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Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, United States

Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, United States

Lead National Security Agency (NSA) projects related to the management and enterprise governance of Cryptologic Centers (CCs) and field sites. Work across directorates, CCs, and field sites to oversee or lead the implementation of strategic reviews of requirements, missions, functions, resources, and capacity, with a focus on enterprise governance and policy. Facilitate and synchronize corporate governance policies, processes, efforts, and decisions throughout the worldwide NSA/CSS cryptologic enterprise. Coordinate and support enterprise leaders’ efforts to align mission activities and requirements across the enterprise at the executive level. Manage enterprise governance programs and projects. Lead and synchronize special projects at the direction of NSA/CSS executives.

Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany

Chief of Staff for an OCONUS field site consisting of over 300 Soldiers, Airmen, Marines, NSA Civilians, DoD Civilians, and contractors; a Joint Duty Assignment. Develop policy, conduct planning, implement guidance, and allocate resources in support of high priority intelligence operations. Manage programs and projects associated with site and intelligence operations. Manage a staff responsible for coordinating and implementing policy; providing intelligence oversight for sensitive operations; integrating strategic and tactical priorities into prioritized mission focus; providing security support, conducting space and facility management; coordinating and developing actions, support, enterprise governance, and relationships with NSA/CSS, local commands and organizations, service providers, and other DoD entities. Manage a site budget of over $10 million from multiple funding programs. Perform contracting officer representative (COR) duties for contractor support to site operations.

Pentagon

Provide oversight of Army Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR), and associated Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (PED) by synchronizing and coordinating ISR and PED activities against validated requirements with the Joint Staff, Combatant Commands, Army Commands, and Direct Reporting Units. Manage ISR Global Force Management (GFM) assignment and allocation and submit sourcing recommendations for Army intelligence units, personnel, and PED capabilities. Validate, prioritize, and resource intelligence requirements to meet Army strategic commitments. Army lead for coordinating ISR requirements, plans, capabilities, and missions to support campaign planning and crisis action planning. Army lead for coordinating the rapid fielding of standard equipment and rapid development and fielding of non-standard equipment to Army and Special Operations Forces worldwide. Provide Army senior leadership, Army Staff, Joint Staff, and Department of Defense senior leaders with analysis of Army intelligence readiness, and develop and oversee related plans and policies. Manage and execute the Army Stable Shadow and Counter-Insurgency Targeting Programs (CITP). Manage an annual budget of over $60 million.

Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, United States

Executive officer, second-in-command, and chief of staff for an Army intelligence battalion comprised of 465 soldiers and civilians geographically dispersed across 13 states conducting signals intelligence (SIGINT) operations and training to deliver cryptologic enterprise capabilities to Army, Joint, and combined forces. Execute battalion operations through leadership, coordination, and synchronization of a primary and special staff of over 25 personnel in the conduct of operational, administrative, budgetary, logistical, and security functions. Manage the Army Foundry Program, executing intelligence training operations worldwide. Execute an annual budget of almost $2 million supporting overseas contingency operations, Foundry Program intelligence training, unit training, travel, and supply. Develop and implement policies and directives supporting organizational, Army, NSA/CSS, and DoD efforts. Coordinate and collaborate with NSA/CSS offices on development and implementation of policies and enterprise governance matters affecting Army personnel across the cryptologic enterprise.

Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, United States

Chief of the Real Time – Regional Gateway, a unique processing, analytic, and databasing tool suite, in a Joint intelligence unit within the NSA/CSS that provides SIGINT support to deployed military forces and policy makers. Responsible for the leadership, intelligence operations, training, readiness, professional development, and administration of over 60 joint, multinational, military, civilian, and contract personnel. Conduct pre-deployment training, focused intelligence support, and reachback for military units and NSA personnel engaged in expeditionary operations. Oversee the rapid development of capabilities and integration into systems of record for long-term sustainment and enterprise-wide use.

Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, United States

Chief of the C-IED Cell in a Joint intelligence unit within the NSA/CSS that provides support to deployed military forces and policy makers. Responsible for the leadership, intelligence operations, training, professional development, and administration of over 70 joint, multinational, military, civilian, and contract personnel. Provide analysis of threat capabilities and develop methods to provide active force protection to deployed personnel. Coordinate with subject matter experts in the NSA, military services, and other government agencies to develop a comprehensive approach to dealing with adversary tactics and techniques. Execute program management and develop associated policies for sensitive capabilities supporting customer requirements.

Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States

Intelligence Planning Officer for the expeditionary XVIII Airborne Corps and the Multi-National Corps – Iraq (MNC-I), consisting of over 146,000 Joint and multi-national personnel across 7 divisions and 10 separate brigades in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Provide intelligence support to future operations planning teams, write operational plans, orders, and annexes. Brief senior leaders on intelligence support to operations and on intelligence operations. Manage intelligence programs and projects across the theater of operations. Develop measures of effectiveness benchmarks for intelligence operations throughout mission execution.

Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States

Commander one of two airborne, general-support counterintelligence (CI) and human intelligence (HUMINT) companies supporting XVIII Airborne Corps with force protection, tactical HUMINT, interrogation, CI, and document and media exploitation capabilities during short-notice deployments worldwide. Supervise the welfare, discipline, training, and professional development of 80 soldiers, including 25 DoD-trained linguists. Plan and supervise training to ensure teams are fully prepared to deploy and execute combat operations. Oversee maintenance and accountability of unit equipment, including vehicles, trailers, automation systems, intelligence systems, and radios worth over $4 million.

Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States

Assistant S3 and Battle Captain for the Army’s only Airborne Military Intelligence Brigade, supporting the XVIII Airborne Corps in the execution of its short-notice, worldwide, conventional and joint missions. Coordinate the operations and training of over 1,700 soldiers in four active duty battalions (an Aerial Exploitation Battalion, an Operations Battalion, and two Tactical Exploitation Battalions), one Reserve Tactical Exploitation Battalion, and a Headquarters Detachment deployed in support of the Multi-National Corps – Iraq’s efforts in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Provide and manage intelligence collection, analysis, dissemination, counterintelligence, and deep reconnaissance support in the Iraqi theater of operations. Responsible for the operations and employment of over 600 wheeled vehicles, 12 fixed-wing aircraft, 11 unmanned aerial vehicles, 15 Long Range Surveillance (LRS) Teams, 70 Tactical HUMINT Teams, and 6 Weapons Inspection Teams.

Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States

Intelligence Officer for the Army’s only airborne military police battalion, supporting the XVIII Airborne Corps in the execution of its short-notice, worldwide, conventional and joint missions. Responsible for the collection, processing, and dissemination of the intelligence preparation of the battlefield during all battalion operations.

Fort Riley, Kansas, United States

Platoon Leader of a 120mm Mortar Platoon in an M1A1-equipped armor battalion with the mission to execute short notice deployment, generate combat power, and fight and win as part of a larger organization. Accountable for $3 million worth of property and equipment including 5 tracked and 2 wheeled vehicles. Responsible for the leadership, discipline, tactical employment, training, administration, personnel management, supply, maintenance, and sustainment activities of 24 soldiers and associated equipment.

Camp Casey, South Korea

Executive Officer of a forward-deployed tank company in the Republic of Korea. Serve as the second in command and primary combat service support, logistics, services, and administration planner and coordinator for a unit prepared to transition to war in a four hour alert sequence.

Camp Casey, South Korea

Platoon Leader of an M1A1 tank platoon in a forward-deployed armor battalion in the Republic of Korea. Responsible for 15 the leadership, discipline, tactical employment, training, administration, personnel management, supply, maintenance, and sustainment activities of 15 soldiers and organizational property valued in excess of $9 million.