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Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

Fort Collins, Colorado

Fort Collins, Colorado

Research topics: Computer VisionTeaming of Unmanned Aerial and Unmanned Ground Vehicles

Missouri State University

Assisted Veterans in applying for and utilizing various education benefits at Missouri State University.

Fort Wainwright, Alaska

• Utilized Microsoft Office Suite to create and maintain a file and information sharing system for an organization consisting of 130 individuals resulting in minimal clerical errors for a period of 6 months• Restructured administrative processes to expedite handling of customer requests which resulted in a 60% increase in total weekly processes while maintaining a less than 5% clerical error rate

Fort Wainwright, Alaska

• Organized and facilitated travel arrangements for over 130 personnel to 3 separate overseas locations while maintaining organizational budget awareness and staying under predetermined budget allowance• Responsible for the administration of the Defense Travel System (DTS) at the organization level and assisted the Lead Defense Travel Administrator with overall DTS administration for the site• Identified and leveraged respectful routing, finance, and budgetary officials and resources to assist in administering the DTS resulting in greater compliance with regulations

• Trained a team of 12 individuals on the Wave Relay Mobile AD-HOC Network Communications system resulting in an increased ability to facilitate operations across 7 separate UAS allowing an innumerable amount of operations; produced and presented new projects to the team to solve problems and meet mission goals • Qualified to operate numerous aircraft with over 225 flight hours between tactical and strategic UAV’s and accumulated over 600 hours operating SUAS which enabled the organization to successfully operate in 3 separate austere environments with minimal personnel; maintained and accountable for over $12M of UAS equipment• Involved in the development and writing of the technical manual for the Silver Fox aircraft allowing over 20 individuals to be trained and aircraft deployment to 4 operations locations