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Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco

• Trains, Assists, and Advises the Maroc Military on Combat Simulations and Tactics.• Sets up, configures, operates, troubleshoots, and analyzes modeling and simulation software and operational computer systems• Serves as simulation technical controller for exercises.• Coordinates with simulation developers to perform simulation / model software upgrades and system performance troubleshooting / analysis as required• Provides technical support to users• Monitors system effectiveness in satisfying user needs• Provides support to the mission planning and mission execution processes which may include modeling the strategic deployment process down to individual entity level moves reflecting mobilization, deployment, and Reception, Staging, Onward movement, and Integration• Assists in the design of simulations supported training events, database design, database build and the stimulation of logistics, sustainment, transportation, and medical command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C4I) processes• An in depth understanding of the Maroc Military operational force structure, simulation training design, exercise objectives, and the ability to understand an operational plan and implications of staff planning• Develops internal technical operating processes and manages technical operations for the Joint Conflict and Tactical Simulation (JCATS),

Sutherland, Virginia

• Demonstrates and communicates fundamental knowledge of facility procedures.• Educates, trains and ensures associates adhere to company policies.• Understands procedures for facility operations, handling accidents and emergencies. • Identifies and appropriately responds to customer, compliance, and operational issues.• Promotes associate efforts to exceed customer/member expectations. • Informs associates on how to identify resources to meet the diverse needs of customers• Identifies, reviews, and applies policies and procedures to make informed judgments. • Identifies facts, information, and expertise to set priorities and make informed decisions. • Uses data to determine the causes of problems and develop solutions to address them.• Plans and manages own and others' time, based on business priorities. • Identifies the resources needed to complete projects. • Coordinates planning with organizational initiatives and direction. • Looks at work plans and makes changes to achieve team or work group objectives. • Improves work processes and practices to increase performance and results.• Promotes ideas and links them to business needs and benefits. • Effectively communicates clear, information on business plans and priorities. • Instructs associates on how to act in accordance with policies and procedures. • Demonstrates creativity and strength in the face of change and adversity. • Adapts to competing demands and shifting priorities. • Updates knowledge and skills to handle new complexities, challenges, and responsibilities. • Helps associates adjust to and develop the capabilities needed to implement organizational change initiatives.• Provides specific and timely feedback on associate performance. • Assigns tasks to associates that fit their skill levels and maximize team performance. • Recruits and hires the associates needed to meet business requirements. • Teaches and guides associate development.

Suffolk, Va

• Provides advisement, counsel and training on specific Distribution and Supply Chain protocols and to ensure compliance with governing regulations.• Logistics/Supply Chain analyst and advisor to customers. Interacts frequently with inter-organizational personnel.• Conducts Supply Chain analyses of performance and assists in testing and evaluation operational tasks and distribution networks.• Uses specialized software technology to research, configure, maintain, update and develop new and existing logistics/Supply Chain operational models.• Independently reviews and evaluates customer requirements, recognizing both specified and implied requirements.• Interacts with customer to ensure requirements, expectations and associated impacts are identified.• Translates variables such as logistic and operational structures and the logistical implications of customer planning into viable solutions.• Advises the operational planning team on the execution processes of the local, regional, national, and global Supply Chain/Logistics and operational levels.• Coordinates physical layout of logistics elements in support of individual and corporate level efforts.• Conducts evaluation of operational Supply Chain/Distribution networks that support individual and corporate level efforts.• Conducts analysis of individual and corporate performance and develops after-action reviews.• Manages the execution of small to medium projects including schedules and progress reporting to ensure implementations that are on time, within budget and meet quality objectives.• Applies new practices, techniques, standards, principles, theories, and concepts for logistics/supply chain operations and develops standards for the customer• Provides solutions that are imaginative, thorough, practicable, and consistent with corporate objectives for a wide range of difficult problems.

Ft Lee, Virginia

• Develops all training materials and provides training to the event participants for Supply Chain/Logistics models and tasks. • Provides advisement, counsel and training on specific Distribution and Supply Chain protocols and to ensure compliance with governing regulations.• Logistics/Supply Chain analyst and advisor to customers. Interacts frequently with inter-organizational personnel.• Conducts Supply Chain analyses of performance and assists in testing and evaluation operational tasks and distribution networks.• Uses specialized software technology to research, configure, maintain, update and develop new and existing logistics/Supply Chain operational models.• Independently reviews and evaluates customer requirements, recognizing both specified and implied requirements.• Interacts with customer to ensure requirements, expectations and associated impacts are identified.• Translates variables such as logistic and operational structures and the logistical implications of customer planning into viable solutions.• Advises the operational planning team on the execution processes of the local, regional, national, and global Supply Chain/Logistics and operational levels.• Coordinates physical layout of logistics elements in support of individual and corporate level efforts.• Conducts evaluation of operational Supply Chain/Distribution networks that support individual and corporate level efforts.• Conducts analysis of corporate performance and develops after-action reviews.• Manages the execution of small to medium projects including schedules and progress reporting to ensure implementations that are on time, within budget and meet quality objectives.• Applies new practices, techniques, standards, principles, theories, and concepts for logistics/supply chain operations and develops standards for the customer• Provides solutions that are imaginative, thorough, practicable, and consistent with corporate objectives for a wide range of problems.

Hohenfels, Germany

• Provides technical expertise for the set-up, configuration, operation, and troubleshooting of command and control tools. • Technical expert on the simulation-stimulation of the systems to include the employment of simulations and/or gaming systems that stimulate command and control systems. • Advising other agencies on network requirements to support Ground, Air, Sea, and UAS simulation events. • Advise on the design, planning, preparation, execution, and recovery of systems to support exercise control. • Instruct personnel as designated by the exercise/event lead to meet individual and unit training objectives.• Perform Joint Event Life Cycle support.• Design technical system use to include writing exercise support plans and identifying personnel requirements.• Develop Joint Master Scenario Event List and advises on use of command and control, simulation, and gaming systems to support individual, collective, and unit training objectives.• Prepare exercise products to include set-up, configure, test, train, and operate command and control systems, simulation systems, and gaming systems.• Train and operate command and control systems, simulation systems, and gaming systems.• Recover systems to include the test, maintenance, and storage of command and control, simulation, and gaming systems.• Provide technical expertise on the use, set-up, configuration, test, operation, and troubleshooting of command and control, simulation, and gaming systems to support individual, collective, and unit training.• Train military and civilian personnel on the operation of command and control and supporting simulation systems.• Utilize and Instruct Joint Conflict And Tactical Simulation (JCATS), Joint Deployment Logistics Model (JDLM), Virtual Reality Scene Generator (VRSG), Multiple Unified Simulations Environment (MUSE), and Virtual Battle Space 2 (VBS2).

Chester, Virginia

• Developer and Instructor for Field Support Engineer University (FSEU). • Train all newly hired FSEs for Tapestry and any personnel working at the Help desk for Intecon for BCS3 products.• Provides professional training and support to military, government, and selected contractors on the use of BCS3, BCS3-NM or other Battle Command Systems.• Troubleshoot any problems that arise with systems set-up or use. In particular, identify networking and firewall issues that may prohibit effective use of the systems.• Perform duties supporting operations centers, movement control activities, support and logistic operations activities. In these instances, the individual will evaluate the mission of the organization supported, relate the information requirements to the supported application, and provide relevant information that supports the command’s decision-making process. • Conduct upgrades and system testing of new software releases for relevant C4I systems as well as all the latest Security updates and the latest Anti-Virus updates. This includes conducting a software evaluation of data feeds, information presentation, and QA testing of the new release. • Respond to trouble-tickets, conduct problem diagnosis, provide user assistance, support user and maintenance documentation, and conduct system performance evaluation. Support software changes, install software and anti-virus updates, perform virus detection/eradication, complete site surveys for design and configuration changes, support integration of new applications and tools, conduct routine file back up for user and system data, develop and maintain recovery tasks, maintain documentation and report to customer on software problems from users or field system administrators. • Maintain all files, monitor system performance, maintain user and administrator log, provide ad-hoc or periodic reports, monitor data destinations, and provide real time visibility on system performance, timeliness, and connectivity.

Bagram Afghanistan

• Supply Chain/Logistics advisor to all Army and Marine executive staffs in Afghanistan.• Afghanistan Theater Manager of 13 Salaried Regional Leads for Supply Chain/Logistics operations spread across all 6 Regional Combat Areas.• Responsible for converting all Army and Marine Units in the Afghanistan Theater from Manual Microsoft Office products reports for Supply Chain/Logistics accountability to an automated Supply Chian/Logistics Reporting Tool.• Responsible for the fielding, integration, and training for all Army Logistics units in the Afghanistan Theater on the newly fielded Supply Chain/Distribution ERP solution for strategic level Supply Chain/Logistics operations.• Responsible for Executive level (General Officer) Logistics/Supply Chain systems briefs in Afghanistan.• • Responsible for annual evaluations, scheduling of inbound and outbound FSEs, Award write-ups, Vacation schedules for all 13 salaried regional leads serving in Afghanistan. • Train military, government and selected contractors on the use of Tapestry’s Supply Chain/Logistics systems.• Conduct analysis of complex problems with Supply Chain/logistics issues and provided viable Courses of Action to the executive teams• Possesses a keen mastery of Supply Chain/Logistics management knowledge and skills and a professional knowledge of methods and techniques.• Briefed and advised Executive Level personnel and other members of leadership on the capabilities of Supply Chain solutions.• Provided support throughout the world to all DoD personnel and Corporate Field Support Engineers while coordinating, monitoring, troubleshooting, and validating all Logistics/Supply Chain system feeds, other Logistical business feeds and ITV feeds.

Fort, Lee, Virginia

• Conducted Annual Reviews for all Tapestry personnel assigned to the Army Logistics University (ALU)• Reviewed and Approved all Time sheet submissions for all Tapestry personnel assign to ALU.• Supported the fielding, set-up, integration, and use of Army and Tapestry Solutions Logistics Command and Control applications at ALU• Coordinated, developed, approved, and provided all training to Students and Senior Group Leaders (SGLs) that are assigned to all levels of the Career Captains Course.• Monitored the SGLs and their training of BCS3 and provides feedback to them and the Senior Team Lead (STL) on their progression in the instruction of BCS3.• Ensured all Tapestry ALU personnel are on time and compliant with annual training requirements.• Coordinated all BCS3 curriculum development for ALU with the Contracting Officer and other designated government representatives.• Responsible to the Chief SCoE (Sustainment Center of Excellence) Support Branch to provide schedules, coordination for surge support requirements, and input for the Weekly Branch Briefs.• Coordinated all database changes with the ALU JDLM (Joint deployment Logistics Model) Site Lead and the ALU CLC3 Senior Team Leader.

Al Anbar Province, Iraq, Ft Belvoir, Virginia And Ft Lee, Virginia

• Supported the fielding, set-up, integration, and use of Army and Tapestry Solutions Logistics Command and Control applications at the Army Logistics Management Universityv(ALU).• Trained military, government and selected contractors on the use of BCS3, GDMS or other Tapestry C4I applications.• Coordinated and resolved network and connectivity issues; understood and troubleshot the applications (BCS3, GDMS and other selected Tapestry systems) interface with other C2 systems; understood the applications directory system, file transfer and data storage methodology.• Serviced 297 BCS3 machines on a daily basis. Troubleshot problems with networking and firewall issues that may prohibit effective use of the systems.• Conducted analysis of complex problems, performs software engineering analysis, computer modeling, computer simulation analysis and design, and process analysis. Provided support to the mission planning and mission execution processes.• Provided BCS3 over the shoulder and classroom training to Combined Logistics Captains Career Course (CLC3), Support Operations Course (SOC), Logistics Executive Development Course (LEDC) and Logistics Pre-Command Course students.• Briefs visitors to ALU on the capabilities of BCS3 and what it can do for their sections.• Provided BCS3 subject matter expertise and over the shoulder supportfor approximately seven annual CLC3 Tactical Logistics Exercises (TLE).• Provided support throughout the world to all Soldiers, Marines, BCS3 FSEs, and Digital Support Engineers while coordinating, monitoring, troubleshooting, and validating all Army STAMIS (Standard Army Management Information Systems) feeds, other Logistical business feeds and ITV (In transit Visibility) feeds as a Customer Support FSE at the PdM (Product Manager) BCS3 Customer Support Center in Fort Belvoir, Va.• Provided BCS3 support in Iraq as the Regional FSE for the Al Anbar Province for all Army and Marine units serving in those 13 Forward Operations Bases

Greensboro, North Carolina

• Responsible for coordination and daily dispatch of all residential, commercial, and industrial drivers servicing over 10,000 customers.• Initiated Satellite tracking program for all route drivers.• Track and improve on productivity numbers in all lines of industry to ensure increasing profitability.• Submission and adherence to the Operational budgets for residential, commercial, and industrial business lines.• Close daily coordination and support to all outside sales representatives and administrative staff.• First line of support for all customers in the service area.• Responsible for a marked annual improvement of 400% increase in EBITDA within the first year

Wadesboro, N.C

• Increased Distribution Center’s throughput by 225% while reducing labor force by 28% and significantly reducing overtime costs.• Designed and created external reports that enabled production to be tracked, identified areas that required training, and provided reports to the Corporate Office to base decisions on Inventory Velocity.• Initiated new satellite tracking system enabling all outlying facilities across the nation to fulfill large customer demands while generating no additional freight costs to customers.• Implemented and directed new direct put-away process that increased Forward Pick positions from 55% to a high of 93% which resulted in reduction in time needed to meet the daily demand.

• I retired from the Corps after 20 years.• Marine Corps Supply Chief-3043• Supply Chief for 3rd SRIG (Now H&S IIIMEF), MWSG-47, General Account MC C&E Schools 29 Palms• Analyst and Team Chief on the FSMAO-1 (Field Supply and Maintenance Analysis Office -1)• Senior Instructor at the Marine Corps Supply School, • Marine Corps Recruiter Mid-Cities, Texas• NCOIC of a Recruiting Station for Mid-Cities, Texas• Served at Camp Elmore, VA, Camp Kinser, Okinawa, MCAGCC 29 Palms, CA, RSS Hurst, TX, Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Camp Johnson, NC, Selfridge ANG, MI.