Sherri Smith Email & Phone Number

WVOSB. Owner of a boutique consulting firm, specializing in investigative research, social media management, due diligence, and customized OSINT training.

• ECS FEDERALTRAINING PROGRAM MANAGER / CAPTURE MANAGER 10/2018 – PRESENT
• Identifies future opportunities to pursue, vet teaming partners, negotiate teaming agreements, and participates in technical writing as capture manager for the national security intelligence business unit.
• Manage ECS employees responsible for end user support and training USAF, SOCOM, and DIA personnel. Tailors the training session to meet the requirements of the different end customers and unique missions.
• Functions as Publicly Available Information (PAI) and Open Source Subject Matter Expert, training material developer and trainer.
• Technical and project management support for ongoing efforts, providing analytical support relative to mission-critical solutions to SOF community.
• Coordinate with vendors, tools, staffing, and facilities across multiple enclaves to create and maintain a successful schedule.

• Lead trainer for ECS’s PAI toolkit responsible for building training material, coordinating logistics for trainings worldwide, and training US forces and partnering nations
• Served as lead instructor for Berber Hunter Tool Kit (BHTK) training courses. Taught overall SUNet core applications and PAI methodology and coordinated and integrated vendor tool-specific training.
• Built and continue to grow training material applicable to mission critical problem sets
• Train partner nations on PAI methodologies and aided in applying them to real time situations. Worked with translators
• Assessed, designed, and developed interactive training content, student handouts, training aids, and practical exercises for all courses
• Refined training curriculum frequently leveraging student feedback, interactions during training, and other subject-matter-experts to ensure content was abreast with industry updates and policy changes that affect the.

Ft Bragg, NC

• JOINT SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND INTELLIGENCE BRIGADE – FT. BRAGG, NC Served as the lead trainer for a shop of 60+ intelligence analysts and linguists. Responsible for maintaining awareness of the latest PAI collection.
• Developed a streamlined training pipeline for a fully operational PAI analyst that has been reviewed by multiple PAI shops across the intelligence community, each with plans to adopt it.
• Provided activities summaries and after-action reports on tools and training courses to facilitate lessons learned and develop standard operating procedures.
• Served as a mentor to new members, ensuring effective understanding and implementation of operational directives and adaptive utilization of proper tradecraft and technology to accomplish the mission safely and.
• Assisted in developing cyber signature reduction tradecraft and procedures for incoming PAI analysts.
• Ensure each analyst incorporates risk mitigation and signature reduction techniques into their daily workflow.

Ft. Bragg

• JOINT SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND INTELLIGENCE BRIGADE – FT. BRAGG, NC Served as the senior analyst of a team conducting investigative PAI research and social media analysis of multiple datasets in support of mission.
• Senior analyst of a team of 5 analysts and 2 linguists focusing on counter-terrorism in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
• Deployed for a total of 5 months in support of a special operations unit.
• Leveraged multiple PAI tools to develop search planning and facilitated collection, analysis, processing and dissemination of formulated assessments in support of exercises and operations.
• Continuously research, analyze, and corroborate all-source intelligence to fuse with PAI.
• Responsibilities included providing daily and weekly intelligence products in support of requests for information, practical experience leveraging PAI tools, and mentoring junior analysts through their research and.

Ft. Bragg, NC

• JOINT SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND INTELLIGENCE BRIGADE – FT. BRAGG, NC SUPPORT TROOP INTELLIGENCE DATA ANALYST (10/2013-07/2014)Served in the data management support troop, integrating and databasing intelligence.
• Read, sort, format, convert, analyze, and track massive amounts of data on a daily basis.
• Test software programs and database systems prior to release in the shop.
• Responsible for identifying and correcting erroneous data.

4TH OSS – SEYMOUR JOHNSON AFB, GOLDSBORO, NCALL-SOURCE INTELLIGENCE ANALYST

OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM JOINT TASK FORCE – GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBAFUSION ANALYST / HOC Team (08/2011-02/2012)

455TH AIR EXPEDITIONARY WING, OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM – BAGRAM AIR BASE, AFGHANISTANCOMBAT INTELLIGENCE CELL (CIC) ANALYST