Layne Matthews Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Fort Leavenworth, Ks

• Supervises formal Knowledge Management Program for a Major Army Command comprised of 34k employees in 10 states, facilitating collaboration to improve organizational performance and decision-making• Administers the organization's collaboration environment, which consists of SharePoint Online, MS Teams, OneDrive, and other lines of business solutions• Oversees projects affecting collaboration efforts such as migration of entire organization to SharePoint Online 6 months ahead of deadline; developing a new public-facing website that is device friendly; creating dashboards for Senior Leaders• Leads over 30 Knowledge Reps in capturing, organizing, and disseminating knowledge assets across the organization• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to identify knowledge gaps, facilitating problem-solving and project execution• Publishes Knowledge Management policies and procedures, taxonomy, and help guides for the organization

Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany

• Served as program manager to prioritize projects, design solutions, lead scrums, coordinate requirements with staff, and translate those requirements to developers• Led a team of 9 developers and business analysts through the development process to assess and build a line of business solutions to improve organizational efficiencies to save resources• Moderated the headquarters' daily schedule of meetings to ensure they were organized to logically flow to generate outputs to inform and enable senior leaders to make decisions• Conducted monthly 2-day onboarding program training new employees on policies and procedures, tools, and introducing them to resources allowing for a smooth transition coming into our organization, increasing organizational productivity• Administered the organization's collaboration environment (SharePoint 19) and tools across 3 separate networks• Participated in Ukraine Crisis Action Teams, and several major multinational exercises which required collaboration with Joint and Multinational military organizations to share and access information

Kuwait

• Selected to stand up a formal Knowledge Management Program for a complex and fast-paced Special Operations organization conducting combat operations in Southwest Asia• Supervised the organizations collaboration environment spread across 4 separate networks which provided leaders situational understanding and allowed communication, collaboration and planning with Joint and Multinational Partners• Directed organizations records management, archiving and responding to Freedom of Information Act requests• Created onboarding program for newly arriving personnel, training over 20 personnel weekly to expedite integration• Implemented a continuity program to assist with the transition of departing personnel ensuring critical information and knowledge was retained and shared, eliminating “starting from zero” for incoming personnel and teams

Fort Leavenworth, Ks

• Managed team of Soldiers and Contractors developing tools that improved processes saving over $6ook in resources• Designed and implemented a centralized knowledge repository (SharePoint 16) resulting in a reduction in duplicate work and increased collaboration and productivity throughout the organization• Directed several projects to improve organization staffing process, master calendar management, meeting efficacy, leader development, and resource management which saved innumerable manhours and resources for an organization• Conducted training sessions to educate employees on best practices in knowledge share and utilization

Victoria, Australia

• Competitively selected to serve as a Military Personnel Exchange Program Officer to the Australian Army Knowledge Group, Land Simulation Centre; requested by host nation to extend tour additional 6 months to lead in major exercise• Planned, developed, and executed over 20 large-scale exercises and simulation scenarios• Subject Matter Expert for simulations, created ORBATS, managed FCHAR for simulation database management• Trained over 700 Soldiers, students, and civilian personnel as simulation operators to support exercises• Awarded Australian Army Commendation (Bronze) for excellent achievements and exemplary performance

Master Of Science - Ms, Adult, Occupational And Continuing Education

Military Education Level Four, Intermediate Level Education, Military Operational Art And Science/Studies

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, History