Thomas Duffner Email & Phone Number

Columbia, Maryland, United States

• Led NSA support to Joint Exercise Life Cycle events for USCENTCOM, USINDOPACOM and USFK• Developed training program for new action officers that taught 12 personnel how to provide support to military exercises• Organized cohorts of subject matter experts to provide SIGINT and CYBER support to military and government exercises• Provided Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) scripting in support of Combatant Command Exercises• Created products showing NSA readiness to support Combatant Commands and lessons learned from that support.• Leveraged assets across the NSA enterprise to solve new and complex problems• Developed junior exercise officers on the tradecraft necessary to meet customer needs and expectations• Implemented customized knowledge management process to share institutional knowledge• Provided weekly feedback to client on project statuses to inform higher echelons

Fort Meade, Md

• Engages with the White House Situation Room, cabinet departments and Intelligence Community (IC) organizations to plan, develop, and implement policies, programs, and procedures to enhance current and future support to the CRITIC program (a time-sensitive reporting vehicle)• Develops, maintains and publishes training and doctrine for use by internal and external customers• Collaborates with policy officers to create future-proof documentation• Manages a training and evaluation program: administers training to senior stakeholders, action officers (train-the-trainer) and other individual personnel as required• Enforces legal compliance and reports findings to the Inspector General (IG)• Conducts reviews of CRITIC events to refine IC tactics, techniques and procedures• Integrates with US CYBER COMMAND training sections to create and execute synchronized training• Works with Learning Design to provide expertise and classification review of e-Campus products

Camp Humphreys, Republic Of Korea

• Assessed collection procedures and identified redundancies; changed collection strategy resulting in modernized capabilities and methodologies for collections by United States Forces Korea• Managed and trained United States and Korean military members on an intelligence mission• Responsible for the welfare, training and administrative support of fewer than 100 DCM intelligence professionals• Identified second and third order effects on new collection initiatives and created solutions to prevent mission loss• Utilized resources across the Korean Peninsula to improve training; resulting in a 150% increase in reporting output.• Resolved a two-year old open IG finding by developing and implementing a new operational model

Fort Meade, Md

• Organized and led cross-functional teams of subject matter experts to provide signals intelligence support to military and government exercises• Represented NSA at exercise conferences and forums to collect and clarify customer requirements as well as articulate products and services available• Managed DCM team working on long-term cyclic products for Combatant Commands• Explained legal compliance issues that saved the National Security Agency and USSOUTHCOM tens of thousands of dollars• Coordinated travel, managed records, performed timekeeping, generated and responded to corporate actions

Presidio Of Monterey, Ca

• Developed, mentored and coached more than 1000 military linguists on intelligence roles and operations while enforcing military standards and ensuring their completion of language training• Documented training programs and statistics to comply with record keeping requirements• Communicated and enforced standards for behavior promoting good behavior and addressing misconduct

Fort Huachuca, Az

• Received school committees’ requirements and designed educational games and computer-based training for military programs of instruction• Developed products for placement on the Moodle Learning Management System• Lead a DCM team creating mobile apps and proprietary software for the U.S. Army• Used software developed in-house to teach collection management principles to fewer than 100 military intelligence officers and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance principles to fewer than 500 all-source analysts

Fort Meade, Md

• Authored 22 lesson plans and additional course material for the National Cryptologic School (NCS) and formally trained fewer than 1000 military and DoD civilians on geospatial metadata analysis• Developed learning objectives that correlated with the assessed needs of battlefield commanders for analytic support• Trained and certified 10 instructors for an NCS course• Performed geospatial metadata analysis on the Central Command Area of Responsibility• Created Training aids to help adult learners visualize concepts such as Boolean logic that resulted in more effective data queries• Analyzed metadata to build target packages that drove military operations• Leveraged multiple intelligence disciplines to create complete target profiles• Identified and corrected an analytic processing error that had resulted in erroneous data reaching back 3 years

Fort Meade, Md

• Worked with foreign partners to share strategic and operational information of mutual concern• Provided quality control on technical messages and oversaw the distribution of information to safeguard classified information• Implemented training program to facilitate improved engagement with foreign partners that focused on their history, culture and current issues• Ensured compliance with data exchange agreements

Seoul, Republic Of Korea

• Authored, edited and published articles on the activities and personnel of the 501st Military Intelligence Brigade and its subordinate units• Collaborated with classification advisors and stakeholders to provide content that was clear, relevant and persuasive while protecting classified information• Provided photographic support to the brigade with products for both informational and motivational purposes• Coordinated relationship building events between United States and Korean soldiers

Fort Knox, Ky

• Filmed, edited and distributed training and recruitment videos for armored forces• Scripted and storyboarded customer ideas for development into multimedia products that conveyed messaging designed to impress leaders and build esprit de corps within the organization