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SUMMARYA Senior Executive Officer and Military Veteran with over 24 years of proven experience in the United States Army. Accomplished measurable results while leading organizations of over 2,000 professionals. Possesses a comprehensive background in Strategic Planning and Integration, Operational Excellence, Risk Management, Supply Chain Logistics and Program Management Office (PMO) derived from conducting domestic and global operations in Southwest Asia, the Middle-East, and the Pacific. Managed risk upon multiple lines to advance initiatives and protect assets, property, and equipment.CORE COMPETENCIES • Strategic Thinking• Cross Functional Leadership• Executive Communication• Program Management• Process Improvement• Team Building• Training and Development• Transformation• Operations RELEVANT EXPERIENCEDirector of Wargame Operations at the U.S. Army War College (August 2017 – Present)Director of a multifunctional organization of strategists, research analysts, simulation developers and intelligence professionals that develops tools and executes exercises to provide insights and solutions for strategic challenges. • Developed a program of serious games, simulations and models to provide strategic insights to securing the southern transportation routes of the United States. This resulted in greater strategic integration of more than 25 U.S. Government organizations and agreements for process improvement and resource optimization.• Spearheaded an initiative to utilize serious games for senior leader development resulting in the production of 6 strategic games impacting 280 future strategic leaders (students) with 95% of participants attesting to the significant value the games added to their learning.

Director of a matrix organization of strategists, research analysts, simulation developers and intelligence professionals that develops tools and executes exercises to provide global insights and solutions for strategic challenges.

Chief for Army and Logistics in the Office of Security Cooperation-Iraq; managed the funding, procurement, transfer and accountability of U.S. Government support to the Iraq Security Forces totaling $4.2B.• Led the development of a five-year strategic plan for security assistance that supported policy discussions and resulted in a $1.85B security assistance loan.• Executed a program that optimized procurement, supply chain logistics and accountability of security assistance equipment. This increased visibility of international shipments from 60% to 90%; reduced intra theater delivery times from 75 days to less than 30; and increased sensitive item accountability from less than 50% to 90%.• Achieved cross functional alignment of procurement and maintenance practices for three major service departments. This aligned the services with the U.S. five-year strategic plan and set the services on a sustainable path.

Master of Strategic Studies degree. The mission of the US Army War College is to prepare selected military, civilian, and international leaders for the responsibilities of strategic leadership; educate current and future leaders on the development and employment of landpower in a joint, multinational and interagency environment; conduct research and publish on national security and military strategy; and engage in activities in support of the Army’s strategic communication efforts.

Deputy Commanding Officer of a Rapid Response organization with over 4,000 assigned personnel, ready to support operations globally within 18 hours of notice.• Executed a leader integration program with crisis response leaders and air transport leaders resulting in a 70% increase in load inspection pass rates, decreased response times and faster deployments for simulated global crisis exercises.• Developed an active duty and Army National Guard partnership that led to a 30% increase in training areas and enablers resulting in units across the brigade achieving required readiness standards 30-90 days faster.

Commander of a rapid response organization with over 730 assigned personnel and six functional units with the ability to provide operational support worldwide within 18 hours.• Transformed a 485 personnel reconnaissance organization into a 730 personnel infantry unit by creating a vision and implementing a plan for leader and organizational training, and reception and transfer of personnel and equipment, achieving operational readiness 11 months ahead of schedule.• Led diversity inclusion (D&I) increasing diversity in top leadership positions by 33%.

Commander of a 2,000 person support organization consisting of facility maintenance, building security, public affairs professionals, and supported staff.• Provided transformational leadership to establish a new support organization that provides support to two corporate level headquarters (U.S. Army Forces Command and U.S. Army Reserve Command) that relocated from Atlanta, GA to Fayetteville, NC.• Established procedures resulting in the recovery of $6M in organization property.

Operations officer for a 4,000 personnel organization responsible for integrating plans, operations, logistics and training for six subordinate organizations in partnership with Afghan Security Forces.• Developed and implemented an 18 month training plan for 40 organizations resulting in an organizational posture that enabled a highly successful short notice deployment to Afghanistan.• Planned and oversaw the execution of security operations and ballot transport for the 2010 Afghanistan National elections resulting record turnout for parliamentary elections and successful ballot collection under UN observation.

Second in command of an initial entry organization which trained more than 3,000 soldiers a year; responsible for the administration, logistics, operations and quality assurance for the organization.• Engaged the installation public works to fund and perform comprehensive facility improvements that facilitated increased throughput of trainees and higher quality training experiences.