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Tysons Corner, Virginia, United States

• Assists the Government in analyzing national intelligence needs and capabilities, as well as the existing and potential systems and methods for achieving national intelligence needs.• Provides objective, independent, conflict-free technical scientific, analytical and system engineering support regarding Intelligence Community acquisition issues including space- and ground-based activities. Offers executive level support in all facets of mission accomplishment.• Supports end-to-end integration of major system acquisitions to include independent technical and programmatic assessment and evaluation of cost, schedule, and performance issues. Supports the development and execution of risk analysis and management approaches for acquisition programs.

Chantilly, Virginia, United States

• Managed diverse array of multi-intelligence modeling and simulation projects focused on National intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems.• Customized scenarios, target databases, and constellations to effectively model the current National systems and potential future systems at the ground, constellation, and sensor levels.• Managed and coordinated development of activity-based intelligence concepts of operation that incorporated National ISR systems across both Geospatial and Signals Intelligence disciplines.• Supported annual classified budget analysis, briefing impacts to critical systems and pursuits.

Springfield, Virginia

• Coordinated geospatial intelligence support to Department of Defense and federal civil and law enforcement agencies’ personnel recovery programs, to include collection management, analytic support and production, and tradecraft development.• Identified gaps in geographic combatant command intelligence support to Personnel Recovery programs and proposed solutions to include authoring of Command instructions tasking guidance, and checklists and development of in-house training programs.• Led development and implementation of new geospatial intelligence collection, processing, and analysis initiatives to support personnel recovery.• Updated Agency directives and author operations center procedures to support recovery forces’ operations.

Washington, District Of Columbia

• Advised the Presidentially appointed Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy on the Department of Defense’s counter-narcotic and global threats programs.• Provided analytic basis to implement the President’s National Drug Control Strategy.• Counseled inter-agency executives and the National Security Council during critical dialogue with the People’s Republic of China to control the export of synthetic drugs and precursor chemicals.

Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida

• Led development of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance weapons systems employment options and collection management for all operationally aligned intelligence activities.• Developed training requirements and policy guidance to enable effective mission execution of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance platforms tasked to support United States Northern Command’s homeland defense and theater security cooperation missions.

Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska

• Led military and contract personnel in the execution of the Joint Intelligence Operations Center’s responsibility to maintain timely Indications and Warnings. Facilitated intelligence data integration in the sensor-to-shooter target process.• Developed organic intelligence capabilities to deter or defeat adversary strategic relocatable weapon systems.

Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska

• Director of Intelligence liaison to Global Operations Center. Provided near real time reports of foreign strategic space/mission events to the Command’s senior leadership.

Chantilly, Virginia

• Led National intelligence support to personnel recovery/combat search and rescue.• Planned and acquired capabilities and integrated them into recovery forces and operations centers worldwide.• Maintained National overhead Signals Intelligence support to personnel recovery/combat search and rescue concept of operations and managed inter-agency and Joint solutions.

Langley Air Force Base, Virginia

• Directed wing evaluation and tactics programs impacting over 2,000 personnel in 12 units, supporting intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance operations worldwide.• Ensured certification of personnel on three collection platforms by developing and implementing standardized tactics, techniques, and procedures.• Oversaw multi-discipline intelligence production supporting National, Service, and geographic combatant command requirements.

Langley Air Force Base, Virginia

• Directed the activities of 70 intelligence and maintenance personnel for over 200 U-2 and MQ-1 multi-intelligence collection missions supporting Joint Task Force-Southwest Asia and United States Central Command.

Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas

Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma

Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska

Master'S Degree, Military Strategic Intelligence

Activities and Societies: Golden Key Honor Society

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps; Arnold Air Society