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South Carolina, United States

• Lead 16 on-site and remote team members across cross-functional teams viaservant leadership w/ agile methodologies
• Conduct risk analysis & monitor projects’ budget, milestones, and scope of work tocross-functional teams, business stakeholders, and key leadership via formalreports, presentations, and daily status updates
• Identify and recommend standardization improvements – reduced teams’ backlog by28%
• Foster and maintain customer relationship, increasing client volume by 16%
• Spearhead team resource planning & budget forecast, manages YTD $3.2 millionbudget
• Drives process improvements, increased team velocity by 33% - saved customers~$230K Q1 2024

• Coached, guided, and mentored 70 employees for 2 diverse cross-functionalprograms using Agile methodology and Agile values to enhance best practices w/respect to priorities and scope
• Facilitated one-on-one and group coaching/training for diverse teams based on theirassessed current practices, professional needs, and program standards consistent w/adult learning principles
• Removed organizational impediments; increased Higher Headquarters (HHQ)Inspection training program to 98% efficiency due to Agile methodology adoption
• Identified and measured KPIs that assessed organizational agility relative toprogram's performance. Reduced impediment backlog wait-time by 50%; lauded by keystakeholders and leadership for organization's top-speed.
• Drove effective collaboration and communication with cross-functional management,stakeholders, and leadership on program/product issues and requirements

• Servant leader mentoring and coaching multiple teams through project estimation,development iterations on various defense tech software (AI, machine learning,cybersecurity), sprint/product backlogs, and removing.
• Identified & recommended four user enhancements to IT Program Manager; optimizedSaaS launch
• Coordinated deliverables to business stakeholders for two cross-functional teams with afocus on intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) operations and softwaredevelopment while incorporating best practices.
• Virtually led Agile practices promoting positive team dynamics while using criticalbusiness acumen skills and tactics, boosting productivity and mission readiness indefense and aerospace
• Established development framework between government agencies, improving externalrelations & building trust through process improvement in multiple cross-functional teams

• Directly influenced U.S. foreign policies & Executive Branch initiatives via 110+ authoredintelligence reports
• Hand-selected as National Cryptologic School (NCS) Training Liaison for overseasmilitary base; increased training cycle completion speed by 50%
• Standardized NCS training requirements; awarded by NCS Director for team's success
• Supervised intelligence reporting team w/in unit for 2 COCOMs; produced time-sensitivereports for national policy stakeholders; reduced post-mission backlog by 39%

Provided daily intelligence for reporting and dissemination, maintained local activity logs and files to track mission critical information.Conducted open source research, all source intelligence analysis, and intelligence reporting.Provided real-time intelligence and language support to SIGINT collection assets.Transcribed/translated raw SIGINT to.

Bachelor’S Degree, Human Development And Family Studies, General

Associate’S Degree, Early Childhood Education And Teaching

Associate’S Degree, Intelligence Studies And Technology

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