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Gainesville, Virginia, US

CA, US

Advocate for the adoption of development tools and environments at the enterprise level on behalf of digital creators across the Marines. Provide technical insights, business cases, and decision support.

Arlington, Virginia, US

• Produce innovative solutions that meet parent organizational needs. Plan, co-program, and direct sprints with students and interns. Through NSIN, created the following innovative solutions:
• Conceived of and created the ‘Fairy Dust Fighter’ logistics wargame that improves planners’ ability to perform course of action supportability and sustainability analysis through AI simulation, rigor, and animation..
• Created a natural-language processing bot for the USMC aircraft maintenance information system. The bot improves mechanics’ user experience and flattens the learning curve.
• Prototyped a low-cost, low-energy, autonomous cargo-delivery catamaran that puts an adversary in the decision space to use expensive munitions on low-priority cargo or allow sustainment cargo delivery.

• Lead inter-disciplinary teams that provide personnel, equipment, and fiscal resources to the Pacific-region’s fleet of 43 squadrons, more than 700 aircraft, and greater than $1.5B annual parts budget.
• Developed the USMC Aviation Maintenance Capacity Model, a predictive analysis tool that improves flight readiness and directly saves $1.7M in contracts annually and indirectly saves millions by task automation.
• Automated supply chain, maintenance, and financial management reports with supply and maintenance to save hundreds of hours for experts and free them to provide improved analysis.

Washington, DC, US

Indianapolis, IN, US

• Led organizational change and technical projects for the USMC’s accounting system development division.
• Completed multi-million-dollar project that successfully brought the U.S. Navy onto the accounting system. Re-tooled the software development stack then trained developers to work in agile teams instead of in separate.
• Reduced accounting system’s software defect reduction by 60% by implementing modern software testing techniques: training developers to plan, run, and reuse unit and integration tests with JIRA’s XRAY plugin.
• Redesigned the organizational talent-management program. Conceived and combined JIRA and Confluence to host a talent management program, invigorating tacit- and explicit-knowledge transferbetween expert and novice.

CA, US

• Taught Special Forces to use ‘advise and assist’ applications. Operated satellite and mesh networks.
• Introduced 3D modeling, additive manufacturing, and microelectronics into the experimentation plan.
• Prototyped innovative CO2-launched ‘internet router grenades’ that remain electromagnetically silent until launch. Earned Distinguished Thesis recognition.

Stafford, Virginia, US

• Taught career-level professional military education to more than 45 U.S. Marine Corps officers

• Led an exceptional team that planned, coordinated, and executed airlift, sealift, and overland transportation operations for the 25,000 Marines’ around Southeast Asia.
• Served as lead transportation requirements coordinator during humanitarian assistance/disaster relief OPERATION DAMAYAN that reduced Filipino deaths and alleviated suffering.

Washington, DC, US

• Drove the productive recruiting effort for the station and led the screening, evaluating, and position assignment team. Significant factor in the Recruiting Station (RS) winning RS of the Year in 2009.
• As the talent acquisition officer at Indiana University, Butler University, and Ball State University in 2010, contracted and trained 96 officer candidates – second-most in the Western Recruiting Region.

Master Of Science - Ms, Information Technology Project Management

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Fine And Studio Arts