Summary
Provide Marine Corps expertise, strategic and organizational insights and apply skills to support innovation of new proposals that focus novel renewable energy and energy efficiency programs.
Education
MS, Naval Postgraduate School – Information Technology Management, 2002
BA, University of Illinois (Chicago) – Economics (major), Mathematics (minor), 1991
Experience
Program Analyst, Naval Surface Warfare Center – Carderock Division | 2014-2017
Spectrum Technology Group, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Lead subject matter expert in support of Marine Corps Team Leader, Advanced Power and Energy Branch efforts: identify and support technological development areas of growth that support expeditionary energy strategy of Marine Corps; identify and support efforts to solicit new sponsors; support team leader’s programmatic and financial oversight; and lead the execution of behavioral energy operations demonstration (multi-phase and multi-year effort).
Responsibilities:
- Monitor compliance of statements of work; coordinate, plan, research, and develop products to improve communication; generate new funding from existing and potential sponsors; and manage requirements and resources to execute on schedule and within budget.
- Support and lead (in the absence of government representative) all operations in the planning and execution of the experimental phase of the USMC behavioral energy operations demonstration.
Accomplishments:
- Wrote and submitted winning proposal for $1.7M in funding for the second phase of the behavioral energy operations demonstration (experimental) through rapid response to Department of the Navy.
- Leading support role to customer for successful completion of first phase of $1.04M USMC behavioral energy study.
- Saved customer over $298,000 in programmatic support to Energy Command and Control development, multi-year endeavor that leverages requirements, acquisition, and relationships with key stakeholders that will generate materiel and non-materiel requirements.
- Saved customer $150,000 in programmatic support to Behavior and Energy Demonstration study, a joint funded effort, over $1M, that requires coordination with five supporting organizations. Currently developing a proposal for design of experiments for phase two funding.
- Direct support to leadership that generated new funding from sponsors, over $1M Fiscal Year 2015 and $1.5M for Fiscal Year 2016.
MARINE CORPS LOGISTICS OFFICER – 20 YEARS
Head, Requirements and Technology Branch | 2010-2014
Expeditionary Energy Office, Headquarters, Marine Corps, Washington, DC
Business unit that is responsible for improving the efficiency of existing and future equipment inventories; identifying and exploiting new technology to improve energy and water management; and development of training and education for energy and water management throughout the global organization. The staff of 10 coordinates throughout the USA and overseas to instill an energy ethos in order to rapidly increase its overall effectiveness.
Responsibilities:
- Lead product development teams using JCIDS to advance innovative business solutions for the organization and its customers (Capability Development Document, Capability Production Document, Statement of Need, Operational and Organizational Statement)
Accomplishments:
- Led product development of hybrid power generators and microgrids
- Spearheaded over $1M investment in equipment training, survey collections, and demonstrations of renewable and energy efficient equipment in Morocco and Afghanistan
- Impact: Executives invested $20M to rapidly procure first generation; rapid development resulted in expansion of employment; and second generation begins distribution during 2014
- Supported $3.4M investment to develop energy efficient trucks and training for field user evaluations
- Impact: Initiated paradigm shift of fuel and electrical power distribution
- Supervised $450K individual power management, renewable energy and water purification investment
- Impact: Prototype development and training for field user evaluation has potential to reduce individual loads of sustainment by 60 pounds.
- Initiated $500K investment into pre-paid solar electric grid for local bazaar in Afghanistan
- Impact: First demonstration of sustained investment in southern region that coordinated contractor, local, and regional government for renewable energy electric grid business district in Afghanistan
Assistant Operations Officer, Installations and Logistics | 2008-2010
Installations and Logistics, Headquarters, Marine Corps, Washington, D.C.
Direct interaction with large organizations to identify and source equipment for combat operations in Afghanistan.
Responsibilities:
- Coordination across business lines to rapidly equip customer needs.
- Advise executives on strategic decisions affecting over 40 account portfolios
Accomplishments:
- Sourced over $2 trillion worth of equipment worldwide for customers
- Impact: Capabilities provided to customer that supported nearly 20,000 personnel
Skills
- Renewable Energy
- Energy Efficiency
- Strategic Planning Training and Education
- Technology Development Logistics Operations