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Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Engaged Leader: Aggressively managed all aspects of programmed and unscheduled maintenance including patterns and trends for over 75 separate railcar program shopping events resulting in successful shift in asset dwell from 120 to 30 or less days in shop. Action Driver: Developed, adapted and Implemented planning and operational tools that fundamentally changed the nature of the repair business allowing accurate assessment of current workload resulting in increased ability to meet customer expectations for production. Emphasis on Customer Service and Experience: Prioritized delivery on time and on cost. Directly responsible for engagements resulting in continued service relationships, federal compliance support and the purchase of more than 150 new railcars.Led GBX Corporate Veterans ERG

El Paso, Texas, United States

• Operations Officer in the First Armored Division and Fort Bliss, TX (11k personnel). • Leveraged and refined existing systems and programs to ensure maximum ability to advise the making of decisions and drive execution of operations across multiple organizations. • Emergency Response and Crisis Management experience involving COVID-19 response, Afghanistan Refugee Operations, and extensive aviation, logistical and cross-functional experience. • Project Management and evaluation experience including small events, large scale training exercises and no-notice evaluations.

Fort Stewart, Georgia, United States

• Senior Operations Officer in a Training Brigade tasked with support to Reserve and Active component Army organizations in the southeastern United States (10 states/+50K personnel). Extensive Travel and Distributed Operations. Led collaborative efforts across organizations with a variety of managers. • Managed teams in charge of daily operations for 11 units charged with advising and evaluating organizations.• Led training and planning for unit while advising and developing managers of other Army staff organizations in training progression to support worldwide operations and deployments. • Extensive experience with change management/evaluation and training progression. • Participated in Crisis Management, including real-world and evaluated. Established continuity of Operations plan.

Fort Stewart Ga

• Responsible for training and evaluating Reserve Component organizations (10 states/50K personnel). • Oversaw staff planning and operations, resourcing, budget, mentorship and leader development within own staff organization (10 personnel) and operations of 5 teams. • Dual role of direct mentor to partner organization leaders. • Developed rigorous training and development program for the organization including on-boarding, progression, certification and sustainment of qualification. • Supported Major Collective Training exercises including equipment movement/deployment of personnel and evaluation of performance.

Fort Stewart Ga

• Cross-functional Team leader that trains, advises and coaches/develops organizations in the Army reserve and active component. • Planned and executed major training events collaborating with unit leaders.• Provided informal/immediate and deliberate/formal feedback and reports. Improved and optimized their organizations.• Contributed recommendations on organizational structure and leadership changes.• Initiated “first contact” relationships and sustained long term.

Fort Stewart, Ga

• Responsible for operations, planning, execution of training, fleet maintenance, accountability, leader development and talent management. • Experienced with large scale movements as a member of the Global Response Force. • Developed, leveraged and cultivated a talented team to routinely achieve top performance across the larger organization. Top Tank Company in the Division. • Enforced safety and disciplinary actions in organization.

Fort Stewart, Ga

• Managed maintenance operations for a Heavy Mechanized unit (300 vehicles; +360 million USD). • Revamped organizational strategy and initiated transformational change. Focus on “deliberate troubleshooting” vs immediate component replacement dramatically reduced costs. • Brought readiness rates in excess of 95% (from reported less than 50%) despite fiscally challenging environment.

Fort Benning, Ga

Full time student at the US Army Maneuver Center of Excellence.

Fort Hood, Texas, United States

Served as Assistant Operations Officer for a 400 man Armored Reconnaissance Squadron responsible for day to day operations inside 6 weeks of planning. Executed and Tracked suspense and produced daily tasking orders. Managed a 3 million dollar Base Life Support Contract and 2 million dollar security contract for a Forward Operating Base in Iraq. Duties included oversight, supervision, and serving as the Defense Contract Management Contract Officer's Representative on the base. Managed the retrograde of all equipment and personnel during base closure.

Fort Hood, Tx; Iraq

Served as a Platoon Leader for a 18 man headquarters element and later 22 man Scout Platoon in Iraq.

Fort Knox, Kentucky, United States

Full time student at US Army Armor Officer Basic Course

West Palm Beach, Florida Area

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science And Government

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Political Science And Government

Activities and Societies: Reserve Officer Training Program