Randy Paul Pearson, Dafc, Cams, Cor Email & Phone Number

United States

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

+ Leads joint teams of civilian and contractor personnel in the planning, design, development and execution of multi-domain Joint Wargames+ Examines concepts and capabilities for joint force employment, future development, design and whole-of-government relationship building

Peterson Afb, Co

+ Led the VIGILANT SHIELD team responsible for facilitating each Tier 1 globally integrated exercise from concept to execution.+ Senior exercise lead and contracting officer's representative (COR), managing a multi-million-dollar planning, programing, budget and execution process that supports core NORAD and USNORTHCOM Tier 1 and Tier 2 exercise architectures. COR responsibilities include monitoring for technical compliance, task and fund expenditures, contract closeout and evaluation for exercise strategic emulation.+ Expertly orchestrated over 300 geographically dispersed exercise planning professionals spanning the entire defense enterprise to construct multi-domain threat scenarios, structure crisis planning, and control exercise execution. The result of which is the training of combatant commanders and their battle staffs in their Homeland Defense missions, global integration of operations, and to support the development of strategic and capabilities-based planning.+ Professionally facilitated discussion and advises senior officers and executives, with an expert articulation of objectives, developing concepts, and recommendations for every way forward.

Greater Denver Area

+ Led discussions for the Introduction to Homeland Security, Global Players, and North American Defense courses at the Korbel Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver. + Topics included homeland defense, military exercises, intelligence community, counternarcotics, counter threat finance, and transnational organized crime.

Counternarcotics And Counter Threat Finance Office

+ Responsible for coordination of the USNORTHCOM Counternarcotics Program and liaison through national, department, and command levels. Principal advisor for counternarcotics and counter threat finance policy, strategy, and resourcing.+ Assisted in the development of the first-ever USNORTHCOM counternarcotics (CN) program, maturing the program into a major command enabler with a staff of 35, and an annual budget of $80M.+ Coordinated national, department, and command guidance that established the mission and budget for counter threat finance (CTF) support operations.+ Organized and developed staff. Authored and negotiated general schedule CN and CTF billets and position descriptions, chairing interview panels and concluding the agreements for the placement of all CTF Specialist and Criminal Investigator positions.+ Developed interagency relationships with partners from the Departments of Homeland Security, State, Justice, and Treasury, private sector organizations, and academia; negotiating the procedures for passing classified products, reports, and other CTF Specialist and Criminal Investigator support.

Colorado Springs

+ Principal graduate instructor and author of the modern critical infrastructure protection course for the School of Public Affairs. + Aligned forefront academics with FEMA independent study, and emergency management principles to shape student thought and develop vulnerability analyses. + Developed the first Interagency Relationships workshop for the school and follow-on curriculum revision that was a highly successful virtual platform. + Prepared and delivered lectures, moderated discussions, designed course content, led curriculum development and revision, and assembled readings and case studies.

+ Responsible for establishing the first command counter threat finance (CTF) program at USNORTHCOM. + Developed the organizational goals and objectives that support and synchronize with national and department CTF guidance, and mission partner priorities to counter threat networks. + Coordinated policy and strategy with intelligence and law enforcement stakeholders to effectively provide all-source analytical products to supported mission partners in their efforts to counter transnational organized crime, terrorism, and proliferation. + Organized CTF support activities, ensuring compliance with statutory authorities, policy and doctrine, and strategic goals and tasks to meet consumer needs.

+ Team leader for the assessment of developments related to terrorism worldwide. + Authored analyses consumed by senior U.S. policy makers. + Provided the best information available to key decision-makers in the conduct of national policy, law enforcement, and intelligence operations. + Mentored newly assigned intelligence analysts, organizing working groups, and advising coordination with interagency partners.

+ Served as the senior civilian intelligence advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Deputy Director for the War on Terrorism, and OSD policy in support of national defense strategy regarding detained enemy combatants. + Recognized with a Joint Staff award for implementing the first national level review of the U.S. Army Field Manual on interrogations in over 10 years, at a time of intense congressional scrutiny. + Developed procedures for the processing of war zone intelligence. Applied knowledge of policy and process to coordinate tactical war zone information through the Joint Staff to the Secretary of Defense in just hours instead of the standard days or weeks. + Provided courses of action to executive branch leaders for decision support that improved exploitation and management of information.

+ Advised the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Navy, and special operations decision-makers on policy, plans, screening, and assessments concerning enemy combatants detained in the war on terrorism. + Chaired the interagency detainee working group for all detainee disposition recommendations to the Administrative Review Boards at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and authored the first DOD recommendations.

+ Advised senior defense leadership on the most sensitive relationships with Latin American and Caribbean countries, conceptualizing and advancing major national security policy initiatives in the Western Hemisphere.+ Developed policy and managed Secretary of Defense counter-part bilateral and multilateral meetings for two Defense Ministerials of the Americas (Manaus, Brazil in 2000 and Santiago, Chile in 2002).+ Planned and executed the first-ever official counterpart visit between the Secretary of Defense and the Brazilian Minister of Defense, which helped to advance bi-lateral military to military cooperation.

+ Supervised intelligence analysis teams, providing finished all-source intelligence products, geospatial intelligence and other derived and collaborative assessments in support of planning and active combat operations in the Pacific, European, and Central Command areas of responsibility.+ Selected by commander to lead special project teams in research of asymmetrical threats, and data collection requiring technical or trust-based partnership access to unique non-military sources. + Managed the production and coordination of subordinate workloads resulting in high quality intelligence products and production rates recognized throughout the intelligence and operations communities.

+ Advanced nuclear safety policy with European partners concerning the safe shutdown of Soviet-designed nuclear reactors throughout the former Soviet Union. + Led the first U.S. delegation to the Arctic Military Environmental Cooperation program that negotiated a tri-lateral agreement with Russia and Norway to develop a prototype 40-metric ton container to store and transport spent nuclear fuel from Russia's dismantled submarines.+ Served on detailed assignments to the Department’s China desk and to the DOD Cooperative Threat Reduction Program.

Masters, International Security And Advanced Asian Studies

Activities and Societies: Conducted research on illicit trafficking and international organized crime at the Matthew B. Ridgway Center.

Bachelors Double Major, Economics And Political Science

Activities and Societies: Minor in Military Science. Certificate in International Relations. Interned at the Pragma Corporation in Falls.

Air Command And Staff College

Activities and Societies: National Security and Joint WarfareJoint Professional Military Education (JPME) phase I credit

Military Intelligence Captains Career Course

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CAS3 employs small-group instruction techniques designed to improve an officer's ability to analyze and solve problems, communicate orally.

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