Chantilly, Virginia, United States
I am an executive-level operational leader and certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with 26 years of enterprise governance across the Department of Defense, U.S. Space Force, U.S. Air Force, and the Intelligence Community. Throughout my career, I have served as a trusted principal advisor to Board-equivalent General Officers and Senior Executive Service (SES) leaders, specializing in bridging the gap between high-level strategic vision and flawless execution. I thrive in high-stakes, high-velocity environments where multi-agency friction, complex international dynamics, and multi-million-dollar program portfolios require steady, high-EQ leadership. Core Areas of Impact & Enterprise Scale: Portfolio & Asset Governance: Directly stewarded a $300M+ infrastructure portfolio and safeguarded a massive $30B+ enterprise asset footprint for the nation’s largest satellite operations facility. Large-Scale Workforce Optimization: Spearheaded daily operations, professional engineering, and organizational readiness workflows for a 2,000+ joint-service personnel footprint. Corporate Diplomacy & Stakeholder Engagement: Synchronized matrixed teams to deliver executive portfolios across 120+ independent interagency stakeholders, defusing critical communication friction and aligning allied defense strategies. Target Trajectory: Senior Program Manager, Chief of Staff, or Director of Operations roles within Tier-1 defense contracting organizations or cleared cloud-enterprise big tech sectors in the NoVA / Washington D.C. corridor. Core Competencies: Program Lifecycle Management | Resource Allocation & Budgetary Oversight | Cross-Functional Team Leadership | Risk Mitigation & Crisis Management | International & Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Support | Enterprise Architecture Credentials: Project Management Professional (PMP)® Master of Arts (MA) in National Security Studies (Dean's List, Cum Laude) Bachelor of Science (BS) in Management Information Systems (With Distinction) Security Clearance: Active TS/SCI with current Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph Let's connect to discuss upcoming mission-critical programs or strategic leadership opportunities.
Scope of Responsibility: Serve as the principal operational advisor to 28 General Officers and Senior Executive Service (SES) leaders across the Department of Defense’s largest satellite operations facility. Direct daily operations, strategic organizational readiness, and installation change management for a 280-acre, 1 million sq. ft. secure campus. Enterprise Leadership: Spearheaded daily operations and professional development for a 2,000+ joint-service personnel footprint, safeguarding a $30B+ infrastructure enterprise. Portfolio Management: Governed the NRO Career Field across 10 global sites and optimized a $300M+ annual facilities portfolio to guarantee uninterrupted, zero-fail national intelligence operations. Stakeholder Diplomacy: Synchronized matrixed teams to deliver executive portfolios and defused critical operational friction across 120 distinct interagency stakeholders.
Scope of Responsibility: Synchronized multi-domain intelligence workflows and provided high-consequence strategic decision support directly to Combatant Commanders to accelerate crisis de-escalation. Directed comprehensive threat assessments to defend critical aerospace and commercial space assets on a global scale. Cross-Functional Unification: Synchronized multi-domain intelligence collection workflows across 70 independent joint-service units, maximizing global collaboration to defend a $240B portfolio of critical aerospace and commercial space assets. Interagency Governance: Orchestrated communication channels for global tracking operations, synthesizing 182 comprehensive reports that unified allied defense strategies. Workforce Optimization: Formulated and executed a modernized technical training infrastructure, personally certifying 45 specialized intelligence professionals to optimize team capacity and sustain peak operational readiness.
Scope of Responsibility: Orchestrated intelligence workflows across multiple squadrons and engineered cross-agency intelligence-sharing architectures. Coached and integrated large-scale multinational personnel to foster unified, theater-wide operational capabilities. Strategic Synchronization: Orchestrated intelligence workflows across 2 squadrons, authoring 28 executive briefings that improved decision speed and increased operational efficiency by 25%. Large-Scale Integration: Coached and integrated 1,000+ multinational personnel during complex joint training exercises to foster unified theater-wide operational capabilities. System Optimization: Engineered and deployed a modernized intelligence-sharing architecture that optimized data flows among competing joint commands and international partners, successfully resolving legacy communication friction.
Scope of Responsibility: Managed global threat assessments and 24/7 real-time decision pipelines supporting 4 Combatant Commands. Led, mentored, and directed talent retention strategies for a high-performance organization of 250 specialized intelligence analysts. Asset Protection & Global Mission Assurance: Directed maritime security operations that neutralized 89 mission threats, protecting 50,000 personnel and $20B in assets. Continuous Process Improvement: Critically reviewed and re-engineered operational planning pipelines, achieving a 67% reduction in reporting latency to provide senior executives with high-velocity decision-making capabilities. Human Capital Optimization: Led and mentored a high-performance organization of 250 specialized analysts, significantly optimizing talent retention across 84 joint-service billets.
Scope of Responsibility: Supervised enterprise-level space ISR and communications infrastructure assets supporting global commands and international defense partnerships, guaranteeing continuous 24/7 global coverage. Program Lifecycle & Contract Governance: Managed multi-million-dollar localized operational budgets and oversaw contractor performance ($5M to $100M thresholds), matching service-level agreements (SLAs) with strict government compliance requirements. Operational Efficiency Re-engineering: Led teams of 250+ technical analysts, analyzing and optimizing administrative and operational workflows to boost delivery efficiency by up to 67%.