I have managed ongoing operations at senior levels, from retail to production, and for the past 16+ years, I have worked in international government contracting (both DoD and DoS).
My most significant recent roles have been as Senior Program Manager, Operations and Maintenance Support Services for all of the US Embassy sites in Bagdad (leading over 1k employees). WRM Oman, where I led a business office in Muscat, port operations in Salalah, and airfield operations at my main site in Thumrait and a subsite on Masirah Island (leading 500 employees).
As Deputy Program Manager, Life and Mission Support Services, NATO Training Mission Afghanistan/Afghan Ministry of Defense Development Program (NTMA/AMDP), I led a portfolio of subprograms as well as 26 training sites and 18 clinics (with over 5K employees).
In my roles as a Senior Program Manager, I have typically managed a mix of ongoing operations (generally through dedicated operations managers) and an extensive portfolio of concurrent projects from simple/minor scope to complex/large scope.
My most recent program management roles have been Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) for PACAF’s Typhoon Mawar Recovery in Guam, with another task order in Okinawa for similar engineering services at Kadena Air Base (I led a team of 23 engineers).
OMSS was based at the US Embassy in Bagdad, where I managed three main sites, 11 task orders, and over 1k employees. This was my first role as a Program Manager, and I was elevated to Senior Program Manager.
I have managed portfolios of multiple concurrent projects for over 15 years. In May 2023, Amentum elevated me to Senior Project Manager. I have been a continuous member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) since 2012 and attained my PMP in October 2020. I recently renewed in October 2023 and am now current through October 2026.
I have led a wide variety of projects, most through their entire lifecycle, including ERP, MRO, and Power BI development and deployment, renovation, construction (minor to major), task order deployment, fleet modernization, multiple fleet swap outs, many training and mentoring projects from aviation logistics through medical first responder, business development, and much more. A comprehensive portfolio of my most significant projects is available upon request.
Training and mentoring new leaders is foundational to every role I’ve held for over 20 years. In the retail sector (over 20 years ago), I began saying, “When I arrive to take over a new site, the first thing I do is look for my replacement. If I don’t see one, I begin working to create one.”
During my time on DoD training and mentoring contracts in Afghanistan, I ran training and mentoring programs ranging from aviation logistics to medical first responder training. In 2014/2015, I held the title of Senior Advisor in Logistics Systems and Integrations.
In this capacity, I led six regional training teams that trained and mentored Afghan supply officers. Over the past 16 years, I have trained, mentored, and promoted at least 54 men and women into senior leadership positions and countless others from the general workforce into lead, supervisor, and department manager positions. Creating new successful leaders is the most rewarding part of being in a senior leadership role.
In November 2023, I began taking Generative AI courses and certifications. In March 2024, I enrolled in a comprehensive one-year Purdue University postgraduate program in Machine Learning and Generative AI.
I had already been integrating Open AI’s GPT 4 and Microsoft’s CoPilot into some of my program and project management workflows. I’ve been collecting and creating increasingly complex and follow-on iterative prompts.
My intent with the Purdue postgraduate certification program is to enhance my years of successful operations management, project management, and Lean 6 Sigma methodologies with my newly acquired Python programming, data analytics, machine learning, and master classes on large language model training to offer the most repeatable accurate and efficient and repeatable set of skills and tools possible to my clients.
