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Oversee daily wildlife habitat restoration activities including building and infrastructure construction on four multi-million dollar deer, turkey, waterfowl, and upland game hunting properties in Illinois and South Dakota totaling 5,000 acres. • Negotiated and awarded competitive bid contracts to secure more than $150K in goods and services yearly. • Create and execute annual work strategies and contracts for wildlife habitat restorations, infrastructure, new building residential construction, and building maintenance and renovation. • Establish and maintain $250K annual operating and capital budgets.• Serve as lead coordinator for all guest users, contractors, and internal corporate stakeholders and general contractor for all construction and infrastructure repair, maintenance, renovation initiatives.• Recovered more than $160K in equipment and contracted services costs by eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse.• Supervised four direct reports. • Served as designated prescribed fire manager at all sites, preparing prescribed fire plans, collaborating with local and state agencies to comply with prescribed fire laws, conducting prescribed fires, and purchasing and maintaining firefighting equipment.• Interpreted regulations, laws, and procedures to produce professional and technical correspondence to state, federal, and county officials about environmental permitting, federal and state program enrollment, and building and infrastructure construction permitting.

Directed natural resource programs and environmental restorations of non-profit land trust that owns and restores 1,520 acres of natural areas at 11 preserves. • Designed annual work plans and $50K in yearly operating and capital budgets.• Awarded three AmeriCorp NCCC teams in more than 18 months resulting in 3,988 hours of on-location stewardship work saving $99K in contract labor.• Budgeted, interviewed, hired, trained, coached, and led four stewardship branch staff. • Restored preserves meeting management roadmaps including creating native hardwood forest, savanna, and prairie restoration options for future real estate purchases and existing preserves.• Supported and taught outdoor education to at-risk youth from Northwest Academy alternative school for 6-12 graders with severe behavioral and emotional disabilities.• Prepared and submitted grants for equipment and ecological restorations. • Led two full time employees and resources of Northwest Illinois Invasive Species Strike Team, public/private partnership between Illinois Department of Natural Resources National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and JDCF to conduct invasive species control on member lands.• Coordinated Northwest Illinois Prescribed Burn Co-op, an all-volunteer organization planning and implementing designated burns on public and private lands.• Managed Native American burial sites to meet provisions of State of Illinois and Federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.• Devised and facilitated community education program on historic role of wildfire on landscape in Illinois.

Remodel, renovate, and construction of single family homes and additions. • $280K profit on five home renovations.• Performed all work including concrete, foundations, framing, electrical, plumbing, drywall, siding, roofing, and trim.

Military Natural Resources Specialist for 4,500 acres of Military training area across Illinois.• Coordinated environmental projects with federal and state agencies and First Nation tribes complying with federal National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) statutes and state environmental laws and regulations. • Supervised contracted environmental and construction work to meet project specifications. • Program-managed Integrated Training Area Management program and project development, contracting, research, yearly $150K operating and capital budgets, and project implementation. • Wrote and launched Integrated Natural Resource Management Plan for management and restoration of natural resources at training sites.• Implemented and managed land rehabilitation restoration projects to decrease long-term environmental impacts of military training on training lands.

Military law enforcement.Post 9/11 combat service, in support of Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom.Firearms training course development.Direct firearm and high level tactics instruction for 500+ military personnel. Military Police, 31B