Stephen Johns Email & Phone Number

Fayetteville, North Carolina Area

President of an international aviation consulting agency and responsible for operations and the business development with offices in the United States, and the United Arab Emirates.Mr. Johns is an aviation expert with more than 36 years of leadership and management experience in addition to an immense passion for flying. He has assisted and advised a.

Responsible for operations and the business development of a multi-national organization with offices in the United States, United Arab Emirates, and Afghanistan. Leads all contractual agreements to include limited partnering, teaming and consulting/retaining agreements. Developed business management tools that streamlined the company’s administrative.

Fort Bragg, North Carolina

• Managed the recruitment of high-level C4ISR intelligence assets for the ISS-J Program in support of the Joint Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
• Supervised all vetting and selection of HUMINT, SIGINT, ELINT, OSINT, GEOINT, All-Source, Multi-Source, Weapons of Mass Destruction, PPS&I, and Targeting experts for provision to the client for final review.
• Managed all placement criteria of Subject Matter Experts from Fort Bragg, NC, Virginia, and the Washington D.C. metro area in support of Special Operations requirements.
• Responsible for the planning, execution, and day- to- day oversight of all recruiter duties, contractor duties, functions, deliverables, conduct and standards.

2231 Suite 1114 Arlington, VA 22202

• Responsible for the planning, execution, and day‐to‐day oversight of all contractor duties, functions,deliverables, conduct and standards.
• Development of Counterinsurgency operational performance and effectiveness metrics and assess COIN implementation plans and operations against those metrics.
• Monitor and manage the schedule, cost, conduct and quality of all products, personnel, infrastructure, support, and work performed in accordance with the Program Management Plan (PMP).
• Ensure timely and effective execution of all aspects of the Program Management Plan (PMP), the Quality Control Plan (QCP), and all other actions required.
• Serve as the primary Security Officer for this contract.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for theater mobilization and de‐mobilization of contractor personnel.

Kabul, Afghanistan

• Provided high-level analysis and advice to the CAAT Commander and to other International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF) elements as directed.
• Responsible for the day to day planning, coordination, tracking and execution of all CAAT operations to include the formulation of Warning Orders, Fragmentary Orders, and Operations Orders.
• Coordinated all briefs conducted at the Strategic level with Commander International Security and Assistance Force Afghanistan (COMISAF), Commander International Joint Command Afghanistan (COMIJC), Commander NATO.
• Formulated and coordinated all Situation Reports (SITREP), Embed Reports, Concept of Operations (CONOP), Special Reports and all other materials received from CAAT Regional Command (RC) Operations elements in order to.
• Liaison to Combined Forces Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan Command Sergeant Major (CSM).
• Coordinated efforts between CAAT operational elements and all US/International SOF elements in the Operational environment.

Fort Bragg, NC

• Company Sergeant Major of a CENTCOM and EUCOM oriented Special Forces Company, responsible for the training, planning, advising, support and leadership of 87 Special Forces operators conducting combat operations in the.
• Company First Sergeant of a 120 man Special Forces Headquarters Company responsible for the planning and implementation and execution of a new 4th Battalion for the 3rd Special Forces Group, Fort Bragg, NC
• As an ODA Team Sergeant led combat missions in support of the tactical and operational objectives of the Theater Commander in Afghanistan, culminating in a nomination for the Distinguished Service Cross and was awarded.
• As an ODA Senior Weapons Sergeant trained, mentored, and led Afghan National Army soldiers in basic to advanced light infantry tactics.
• Coordinated Department of State operations with US Embassy’s in West Africa while executing Joint Combined Exercise Training, and African Crises Relief Initiative in support of United States Government Partnered.
• Trained squad through battalion sized elements in basic to advanced infantry tactics, Troop Leading Procedures, and Military Decision Making Process (MDMP) in support of Security Force Assistance (SFA)/ Security.

Kabul, Afghanistan

• Provided direct feedback to the Commander, International Security and Assistance Force and to Commander International Joint Command Afghanistan.
• Planned and coordinated the operational activities of the Counterinsurgency Advisory and Assistance Team (CAAT) which included 11 senior multi-national officers and enlisted personnel, 15 senior contractors, and five.
• Planned and monitored the execution of Current Operations, Future Operations and the execution all briefings to Commander ISAF and to Commander IJC conducted by the CAAT.
• Conducted routine briefings to the ISAF Commander (4 Star), the IJC Commander (3 Star) and subordinate level staff’s within the AOR in regard to Counter Insurgency Operations and advised on the real time “on the.
• Advised the ISAF Commander and his subordinate staff on Insider Threat and Security Force Assistance coordinating various training venues with units across the International spectrum within the AOR in conjunction with.
• Coordinated the advise and assist effort which led to the placement of CAAT counterinsurgency advisors on temporary assignment to every major US training mechanism CONUS and OCONUS IE: NTC, JRTC, 29 Palms, Hohenfels.