Peter Laird Email & Phone Number

Vienna, Va

Leader of intelligence integration integrating 17 intelligence agencies and collection of intelligence and analysis to make informed decisions by the White House to the foxhole.Promoted to lead 22 employees and ensure compliance with agency financial reporting requirements to Congress and the Office of Management and Budget - including quarterly and annual financial statements and the Agency Financial Report. Manage all office workflow and focus on preparing the Agency for financial auditability by fiscal year 2014. Serve as acting Director in her absence.

Mclean, Virginia

Led teams and established a methodology for strategic evaluations. Spearheaded the assessment of foreign language investments in the Intelligence Community. Analyzed million-dollar pieces of the Intelligence Community’s budget to support budget decisions as a member of the Systems and Resource Analyses (SRA) directorate. Served as the SRA’s lead action officer for planning and programming stages of annual budget cycle. * Established a strategic evaluation concept and methodology resulting in a new Intelligence Community corporate capability to evaluate the performance of multi-billion-dollar investments by federal agencies. * Executed a strategic evaluation of a major multi-agency-investment. Identified best practices, issues, and recommendations resulting in policy and management changes to optimize capability across five federal agencies. Efforts included an evaluation design plan and milestones, research, data collection, interviews, analysis, development of findings and recommendations, and briefings to senior leadership. * Co-led a 16 federal agency data storage study to develop an overview of policy and requirements resulting in the implementation of electronic data management solutions and focus on petabyte-level storage requirements.* Conducted counterterrorism portfolio analysis and offered recommendations that identified efficiencies and enabled informed decisions by senior executive leadership.

Provider of intelligence to support the warfighter and the national policy maker. Directed 40 professionals across 13 analysis offices and satellite commands. Managed more than half-billion-dollars from a long-range planning budget to budgeting and execution of current year funds. Served as a trusted financial advisor to the senior executive team leading a 2000-person organization; aligned analytic capabilities to national priorities. Four months into job, assumed Deputy Office Chief’s job.* Oversaw eight analysts in Fallujah, Iraq providing intelligence critical to counter terrorism operations - December 2006 to March 2007.

Norfolk, Va

Oversight of Naval operations in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico and training of Navy and joint task force operations.Selected by the Navy to provide leadership to a 57-member team in the planning and execution of four major training events readying the United States and NATO military forces for deployment. * Coordinated experiments testing intelligence agent based computing in business practices. Efforts resulted in the incorporation of intelligent agents for Navy-wide application. * Conducted damage and recovery assessment supporting Hurricane Katrina emergency management relief operations. Enabled decision making by leadership in optimal use of naval capabilities.

Monterey, California

Completed an executive education program (five quarters) design to enhance leadership and management performance in positions of major responsibility.

Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Bridged cultural communications and information exchange between two countries to overcome cultural and language barriers. Led intelligence team in bilateral exercises and improved operations with host-country Navy.

Norfolk, Va

Executed executive-level briefs to include researching, creating and facilitating more than 200 briefs and over 150 summaries on worldwide geopolitical issues and countries’ military capabilities. Briefs enabled critical leadership decisions during the Persian Gulf and Caribbean counter-drug operations.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Master Of Science (Ms) In Systems Technology, Focus: Scientific And Technical Intelligence

Master Of Arts (Ma), International Relations

Focus: Policy Analysis Thesis: Intelligence Gathering in the Vietnam War

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), History

Focus: 20th Center American wars, Arab-Israeli Conflict