Pasquale Balena Email & Phone Number

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Specific focus on Credit Risk and Climate Scenario Analysis

Washington DC

• Selected from over 250 applicants to serve in the Veterans Innovation Partnership Fellowship as a Management Analyst for the Chief of Mission and Deputy Chief of Mission / Principal Officer selection process..
• Restructured analytical framework to efficiently interpret a complex network of up to 1,000 bids involving 400 personnel against 100 positions to ensure regulatory compliance of Department hiring initiatives.
• Designed and managed data visualization tools with Power BI to conduct talent management intelligence by clarifying the complex bipartite graphing inherent in senior level bidding; led to researched conclusions about.
• Drafted reports and selection memos for direct signature by Secretary Blinken that summarized the selections of the Deputy Secretary Committee’s Chief of Mission board which sent 104 recommendations for Ambassador.
• Provided policy recommendations and implemented the change of Department processes on selections and nominations of Deputy Assistant Secretaries. Facilitated the nominations of 45 Assistant Secretaries, Principal.

• Selected for a detail to work with the African Climate team in the Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. Designed and led portfolio for Private Sector Engagement on the African continent and researched.
• Led preliminary discussions with the Office of the Chief Economist on Climate Asset Backed Securities as a method of catalyzing an additionally required $3.5 trillion per year for Green Finance to meet IPCC goals of.
• Analyzed African nations through reconciliation of ND-GAIN climate resiliency measures, political risk assessments, and Department foreign policy objectives to promote prioritization of Climate Adaptation goals.
• Facilitated dialogue on South Africa to identify Private Sector Energy engagement initiatives and contribute towards IEA Net Zero by 2050 goals.

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Responsible for leading multiple projects to improve data, analytics, and tools used across the Clinical Trials Division Procurement organization to drive value with suppliers and increase both efficiency and.
• Led collaborations with IT professionals to synchronize supplier spend data; defined requirements, researched solutions, and monitored tasks to bring 15 international sites on 8 unique systems to one single ERP to.
• Designed and administered a rapid supplier survey in response to COVID-19 business impacts; yielded a 35% response rate from 1,000+ worldwide suppliers and follow up engagement with 5 suppliers exposed to COVID-19.
• Engineered automated reporting solutions to analyze over 5,000+ monthly vendor invoices and calculate sourcing savings; improved efficiency by reducing task time from 3hrs to 15min with increased data fidelity and easy.
• Conducted complex analysis of cold-chain procurement projects through examination of vendor-data; resulted in trend analysis with future projections to renegotiate contracts and save up to $200 thousand.
• Reconciled 15 monthly procurement reports; created key financial deliverables to report $3.7mil in annual Division savings.

Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington

• Selected over 6 peers to serve twice as Company Commander for a Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment and a Special Forces Line Battalion Forward Support Company. Successfully supervised 96 Soldiers and managed.
• Researched rapid deployment risks in the event of Korean crisis at a high organizational level and provided findings through internal publications; clearly informed Group Commander to make policy decisions.
• Cultivated strong and positive organizational climate; resulted in successful retention of 9 Soldiers in the US Army.
• Deployed 27 Soldiers across 12 separate countries in Asia/South-East Asia to facilitate simultaneous distributions and support missions with over 750,000 lbs. of military freight valued at $10 million.
• Successfully relocated a military maintenance facility with $8 million of equipment during tenure and conducted over 2,500 repairs on military vehicles, weapons, night vision devices, and communications gear.
• Analyzed objectives, developed courses of action, and executed a training plan to prepare Company for combat deployment through 25 deliberate events to include: 4 airborne operations; 7 weapons ranges; 5 basic skills.

Served as the lead logistics planner for Special Operations Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve (SOJTF-OIR) enabling missions to defeat ISIS. Published internal written reports of logistics postures, forecasted supply requirements for the Combined Joint Operational Area, and procured equipment for subordinate units/partner forces in support of US.

Fort Bragg, North Carolina

• Oversaw Brigade level warehouse operations, combat aviation fuel support and combat aviation ammunition distribution. Successfully led platoon sized element of 50+ personnel through a combat deployment to Bagram.
• Implemented the transition to a new distribution ERP for the first aviation warehouse in the Army; resulted in proper forecasts to resupply assets with a combined total value of over $50 million.
• Compiled data through management of 26 Soldiers and 11 subordinate leaders across 3 different satellite locations in Afghanistan; forecasted fuel consumption and implemented delivery of over 300,000 gallons of fuel in.
• Led the transition between JP-8 to F-24 aviation fuel on Fort Bragg; directed the only Petroleum Quality Analysis lab on installation testing the quality and fuel additive levels of over 100,000 gallons of aviation.
• Supplied various ammunitions valued in excess of $11 million in support of OH-58, AH-64, UH-60 and CH-47 combat missions throughout Afghanistan.
• Organized the turn-in of over 600 items in excess of $100 million in support of drawdown operations in Afghanistan.

Fort Lee, Virginia

• Appointed as Executive Officer for assertive involvement and attention to detail resulting in improvement to unit administrative actions and processes.
• Meticulously coordinated and assisted with in-processing and out-processing of over 200+ personnel.
• Managed and accounted for 35+ hold over personnel at any given time while diligently monitoring all task orders, hold over reports, and administrative finance/travel/leave/pass functions.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics And Political Science

Activities and Societies: ROTC, Intersect Fund

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Finance, General, 3.92 Cum Gpa