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Lead trainer for standardization, evaluation and management of recruiter, supervisor, and staff functional training of 90 personnel covering 6 states across New England and 3 countries overseas in England, Germany, and Italy for the Air and Space Force. Provides staff assistance to directors, evaluated findings, and training assistance where needed. Establish, manage, and instruct core training curriculum via workshops and seminars for recruiters, contractors, and senior leadership. Prepare and maintain records and reports, such as: budgets, personnel records, and training manuals. Identify, develop, and/or evaluate marketing strategy based on knowledge of established objectives, market characteristics, cost and markup factors. Formulate, direct, and coordinate marketing activities and policies to promote products and/or services and work directly with advertising and promotion managers. Oversee product development and monitor trends that indicate the need for new marketing products and initiatives. Manage regional and national level special events, such as the sponsorship of professional sports and festivities introducing new products to gain public attention and awareness through traditional and social media. Develop and implement communication plans to identify main client groups and audiences and determine the best way to communicate publicity information. Plan and direct sales promotional projects using mediums such as social media, search engine optimization, geofencing, geotargeting, email, direct mail, press, terrestrial and streaming radio, along with cinema and television presentations. Develop community relation programs and partner with military, civic, social & professional networks, educational, and community organizations to promote Air Force opportunities and increase awareness.

Conducted full life cycle recruiting that included sourcing, attracting, interviewing, hiring and onboarding employees for the U.S. Air Force. Screened, classified, tested & evaluated applicants from civilian sources to achieve allocated quotas. Managed 3 counties in Eastern MA that contained 28 school programs, 2 year colleges, and universities with over 50K+ students. Obtained and maintained current market and production analysis for area of responsibility. Conducted advertising and promotion programs with radio and television stations in local area. Worked with social services programs to create Air Force awareness. Prepared background checks and processed security investigation case files. Authenticated and accounted for transportation requests. Worked with local and community-sponsored events and influencers.

Directed aeromedical evacuation execution for largest Air Force Air Operations Center. Collects/analyzes mission data, tracks trends, publishes daily activity reports; statistics briefed weekly to senior leadership. Manages execution of 1.6K stateside/overseas aeromedical evacuation missions annually and provides real-time patient movement flight following. Computes cost based analysis to validate commercial air ambulance patient movements, coordinates short-notice patient movement requests; optimized $184M budget.

Performs basic life support and triage in emergency situations. Serves as member of primary emergency medical response to in-flight emergencies and potential mass casualty scenarios for on- and off-base incidents. Operates emergency medical and other vehicles. Loads and unloads litter patients. Participates in contingency or disaster field training, exercises, and deployments.Provides disease and disability education, care, and evaluation of nursing care. Participates in and leads the planning, implementation, and evaluation of nursing care. Performs assessment and analysis of patient health status, identifies health goals, recognizes subtle changes in conditions, interprets these changes, and immediately determines appropriate course of action. Supervises personnel, conducts training, and creates duty schedules. Schedules and/or conducts in-service training on procedures, techniques, and equipment. Schedules and/or conducts periodic disaster training, fire drills, and evacuation procedures. Provides training to medical and non-medical personnel; training may include areas such as emergency medical technician and required basic life support training.

Provides, supervises and manages patient care of beneficiaries to include flying and special operational duty personnel. Performs nursing tasks. Acts as Patient Centered Medical Home member or team leader. Front-line preventionist who identifies potential health risks and provides preventative counseling. Performs paraprofessional portions of preventative health assessments and physical examinations. Monitors and records physiological measurements. Orients patients to the hospital environment. Admits, discharges, and transfers patients as directed. Observes, reports, and records observations in patient progress notes and team conferences. Performs portions of medical treatment, diagnostic, and therapeutic procedures. Cares for, observes, and reports on pre/post-operative, seriously or critically ill, and injured patients. Records treatments and procedures rendered and observes effects. Performs postmortem care. Identifies patient problems and assists in developing and evaluating patient care plan(s). Assembles, operates, and maintains therapeutic equipment

Talent Sourcer for UI Art/Design for AAA games such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Diablo IV, Overwatch 2 and an Unannounced Survival Game. Partnered with hiring teams to build effective sourcing, engagement and assessment strategies for the most critical talent pools. Sourced and built pipelines of candidates using all available systems and tools. Helped ensure recruiting data integrity by using an ATS (Workday Recruit) to optimize and document.