Ensuring the Navy's budget is guided by the national strategy and not the other way around.Works within a five person team that assists senior leadership with aligning the Navy's future spending budget with the current guiding national and Navy strategy documents.- Assists senior leadership with aligning the Navy's future spending budget (POM) with the current overarching national strategy documents.- Provide strategic analysis of the Navy's Program Objective Memorandum (POM)- Involved in the creation, proofreading, and editing of documents for Congress, the Chief of Naval Operations, and other principle leaders.- Active participant for 0-6 and Flag/SES reviews for R3B support of every Navy program within the JCIDS process with a focus on their relevance to the Navy Strategy and National goals.- Represented N7 principle leadership at Navy JCIDS Gate reviews and P2P forums.- Completed training and awarded certification for DAU Requirements Manager Level C- Member of the OPNAV Cyber Resiliency Oversight Working Group (CROWG)- Working experience, knowledge, and understanding of the PPBE process.- Completed (PPBE) Planning, Programming, Budgeting & Execution Class Overview- Knowledge and understanding of the JCIDS process and requirements development.- Working experience with PBIS to include completion of Program Budget Information Systems (PBIS) - Overview course and 2 years of PBIS user experience.- Strong verbal and written communications skills with the ability to provide advice to senior Navy and DoD leadership.- Experience in the development of high-level briefs, instructions and policy memos.- Active responder within the OPNAV TV5 tasker system- Earned Agile: DoD Team Member credential.

Directs Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection Program for a carrier strike group. Coordinates the protection of 9000 active duty sailors, $23 million in assets, and ten ships geographically spread across four west coast locations and three states.Leading a team of professionals that plan and the Navy’s involvement in 2017 Portland Rose Festival and Seattle Sea Fair. In Portland, achieved a 50% increase in number of visitors touring US Navy ships during Fleet Week from the previous year by early identification and correction of inefficiencies in the process. Program Management. Plan, coordinate and deliver a training program that prepares 11 distinct organizations, each with unique requirements, to be recognized as ready to deploy by the required date.

Described by leadership as “visionary;” wrote multiple papers, plans, and requirements documentation that guided the course for a community of 16 squadrons and 4800 personnel. My ideas and leadership resulted in preserving a community of electronic warfare operators, advancing a prototype unmanned aerial vehicle to production, and transitioning electronic warfare capabilities to new Navy platforms.Program Management Oversight. Provided operational focused oversight in multiple overseas working groups that produced the steps to reach operational testing of a new platform.

Operations Officer, Admin Officer, Director of Operations, Deployed Officer-In-Charge (OIC)As the Operations Officer / Director of Operations, I simultaneously coordinated aviation operations for 237 personnel in 4 Area of Operations around the world. I was responsible for a $7.5 million training, travel and operations budget that was executed with 99.5% accuracy from projections to actualization. I was fortunate have the latitude to innovate and made multiple efficiency improvements that led to better use of time and resources in the air both operationally and in training by using customized computer software tools.I also led the Wing Operations Working Group through planning and execution of all Wing Operations (4 squadrons) during a two month airfield closure. During this period of remote operations, we maintained 100% of our pilot training goals while operating with less aircraft from a remote field with more constraints. It was a great lesson in adapting to the environment while meeting requirements.

Taught HMSY 1342 Understanding and Combating Terrorism at an on-base extension of the Central Texas College campus. It was a great opportunity and I discovered that I have a passion for teaching. I enjoyed the opportunity to help military members reach their academic goals.

As the section lead (Electronic Warfare Division Officer) of 23 employees I was given an extraordinary opportunity to grow as a leader. Starting the job I was faced with multiple challenges. First of all, I was placed in charge of an group of individuals who had a completely different technical skill set and background than my own. I have heard it described as learned by firehose and I can't think of a better way to describe it. My employees had years of schooling, training and experience that I did not and they knew it. They were resentful of my placement over them and I had to prove my worth to them quickly. Second, the rest of the organization's leadership did not trust my team to be able to perform well in their critical roles and had established workarounds to avoid having to rely on my team before I arrived. It was a lot to overcome.I realized the problem was not bad employees. It was a bad reputation caused by a lack of specific training. I created a training program where each team member was given a specific area to study and master. They then shared their new found mastery with the rest of the team in a daily training session. As they gained confidence and mastery, I arranged training opportunities with the larger organization leadership to be head regularly using my team members as the lead trainers. Before long the workarounds were dropped and my team was trusted to perform their vital roles in the defense of the ship. I was awarded a Navy Commendation Medal half way through my time at the command in recognition of the transformation we had achieved.

Infantry SergeantLead a team of 6 employeesResponsible for all aspects of training, scheduling and work distribution for a team of motivated individuals in a dynamic environment.

Mineral exploration for copper and gold throughout Virginia and Georgia.- collected geologic samples from remote work sites- develop geologic maps from research and sampling data- supervise drilling operation- work independently in remote locations