Vanessa Johnson Email & Phone Number

Colorado Springs, Co, Us

Colorado, United States

Strategic Sales Leader working with our account teams and helping our Department of the Air Force customers realize success!

Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Manages Broadcom's Department of Defense Education/Training with Industry program. Interviews and places Active Duty military and government civilians into positions within the company in order to meet the requirements of their service’s program and complete all learning objectives during their tenure at Broadcom.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Broadcom acquired VMware in November 2023.Manages a team of 18 highly-technical consultants and architects and 3 project managers delivering world-class professional services to our Department of the Air Force and Combatant Command customers. • Hires, trains, and mentors resources and ensures resource pool is properly cared for, trained and assimilated into the organization. Responsible for development, growth, and utilization objective achievement of team members• Enables efficient and qualitative proposals for customers, by ensuring appropriate needs definition, analyzing customers environment and expectations• Ensures the sales force is equipped with the PSO (consulting/education) proposition, success stories and past performances• Works closely with team to ensure project staffing & project profitability requirements are met

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Manages VMware's Department of Defense Education/Training with Industry program. Interviews and places Active Duty military and government civilians into positions within the company in order to meet the requirements of their service’s program and complete all learning objectives during their tenure at VMware.

Manages a team of 21 highly-technical consultants and architects delivering world-class professional services to our Department of the Air Force and Combatant Command customers. • Supports P&L objectives of assigned personnel• Hires, trains, and mentors resources and ensures resource pool is properly cared for, trained and assimilated into the organization. Responsible for development, growth, and utilization objective achievement of team members• Enables efficient and qualitative proposals for customers, by ensuring appropriate needs definition, analyzing customers environment and expectations• Ensures the sales force is equipped with the PSO (consulting/education) proposition, success stories and past performances• Works closely with team to ensure project staffing & project profitability requirements are met

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Supervises a team delivering services to the US Air Force in the continental United States(CONUS), Europe and the Pacific. Responsible for high customer satisfaction through services delivered by highly qualified network consulting engineers, and through internal and external partners.

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

- Manages the execution of large, high-visibility projects of significant complexity.- Solves a wide range of problems in imaginative and practical ways; using professional concepts and procedures. Works on diverse problems requiring evaluation of identifiable factors. Presents alternatives, solutions, or strategies, considering client requirements and capabilities.- Orchestrates project deliverables based on documented requirements and customer/staff feedback- Develops risk mitigation strategies and works collaboratively with customers to address project concerns.- Communicates with the client in an organized and knowledgeable manner, and delivers clear requests for information- Plans, leads, and facilitates meetings and reviews (formal and informal), including creating agendas, helping team members stay on task, documenting information discussed in meetings and synthesizing decisions.- Performs desktop publishing, including formatting, writing, and editing client deliverables with an eye for detail.- Works with Technical SMEs to gather requirements.Identifies key process improvements to help the team work more efficiently.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Project management planning, develop and maintain customer relationships, and oversight for key accounts from pre-sale through implementation. Currently managing a portfolio worth more than $10M.• Manages the execution of multiple projects of difficult to medium complexity. • Updates deliverables based on customer/staff feedback related to possible gaps, errors, and improvement opportunities.• Solves a wide range of problems in imaginative and practical ways of using professional concepts and procedures. Works on diverse problems requiring evaluation of identifiable factors. Presents alternatives, solution, or strategies, considering client requirements and capabilities.• Develops risk mitigation strategies and works collaboratively with customers to address project concerns.• Identifies key process improvements to help the team work more efficiently.• Communicates with the client in an organized and knowledgeable manner, and delivers clear requests for information• Plans, leads, and facilitates meetings and reviews (formal and informal), including creating agendas, helping team members stay on task, documenting information discussed in meetings and synthesizing decisions.• Performs desktop publishing, including formatting, writing, and editing client deliverables with an eye for detail.• Works with Technical SMEs to gather requirements.

Peterson Afb, Co

Managed 25 personnel providing Knowledge Operations for the Air Force, including collaboration, presentation, content, knowledge and workflow management. Planned and directed execution of $1.25B efforts for AF-wide Knowledge Operations capabilities and tools. Provided vital executive support to the Commander, enabling his leadership of 40,000 employees providing cyber and space operations to the USAF. Directed the Headquarters’ video teleconferencing (VTC) operations, ensuring senior executive communications were available to empower critical decision making when face-to-face meetings were fiscally infeasible. Interfaced directly with Congressional staffers, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and senior military leaders on top Air Force issues and legislative inquiries; fostered synergy in order to solve problems.

Scott Afb, Il

Led 120-member team providing IT networks, computer equipment, project implementation and command and control systems management to support over 2,300 personnel and a budget of over $16M. Provided cost, schedule, and risk assessments for new IT project implementations for operations and intelligence support activities enabling full-spectrum global mobility solutions to transportation customers world-wide.

Washington Dc

Managed $75M theater deployable communications program encompassing all AF tactical satellite terminals and communications equipment suites supporting deployed operations. Interfaced directly with Congressional staffers, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and senior military leaders on top Air Force issues and legislative inquiries; fostered synergy in order to solve problems. Prepared senior staff for official travel, meetings, ceremonies and public speaking engagements which were critical to leading 60,000 AF IT professionals and shaping a $17B IT portfolio. Directed executive level professional staff activities and tasks for over 290 assigned personnel.

Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma

Supervised 120 personnel planning and deploying over 700 employees and 146 communications equipment packages worth $165M to locations across the world in support of combat and humanitarian operations. Organized the group’s support activities including operations, safety, supply, security and budget management. Directed civil engineering support, operations and maintenance of 502 vehicles and combat readiness activities to ensure the successful training of all employees in preparation to deploy to 21 austere locations. As deployed commander in Iraq, supervised 90 employees maintaining $17M communications equipment suite serving 9,000 multi-country forces providing security and training for the Iraqi people.

Randolph Air Force Base, Texas

Directed 9 functional experts providing policy, procedures, and management oversight to 13 organizations on all aspects of maintenance, repair, testing, and modification of communications-computer systems and air traffic control and landing systems command-wide, ensuring Department of Defense, Air Force, and command uptime rates were met. Senior assistant and advisor to the Director of Communications & Information and his 262-person staff, directing IT manning for more than 400 officers, including leadership positions, junior management course selection, basic and advanced technical refresh training.

Kadena Air Base, Japan

Performed protocol support for US Air Force's largest overseas organization, consisting of over 8,000 personnel. Coordinated distinguished visitor trips with US Air Force, US Army, US Navy, US Marine Corps, US Coast Guard and US Forces Japan's Okinawa Area Field Office. Developed itineraries, providing productive, and enjoyable schedules through the office of primary responsibility and with the coordination of the company President. Provided information management oversight for 2,200 personnel; trained 42 information managers. Supervised organization's information systems office, affecting over 800 computers and 22 local area networks valued at over $10M.

Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska

Led organization's largest section--63 personnel and $500M equipment suite with an annual operating budget exceeding $4.5M. Managed the company's largest, most diverse fixed satellite communications facility--included two Defense Satellite Communications System and four Milstar terminals, providing survivable communications for the President, Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska

Managed a 30-person organization responsible for providing continuous computer operations in support of the $110M Alternate Missile Warning Center, ensuring timely processing of data from worldwide sensor networks and dissemination of attack assessment information to National Command Authorities. Reviewed all staff processes concerning flight operations, training, performance analysis, data management, and security. Coordinated company and contractor maintenance support, providing maximum system availability to meet mission requirements. Focal point for all system upgrades and modification to ensure smooth integration with all operations and mission support processes.

Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska

Supervised an 11-person branch responsible for communications, precision photogrammetric exploitation equipment, and computer systems administration and maintenance of over $4M of resources supporting the organization's combat intelligence applications mission. Directed comprehensive maintenance and training programs for the only Air Force deployable Analytical Photogrammetric Positioning System supporting six operations plans. Managed network development, administration, and management of the organization's communications/computer systems and requirements. Chaired the organization's configuration control board and interfaced with higher headquarters on new system requirements.

Scott Air Force Base, Illinois

Provided policy, management, and technical support to Air Force, Joint Staff, and Defense Information Systems Agency units involved with the Global Command and Control System (GCCS). Developed the GCCS Common Operating Environment; transitioned hardware and mission applications from the Worldwide Military Command and Control System to GCCS. Migrated "best of breed" command and control systems and legacy system capabilities to the GCCS. Researched, analyzed and advocated AF requirements for GCCS hardware software, and networking. Planned and implemented data administration policy and procedures to promoteinteroperability and sharability of Air Force and DOD information systems directly supporting the warfighter. Directed projects which encompassed all Air Force data administration activities and required interfacing with other service/agency and DOD organizations. Provided program and technical guidance to Air Force personnel in development of data standards. Led and participated on teams reviewing candidate Air Force, DOD, National, and Federal data standards for compliance with DOD and Air Force data standard requirements. Prepared briefings and other formal documents for Air Force and DOD presentations on data standardization efforts.

Women'S Leadership Forum Certificate, Women'S Leadership Forum

Master Of Science (Ms), Strategic Leadership (Management)

Activities and Societies: Sigma Iota EpsilonLed committee for Wright Brother's Lecture Series Recognized as Dept of Systems.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Computer Resource And Information Management

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Activities and Societies: ROTC Arnold Air SocietyCadet Wing Commander for ROTC Detachment 940 President, Arnold Air Society Played Club.