Michael Drager Email & Phone Number

Reston, Va, Us

Reston, Va, Us

Worldwide, Oo

• Supporting key strategic initiatives and operations efforts in the Deloitte Consulting Government and Public Services practice (GPS).• Servicing Federal, State, and local clients to create, implement, and sustain strategies for program and mission definition, optimization, differentiation, disruption, and business model/ecosystem transformation.• Implementing corporate and business unit strategy, technology strategy and insights, enterprise model design, enterprise cloud strategy, and business transformation solutions to improve client outcomes. • Advising clients with clear data-driven choices on market insights, growth opportunities, and enterprise value to identify strategies for growth and value creation.• Developing business models, operating models, and capabilities to support client strategic visions, while leveraging technology and Cloud trends that position future business growth.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

• Provided general administrative support, program and policy support, and led special assignments in the USAID Africa Bureau, Office of East African Affairs (AFR/EA), covering regional missions and country offices in Burundi, Central African Republic, Djibouti, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.• Oversaw all logistics related to AFR/EA including travel and management support for office leadership, led and maintained all security protocols for the office, and supported staff trainings.• Analyzed and reported information from intelligence sources, USAID briefings, and other U.S. government partners to accurately monitor and track sensitive developments across the AFR/EA portfolio.• Reviewed and assembled all policy briefing materials, memoranda, and official correspondences for final clearance and use for the Executive Secretariat and/or the USAID Administrator.• Assisted AFR/EA missions and country offices, assured timely responses, accurate data collection, and finalized reporting for use at the mission level for stronger program management, implementation and design.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

• Managed all internal and external scheduling, correspondence, and documentation for the Senior Deputy Director of USAID’s Global COVID-19 Task Force, the lead U.S. federal agency directing U.S. humanitarian and foreign assistance for over 60 countries responding to the COVID-19 outbreak. • Handled all official communications and served as the lead focal point for all administrative, program, coordination, and budget communications for the Senior Deputy Director of the Task Force. • Briefed senior Agency leadership, partners, and other U.S. Government officials on USAID’s global strategy to combat the COVID-19 epidemic, including the management of approximately $200 million in U.S. foreign assistance.• Led special assignments as designated by senior Agency leadership including but not limited to USAID acquisition and award trouble shooting, drafting policy and national security memoranda, and formulating budget and programming guidance for USAID Missions impacted by the outbreak. • Assisted in internal and external coordination between Task Force leadership and U.S. interagency, international, and multilateral partners on all COVID-19 related matters in the humanitarian and development space.

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• Represented the USAID Africa Bureau on the D.R. Congo Ebola Response Management Team (RMT) at internal and external meetings, and served as the primary point of contact for all correspondence to and from the Bureau.• Briefed the Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator for African Affairs and primary Bureau stakeholders on all key policy developments, interagency decisions, crisis planning, epidemiological updates, open source and classified reporting, and general updates from the RMT at opening and close of business briefings.• Produced daily information products on updates, events, news, classified reporting, and regional preparedness for Africa Bureau leadership and primary bureau stakeholders, while advising on bureau-wide programs.• Supervised all Africa Bureau policy clearances under pressed deadlines, on information products being circulated throughout the U.S. Government, including funding, epidemiological, policy, and security updates through timely and accurate communication with Africa Bureau leadership and primary Bureau stakeholders.• Advised both RMT leadership and Africa Bureau leadership and primary Bureau stakeholders on U.S. foreign policy on the D.R. Congo, while analyzing USAID’s posture in the Ebola affected zones of Eastern D.R. Congo.

Arlington, Va, Us

• Managed all administrative backstopping functions for United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other donor funded projects, specifically the Sri Lanka Support for Professional and Institutional Capacity Enhancement Program (SPICE), the Vietnam Evaluation, Monitoring and Survey Services (VEMSS) project, the USAID/Bangladesh Obirodh: Road to Tolerance project, and the USAID/OTI Lebanon Community Resilience Initiative project (LCRI).• Organized project deadlines, delegated tasks, established plans, tracked budget projections and monitored and summarized project progress.• Sustained constant communication with senior management, technical directors, and external clients in the field.• Analyzed and reviewed all fixed price subcontracts, simplified and fixed obligation grants, and contract modifications within the project portfolio. • Coordinated between headquarters and field teams on financial and contractual matters, ensuring consistent compliance with donor rules and regulations. • Monitored project statuses and mitigated potential problems, identified alternative solutions, and implemented an effective course of action in accordance with general policy and related codes and regulations.

Arlington, Va, Us

• Collected accurate information on field based employees and updating 25 or more USAID project contact lists a week to ensure accurate and effective communication in the event of an emergency. • Revised Project Safety and Security Manuals for ongoing projects and coordinating with the Project Managers on ways to integrate and improve safety protocols and content. • Expedited field staff travel requests and supported the travel team through making necessary arrangements and accommodations, processing visa applications, and updating itineraries.• Streamlined MSI emergency protocols across other USAID contractors under the Tetra Tech parent organization.• Delivered improved intranet content on safety and security for field staff to access remotely.

New York, Ny, Us

•Taught Level Two French in a weekly, small group setting, focusing on reviewing basic present tense verb conjugations, improving basic conversational skills, understanding essential French grammatical tenses, and building new vocabulary.

Washington, D.C., Us

• Managed and contributed articles related to U.S. security and defense assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa, including foreign military sales, U.S. foreign military training, WMDs, and security sector reform• Drafted new policy briefings on State Department and Department of Defense funding programs, and communicated via social media and site publications more effective funding solutions for U.S. programs• Improved our site’s comprehensive database of military aid through analyzing yearly trends, formatting new data entries, and graphically organizing complex military aid themes to be accessible for the public• Wrote new policy briefings on the underreported policy area of French military aid, and articulated overlapping program themes through site blog posts on regional threats such as Boko Haram /Al-Shabaab and changes in U.S. funded programs, strategies, and coalitions• Integrated the Security Assistance Monitor communications platforms to market the group’s growing presence in the foreign policy community through new and engaging newsletters and custom infographics on military aid

New York, Ny, Us

• Facilitated the development and execution of program logistics and team strategies for U.S. and foreign diplomatic officials with Fortune 500 U.S. business executives, through supporting BCIU hosted forums and roundtable discussions that covered transnational security, development, and investment issues• Conducted country specific research (ex. Estonia, Greece, Ukraine, Turkey ) to enhance BCIU program activities on multinational corporations and international business opportunities in the defense, banking, telecommunications, and energy sectors while monitoring our program budgets and expense reports• Advanced our programs by performing simple administrative tasks, editing corporate correspondences, presenting organized informational booklets, and attending Ambassadorial and tradeshow meetings• Created a new management database for existing and prospective clients that organized thousands of reports on different companies that the Program Manager utilized to build the growing client base• Liaised with U.S. Department of State, Commerce, Defense, and other federal officials, as well as regularly engaged with our clients at BCIU programs that enabled public-private partnership development

• On-boarded the entire new staff for the 2015-2016 school year by processing all legal documentation, organizing their assignments, and recording their personal information to ensure accurate record keeping• Processed over 300 staff assessments on how to improve the program, incorporated the data into a user-friendly interface, and presented our findings for enhanced strategic performance to our Program Directors• Overhauled old records from 2001-2010, and implemented an electronic documentation system that helped our Government Relations Director track new staff developments in the event of an AmeriCorps audit

• Developed effective reports on new developments in regulation and industry policy for the business development team of a venture capital firm in the Pacific Northwest/ Intermountain region• Identified new markets, liaised with new investors, maintained travel, event, and business schedules for the team, and detailed legal and corporate meetings that concerned product development• Reorganized the plant inventory system and developed effective solutions that enabled the small manufacturing operation to double production from 500 units to 1000 units in two months

Bachelor’S Degree, Political Science And French, Summa Cum Laude

High School, Political Science And Government, French