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Riyadh, Sa

Riyadh, Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia

Serving as a defense consultant to the Royal Saudi Land Forces, Ministry of Defense, in support of their transformation plan and Saudi Vision 2030.

Riyadh, Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia

Senior Military Advisor to the Saudi Ministry of Defense Teaching, Advising, Assisting, and Mentoring (TAAM) select groups of Royal Saudi Officers and Saudi Government officials in support of their transformation plan and Saudi Vision 2030.

Pinehurst, North Carolina And Colorado Springs, Colorado

Launched a Veteran-founded company from the ground up with models and methods never previously employed in the military museum and veteran-focused non-profit space. Provide comprehensive collection management solutions, including appraisals for priceless objects of American military history. Supervision of direct purchasing, logistics management, and effective collection management by employing high-tech solutions. Featured in Stars and Stripes, Business Insider, Military Times, CNN, and FOX News.• Planned and managed the $75K renovation effort for a secure, compliant office and warehouse facility of over 4,000 square feet for completion within 45 days.• Established successful international and domestic business development, development of standards and procedures, and managed a specialized team of experts in their field.• Prepare and manage a $100K annual budget and manage business expenses and direct a team of experts to complete complex, long-duration contracts• Provide direct oversight; meet budgetary and resource constraints, including shortages of staff and volunteers, outdated or non-existent technical packages, and limited exhibit and storage space. • Assist museum directors and curators in balancing demands of current regulations and meeting established standards. • Support non-profits’ missions to generate recurring revenue streams to sustain operations and increase awareness and visibility among their community interest.• Offer consulting services, artifact certification, acquisition and storage, deaccession, and donation management.• Created donation management model that generated a recurring residual revenue stream for military museums and veteran-focused non-profits.• Fundraised $150K from Colorado Enterprise Fund to provide the financial means for program growth and outreach materials; maintained 10-15% travel time attending events.

Denver, Colorado

The Valor Bridge Foundation fellowship is an intensive leadership development program for transitioning veterans of war, structured as a collaboration with the business community through relationships, curriculum, and a mentoring partnership. This non-profit foundation seeks to honor our veterans of war through a continuous program of education, community, and mentorship that develops carefully selected individuals into long-lasting, impactful, and significant leaders in the private sector.

Fort Carson, Colorado

Served as Acting Group Commander for 7 months, managing a $60M budget for an Army Special Forces Group of 2,600. Personnel Leadership• Oversaw training of personnel to ensure success for high-end operations in a complex, global environment by analyzing and planning work operations of subordinate organizational segments to meet program requirements.• Utilized strong collaborative skills and relationship-building with foreign national partners to improve security across vast areas of select host and partner nations.• Directed funding, training, and technical expertise to the Lebanese Armed Forces in support of demining operations in Lebanon.Strategic Planning• Authored strategy supporting mission guidance letters to restructure and task special police units within the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior.Intelligence & Security• Led the selection, training, equipping, and employment of 4,000 Afghan Local Police Guardians across 15 provinces of eastern Afghanistan.• Led a joint 30-person (SEAL and Special Forces) reconnaissance and surveillance detachment to build a comprehensive intelligence picture of the movements and pattern of life of declared war criminals.Global Humanitarian & Growth Initiatives• Created the first self-sustaining, fully Afghan staffed radio station in the country through the coaching and mentoring of host nation employees to successfully market “air-time advertising” among local Afghan businesses.• Championed a vocational initiative for wounded Afghan military members and first responders, facing no government compensation or relief.

Camp Arifjan, Kuwait

Served as the SOF advisor to the 3-Star Commanding General. Provided command-level guidance for interagency DoD and Joint staff planning documents to assess their impact on Combined Joint Task Force missions. Applied mission, roles, functions, organizational structures, and operations to provide command-level staff guidance and assess their impact on theater strategic objectives. • Led a hand-selected team of representative experts in lethal and non-lethal Special Operations who provided representation and direct advisement to the Commanding General, Combined Joint Task Force - Operation INHERENT RESOLVE in the campaign against the Islamic State. • Provided all aspects of coordination, communication, campaign planning, operational approvals, and mission tracking between the Commanding General of all Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Special Operations in the Middle East and the Commanding General of the 66-nation multinational task force.

Fort Carson, Colorado

Deputy Chief Executive Officer for a 2,600-person organization consisting of elite Army Green Berets and specialized support personnel responsible for pursuing national objectives in North America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Served during an operative period in the history of the organization with oversight of major restructuring and re-organization in order to generate capability of a highly classified and sensitive nature. Selected for CEO and one of 12 officers in this grade selected for early promotion from across the Army.

Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Director of the Commanders Initiatives Group, US Army Special Operations Command, hand-selected from across the 26,000-person organization that was responsible for developing innovative concepts and proposed solutions to complex challenges as well as the comprehensive marketing associated with these new ideas and initiatives. • Prepared senior-level executive briefings and written communication to convey the Commanding General’s most critical concepts, initiatives, and intent. • Represented the Commanding General during engagements with key organizations within the Department of Defense and outside organizations.• Proposed solutions for complex challenges involving the US Army Special Operations Forces. Lead planner for the activation of a new headquarters that was later operational in Kuwait in direct support of counter-ISIS operations in Syria, Iraq, and Southern Turkey.• Lead Planner for the operational integration of women into Army SOF within the Special Forces Groups (activation and adaptation).• Rated by the Commanding General as the best officer in the headquarters and the top performer from among 46 peers within the organization.

Fort Bragg, North Carolina And Bagram, Afghanistan

As Chief Executive Officer, trained, resourced, and led a 436-person organization of elite Army Green Berets and specialized support personnel responsible for pursuing national objectives worldwide while executing a budget of $10.4 million. During an extended combat deployment to Afghanistan, successfully conducted over 1,800 missions with 6,700 personnel operating from 20 separate locations across 42,000 square miles of assigned territory. Evaluated as the best performer of 19 first-year CEOs and received ratings ahead of 68 fellow peers across the organization.

Fort Carson, Colorado

Chief Operating Officer for a 2,600-person organization consisting of elite Army Green Berets and specialized support personnel responsible for pursuing national objectives in North America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. When deployed in support of combat operations in Libya, served as the Deputy COO of the multinational headquarters that was responsible for all Special Operations Forces from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps that were operating on the African continent. Formally evaluated as the #1 performer ahead of 63 peers within the organization and among the top 3% of all officers in this grade selected by the Army for early promotion.

Fort Carson, Colorado

Led an 88-person organization consisting of elite Army Green Berets and specialized support personnel responsible for pursuing national objectives in North America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. When deployed to Africa, he commanded dispersed teams responsible for training and resourcing 160 soldiers in Mali from remote outposts on the fringe of the Sahara Desert. Formally evaluated as the #1 performer ahead of 47 peers within the organization.

Master Of Strategic Studies

Distinguished Graduate

Master Of Military Art And Science (Theater Operations)

Graduate

Education record

Graduate

Bachelor Of Science In History, Systems Engineering

Activities and Societies: Captain, Army Marathon Team (four-time Boston Marathon competitor)Graduate