Mark Francis Email & Phone Number

Camp Lejeune, NC

Program Manager and Senior Intelligence Analyst at II MEF G2.

USMC

• Advised both U.S. and International senior executives on specifics related to the weather, enemy and terrain in military exercises and operations.
• Provided daily and weekly briefings to senior executives leading organizations of up to 60,000 service members. These briefings covered not only detailed actionable, relevant intelligence, but often included manning.
• Routinely briefed the U.S. Secretary of Defense on adversarial trends and tactics within Anbar Province, Iraq (2004-2005).
• Established the intelligence section for the then newly formed Foreign Military Training Unit and Marine Special Operations Command (2005-2007).
• Daily mentored Senior Iraqi Officers on specific intelligence techniques and targets within Ramadi, Iraq from (2008-2009).
• Worked directly for senior executive leadership, inspecting units to ensure compliance to national and organizational regulations.

USMC

• More than 23 years as an active duty Marine, earning the highest enlisted rank in the Intelligence field (Master Gunnery Sergeant / 0291), specializing in leading teams of Marines who analyze foreign militaries. Five.
• Conducted operations and exercises spanning nearly the entire range of military operations and every combatant command.
• Nine years experience in Security Program Management, overseeing classified including the compilation, storage and destruction of thousands of documents and materials all in accordance with regulations.

USMC

• Mentored, trained and equipped intelligence professionals in preparation for combat deployment.
• Ensured intelligence professionals were organized as a team, trained to accomplish their individual and team missions, attached to their respective deploying units and appropriately reintegrated once they returned to.
• Coordinated manning and systems support through Headquarters Marine Corps, ensuring deploying units had requisite human and computer resources to accomplish their missions.
• Managed budgets of up to $17 million worth of computer hardware and military intelligence related equipment.

Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, VA

• Earned the designation of Master Instructor, logging over 3000 hours of classroom instruction.
• Led six teams of up to 30 Marines through a 12 week curriculum spanning the intelligence cycle and earning them their professional credentials (MOS).
• Developed a course cap-stone exercise that tested the students' intelligence skills and spanned nine days, 24 hours a day.
• Updated, and often completely re-wrote blocks of intelligence curriculum in accordance with developing and newly approved learning objectives.
• Organized and hosted Course Curriculum Review Boards that involved subject matter experts from across the Marine Corps.

Master’S Degree, Strategic Intelligence

Bachelor’S Degree, Workforce Education And Development

Hs, Diploma