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Farmville, Va, Us

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Falls Church, Virginia, United States

Washington, District Of Columbia

Serves as a member of US Army Chaplain Corps executive leadership team in the Pentagon focused on the Strategy, Plans, Policy, and Resources Divisions. Functions as the authoritative advisor to the Director and provides subject matter expertise and executive leadership in the multi-mission areas of strategy, plans and policy, and resources.Leadership & Management• Supervise and direct subordinate supervisors on operations, managing development of plans and programs required for budget, resource management, training and logistics, and experience resolving employee complaints, grievances, or disciplinary actions.• Administered integration of strategic operations improving productivity by ≈ 30% within a year, managing day-to-day supervision and coaching and mentoring of directorate of 80+ personnel in 4 divisions.Operations Leadership• Manage the timely and accurate processing of joint, congressional, and staff actions that include manpower allocations, compensations/entitlements, manpower policy resources, and personnel strength. • Initiated and facilitated multiple priority special projects, studies, and initiatives encompassing difficult and diverse issues that affected critical aspects of direct support across the Army.• Transformed organizational governance, policies, and processes enhancing the organization's capability to operate at the enterprise level efficiently; simplified decision making.Key Highlights• Increased accessioning criteria for career field of 2.5K+ personnel focusing on better-qualified candidates resulting in fewer personnel losses due to lack of qualifications.• Refined plans including programming and evaluating complex programs with budget and contracts of $30M+.• Cultivated change by developing policies for largest organizational restructuring since the 1940s; built out sustainment function while streamlining organization and modernizing oversight and delivery of support world-wide.

World-Wide

Served as a senior leader and member of the numerous executive teams that oversaw day-to-day administration of programs and initiatives. Served as the Senior Advisor coordinating and executing religious support for over 100K people located in communities world-wide. Served as coach, mentor, facilitator, and negotiator in coordinating Command's initiatives and in consensus-building activities.Operations Management• Utilized organizational development and project management expertise to assist in analyzing, documenting, and streamlining support processes. • Provided staff advice to leadership in response to directives from senior levels and appropriate authority. Human Resources & Human Capital• Advised executive leadership on various policy matters such as religious support, disciplinary actions, evaluations, awards, and training.• Produced and implemented annual training plans incorporating hundreds of hours of training.• Redeveloped 15+ divisional activity Standard Operating Procedures and Policies increasing effectiveness of assigned personnel by ≈ 25%.Training & Organizational Leadership• Utilized organizational development and project management knowledge and skills to assist in analyzing, revising, documenting, and streamlining processes.• Trained personnel to adjust to change, work pressures, and demanding situations without undue stress.• Spearheaded working group conducting a comparative analysis of training at three training centers revealing inconsistencies in training standards.Key Highlights• Managed a first-ever grant program obtaining $36K and developing an innovative mechanism to provide ministry to active duty Soldiers assigned to reserve installations.• Trained personnel about program grants; this training resulted in receiving 20+ grants and over $100K for innovative religious support programs.• Utilized project management expertise to organize a Manpower Modeling Workshop regenerating 100% of manpower requirements.

Headquarters, Installation Management Command, Arlington, Virginia

Oversaw and led the management of funds for 60 facilities, managed budgets over $22M, and administering programs affecting 600+ employees. Directly managed program direction, objectives, strategies, and evaluations for installation support functions, operations, and activities that include financial management, contracting services, security, chapel management, chaplain, family and community activities, internal review, equal opportunity, and personnel functions, technical and professional services including public works and environmental services. • Led the Purchase Card Program for religious support across the Army, oversaw 60 billing officials, and 315 cardholders with an annual expense of $4M.• Directed installation religious support services by formulating goals, policies, and objectives for installations worldwide.• Managed and directed chaplain installation support services directly affecting the accomplishment of a multi-service operation and a complex multi-mission across military installations.Key Highlights• Developed workload survey leading to the approval of the first ever force structure model for IMCOM Chaplain Teams; resulted in 80+ new personnel requirements.• Standardized accounting system end of fiscal year procedures managing 60 account rollups, through 5 Regions, of over $22M in fund assets.• Served as the primary action officer managing the HQ IMCOM $1M annual travel and training budget, managing with 100$ accuracy over 600 travelers to over 23 training events.• Redefined the process of analyzing and formulating the ingredients that provided Common Levels of Support for religious support services Army-wide.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Organizational Development, 3.97

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Social Sciences, 3.721

Joint Special Forces Senior Enlisted Academy

Us Army Sergeants Major Course

Graduated, Red Team Member Course