplace culture and emerging tech solutions, developing AI/ML and cloud use cases, and aligning strategies with overall mission goals while fostering a culture of continuous improvement

Creech AFB, NV

Served as strategic advisor to the base commander, overseeing communications and workflow, providing oversight and quality control for $74M in contracts, and leading stakeholder engagements across 20 organizations serving 4K people. Coordinated with OSD, Jt Air Staff, ACC, Nellis AFB, and coalition and mission partners on all combat issues.

• I had the honor of being hand-selected to lead the inaugural DefenseVentures Fellowship at Andreessen Horowitz, where I collaborated with a team of military leaders embedded in Silicon Valley Venture Capital Firms..
• Investment Strategy: Formulated comprehensive Go-To-Market strategy for the Department of Defense, demystifying the government funding process to enable market penetration, diversification, and increased revenue growth.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Policy Implementation: Acted as a pivotal liaison between the Department of Defense COVID19 Task Force and venture capital firms, engaging with 75 startups and tech companies to filter.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Provided key advisory support to the Board as sole military liaison, specializing in emerging technologies, AI/ML, big data, and workforce culture.The mission of the Board is to examine and provide the Secretary of Defense and the Deputy Secretary of Defense independent advice and recommendations on innovative means to address future challenges in terms of.

11th Reconnaissance Squadron

11 Reconnaissance Squadron

1 Launch and Recovery deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom

3 Deployments in support of Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom

Mps, Strategic Public Relations

Design Thinking For Innovative Problem Solving Certificate

Mba

Bs, Foreign Area Studies

Activities and Societies: - Cadet Group Commander - Japanese National Defense Academy Exchange Program - Intercollegiate Swimming and.

Defense Ventures Fellow

Education record

Education record