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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

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.
• 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

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.

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

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