Full time from February 2018 to March 31, 2021, to support the Sailor 2025 Ready Relevant Learning (RRL) project at NAWCTSD:• Supervised the daily operation of the Tech Writer Team, ensuring that all projects were delivered on time and with consistent high-level quality• Reviewed/edited standard operating procedures, functional requirements reports, style guides, process flows, and job aids/templates/checklists with special emphasis on proper layout, consistency in content and in the application of acronyms, error-free graphics, and correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation• Assisted RRL leadership with the security program, ensuring that all documents had the correct distribution statement and protective markings• Coordinated all aspects of the awards program, ensuring nomination packets were prepared and submitted according to NAWCTSD’s and NAVAIR’s requirements• Coordinated with the RRL and Integrated Project Team leadership to receive their monthly input for The RRL Observer, a newsletter created by the Tech Writer Team

Provided off-site, on-demand editing support to the NAWCTSD Columbia Submarine Front-End Analysis project and to select Navy Recruiting Command projects to ensure they received the same high standards of quality assurance (QA) applied to the Sailor 2025 project

• Researched and developed video flows and storyboards for 15 Job Performance Aids (JPAs) for incorporation onto mobile apps to be used on U.S. Army hand-held devices• Researched and developed storyboards for three Interactive Multimedia Instruction lessons• Edited all project deliverables, and other items designated by the company's leadership, for layout, spelling, grammar, graphic quality, programming functionality, and instructional design• Assisted in the data collection efforts and corresponding video shoots for the JPA lessons

• Assisted program and project managers and their internal QA teams on quality-related matters• Edited products from Carley’s development teams to ensure they met or exceeded the customers’ requirements for layout, spelling, grammar, graphic quality, programming functionality, and instructional design• After the U.S. Marine Corps at Quantico rejected all lessons in seven courses due to excessive errors, turned those courses around by fixing all errors within five months

• Supervised the execution of the company’s QA procedures and updated them to coincide with the most advanced features in the industry for quality management certification• Advised senior management of QA trends within the company• Monitored the quality-related processes of program and project managers• Edited products developed by FPMI’s development teams • Ensured all deliverables met or exceeded the customers’ requirements for layout, spelling, grammar, graphic quality, programming functionality, and instructional design• Supervised the final editing and layout of technical manuals and cockpit reference handbooks• Researched, wrote, and edited lessons for instructor-led training and interactive courseware

• Assisted the U.S. Army’s Junior ROTC (JROTC) Directorate to integrate to year-round schooling and block scheduling• Supervised the research and development of yearly curriculum upgrades and initiatives for the JROTC program• Conducted annual workshops for school superintendents, high school principals, district curriculum developers, and JROTC instructors on curriculum upgrades and initiatives• Assisted in the development of the task analyses and design strategies for two U.S. Navy Fleet Reserve contracts and a U.S. Army satellite contract• Researched, wrote, and edited scripts and storyboards for interactive courseware for two U.S. Navy Fleet Reserve contracts and a U.S. Army satellite contract• Assisted in the data collection effort for and ensured technical accuracy during a two-week video shoot at Fort Huachuca for the U.S. Army satellite contract

Established primarily to:• Reinforce/build upon Tech-Data Management’s curriculum modernization effort for the U.S. Army's Junior ROTC (JROTC) program• Assist in proposing/developing future upgrades for the JROTC program • Participate in briefing the current/anticipated JROTC program upgrades to superintendents and principalsIn 1993, transferred the JROTC contracts to a government contractor and, together, we supported ROTC Cadet Command until March 2000

• Assigned as project manager with only 13 months remaining on a 30-month contract, completed all U.S. Army Junior ROTC (JROTC) contractual requirements to modernize the outdated (mid-1970s) four-year curriculum, including the production of 11 videos, with only 40% of the 2.5 million-dollar contract remaining while staying on schedule and under budget• Conducted numerous train-the-trainer workshops nationwide to more than 1,500 JROTC instructors on curriculum upgrades

Primary specialty: Infantry; secondary specialty: Operations/Force Development | Retired as a Major • Assignments:— Staff Officer: ROTC Cadet Command— Operations Officer: NATO, Germany— Advisor: South Carolina Army National Guard — 4th Combat Support Training Brigade:—— Brigade Operations Officer, S3—— Battalion Executive Officer - 15th Battalion—— Company Commander, B-15-4 and B-16-4— Company Commander: 2nd Infantry Division, Republic of Korea— Operations/Force Development Officer: 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley— Platoon Leader, Company Commander, and Task Force Commander: 1st Infantry Division, VietnamCommissioned: OCS (November 1, 1967)• Awarded the Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star for Valor, Purple Heart, and Defense Meritorious Service Medal. Also, awarded the Vietnam Honor Medal First Class for Humanitarian Service for rescuing three Vietnamese children (ages two to six years old) from the battlefield and taken to orphanages.