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Over 30 years of civil and military leadership experience providing staff and line weather and climate support to agencies across the federal sector. Led operational and research organizations with up to 300 personnel and budget authority of $100M+, and managed four medium to large data centers. Transitioned numerous state-of-the-art software and hardware technologies into operations.
Military Experiences
2007 - 2009
Commander
Led 87 military, civilian and contract personnel to ingest, quality control, store, simulate and exploit global environmental information in support of military planning, and combat and intelligence operations. Oversaw a $4.6M annual budget and maintained a $20M computer complex, including a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF). Managed an Office for the Modeling and Simulation Executive Agent and the Air Force Weather Technical Library, which contains over 250,000 documents.
2005 - 2007
Commander
Led 11 officer and civilian atmospheric scientists (MS/PhD) that provide support and services to mitigate environmental risks to acquisition programs under the Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Recruited personnel, established training requirements, oversaw work priorities, provided feedback, assessed performance, presented awards, monitored leave, managed conflict resolution and administered discipline. Oversaw $42K annual budget.
2004 - 2005
Director of Operations
Oversaw operations of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Weather Flight (BWF), supporting daily flight operations and base resource protection; and the Staff Meteorology Flight, supporting Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) acquisition programs.
2000 - 2003
Branch Chief, Meteorological Models
Led 20 officer, enlisted, senior civilian and contract personnel, including 10 MS/PhD atmospheric and computer scientists, responsible for developing and operating regional and global weather, cloud and land-surface models. Managed 2 of top 135 supercomputers in the world ($30M systems). Set priorities for $1M research and development budget.
Deployments
(10 months)Apr 2005 - Sep 2005
Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)
Flight Commander, Weather Flight, 332d Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron, Balad AB, Iraq. Led 11 officer/enlisted forecasters at Balad AB and Mosul AAF supporting over 250 aircraft/19 airframes.
May 2002 - Aug 2002
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Operation JOINT FORGE, Chief of Meteorology Branch, Combined-Joint Operations Directorate (J3), Headquarters Stabilization Force (SFOR) and Chief of Weather Station Operations, Camp Butmir (Sarajevo). Responsible for advising COMSFOR on all aspects of weather impacts on SFOR mission and oversaw airfield weather operations.
Military Credentials
Professional Development Schools
Security Clearance
Top Secret/SCI or higher
Academic Degrees
Academic Degrees
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