Ryan T. Email & Phone Number

Killeen, Tx, Us

Indian Head, Maryland, United States

• Supervise and performs triage, ensuring proper safety protocols are implemented and followed by all personnel, for the safety of all working the lab.• Reviews and revises Standard Operating Procedures for triage operations.• Conducts safety reviews and briefs lab personnel as requires to address potential safety issues observed and change in procedure mitigation measures.• Supervise and conducts use of X-ray devices to confirm explosive safety of recovered IED components as part of triage.• Analyze X-ray data for identification of initiators/explosives/power sources/firing circuits/components and boobytraps.• Supervises and performs forensic photography of device configurations.• Perform appropriate presumptive and confirmatory analyses utilizing the following: colorimetric tests, infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Raman spectroscopy, gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) and other instrumentation or techniques as available.• Supervises and conducts immediate actions per SOP's to neutralize any explosive threat discovered during triage observing all associated safety precautions.• Confirms level I exploitation and prioritizes evidence in the lab.• Brief and train replacement personnel on all SOP's

Bdsc Iraq

• Responsible for managing and providing training alongside Coalition Forces delivering training to Partner Forces in all aspects of C-IED methodologies to enable response to IEDs and other explosive hazards.• Subject Matter Expert in developing curriculums, mentoring instructors, anddelivering instruction designed to build a C-IED capability within a Host Nation. Possess corecompetencies covering the range of the C-IED enterprise and has the ability to operate in small teams with minimal support and supervision while demonstrating ingenuity in problem solving.• Provide instruction, mentor ship, assessment, and validation (if directed) for all C-IED partner force capability building/enhancement including: Instructor development/mentorship, Curriculum development/maintenance, IED identification/removal, demolition (BIP), and hands-on training with training aids.• Training emphasis focused heavily on threat assessment, and the understanding of insurgent Improvised Explosive emplacement tactics.• Experience communicating through an interpreter for classroom and hands-on instruction.• Refined training learning objectives (TLOs), programs of instruction (POIs), lesson plans and training support packages.• Provided instruction oversight and evaluations from established Period of Instructions (POI's) including Explosive Hazard Awareness Training (EHAT), Improvised Explosive Device Defeat (IEDD) Counter Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED) awareness and Train the Trainer (T3), Freedom of Maneuver (FoM), and Hand-Held Metal Detector (HHMD) operator courses.

Kandahar, Afghanistan

• Performed armed guard services to include vehicle and personnel entry control points (ECP), perimeter towers, internal roving patrols and conducted escort guard services.• Controlled access to highly sensitive and restricted areas where there is a potential for significant breach of national security, or danger to public safety and/ or public health.• Conducted persistence surveillance over critical infrastructure positions to include our sensitive area of operations utilizing Ground-Based Operational Surveillance System (G-BOSS) Tower System technologies.

Fort Hood, Tx

Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team Leader797th, 75th, 752nd OD CO (EOD) • Responsible for the health, welfare, training, and readiness of a team of Soldiers, which lead to the successful completion of our stateside and deployed mission with zero losses.• Explosive Ordnance Disposal: Experience includes over 5 years of military EOD experience serving 186counties throughout Texas• Team Leader certified and a graduate of the Advanced Leaders Course with a 94% GPA.• Spearheaded training programs for Soldiers to ensure optimal combat and non-combatsituational performance.• Developed realistic, real-world scenarios for the Team of the Year (TOY) and TeamLeader Training Academies (TLTA).• Provided support and assistance to local law enforcement in emergency situations byinvestigating suspect devices and unexploded ordnance resulting in zero damage to surrounding infrastructure.• Ground sign awareness, observation, human behavior recognition, and pattern analysis skills.• Proficient in X-ray interpretation, explosive handling and disposal, unexploded ordnance identification, and chemical/biological operations.• Experience in the following C-IED specialties: Counter RCIED Electronic Warfare (CREW), Sensitive Site Exploitation (SSE), Homemade Explosives (HME), Dismounted Operations in an IED Environment, C-IED Planning Considerations, Route Clearance Operations.

Fort Carson, Co

• Deployed to the Arghandab River Valley, Afghanistan (2010-2011)• Served as a Team Leader in a Combat Arms Battalion; lead and supervised a 3-man dismounted infantry fire team. Responsible for the health, welfare, morale, discipline and training of all personnel.Ability to work in austere environments.• Responsible for the accountability of and serviceability of $500,000.00 worth of assigned weapon systems and equipment with 100% accountability.• Proficient in all aspects of security operations to include concept, analyses, implementation, and reevaluation.

Fort Myer, Va

• Conducted memorial affairs to honor fallen comrades and ceremonies and special events to represent the U.S. Army.• Selected above my peers to meet and have lunch with the former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.• Participated in the Presidential Inauguration of President Obama in 2008.• Attention to detail and dedicated training allowed advancement to a full Honors FiringParty.• Participated in numerous high visibility funeral services with visitors including theSecretary of Defense and the Special Operations Commander.• Deployed to Djibouti, Africa to support humanitarian missions and local military trainingin the region.• Assistant instructor for two 16-week training cycles of Ugandan Soldiers consisting ofbasic military tactics.