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Talented manager with + years experience in productive roles in NGO/non-profit and for-profit venues
Exceptional ability to foster relationships with diverse constituencies including education, government and funding sources. Goal oriented and results-focused managing projects and directing development programs.
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Creative Vision |
An entrepreneurial spirit with strategic and organizational vision and a results orientation. Drove significant anti-corruption planning initiatives in Afghanistan.
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Operations Capabilities
Management Talent |
A skilled program manager and team leader recognized for capabilities in developing programs, acquiring funding and organizing and deploying resources.
Managed programs and budgets in environments encompassing diverse personnel including a volatile international venue with frequent security and safety challenges.
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Team Building |
Strength with sophisticated communications skills inspiring staff, international communities and funding sources to work jointly toward implementing initiatives. |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Independent Consultant Contract (Internationally based) -
Hired to develop, research, and write anti-corruption curriculum and reports for NATO and international NGOs. To include: NATO's Joint Warfare Centre (JWC), NATO's Allied Joint Force Command (JFC) Brunssum, and Transparency International's Defence and Security Programme. Master’s Thesis Advisor at Grenoble École de Management.
- Designed and delivered content briefs to senior officers on anti-corruption issues to support the comprehensive approach in counter-insurgency and stability operations.
- Crafted anti-corruption crisis management scenarios during training exercises.
- Provided comprehensive editing and proofreading services, content guidance, and independent research.
- Experienced in providing research, issues analysis, and briefings to senior military and civilian leadership.
- Created anti-corruption training and briefing sessions to prepare NATO’s Resolute Support (RSM) Post-Transition Planning Group.
- Maintained good working relations with subject matter experts, division directors, lead action officers and key stakeholders.
- Experienced in coordinating and sharing information with various levels in a hierarchical structure and determining key issues affecting organization.
NAVANTI GROUP, Arlington, VA
Deputy Program Manager (Consultant Contract)
Assigned to a mentor and leadership position overseeing + subject matter experts and tasked with developing a productive strategic and operations focus, rationalizing responsibilities, installing communications efficiencies, and establishing ongoing training and administrative protocols. Utilizing analytics, Navanti provides custom solutions to complex political, economic and security issues across Africa, Eurasia and the Middle East, to include: media assessment, tracking popular trends, infrastructure, security, and public perceptions.
- Instituted communications processes that reinforced team communication and collaboration.
- Strengthened proposal review systems to more effectively clarify and prioritize client needs.
- Edited final products to ensure analysis and fusion of open-source operational information met client planning and intelligence priorities.
- Installed government, military and NGO methodologies to boost product quality and output.
- Designed and deployed incentive programs dramatically improving both morale and productivity.
- Counseled senior management on employee development, performance enhancement and productivity.
Combined Joint Interagency Task Force (CJIATF) - Shafafiyat, Kabul, Afghanistan -
Strategic Liaison and Chief – Counter Corruption Assessment & Training
Assigned as project manager to research and develop strategic, operational and tactical anti-corruption studies for integration into US and NATO policy and doctrine in Afghanistan. Tasked with creating and shepherding proposals through a complex approval process while ensuring critical timelines were met.
- Experienced in multiple environments such as military, intra-governmental, international organization, and Ministry of Defence (MOD) level.
- Drafted background and situational briefs for key leader engagements.
- Provided Direction and Guidance on public affairs matters.
- Advised Commander’s Advisory Group (CAG) and Counterinsurgency Advisory and Assistance Team (CAAT) on Anti-Corruption material related to strategic messaging.
- Delivered the first NATO study examining the intersection of anti-corruption and strategic operations in conjunction with the Joint Analysis Lessons Learned Centre.
- Collaborated with senior command staff to obtain approvals through NATO HQ in Brussels.
- Initiated and managed two additional studies on anti-corruption with the US military.
- Contributed to the preparation of official visits and meetings and Liaised with NATO-wide bodies, NATO Command Structure, External Think Tanks & Academia, and NGOs.
- Designed and led strategic site visits of anti-corruption experts from Transparency International’s Defence and Security Programme to highlight the challenges of anti-corruption campaigns in war zones.
- Supported internal and external engagements as required in support of the overall mission.
- Prepared and taught an anti-corruption curriculum at the Joint Warfare Centre in Stavanger, Norway, HQ ISAF, Kabul, Afghanistan, and Grafenwoehr, Germany.
- Experienced in providing senior military leadership with analysis of key reports.
- Lead Briefer to General Officers on, and Editor of the Quarterly Strategic Assessment Report (QSAR), Transition Provincial Outlook Report (TPOR), Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) Quarterly Report to Congress, and Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index.
- Taskforce representative and drafting contributor for COMISAF Operations Plan revision . (NATO campaign plan for Operation Enduring Freedom).
Kingfisher Systems, Inc., Falls Church, VA
Recruitment Consultant
Hired to recruit candidates with intelligence, security, military, and law enforcement experience for United States government in national security roles.
- Synchronized with a multi-faceted team to evaluate, screen, and place potential candidates within mission-essential, contracted positions.
- Actively data mined candidates and vetted CVs for /national security contracts; prescreened candidates with detailed interviews.
- Coordinated with Project Managers to ensure the quality and background of candidates presented matched federal contract requirements.
Ciber, Inc., Carlisle, PA
Analyst
Integral member of the Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI) program design team, assigned to support creation of a anti-corruption training courses for deploying military and civilian personnel to Afghanistan (in support of CJIATF-Shafafiyat).
- Responsible for detailed tasking, development, design and drafting of counter-corruption curriculum hosted by Army Training Network (ATN) to ensure deliverables met time and expectation requirements. Content manager for ATN post-construction.
- Developed measurement tools and information protocols to assess the effectiveness of training; edited course material based on assessment results.
- Analyzed news reviews, academic journals, and conducted media monitoring to provide trend analysis.
- Established and advanced good working relations with subject matter experts, division directors, lead action officer and key global leaders on anti-corruption.
- Utilized databases to extract information pertaining to counter-corruption in Afghanistan for use in curriculum development for PKSOI and SOLLIMS (lessons learned database).
- Experienced in preparing and delivering briefings for senior military and civilian leadership.
- Supported internal and external engagements as required in support of the overall mission.
- Created standard operating procedures for file management, information processing, subject matter expert tracking, and dissemination of research materials to government and contract team.
US Army War College, Carlisle, PA/Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY -
Graduate Research Assistant
Hired to support projects related to anti-corruption curriculum development at the Peacekeeping and Stability Operation (PKSOI) of the US Army War College and supported marketing and implementation of the National Security Management Course for the National Security Studies Program at Syracuse University.
- Collected relevant lessons, integral in development of curriculum, and assisted with assimilation of counter-corruption curriculum into existing counter-insurgency leader development programs.
- Interviewed key military and civilians experts engaged in Afghanistan to uncover the depth and breadth of corruption; course podcasts developed from recorded talks.
- Supported marketing and implementation of The National Security Management Course for the National Security Studies Program through international and political affairs news reviews, analyses, and background development.
- Supported external engagements, including official visits with senior public and private sector leaders.
University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL -
Regional Director of Alumni Giving
Responsible for managing a portfolio of alumni with accountability for soliciting gifts up to $K.
- Developed and deployed an aggressive outreach expanding the donor base to more than alumni.
- Responsible for drafting solicitation scripts, and for globally communicating the strategic regional vision.
- Built strong personal relationships with large donors increasing the maximum assigned gift to $,.
- Implemented programming, recruitment and special events expanding alumni participation and visibility; coordinated alumni programs with the University’s National Outreach Program.
- Supported internal and external engagements as required in support of the overall university mission.
- Experienced in coordinating and sharing information with various levels in a hierarchical structure and determining key regional issues.
OTHER EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Manager/ Beauty Specialist – Retail/Sales, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. and Limited Brands, Boca Raton, FL
Purser – Accounting and Management, M/Y Mosaique (Yacht), Cannes, France
Responsible for the accounting and management of a meter, $ million luxury yacht.
- Managed accounts and maintained payroll for a staff of people.
- Officer of the Watch and witness to sale of yacht. Facilitated hand over to new owner, captain and crew.
Assistant d’Anglais – English Teacher, Inspection Academique des Alpes Maritimes, Cannes, France
- Taught French children (- years of age) English as a second language.
Assistant Director of Annual Giving – Fundraising, Episcopal High School, Alexandria, VA
Principal member of a successful development team, which raised over $. million during two fiscal years.
- Directed the alumni solicitation and communications programs for the classes of .
- Managed recording and writing acknowledgement for all gifts to the Annual Fund.
- Experienced in using databases to extract information.
Legislative Correspondent– Congressional Staffer, Congressman Fred Upton, Washington, DC
Managed constituent mail flow; monitored legislative issues; administered Intern Program; and supervised office operations during annual August recess.
- Researched and wrote % of correspondence to constituents.
- Coordinated the Intern Program from recruitment to hiring. Guided and motivated, mentored, and counseled interns in the execution of their duties.
- Supported internal and external engagements as required in support of the Congressman.
- Experienced in preparing and delivering briefings for senior leadership.
EDUCATION
MA, International Relations (Focus: Public Diplomacy), Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
BA, Public Relations/Journalism, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
Certificates of Advanced Study, Post-Conflict Reconstruction & Conflict Resolution, Syracuse University
Masters Program Courses, King’s College, London, UK
Extended Studies Program, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Dale Carnegie Leadership Program – Graduate
LANGUAGES
English & French
ACTIVITIES/INTERESTS
Board Advisor, Berrien County -H Foundation, Inc.
Board Member, The Economic Club of Southwest Michigan
Alumni Relations Advisor, Beta Theta Pi Fraternity
Leadership Miami, Miami Dade Chamber of Commerce
Delta Gamma Fraternity
Travel in Eastern and Western Europe and Southern Africa
