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Silver Spring, Maryland

• Design, develop, implement, validate, and evaluate training and career development programs for a large audience of professional and support positions, including the coordination of course guidelines, lesson plans, course materials, and training aides. • Provide consulted services in needs assessment, identifying objectives, setting goals, and working with subject matter experts to develop highly specialized professional training programs to meet the Center’s mission-related needs. • Advise management officials on efficient resource allocation, metrics analysis, and provide solutions to problems involving low employee morale, underutilization of employees’ skills and abilities, and excessive turnover. • Identify the best instructional methods for conducting effective instructor-led training, web-based training, on-the-job-training, and Adobe Connect Pro seminars. Analyze Center initiatives and implement comprehensive development plans to achieve or exceed the Center’s mission. • Evaluate new training techniques, methodologies, and e-learning software applications. Oversee the design and development of e-learning modules by other staff and provide Quality Assurance across multiple projects simultaneously. • Acquire comprehensive new and nontraditional training and education designs to enhance performance of medical and scientific personnel.

Fort George G. Meade

• Managed four separate Departmental Managers, 300 instructors and oversees the day-to-day management of 103 classrooms supporting 32 courses with a throughput of 3,000 students annually, also Project Manager for a $40 Million, 80,000 sq. ft. expansion to a communication training facility. • Evaluated performance-based methodologies and assessments strategies, to ensure student comprehension of course material and the ability to demonstrate proficiency in accordance with established standards. • Formulated quality benchmarks and assessment processes, conducts periodic quality control reviews, provides final reviews and edits work of others to ensure administrative accuracy quality, and completeness of all submissions, presentations, justification, and exhibits. • Prepared directorate annual budget, to meet training needs, growth and expansion of organizational capability and strategic goal. • Developed faculty and staff training programs focused on development of skills necessary for meeting strategic goals. • Supervised training programs for graphic design, interactive multimedia, journalism broadcasting and maintenance, photography and public affairs, including concepts and policies. Key Accomplishments• Developed tracking system that resulted in on-time completion and processing of more than 200 evaluations and awards for all four military services. Resulted in the directorate having a 100 percent on-time rate.• Ensured more than 300 military and civilian staff completed DOD mandated sexual assault awareness training; resulted in greater understanding and awareness.• Spearheaded the development of the command's daily accountability report on SharePoint.• Spearheaded the move of two departments totaling 84 personal and the seamless transition of $2.5 million worth of equipment to an off-site campus.

Alexandria, Va

• Responsible for the U.S. Army readiness through the worldwide relocation and professional development of 35,700 telecommunications personnel by routinely coordinating with Senior Director, Manager and Supervisors to monitor the strength postures for deploying and re-deploying units in support of the Global War on Terror. • Developed recommendations and execute actions in support of the enlisted force, structure changes, force modernization and development, training, recruitment, distribution, promotion, and retention.• Exercised managerial authority to direct, coordinate and control the activities of employees to assure implementation of the department goals and objective were met by holding them accountable and establishing a quality and control process. • Coordinated with leaders in organizations ranging in size from 700 to 15,000 personnel to discuss relocation requirements. Troubleshoots, organization, operational and policy questions, problems and disputes that arise. Maintain comprehensive and thorough understanding of policies and procedures in the area of • Automated data management systems. Tracked, logged, and suspended all personnel actions received in the branch enabling the branch to achieve its missions. Also manage the Army Training Resource Requirements System (ATRRS) for the Signal Branch.Key Accomplishments• Managed a career management field fast-track program resulting in more than 500 re-classifications and leading to increased promotion and career progression opportunities.• Provided informative training on the future deployment synchronization matrix resulting in better assignment manager understanding of units deployment timelines. • Led exceptional efforts to improve personnel shortages on the Korean peninsula; resulted in 100 percent requisition fill. • Developed an administrative and logistic support structure for the Pentagon review protecting the force lessons from Fort Hood for Senior DOD leaders.

Fort George G. Meade, Md

• Supervised nine course directors and a staff of 45 in the operations and day to day activities of more than 2,000 Junior and Senior Non Commissioned Officers per year. • Reviewed all leadership development and courseware for accuracy and relevancy while ensuring training was based on the Wartime Contemporary Operating Environment (CoE). • Provided the course directors of the Senior Leaders and Advanced Leaders Courses, cadre and staff the necessary tools and assets to complete daily operations. Identified training needs, conducted training analysis, developed requirements and ensured training was executed in accordance with regulations, statutory laws, directives and standard operating procedures. • Conducted and analyzed necessary evaluations and after action reviews to improve and optimize productivity and efficient utilization of resources as well as contribute to the maturation of students, instructors, and staff. • Provided technical advice and procedural guidance to the Commanding General of the Regimental Signal Corps, Installation Commander of the Installation on matters relating to military and civilian manpower, student enrollment and disenrollment, succession planning of key personnel. Key Accomplishments• Management skills enable the academy to change an inherited unsatisfactory rating to full accreditation during quality assurance inspection.• Enforced training standards; resulted in a 15 percent grade point average improvement among students. • Procure 80 hours of Automated Systems Approach to Training for Training Developers to improve work proficiency. • Manage training records for 250 students; with 98 percent accuracy and efficiency rating during command inspection. • Designed a superb safety program, led to zero loss or injury of more than 3,000 training hours and 50 percent increase in mission readiness.

Fort George G. Meade, Md

• Responsible for the health, welfare, morale, training, performance appraisals and combat readiness of 74 personnel. Manage the combat camera quick reaction force training and readiness. • The expeditious reception, storage and dissemination of more than 600 combat images and several hours of videos daily. Responsible for unit visual production equipment, image dissemination and storage equipment valued at more than $25 million. • Led the Army's only active duty rapid deployment combat camera unit leading more than 40 Soldiers in support of operational and contingency missions mandated by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of the Army, Office of the Secretary of Defense and major commands.• Planned and executed movement of the Joint Combat Camera Management Transmission system without service interruption.•Created, trained and implemented the combat camera quick reaction team resulting in expeditious image acquisition and transmission.Key Accomplishments • Expeditiously documented and transmitted more than 8,000 combat images enabling the command to rapidly get the word out to the Iraqi people.• Selected by Chief of Information Operations to document sensitive trials of high value individuals in Iraq.• Managed the maintenance and repair of 25 image reception and transmission systems and servers with greater than 95 percent readiness

Master'S Degree, Cybersecurity Management And Policies

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Bachelor’S Degree, Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General