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Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri

Fort Leonard Woood, Missouri

Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri

• Provided instructional support to the United States Air Force (USAF) Emergency Management Technical School by updating, editing, and validating course curriculum for all training courses.• Responsible for making corrections and improvements to instructional materials as required and coordinating new curriculum with training development department(s).• Developed and disseminated annual student training schedules.• Built and maintained student administrative information records.• Responsible for course development to ensure curriculum is updated regularly in accordance to frequently emerging military tactics, techniques, and procedures.• Served as the primary Computer Equipment Account manager, creating computer logins for students as required by course curriculums, and maintaining computer labs.

Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri

• Managed the instruction and administration of 8 hazardous materials management courses.• Managed human resources and administrative support for 35 instructors.• Managed all environmental health and safety functions, site policies, processes, and methods designed to ensure a safe working environment and compliance with all regulatory, state, federal and local policies.• Facilitated a safety culture transformation from reactive to proactive by effectively influencing key stakeholders.• Developed and led the safety awareness training program in accordance with OSHA and Army regulations.• Facilitated and chaired a management and employee safety committee, resulting in a 57% reduction in work-related accidents for three consecutive fiscal years.• Led and conducted comprehensive facility safety audits and developed action plans to address gaps.• Managed the respiratory health program, ensuring safety of instructors and students while operating in hazardous materials personal protective ensembles.

Fort Leonard Wood, Mo

• Established and supervised a comprehensive chemical surety training program that earned commendable ratings on 10 Department of the Army inspections.• Supervised all protective mask/respirator confidence testing for over 800 personnel.• Conducted two hotel vulnerability assessments in Gabon, Africa in support of the Department of State and United States Army Forces in Africa, ensuring the safety of Americans visiting the country.• Coordinated and supervised all chemical surety first responder training classes and chemical site tours, ensuring mandatory training requirements were consistently met.• Developed and maintained detailed statistics and reports on work-related injuries, at-risk behaviors, hazards and losses in order to identify trends that required corrective actions.• Conducted thorough investigations of work-related accidents to determine root causes and corrective actions.• Conducted environmental compliance inspections to ensure adherence to Federal and Army regulations.• Wrote directives, regulations, plans and Standing Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the implementation of regulatory environmental, health, and safety programs.• Led training for the Globally Harmonized System and Hazard Communication programs.

Schweinfurt, Germany

• Supervised the unit’s environmental compliance program, ensuring all U.S. and German recycling and hazardous waste regulatory requirements were strictly enforced.• Conducted thorough safety inspections, identifying and correcting deficiencies.• Served on the unit safety committee as a managing member; involvement was instrumental to a 40% reduction in work-related accidents over a three-year period.• Maintained the unit database of historic work-related accidents, with special emphasis on initial and root causes, and effectiveness of implemented corrective actions and controls.• Developed and delivered mandatory environmental, respiratory protection, and safety training to over 500 personnel annually.

Fort Leonard Wood, Mo

• Managed a $500K service contract as the Contracting Officer's Representative, overseeing Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) procedures critical to evaluation of contracted instructors and support staff.• Conducted thorough After Action Reviews (AAR) in order to capture historical trends and develop the best course of action to standardize operational procedures and mitigate risks.• Enforced and verified daily risk management procedures enabling the facility to operate without any work-related injuries for a two-year period.• Streamlined the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) Level-A Training; supervised three scenario-based training exercises that certified over 200 personnel to perform advanced hazardous materials defense duties.

Schofield Barracks, Hi (Tikrit, Iraq)

• Served as the Hazardous Materials Operations Manager for a Combat Aviation Brigade with over 300 attack helicopters and 2,000 personnel.• Planned, coordinated, and executed the decontamination of a cadmium-contaminated aircraft hangar, ensuring the safety of over 1,000 personnel.• Conducted a 15-month combat deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the Global War on Terrorism as the Night Battle Captain, controlling air attack missions.• Managed the unit’s Environmental, Health, and Safety program, ensuring compliance with all federal environmental requirements, to include the State of Hawaii’s strict guidelines for ground water and hazardous waste management.

Worldwide Locations

• Established and Administered Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) defense measures across multi-echelon unit configurations• Provided training advice and supervision regarding CBRN equipment and operations• Trained military and civilian personnel on CBRN response operations• Operated and maintained CBRN detection and decontamination equipment• Prepared plans that outline operating procedures to be used in response to disasters or emergencies, such as hurricanes, nuclear accidents, and terrorist attacks, and in recovery from these events• Developed emergency response plans and procedures• Developed safety standards, policies, or procedures• Participated in 4 combat deployments in support of the Global War on Terrorism• Analyzed and assessed sensitive site vulnerabilities• Coordinated CBRN defense support with civil authorities• Provided technical expertise and advise on the following areas of CBRN defense: o CBRN reconnaissance systems o Biological agent detection systems (BIDS) o Obscurant systems that hide movements or defeat enemy targeting o CBRN decontamination systems o CBRN hazard detection and warning systems

Master’S Degree, Emergency And Disaster Management, 3.6

Program Areas of Emphasis: • Generating emergency plans that meet state and federal guidelines. • Applying quantitative skills and methods.

Bachelor’S Degree, Business Administration (Contract Management), 3.0

Program Areas of Emphasis: • Applying effective communication skills in a business environment. • Assessing the impact of culture.