Lawrence McNaul Resume

Hardee County Board of County Commissioners, Wauchula, FL

County Manager, 2019 – Current, population 27,000          Salary $112,750

Chief Executive Officer directing all operations of the county including its general accounting and $65M operation budget. Directing the operations of 6 Directorates managing 12 Department Heads and 230 fulltime employees. Providing operational leadership to streamline Directorate and Department Head relations and functionality of internal processes to include reorganization of the structure. Serving as the Executive Director of a special district comprised as an Economic Development Authority and overseeing the dissemination of $9M in Education, Recreation and Economic grants for local projects from special revenues created by phosphate mining.

Key Contributions

• Orchestrated marketing specific to the County and its identity through implementing Tourism Development Council revenues to sustain internal marketing concepts.
• Spearheaded bottom up and retention programs for existing employees by implementing plans for succession.
• Redefined Human Resources mission and marketing components and implemented training strategies.
• Developed and Implemented complete marketing campaign for Emergency Management and information flow. Most significant steps taken in the face of the COVID-19 virus.
• Developing an Executive role to be solely responsible for Mining Permit Operations and serve as the Executive Role over mitigations funds and future projects.
• Conceptualized and brought change management to an old and faltering system.
• Restored significant relations with community groups, municipalities, key businesses, community stakeholders and employees with a positive and confident spirit.
• Spearheading strategic mining negotiations for land reclamation violations to prevent negative impacts and maintain executive relations.

City of West Liberty, West Liberty, IA

City Manager, 2013 – Present, population 4000 Salary $98,000

Direct and oversee all management of the City including its general accounting and $15M operation budget. Supervise and manage the routine operations of 9 department heads, 50 employees, and 35 seasonal. Provide transformational leadership to correct and improve systems and processes, including financial errors and reorganizing the structure of the city. Collaborate with developers, economic development professionals, and maintain partnerships with both public and private parties. Ensure quality and control in all departments including Financial Administration, Electric, Solid Waste, Water & Sewer Enterprise Utilities, Planning and Zoning, Police, Public Works, Parks and Recreation Departments.

Key Contributions:

• Spearheaded and directed the successful transition of a $40M dollar private to public Wastewater Treatment Facility Operations and Management (2019).
• Conceptualized and secured a housing development with a private investors group and developed an upscale expansion to meet housing needs (2019).
• Implemented curbside recycling and Material Recycling Facility operations that effectively reduced landfill fees and utilized labor more efficiently (2018).
• Ensured $4.1M in funding and spearheaded an upgrade for electrical transformer and switch gear through increased cash balances for the Electric Utility by 200% (2016).
• Reversed Solid Waste’s negative fund (-$750k) to a positive balance of $400k in 2 years ultimately leading to building a Material Recycling Center with additional revenue (2014).
• Spearheaded financing of a large-scale water project and implemented a more conservative model by utilizing State Revolving and effectively saved more than $600k (2014).
• Conceptualized a State Revolving Loan Fund for the Waste Water Treatment plant ($2.4M upgrade) (2014).

Police Chief, 2013 – 2014

Managed all the routine operations for the city’s police department. Provided leadership and supervision to officers and staff. Collaborated with city management and leaders to identify city needs and develop strategies. Implemented improved purchasing practices and funding methods while maintaining department budgets.

Key Contributions:

• Developed, streamlined, and implemented numerous policies and procedures for the department.
• Re-instituted the Reserve Officer program and hired local officers.
• Selected as the City Manager after recognition of leadership abilities and asked to hire my replacement.

Poweshiek County Sheriff’s Office, Montezuma, IA

Chief Deputy, 2001 – 2013 Population 20,000

Supervised and directed operations within the Sheriff’s Department and managed over 45 employees and a $3M budget. Ensured regulatory compliance and safe practices in all operations including Patrol, Investigations, E-911 Communications, Jail Divisions and the Civil Department. Conducted job performance evaluations and all HR functions. Also oversaw internal and external strategic planning to coincide with county and state visioning for law enforcement agencies. During this time, I was also Interim County Emergency Manager while full time search was conducted.

Key Contributions:

• Secured and acquired over $750k in grants and private foundations to fund technology, equipment, and special projects to enhance law enforcement efforts.
• Spearheaded the development and training of the Poweshiek County Emergency Response team (ERT).
• Oversaw the project, design and development of operations for the $11M County Public Safety Center project (2008).
• Built a County Public Safety Center by securing a Local Option Sales Tax and the bonding processes (2006).
• Acted as project manager and oversaw staffing and training of a County Wide Communications effort and merged two dispatch centers (2010).

City of Grinnell Police Department, IA Population 10,000

Key Contributions

• Supervisory Sergeant, 2000-2001: Responsible for managing and supervising officers on patrol assignments and implementation of special operation detail.
•  Detective Sergeant, Team Leader, Fire Arms Instructor, 1998-2000 Conducted large-scale investigations including forgery, stalking, harassment and burglaries. Warrant Service Entry Team Leader, my responsibility was to manage and train an eight-person team to assess and diffuse potentially volatile situations.
• Narcotics Investigator, Poweshiek, Jasper and Pella Drug Task Force, 1997-1998 I was Responsible for overseeing confidential funds, informants and conducting drug investigations to identify drug dealers and users in a multi-jurisdictional area.
• Police Officer, 1995-1997: Responsibilities included; community policing, responding to calls for service to citizens.

Humanitarian Response Volunteer                                                                     Team Rubicon Deputy Field Operations Manager Region VII 2017-2019                                                                                                                                                        Team Rubicon International Emergency Operation Response and National Damage Assessment & Team Leader 2013 – Present

 As a fully disaster response certified manager I’m responsible for maximizing TR’s ability to objectively and impartially reduce loss of life and Alleviate human suffering in the wake of international disasters. Responsible for leading deployed teams on proactive or reactive operations, conducting mission planning, and ensuring mission success. Leading teams to develop the situation on the ground during an operation, to support the increasing tempo of Team Rubicon’s national and international operations. I’ve volunteered as the Regional Field Operations manager for two years and responded to environments ranging from refugee crisis, humanitarian aid and natural disasters.

Operation Hard Hustle – 2017 Houston Texas, Team Leader responsible for coordinating recovery and relief efforts providing critical damage assessments for follow on action by Strike Teams conducting Light Demolition and Sawyer operations, assisted in Heavy Equipment site surveys and worked on Demo Strike Teams. 

Operation Scouts Honor – 2017 Ottawa & Naplate Illinois, conducted a variety of recovery and relief efforts to include assisting in providing critical damage assessments for follow on action by Strike Teams conducting Light Demolition and Sawyer (Chainsaw) Operations, assisted in Heavy Equipment site surveys and worked on Light Demo teams in where the towns were severely damaged by tornadoes.    

Operation Hermes International Emergency Response Team Leader 2016 – Thessaloniki Greece,                                                                                                        Team Leader for 10 medical professionals to Thessaloniki, Greece to assist and maintain continuity of clinical care for the refugee crisis. As team leader and filling in as project manager for a transition in leadership, I was responsible for meeting with National Directorates and follow on meetings with the Ministry of Health to share the importance of hardened structures and the quality of life by providing daily access to medical services for on site for refugees. The mission was to provide a model environment to help divert a burden off the local emergency services which were all recovering from their own economic crisis. The scope was to provide a sustainable clinical environment and aid in the transfer of authority to nationally operated NGO and the Greek Government. The team also worked to establish permanent personal and health records to aid the refugees in their transition to and achieve visas for further documentation and travel. Received a Commendation Letter from the President of the United States for Humanitarian efforts.

United States Military, 1989- Retired July 2015 Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance (inactive)

Captain Military Intelligence Tactical Intelligence Officer, 185th Regional Support Group Army National Guard 2014-2015: As an executive Staff Officer position I was responsible for reviewing subordinate commands of approximately 250 soldiers and their operational control and responsibilities to identify unit strengths and weaknesses to ensure mission readiness. In addition, I reviewed combat operations and developed of courses of action for exercises during Annual Training for the units responsible to the 185^th and provided Level I Anti-Terrorism training.

 Commander Headquarters Detachment 734^th Regional Support Command. 2011- 2014: Responsible for day to day operations, sustainment, training, professional development and administration of the 734 RSG Head Quarters element providing life quality and logistical support to approximately 850 soldiers and subordinate units. Additionally, responsible for planning and executing individual training of the Soldiers and collective training of the headquarters towards full mission readiness in support of the Iowa National Guards federal and state emergency missions requirements. Responsible for annual budget planning, sustaining mission readiness of materials and property valued at over 22 million dollars.

 Captain Military Intelligence Tactical Intelligence Officer, 734^th ADT Army National Guard 2010-2011: Selected as a Staff Officer for a special team designed to mentor and develop government operations in Kunar, Afghanistan the most remote and kinetic environment during this time. The staff was all specially trained in governance and key leadership procedures to sustaining legal large-scale government projects. I was responsible for Tactical Operations Center supervising all source intelligence for combat operations by threading information involving enemy activity with sensitive reporting to determine the enemy courses of action to help determine the best projects for the local government. My responsibilities also included monitoring command personnel involved in mentoring host nation Provincial Government Officials to recognize, assess and recruit Human Intelligence sources and report accordingly. I managed a team of local national and US interpreters with a budget of three million dollars in payroll and equipment. Most pertinent to my performance was attention to detail in reviewing information of multiple sources of reporting to determine High Value Targets and successful planning and implementation of missions to support civilian and military operations.

Key Contributions: During deployment I mentored an Afghanistan Security Force Assistance Team on basic police procedures based out of Asadabad, Afghanistan assigned to work with the local national police force in developing and maintaining a district police station of over 300 Police Officers and special divisions. I was responsible for discovering extensive theft ring which resulted in a large scaled international criminal investigation lead by the Special Investigator General for Afghan Reconstruction. I worked directly with OGA providing sensitive reporting on government and non-government operations. I was awarded the Bronze Star for exceptional meritorious service during combat operations. Operation Enduring Freedom Kunar Afghanistan.

 1 LT Military Intelligence Tactical Intelligence Officer, 734^th Regional Support Group Army National Guard 2007-2009: Professional duties included review of combat operations and development of courses of action for exercises during Annual Training. Supervision and mentoring of junior intelligence soldiers. My responsibilities were to conduct Level I Anti-Terrorism briefing for National Guard units and review subordinate commands operational, security procedures and intelligence security measures. In 2008, I lead a team responding to the Iowa floods with the National Guard assigned to the community of Columbus Junction and the outlying rural area, Iowa for all phases of emergency management of Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Recovery. My team remained on scene after the levy broke causing major damage to homes, businesses and municipal infrastructure displacing many of the town’s residents. Our team provided logistic and operational support establishing water purification and aid stations.

 1 LT Military Intelligence Tactical Intelligence Officer, 1034^th Combat Sustainment and Support Battalion Army National Guard 2006-2007: Assigned to the Operations Cell who were responsible for sustainment of over 25,000 civilian and military personnel and subsequent bases in Northern Iraq. I supervised all source intelligence section in support of combat operations analyzing enemy activity with human, imagery, and counter- intelligence sources. I was later assigned Detachment Commander for the remainder of the deployment after the presiding Commander was relieved.

Key Contributions:  I was assigned to an Indirect Fire (IDF) Analysis team, reviewing IDF attacks against our base to identify times of future attacks. The team worked with the battle space owner in order to defeat enemy activity and the local population to assess their needs. With three months left in the combat zone I was selected as the Detachment Commander responsible for 2 billion dollars in assets and operational equipment. I was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for exceptional meritorious service during combat operations. Operation Iraqi Freedom Balad Iraq

2 LT Military Intelligence Tactical Intelligence Officer, 185^th Rear Operations

Center 2003-2005 In 2005 I was mobilized for Hurricane Katrina with the Iowa Army National Guard as the Operations Officer in Charge for the Rear Detachment supporting                   all logistic operations for over 300-member response team providing support in Louisiana. In conjunction with Louisiana we established a quick care and relief station at the Iowa State Fairgrounds for displaced disaster families relocated to Iowa.

In 2007, I was temporarily reassigned to the 185 ROC and deployed to for a temporary assignment with the 185^th ROC to train and assist Japanese military in governance and Joint Forces intelligence and operations.

 Petty Officer 3^rd Class Security Specialist, United States Navy 1992-1994:  Conducted base threat protection, vulnerability studies, security police duties and terrorist watch group reporting. Crete Greece

Petty Officer 3^rd Class Fleet Anti-Terrorism Strike Team Member (FAST), United States Navy 1990-1991: Conducted Anti-Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism combat operations to support the Liberation of Kuwait. Operation Desert Storm Liberation of Kuwait

 E-1 to E-3 Information Technician Unite States Navy 1989-1990: Assigned to Naval Communications and Telecommunications Station Washington D.C. Processing

• 25 years executive leadership in both national and international environments with a wide range of experience from logistics to combat operations in intelligence and governance.

Change Management, Field Operations, Governance, Humanitarian Aid, Organizational Development, Remote Leadership, Sustainability Operations, Transformation Leadership

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