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• Offers strategy, operational planning, and exercise augmentation to business, academia and government from the federal, state, and municipal level.
• Drawing upon substantial experience and education, offer subject matter expertise to government and military clients across the spectrum of planning and exercises.
• Provides strategy formulation expertise to business and academia.
• Brings an innovative approach to the most intractable strategic challenges. Applying a comprehensive strategic planning model, translates the approach of strategy formulation from the US government and military, to.
• Develops and implements executive and workforce development programs.
• Deliver rapid augmentation to crisis planning, or longer-term support to contingency planning, as well as expertise for exercises.

Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida

• Managed and provided oversight to all aspects of curriculum development and implementation and management; supply/logistics and budget; student management; and the transfer of all students for a U.S. Military School.
• Oversaw the management, production, approval process and review of curricula for fourteen major courses with multiple iterations each year.
• Oversight and management of the instructor training, qualification, and certification/evaluation process.
• Managed all aspects of organizational supply and logistics; and developed and managed an over $6 million dollar operating budget, making adjustments to allocation of resources as necessary.
• Professionally certified by the Association for Talent Development (ATD) as Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP).

Navarre, FL

• Developed a business plan and marketing program, established customer/client relationships, cultivated business relationships, and created a network of attorneys, mortgage lenders, and contractors to whom clients may.
• Worked as an on-site sales representative for one of the largest home builders in Northwest Florida.
• Earned the Graduate Realtor Institute (GRI) professional designation, a designation held by less than 19% of licensed Realtors.
• Earned the Florida Military Specialist (FMS) and the Military Relocation Professional (MRS) professional designations.

Carlisle Barracks, PA

• Coordinated all facets of a senior executive training and leadership course for U.S. and international general officers, and select senior members of interagency organizations. Course Director, and.
• Employed Instructional Systems Design to revamp senior executive training to better address stakeholder needs resultant from a shift in the National Military Strategy to the Asia/Pacific region.
• Appointed to six-member group to study feasibility of and recommend ways to develop and incorporate a life-long learning capability through distributed and distance education means.
• Member of ten-person team that conducted in-depth analysis and redesign of organizational structure and processes to achieve a 5% efficiency in personnel and operating costs.

Carlisle Barracks, PA

• Full-time resident student at Senior Military Leadership School (U.S. Army War College). Earned Masters Degree in Strategic Studies. Seminar leader for 17 member organization consisting of senior military officers.
• Established an effective working relationship with major command personnel and leadership in order to gain and disseminate information and ideas relative to family member programs and functions.
• Planned, organized, and oversaw multiple events and activities designed to foster teamwork.
• Mentored college students and provided career counseling to 40 Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadets.
• Elected as Membership Chair for a 50 member minority outreach, mentorship, and community service organization and persuaded over 90% of minority students in the college to join and actively participate.
• Routinely volunteered in community service organizations in order to strengthen bonds between the U.S. Army War College and the local community.

Denver, CO

• Coordinated all aspects of Department of Defense support to other Federal agencies and six states principally for disaster and emergency planning and response.
• Planned for, coordinated, and provided oversight of Department of Defense support to the 2008 Democratic National Convention working closely with all Federal, state and local agencies.
• Spearheaded Department of Defense response for multiple natural disaster efforts, to include historic flooding in North Dakota, Hurricanes Gustav/Hanna/Ike, and the Haitian earthquake.
• Elected to the Colorado Federal Executive Board, and furthered partnerships for intergovernmental collaboration; and assisted with transition from a local (Denver) focus to a statewide focus.

Fort Hood, TX / Iraq

• Led, managed, and supervised a 600-member organization providing guidance and direction to the entire organization in training, operations, personnel administration, and resource management.
• Developed and implemented a training program to prepare the organization for combat operations; deployed and redeployed the unit for a year of sustained combat operations in Iraq.
• Provided guidance and implemented programs and initiatives resulting in the unit being awarded the Department of Defense Maintenance Excellence Award for large units.
• Top 5% of over 20 peers. Fostered a leadership environment that produced the Fort Hood Soldier of the Year, and had the highest number of mid-level leaders recognized for leadership.

Hurlburt Field, FL

• Integrated the U.S. Army’s training and education efforts for air and ground operations into the U.S. Air Force’s Air Operations Center Formal Training Unit (Command and Control Warrior School). Army Element Director.
• Managed U.S. Army student selection and enrollment into courses and increased overall course throughput by 15%.
• Developed a mechanism for the Army to track fully-trained and qualified personnel that provided the ability to better manage talent and identify qualified people for future assignments.
• Developed, updated, presented and tested resident and distance education curriculum using the Instructional Systems Development model; expertly employed adult learning model techniques as an instructor and facilitator.

Camp Stanley, South Korea

• Led the planning, coordination and training efforts for a 2,600 member organization; oversaw and organized the day-to-day operations and activities of five subordinate units; synchronized war plans. Formulated.
• Planned for and managed operations for two highly-visible major exercises, and developed and conducted four discreet and unique full-scale exercises to evaluate subordinate organizations.
• Coordinated and conducted major equipment upgrade for primary weapons systems and command and control technology systems in a compressed timeline and ahead of schedule.
• Formulated, wrote, and synchronized annual training guidance and plan recognized as “the standard” in the command; developed and briefed quarterly training guidance and plans.

Fort Sill, OK

• Led and directed a medium-sized organization that provided training support and assistance to, and developed and conducted functional and full-scale evaluation exercises for eight high-priority U.S. Army National Guard.
• Transformed a unit experiencing performance and morale problems into a highly performing organization recognized as being the best trained and effective among six peer units.
• Wrote detailed reports and analyses, routinely prepared and conducted high-level briefings.

Various Locations

• Trained and led small teams and diverse organizations ranging in size from 7 to over 500 people.
• Extensive experience planning, scheduling/coordinating, conducting, and evaluating training and exercises for a variety of U.S. Army and other Department of Defense organizations.
• Frequently planned and facilitated staff briefings and meetings; regularly prepared briefings, advised and provided recommendations to senior leaders.
• Developed organizational budgets, provided guidance and direction to staffs and subordinates.

Master Of Strategic Arts, Military And Strategic Leadership

Graduate Certificate, Homeland Defense

Graduate, Military And Strategic Leadership

Master Of Science - Ms, Administration

Graduate, Organizational Leadership

Master Of Science - Ms, Management

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Geography