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Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Strategic and results-driven Director of Technology with a proven track record in delivering technological solutions, managing contracts, and leading cross-functional teams for an Alaskan Native Corporation supporting the Department of Defense (DoD) and other federal entities. Adept at articulating and implementing technologies, personnel, processes, and contracts across the entire technology lifecycle at the enterprise level. Committed to fostering a culture of entrepreneurial advancement, expanding corporate reputation, and driving sustainable long-term growth.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

•Oversees P&L, management, leadership, and delivery of a $31.5M contract consisting of 24 FTE’s that provide polar satellite communications (SATCOM) in support of DoD users.•Led a 100% incumbent capture of a 24-member, 24/7 operational mission set, consisting of a geographically dispersed (CONUS and OCONUS) SATCOM planning and operations contract providing services to polar customers in support of national defense.•Cultivates and maintains relationships across operations, sustainment, military services, and combatant commands; enables cross functional teaming, requirement generation, and expedited problem solving for diverse user community executing strategic national defense. •Organize and steer a team of teams supporting system upgrades and integrations, technical advisory services, diverse user community requires, operations, and strategies.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Company Commander of a U.S. Army Space Support Team (ARSST) Company ready to deploy in support of overseas contingency operations. Responsible for the planning, coordination, training and certification of ARSST teams and their resources.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

•Portfolio manager for a critical United States Space Force Space Domain Awareness program with a budget of over $90M. Synchronized resources, funding, equipment, and logistics across a portfolio of Air and Space Force Units around the world. •Develop and verify execution plans, spend plans, and unfunded requirement submissions, providing input and recommendations to HQ SpOC on how to best support the President’s Budget. •Provides space weapon system technical expertise and financial recommendation to HQ SpOC personnel for analysis of the financial aspects of the Space Domain Awareness program. Recommends innovative solutions to improve financial management and accounting practices, enhancing internal controls over systems and processes.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

•Provides weapon system analysis, sustainment planning, system reporting and advocacy for space weapons systems review and approval by US Space Command (USSPACECOM). Develops strategic long range plans identifying critical support areas, resources and their availability, time requirements, and priorities.•Integrates the separate functions of supply, maintenance, procurement, budgeting, and quality assurance into logistics activities needed to sustain space system fielding. Primarily responsible for the development, refinement, analysis, and policies for assigned programs applicable to one or more Department of Defense (DoD) components.•Project lead for developing the first USSPACECOM single source dashboard which captures space weapon system readiness and logistics reporting. Serves as sole point of contact for the scheduling and coordination of logistics working groups among the USSPACECOM staff, J4 directorate, and service components.

Fort Carson, Colorado, United States

•Team lead for a group of seven highly skilled space professionals, capable of enhancing intelligence and operational planning capabilities to senior managers across the Department of Defense. •Responsible for planning and coordination of team resources to provide space awareness, expertise, analysis, and planning products in support of senior stakeholders and subordinate organizations.•Supports full spectrum operations through integration of satellite communications, global position systems, space-based intelligence, missile warning, space weather, space control and space based friendly force tracking.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Fort Carson Colorado

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

•Senior manager driving day-to-day operations of forty-two personnel as well as the allocation of equipment valued in excess of $181.2M. Rated top 11 of 62 managers in the organization on yearly performance evaluations; recommended for early promotion and advancement. •Program manager for the organizations aircrew training program; managing forty-two personnel, logistics and maintenance requirements for ten military aircraft, budget and operational readiness. Spring boarded the program from a non-operational status to an operational readiness rate of ninety-one percent, sixteen percent above Army standards. •Created a standardized and disciplined organization that expertly conducted over two hundred operations stateside and abroad; managed organizational risk for over 2,975 hours of flight time with zero accidents.

Fort Carson Colorado

•Chief Operations Officer for a 620-employee organization; project manager focused on synchronizing training and execution through the direct leadership of a twelve-person current and future focused project team.•Coordinated, executed, and provided resources for safe and efficient maintenance and logistical support for over 120 rotorcraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, and ground support equipment.•Steward of operational utilization for a fleet of 253 ground vehicles and associated equipment, driving disciplined initiatives resulting in above average readiness rates.•Oversaw $238M worth of organizational assets employed daily; capable to meet the needs of national responses for internal civil relief support and global deployment for conflict operations.

Fort Carson, Colorado

•Maintenance program manager of the sole aviation support company, on Fort Carson, Colorado; leading a 357 personnel organization, as well as, the logistical support to keep facilities operational, resulting in ninety-percent operational readiness rate across the fleet.•Expedited and prioritized field level maintenance in support of 87 ground vehicles and 120 aircraft across the organization valued in excess of $2.14B resulting in the execution of the annual flying hour program.•Project lead for the implementation of the automated information systems serving as a logistics hub and spoke for end to end logistics integration for the largest company within the organization, allowed for priority maintenance parts to be streamlined and tracked accordingly.

Soto Cano, Honduras

•Chief Financial Officer and Senior Logistician executing a total annual budget of $23M, effectively dedicated resources to annually balance 4,500 hours of flight time not exceeding a $15M operating expense cap.•Program manager for the logistics discipline program with 16,299 separate pieces of U.S. Government property on hand for immediate use in a logistically constrained environment, estimated in value of $294M.•Rated as the number one officer out of seven in a company of 160 personnel, as well as the best logistics officer my superior had worked with in his twenty year career on an annual performance evaluation.

Fort Wainwright, Alaska

•Program lead responsible for ninety-four personnel and the oversight of task completion on over $300M worth of equipment; synchronized with production control to remain on schedule.•Rated as the number one officer in 320 person organization on a yearly performance evaluation; recommended for early promotion and advancement. •Led the largest ground fleet of vehicles in the company, maintained 120 vehicles while successfully reconciling forty of them allowing the resourcing and funding of new equipment.

Kandahar, Afghanistan

•Directed the planning and execution of all U.S. Army aircraft throughout the Regional Command South theater of operations; managing the day to day operations in a very dynamic environment.•Aviation Task Force Operations Center Officer In Charge, single point of all mission command during twenty- four hour combat operations; oversight of five offsite-remote locations to include logistics and personnel support.•Planning officer for the Transfer of Authority training plan; led the implementation and synchronization of several NATO partnered validation exercises in support of Operation Resolute Support.

Fort Wainwright, Alaska

•Site leader for a theater level asset to Central Command, advised senior leaders on all matters relating to the employment of urgent evacuation of wounded and injured using a specialized aircraft fleet.•Rated as the number one officer in the organization while filling the role outside of my normal job description.•Developed the unit’s standard operating procedure for the implementation of U.S. Army Medical Evacuation helicopters in support of Afghani Nationals and other International Security Forces un-partnered medical treatment.•Lead project manager for the divestiture of nine UH-60A model Blackhawks valued in excess of $75M to five different National Guard states with all assigned property and maintenance inspections completed.

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