Military Information Support Operations
Completed 20-year career focused on military-specific communications to influence the emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign audiences.• Senior Advisor to the Joint Staff’s Director of Operations (4 years) – Advised senior executive leaders within the Defense Department (DoD) and coordinated various Strategic Communication efforts. o Supported the development of DoD policy for influence websites and social media. o Supported ROI analysis for worldwide Information Operations and communications programs exceeding $1 Billion; data utilized in the development of reports for Congressional engagement.• Marketing Communications (14 years) – Completed several assignments with gradually increased levels of responsibility culminating in serving as the senior manager of a communications organization with 100+ personnel, responsible for the creation, production, dissemination, & archival of multimedia marketing products. Efforts resulted in successful communications support during exercises and operations in Afghanistan, the Balkans, Germany, Iraq, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Somalia, South Korea, Thailand, and the US. o Served as the senior manager for strategic communications projects; led planning, deployment, audience assessment, communications product development, dissemination, and evaluation. o Spearheaded organizational development initiative; changed a centralized organization supporting a single customer into a decentralized organization supporting global operations. o Served as senior communications planner for an Army organization based in Europe for 2 years. Led external / internal communications.• Senior Career Manager (2 years) – Conducted strategic Human Resources management for 600+ professionals. o Staffed 40+ worldwide locations; increased fully-qualified rate from 53% to 100%. o Saved $1.5M+ by eliminating duplicate staffing expenses and implementing targeted recruiting program.