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Barksdale Afb

Barksdale Afb, Louisiana, United States

Barksdale Afb, La

Participates in MAJCOM strategic planning activities and product production in a wide variety of areas to include: nuclear strategy review, development, and analysis; review national nuclear strategy input into AFGSC's strategic planning documents; provide input to support DoD and USAF strategy documents. Contributes to the development of the AFGSC Strategic Plan/Roadmap, to include Commander's Guidance and Intent, the Strategic Framework, the Strategic Recapitalization Plan, the Divestiture Strategy and Plan and other strategic integration and capabilities products as required. Develop and advocate for funding within the $13B Nuclear Deterrence Operations portfolio as part of the DoDs Strategic Planning, Programming, Budget and Execution (SPPBE) process.

Air Force Global Strike Command, Barksdale Afb

Systems Integration Analyst for the National Leadership Command and Control (NLCC) and Nuclear, Command, Control, Communications (NC3) enterprise systems.Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses. This includes, but is not limited to, ground fixed, ground mobile, airborne, and maritime with voice, data, and video communications services in non-secure and secure modes of operation.Responsible to provide specialized engineering, test, and evaluation assistance and develop associated documentation as necessary to conduct continuing end-to-end technical and operational assessment of NLCC and NC3 communication systems.Ensure the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.Resolves issues associated with the development and implementation of operational programs.Provides input to Research & Development (R&D) programs and recommend technological application programs to accomplish long-range objectives.

Usstratcom, Offutt Afb

Led 26 personnel, across four Regional Adversary Teams and an Operations Branch to synchronize global activities. Advised superiors and managed subordinates of all personnel functions, and coordinated personnel accountability, strength management, evaluations, awards, and promotions. Provided written strategic guidance, on behalf of senior executive leaders, across a major United States military headquarters and its subordinate organizations. Maintained regional situation awareness to assist senior leader decision making.Duties:• Planned, directed, and coordinated office operations, planning work for subordinates, setting and adjusting long- and short-term priorities and preparing schedules for completion of work, assigning work based on priorities, difficulty, and requirements of assignments and capabilities of employees.• Prepared and submitted all formal documents associated with recruitment and placement, position classification, performance standards, training, performance appraisals, awards.• Led planning team across the headquarters to direct subordinate unit actions. Synchronized space systems, cyber and kinetic capabilities supporting global operations.

Ellsworth Afb, South Dakota

Led over 1,700 military and civilian personnel, managing a $58 million operations and maintenance budget. Directed and monitored support activities, programs and units. Ensured cohesive integration of functions and resources in security; civil engineering; information technology; morale, welfare, recreation, and services; public affairs; personnel; information management; and manpower to support installation and mission requirements.Duties:• Responsible for establishment of new drone unit, providing 24/7 worldwide military operations support.• Coordinated $20 million in building and information technology projects.• Fine-tuned installation deployment process. Efficiencies cut over three hours for deployers.• Organized a cross-unit deployment training exercise, focusing on timing and tempo of personnel and equipment to stand up a deployed location.• Reduced refueling times by 80% through training of personnel in safely fueling combat aircraft.

Eskan Village, Saudi Arabia

Led 350 personnel providing force protection for four U.S. State Department Security Assistance Programs to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Managed $11 million budget, providing civil engineering, information technology, contracting, logistics, medical, human resources, morale, dining and lodging services for deployed members. Executed base command and control, during crisis events, directing emergency response personnel.Duties:• Mitigated risk of losing contracted fire and emergency services, by advocating for U.S. military fire fighters to fill in six-month gap until host nation services could be employed. Resulted in $4.5 million savings for taxpayers.• Revamped wireless internet service to 350 employees overseas. New services reduced costs $250 thousand per year and saved 1,300 man hours in operations and maintenance.• Forged strong bilateral partnership with host nation military leaders. Integrated their security personnel into installation defense plan. Streamlined first responder direction.• Transitioned fiscal budget to meet federal regulatory mandates. Reduced overall operations and maintenance costs $5.6 million in first year and then $9 million per year thereafter.• Formulated comprehensive unit drawdown plan. Reduced personnel 50% and reallocated resources, in order to maintain continued mission success while decreasing operational budget costs by $10 million.• Oversaw process for position classification, performance standards, training, performance appraisals, awards, labor relations and disciplinary or adverse actions.

Mcconnell Afb, Ks

Led 90 personnel unit in executing cyberspace operations and information operations functions and activities to support installation and mission requirements. Responsible for IT systems and architectures supporting operational needs. Translated system operational concepts, requirements, architectures, and designed into detailed engineering specifications and criteria. Developed policies and procedures for current and future information technology architecture activities.Duties:• Guided organization’s project and operational initiatives, by providing key milestones and plan of actions. Focused unit and kept projects on-track.• Resolved issues affecting operation of installation’s 911 system, ensuring emergency response services for 5000 people.• Created sustainable system maintenance plan.• Led 110-person unit through Department of Defense network security compliance inspection. Received highest ratings in Air Force across 24 other installations.• Emphasized customer focus that empowered help desk manager to streamline processes. Reduced lost calls by 40%, resulting in a success rate of 85% completion of customer request.• Resolved data transfer issues for Department of Defense fuels database. Analyzed local and off-site data differences. System configuration fixes allowed recovery of $4 million in fuel costs.• Identified vendor sourced network security tools; streamlined administration and maintenance, resulting in a savings of 80 thousand man hours per year.• Conceptualized and collaborated the development of an Air Force mobile device app, providing installation community resource information to 17 thousand families and civic leaders.• Oversaw process for position classification, performance standards, training, performance appraisals, awards, labor relations and disciplinary or adverse actions.

Vandenberg Afb, Ca

Led four-person division providing operational expertise in information technology systems valued at $40 billion. Oversaw planning, implementation and integration of command and control space network system across five installations. Assessed network security compliance and ensured security posture critical to space and ground-based assets.Duties:• Oversaw $26 million upgrade to add an alternate secure fiber communications backbone path, removing single failure point.• Ensured continuity of operations for key Space Center.• Managed the transition of a $1.1 billion communications satellite system providing video distribution worldwide. Resolved years old cyber security issues and operating shortfalls.• Instituted network maintenance process with Air Force Cyber headquarters. Ensured full command and control capability for space launch sensors.

Maxwell Afb, Al

Air Command and Staff College

Langley Afb, Va

Led headquarters’ process improvement initiatives. Managed the Lessons Learned process to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness. Collected, analyzed, and coordinated lessons and issues from contingency operations and exercises at all organizational levels.Duties:• Led new headquarters process improvement division during initial stand up. Collaborated across all Air Force headquarters to standardize instructions.• Developed training plan and collection effort for a major military exercise. First time success for division as lead collector of lessons learned.• Primary trainer, tools developer and database manager for 15 analysts.

Langley Afb, Va

Led 80 personnel providing network operations support. Provided network management and engineering; system administration; configuration, change and release management; vulnerability assessment support to 16 installations and over 100,000 network users. Engineered and executed network system upgrades and installations. Advised senior information technology staff on network operations, sustainment and policies.Duties:• Led network management operations center, collecting metrics, analyzing data, and implementing improvements based on trend data.• Directed network operations center for 16 installations. Drove network centralized management, by condensing 17 classified networks to one. First in Air Force to achieve.• Revitalized stalled project to cutover installation’s communications backbone to permanent Network Control Center. Gathered key players, planned and completed cutover in 3 weeks.• Developed concept of operations to relocate network operations floor, during facility renovation. Maintained 24/7 operations throughout six-month renovation.• Initiated installation’s first requirements prioritization board. Scrubbed 600 to 150 within first month. • Drove installation schedule of new $5 million airfield radar and instrument landing systems.

Stuttgart Area, Germany

Led 40 engineers, providing 24/7 network services. Managed wide-area networks providing secure, reliable, and inter-operable communications services to over 200 sites. Directed all aspects of engineering, planning, analysis, implementation, and integration of broadband transmission services. Interfaced with military staffs across Europe to identify emerging operational requirements and established milestones to deploy responsive solutions.Duties:• Floor lead for theater network operations center. Developed training and continuity programs. Allocated network resources to match higher headquarter priorities.• Conducted Department of Defense European transmissions backbone study. Analyzed bandwidth modeling data to implement upgrades. Identified critical shortfalls and increased throughput 400%.• Managed four facilities providing satellite communications to over 300 tactical users, providing 80% of all communications to operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.• Contracts technical subject matter expert for installation of new transmission paths. Reviewed contract proposals for technical feasibility.

Maxwell Afb, Al

Provided enabling technical network solutions for critical command and control connections between Air Force installations. Developed, designed, tested, and installed network equipment for the Air Force Systems Networking program office. Led branch-level efforts of 14 information technology professionals to provide continuous worldwide network service to the Air Force.Duties:• Designed, procured, and installed $100 thousand test facility for verification of future data networks.• Coordinated classified network installs and upgrades between installation, program office, Air Force and the Joint Chief of Staff requirements.• Crafted security guidance for the Air Force Portal.• Devised network performance parameters and verified lab results.

Hill Afb, Ut

Led software project teams responsible for development and maintenance for radar analysis software and unit database management software. Prepared software documentation to include user manuals, test plans, test reports, and maintenance manuals. Performed duties as engineering liaison with radar evaluation officers and technical advisers.Duties:• Wrote and implemented test plan for RADAR analysis tool, used in new system upgrades.• Led software development of inventory tracking system. Implemented unit’s first bar-coding capability and reduced manpower inventory resources by 75%.• Led evaluation teams to optimize RADAR performance. Wrote technical reports and test plans to support Department of Defense and Federal Aviation Administration requirements.• Designed and coded enhance plotting/mapping projections capability for next-generation RADAR analysis tool. Enhanced analysis of air incidents by pin-pointing last known positions of aircraft.

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Master'S Degree, Military Operational Art And Science

Master'S Degree, Aerospace Sciences