Rene Campos Email and Phone Number

• Manages daily advocacy operations and assists the VP of Government Relations with long-term strategic planning requirements.• Collaborates extensively with public agencies, private organizations, White House, and congressional officials and their staffs, and media to achieve goals and for coalition building.• Oversees assignment, writing, and editing of legislative content in Military Officer Magazine, MOAA’s Newsletter, and legislative content on MOAA’s website and in other advocacy products.• Supports MOAA business lines in creating and producing content as required for internal and external MOAA’s communication channels.• Serves as a senior leader and advisor on various advocacy portfolios on personnel, pay, compensation, benefits, transition, employment, health care, and other quality of life (QOL) programs for uniform service members, veterans, and their families.• Researches and studies objectives, requirements, and challenges; conducts in-depth issue analysis before preparing and presenting testimony before Congress, Presidential commissions, task forces, and special study groups.• Gathers and analyzes data for studies, reports, and legislation and makes recommendations based on findings.• Manages Departments of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care portfolio and serves as an expert advisor on veteran-related issues and relationships.• Advocates for the wounded, ill and injured and disabled, caregivers, and women, minority, and underserved in the veterans.• Communicates with MOAA headquarters leadership, Board of Directors, Council of Chapter leaders, and members to advance legislative priorities and foster grassroots advocacy campaigns and relationships; serves in an acting position in the absence of the VP, and serves as principal advisor for the Health Care and Government Relations Board Committees.

• Managed a newly established position on PMI’s Global Operations Center’s Organizational Relations and Programs team.• Served as government relations manager to advance the profession of project, program, and portfolio management within the Department of Defense and VA.• Responsible for researching, writing, tracking, and analyzing, legislation, regulations, testimony, and other policy proposals to achieve PMI legislative and marketing goals domestically and internationally.• Acted as a change agent for driving legislative and public policy agenda to enhance business objectives and strategy.• Worked with diverse groups of individuals in the White House, Congress, federal agencies, media, military-veteran service organizations, and NGOs. Recruited members of Congress to join the House Government Efficiency Caucus, a forum initiated by the Institute to help decision-makers improve policy and program initiatives.• Leveraged international defense agency relationships, bringing agencies like the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the Australian Defense Materiel Organization to the PMI Global Council.• Worked with USACE, the Pentagon Office of the Chief of Engineers, the Army Engineer School, U.S. Special Operations Command, and PMIChapters, developing a strategy and campaign using military liaison positions to promote PMI and its membership.• Fostered the establishment of a Memorandum of Understanding between PMI and the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) and promoted the relationship through PMI-DAU-generated press releases, social media, and print magazines.• Conceived, executed, and promoted a Government Executive Roundtable, Addressing the Talent Gap and Project Management Competencieswithin the Military, Government and Industry; resulting in the establishment of a new PMI program for transitioning service members and branding of the program across PMI’s extensive chapter system and domestic and international markets to enhance membership.

• Represented active duty, Guard and Reserve, retirees, veterans, wounded, ill, injured, and disabled, survivors, caregivers, and family members.• Conceived, coordinated, supervised, and executed MOAA’s legislative agenda and individual portfolio objectives.• Coordinated efforts with other MOAA departments to gather and synthesize data and information regarding member needs and concerns as well as to disseminate timely and relevant information for various organization-wide campaigns.• Constantly assessed legislative and political climates and adjusted action plans to meet that changing environment to ensure optimum engagement opportunities.• Recognized as MOAA’s subject-matter-expert on all military wounded, ill and injured veterans, and family issues.• Assisted 34 regional MOAA Councils and 409 Chapters in pressuring their state and local legislators into passing military personnel and family laws.• Chaired an MOAA in-house Task Force to develop recommendations for public relations materials, products, and services that would directly support military family members.• Co-Chaired the Transition Benefits Sub-committee for the congressionally chartered Secretary of VA’s Advisory Committee for Women Veterans, assessing benefit and health care policies and programs to improve the lives of transitioning women leaving military service.• Singularly responsible for developing, orchestrating, and executing six widely-attended Warrior-Family Symposiums; garnered celebrity appearances, sponsorship, and averaged 500-600 attendees per event; conducted three annual roundtable events to address post-symposium topics and to advance MOAA’s brand and to build coalition support on wounded, ill, and injured legislation.

• Selected by the Deputy Under Secretary for Defense, Military Community, and Family Policy to direct DoD military family programs.• Led geographically and organizationally diverse teams in reengineering QoL programs valued at $4 billion.• Directly managed 14 QoL programs worth $750 million, supporting 5 million customers.• Managed three-person staff and operational resources for 700 family assistance centers worldwide.• Pioneered the first Pentagon’s Family Assistance Center (PFAC) for families of 9/11 victims; recipient, Joint Service Commendation Medal.• Authored, published, and led the public affairs efforts of a 315-page PFAC After Action Report for future mass casualty operations.• Chaired for an 85-member joint intergovernmental committee to improve DoD and Service QoL programs and services.• Influenced legislation to increase family support funding by $120 million in the Fiscal Year 2004.• Served as a research analyst for a Presidential study of military family support programs, resulting in a 20-year Defense Human Resource Strategic Plan.• Executed DoD’s largest Family Readiness Conference in seven years with over 800 attendees.

• Planned, organized, and directed an integrated financial management program, providing financial program analysis and evaluation, and advised on financial expenditures for Navy family support, morale, welfare and recreation, family and servicemember housing, education assistance, and other base support programs.• Participated in developing annual budget, long-range program planning, and capital improvement strategies.• Ensured that technical procedures and methodologies of the various financial management processes were adhered to by subordinates.• Coordinated and correlated these functions into an effective and broad system of financial controls while ensuring regulatory compliance with DoD, Secretary of the Navy, Navy Comptroller, and Command Management directives.• Provided accountability for the Division’s funds and assets, providing full disclosure of financial results of operations on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, or annual basis.