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• United States Air Force (Ellsworth AFB) June 2020 – PresentLogistics Readiness Officer (Installation Deployment Officer)
• Serves as Installation Deployment Officer, leading 28th Bomb wing deployment operations and ensuring combat readiness of 4,000 personnel and 27 B-1B Lancers
• Directs wing’s War Reserve Materiel program overseeing 38 assets worth $10 millionJoint Task Force Southeast April 2020 – June 2020Logistics Readiness Officer for COVID-19
• Led night shift operations center team of six members for planning in support of JTF-SE in FEMA Regions III & IV during Covid-19 response to conduct joint reception, staging, onward movement and integration
• Planned 38 alternate care facilities for bed down of 90 personnel title 10 Army medical team in 13 states to support a total population of 97 million to combat Covid-19
• Coordinated with medical logistics at Joint Base McGuire to acquire PPE from FEMA Region II in order to support the Philadelphia metro hospitalsUnited States Air Force (Ellsworth AFB) January 2018 – June 2020Logistics.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Manages entire Occupational Health program to include: industrial hygiene program, respiratory protection program, hazard communication (HAZCOM) program, radiological protection program, ionizing radiation program.
• Formulates and interprets policy based on regulatory requirements and provides policy guidance and interpretation to senior management officials to ensure compliance
• Directs work to be accomplished of the base industrial hygiene and occupational health and safety programs, ensuring compliance of each program
• Manages risk, provides consultation services related to OSHA, Environmental Protection Agency
• Plans, investigates, and analyzes mishaps and hazardous conditions to determine origin, causes, and contributing factors and prepared written reports to meet state, federal, and Air Force regulations.
• Management of multiple projects directed toward strategic and organizational objectives and advised staff of issues due to resource availability

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Conducted workplace inspections to ensure safety goals are being met by all employees at a chemical manufacturing plant
• Conducted daily safety briefing to over 300 personnel
• Investigated accidents, incidents, near misses, and environmental spills to find the root causes and recommends corrective actions
• Expert in hazard identification, risk analysis, risk assessment and job safety analysis to create safety awareness by promoting safety meetings, presentations, and by implementing safety training
• Sole Safety Advisor to an electrical and excavation company of projects of up to $25 million
• Conducted safe work practice audits to ensure all work permits are 100% accuracy and compliance

Milwaukee, WI

• Managed risk, provided consultation services related to OSHA, Environmental Protection Agency
• Planned, investigated, and analyzed mishaps and hazardous conditions to determine origin, causes, and contributing factors and prepared written reports to meet state, federal, and Air Force regulations.
• Management of multiple projects directed toward strategic and organizational objectives and advised staff of issues due to resource availability
• Program manager of: base industrial hygiene program, drinking water program, unit security manager, safety officer, radiation safety officer, and building manager
• Tracked installation projects through the Defense Occupational and Environmental Health Readiness System (DOEHRS) data base system.
• Management and supervision of three team members

St. Paul, MN

• Migrated information into electronic medical records
• Member of the 2010 Operational Readiness Inspection
• Performed Health Risk Assessments on industrial shop surveys

Minot AFB, ND

• Contact liaison for emergency preparedness and response activities for military operations
• Base representative for emergency response exercises that included the Federal Bureau of Investigation, State of North Dakota, and Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• Managed base water program ensuring safe drinking water for more than 12,000 personnel
• Managed base Respiratory Protection Program including monitoring, training, assessment and auditing of operational centers and staff personnel for regulatory compliance
• Audited 45 departments and delegated 750 task improvements correlating to OSHA, EPA, and Air Force policies
• Monitored project activities, advised staff on issues due to resource availability

B.S., Business Management, 3.34 Gpa

Degree awarded August 2012

Six Sigma Green Belt Certified, Six Sigma

Associate'S Degree, Bioenvironmental Engineering Technology

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