Medtronic

Program Manager

Fairview Health Services

Senior Project Manager

Born Primitive

Skillbridge Intern

United States Marine Corps

•	Project Management: Led Marine Corps Intelligence Schools, consisting of 160 students and 50 staff members, through a merger with other U.S. federal agency intelligence training venues – acted as program manager to over 17 distinct stakeholders – including directors of National level intelligence organizations. Hand selected a cohort to work through the merger, assigned roles to individuals, established governance structure, assessed and managed risk, scoped the project along with necessary budget and resources while using an incremental approach for planning objectives and establishing KPIs. 
•	Leadership: Led over 250 Marine Corps intelligence officers through rigorous intelligence training, both Agile and Waterfall approaches to project management. Formal and informal instruction focused on creating high performing teams, keeping teams aligned with objectives and operations, execution of planning through stakeholder engagement, risk management, planning and scoping of sprints, along with governance structure inclusive of national level policy and procurement/management of funding; additional topics include contingency planning, management of communication, project artifacts, and phased approaches for the life cycle of a project.

•	Engagement: Collaborated with Marine Corps C-Suite and contributed to Marine Corps Future Force Design 2030 strategy – determining data collection techniques for the promotion of Marine Corps intelligence capabilities to the broader intelligence enterprise. Led four full cycle agile sprints to design and develop new approaches for Marine Corps intelligence products against evolving and changing environments – tested, deployed, and reviewed designs and products within an iterative wargaming process.

Course Director Program Management Counterintelligence Human Intelligence Officers Course

Australian Amphibious Task Group

•	Data Operations Innovation: Led cross-functional data collection platforms through qualitative and quantitative exercises and operations to confirm or deny assumptions within operational planning for real world operations and multi-national exercises in Australia and South East Asia. Informed senior level Australian C-suite on emerging data collection methods and best practices resulting in privacy enhancement for fleet planning and operations. Provided in-depth competitor and threat analysis along with emerging competitor innovation. 
•	Project Management: Led an intelligence organization, consisting of 25 employees, through seven cycles of innovation, training, and readiness using the Waterfall project management methodology with defining requirements and through design, while using agile sprints within the implementation to adapt within dynamic environments and to establish redundancy against a multitude of contingencies. These training cycles validated national level intelligence competencies and policy against risk, governance, and compliance for the whole of government approach to National defense. 
•	Process Improvement: Conducted root cause analyses, gap assessments and designed remediation plans to improve process alignment with corporate policy requirements while remaining sensitive to international jurisdiction guidelines; communicated findings with non-technical audiences to deliver clear, consistent risk management messaging and proposed a roadmap for implementing improvements. 
•	Leadership: Acted as the senior director of Intelligence Planning and Operations overseeing a staff function of managers and associates within a foreign government’s national contingency response force. Observed and performed performance management for all managers and associates within the intelligence office – screened employees, assessed strengths and opportunities for professional development, and let the staff function through seven cycles of training and readiness.

Program Manager - Intelligence Plans

Expeditionary Warfare School

Student

•	Leadership: Trained and employed 350 intelligence personnel to perform primary and secondary research and data collection throughout Asia and the Middle East. Coordinated personnel support to multiple customers throughout both Asia and the Middle East providing data collection and other research capabilities. Created buy-in from exclusive stakeholders to enable data collection in new and emerging venues. Regulated risk by reinforcing compliance standards in-line with corporate objectives; analyzed reports and controlled exceptions; provided on-the-job training, workshops, and weekly team meetings to ensure 100% operational compliance.
•	Advanced Analytics: Increased robustness of decision-making by introducing forecasting tools and probabilistic modeling to capture fluctuations in adversary and host nation activity; introduced advanced analytical methods within planning and operations to deliver environmental clarity for decision makers. Enabled C-Suite executives with marketing solutions to gain access to new operations and geographical venues.
•	Associate Development: Managed associate proficiency by benchmarking performance, analyzing data to track trends, identifying root cause of shortcomings and created tools and established routines to improve associate learning and building confidence through peer engagement.
•	Budget: Maintained an operating budget of $3 million dollars, oversaw the safeguarding and maintenance of $15 million worth of research and collection gear and software.

Program Manager - Intelligence Officer

University of Minnesota

Active duty status, full time student and active member of NROTC unit.

Student NROTC

Program Manager - Intelligence Chief

Program manager with 21 years’ experience creating high performing teams, building shared understanding, empowering team members, collaborating with stakeholders, managing conflict, exceeding quality, overcoming issues, mitigating risk, aligning with compliance, consulting, and delivering value. Passionate about enhanced customer experiences through evidence-based decision making. Proponent of cultivating customer-centric philosophies across all organizational levels to drive value. Advocate of situational leadership. Empathetic, high emotional intelligence leader founded upon authenticity.

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