Wayne Tucker Email & Phone Number

Scott Afb

• Provides project management oversight and technical advice to initiate, plan, coordinate, and supervise internal and external projects affecting operations across the DoD enterprise. • Provides advice and guidance to managers, technical specialists, acquisition personnel, and user organizations on network management, systems and mechanisms.• Evaluates and makes recommendations concerning overall plans and proposals for major agency and interagency enterprise Network Operations of IT systems. • Provides critical advice to federal specialists, contractor, and vendors' performance to make corrections/adjustments which provide the kinds and levels of service specified by Network Operations requirements.• Estimates project costs and submits cost estimates for related funding plans to finance and budget projects.

Shiloh, Il

• Managed the Air Mobility Command’s Global Command and Control System, the primary war-planning program spanning 12 Air Force Bases across the continental U.S. • Managed a $5.4M annual budget to include 4 service contracts containing 26 personnel. • Managed a datacenter and directed the work of database and network engineers, system administrators, a customer support team, and a program support team. • Managed multiple concurrent IT projects to include infrastructure installations, and hardware/software upgrades.• Responsible for security policy and operations impacting the enterprise network, server farms, and workstations across the continental US to include vulnerability assessment and management.• Managed operations, troubleshooting and maintenance actions.

Afghanistan

• Mentored three Afghan colonels on budget, maintenance, and acquisition processes to capture requirements needed by the Afghan war-fighter. Advised on standards setting and data collection and analysis for standards comparison. Coached on ROI principles to streamline manpower and maximize effectiveness. Produced the Afghan Ministry of Defense’s 1st self-sustaining organization. • Supervised the budget and execution of 9 contracts totaling over $550M while deployed to Afghanistan. Served as Contracting Officer Representative analyzing vendor for quality and performance progress. • Guided Afghan leaders to identify and resource command and control intelligence equipment to fill a $435K budget shortfall needed to improve security to the parliamentary elections. • Expanded contract adding 500 radios for Afghan National Army to provide battle commanders with secure command/control communications required for battle offensives.

Shiloh, Il

• Planned, directed, and controlled the projects and actions of 17 experts maintaining $110M worth of airfield and radar equipment supporting airlift missions across the 12 Air Force bases.• Supervised enterprise wide maintenance operations and program execution. • Developed maintenance policies to guide Airfield work centers across the Air Force.• Assured CIO leadership awareness of systems status and availability. • Evaluated work centers and systems as a subject matter expert of programs and functions. • Managed funds, deployments, training, equipment, and personnel deployments for the US Transportation Command’s unique mobile navigation system.

Hampton Roads Va

• Managed a $990K budget advising leadership on funding matters to provide revenue and expenditure status, forecasts, and constraints to determine and ensure the viability of organizational strategic targets. • Managed procurement of security equipment to optimize effectiveness of cryptographic systems. • Overhauled Flight Acquisition process. Identified, mandated, and enforced documentation requirements to facilitate no-notice contract purchases. Timeliness key to 100% utilization of “fall-out” funding.• Government Purchase Card (GPC) Approving Official responsible for the actions of 7 card-holders executing 149 purchases totaling over $102K. Approved funds and nature of all purchases and tracked all receipts for audit purposes.• Responsible for the overall processing of personnel performance reports and decorations. • Ensured the timely routing and accurate writing of reports.

Baghdad Iraq

• Led diverse telecommunications team of 12 Air Force, Navy, and Army technicians/supervisors.• Provided tactical and strategic HF, VHF, UHF, satellite, and cellular communications in direct support of Army tactical operations. • Managed projects to expand and enhance secure Army telecommunications capabilities.• Spearheaded project to establish Camp Slayer-to-Mosul satellite link to securely provide vital reconstruction data to the Iraqi government and the US ambassador/state department.• Directed the project to acquire, overhaul and apply security hardware/software upgrades to the Global Broadcast System (GBS). Utilizing the GBS increased intelligence feeds from 5Kbs to 23Mbs.

Hampton Roads Va

• Provided leadership/management for four production work centers in the Airfield Systems element, consisting of 46 personnel with maintenance responsibilities critical to flying missions. • Responsible for security, maintenance operations, establishing priorities, assessing performance and initiating/validating/verifying corrective actions through certifications and accreditations. • Managed 8 projects to install or relocate airfield systems across Langley AFB. Managed justifications and procurement/delivery of equipment. Created/led team of outside work centers to plan, execute, and certify systems. Maximized scheduling effectiveness to minimize impact on airfield flight operations.• Managed 12 additional projects to install communications systems at Langley AFB and Baghdad Iraq supporting airfield, security, and combat operations. • Squadron chief inspector—evaluated the communications squadron to ensure mission readiness. Led team to write, coordinate, and execute appropriate exercise tools to assess all Inspector General items.• Requested by name to prepare communications squadron for a major airfield inspection. Led team to assess system and personnel capability in accordance with FAA standards—lauded by ATSEP inspector.

Bachelor'S Degree, Industrial Technology

Associates Of Applied Sciences, Information Systems Technology

Associates Of Applied Sciences, Aerospace Ground Equipment Systems Technology