Luis R. Hernandez Email & Phone Number

Fort Benning, GA

Lead, supervise, plan, direct, and coordinate a 71-member Leader Development Division consisting of five branches. Life-cycle program management, technical supervision, and integration of all projects and initiatives to include: coorinating annual Program of Instruction submissions and developing and implementing leader development program strategies.

Fort Benning, GA

• Synchronized institutional operations and training support activities to provide training programs at the Educational Military Institute-WHINSEC. Managed the Training Development, the International Student.
• Orchestrated the highest demand for the Institute's resident Professional Military Education offerings
• Consolidated a process for prioritizing Mobile Training Team requests by our client organizations
• Led the Directorate of Training and Support to achieve new highs witnessed by the high demand for our in residence courses getting sold-out for the next academic year.
• Enhanced collaboration with other Defense schools and interagency organizations like never before.

Fort Benning, GA

• Developed, planned, and coordinated all internal and external staffing efforts, funding, resourcing, translation, instructor preparation and development, and all other aspects to execute three professional development.
• Provided outstanding mentorship in the Institute’s most academically challenging school
• Successfully led a multifunction and culturally diversed staff anf faculty
• Ensured that the school was ready for accreditation resulting in the most successful inspection ever; achieving the Institution of Excellence level
• Successfully managed over $2.5 million of budget and property
• Supervised the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation process in order to ensure educational requirements and lesson components were identified, proper development of lesson plans, and proper.

Fort Benning, GA

• Planned, supervised, and coordinated daily law enforcement activities and operations of more than 370 military and civilian personnel performing military police operations, to include investigations, patrols, physical.
• Led a policy development project to address the rising prescription drug abuse problem in the Fort Benning military community that resulted in the development and adoption of a post-wide policy
• Developed an internal inspection program in order to ensure standards and regulatory requirements were met within the Police Division
• Established a weekly synchronization meeting in order to coordinate the Police Division's efforts and to ensure the accomplishment of all internal and external assigned jobs
• Maintained day to day working relationships with various federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies

Bahgram Air Force Base, Afghanistan

• Led and guide the daily operations of the Intelligence and Operations Cell of a combat deployed Criminal Investigation Battalion providing felony-level criminal investigative support to United States Forces.
• Developed a tracking system in the operations center that ensured up-to-the-minute situational awareness of the movement of 82 Special Agents the missions of 11 offices geographically dispersed in Afghanistan
• Outstanding management of training that ensured the unit was in compliance with all training requirements
• Oversaw the planning and safe execution of over 300 mission movements
• Prepared a number of detailed and informative and decision briefings for presentation to senior leaders

Fort Benning, GA

• Provided administrative and logistical support and maintenance oversight a headquarters and 10 physically dispersed units located in the Southeastern United States, Puerto Rico, and Honduras. Ensured the Battalion’s.
• Oversaw all budgetary issues within the battalion, reviewing and approving all Government Purchase Card (GPC) transactions and Defense Travel System (DTS) authorizations vouchers
• Established GPC procedures for all cardholders and ensured over $207K in purchases were completed without fault.
• Personally scrutinized all government sponsored travel, certifying over 630 trips for battalion personnel
• Orchestrated the recruitment and hiring of civilian personnel; personally reviewing all resumes and interviewing potential applicants to find the best candidate
• Exceptionally served as acting battalion commander during his absence, making tough decisions and taking action without hesitation

Baghdad, Iraq

• Advised the 2nd National Police Chief Operating Officer and operations staff during counter-insurgency operations in Baghdad, Iraq in support of Multinational Division-Baghdad. Conducted staff coordination and.
• Expertly trained and advised the National Police Division senior operation manager (a Brigadier General) and his staff on all tactical and operational functions during operations
• Remarkably tracked and maintained situational awareness of 20 advisory teams as well as 20 Iraqi National Police and 18 Iraqi Army elements on a daily basis
• Took the initiative to served as the principle advisor to the Commander of another Iraqi element (Battalion) who sought out his guidance in several occasions concerning the security for the Kadamiyah Shrine; one of the.
• On multiple occasions demonstrated the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and without falter under combat stress

Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, TX

Planned and coordinated joint/combined operations of the Army Service Component Command of the United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) consisting of 32 countries in Central and South America and the Caribbean. Conducted Antiterrorism and Force Protection assessment as part of pre-deployment site surveys in support of Theater Security Cooperation and.

Bussiness And Organizational Security Management, Security Management, Master Of Arts

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Marketing, Graduated With Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Volleyball Team