Performed as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Human Capital Officer, Chief Security Officer, Chief Logistics Officer, and Chief Capabilities Officer. Led all support functions for 1,000+ Active Duty, Reserve, Civilian, Auxiliary, and Contractor personnel at Cyber Command, geographically dispersed in 14 locations throughout the U.S.

• Selected to fill a Commander position as a Lieutenant Commander, performing significantly above normal responsibilities. Successfully led department across all operational areas. Effectively campaigned for additional personnel, expanded scope of responsibility and grew department over 25%, resulting in increased efficacy in operational support by 42%, and the establishment of new initiatives.

• Governed personnel security administration (IAM) for 1,000+ personnel to include overseeing clearance issuance and management, Information Security Management and Information Assurance programs. Reestablished and in-housed oversight and management of the unit's 200+ classified systems and user account access rights.

• Managed $50M in Cyber Portfolio and $4M in unit administration funds annually, ensuring operational missions are fully supported through funding, personnel, and training. Conducted cost-benefit analyses to identify efficiencies, resulting in the organization increasing operations by 50% over a twelve-month period.

• Partnered with Senior Leadership and key stakeholders to oversee personnel and administrative support for 800+ Active Duty, Reserve, Civilian, and Auxiliary personnel. Role included oversight of civilian hiring and management and military assignment and management. Commanding Officer of Enlisted Personnel, responsible for the administration of unit's 400+ enlisted member workforce, to include training, human resources, and conduct oversight when applicable. Effectively increased military assignment and civilian hiring, reducing vacancies across the organization by over 7%.

• Oversaw acquisition and maintenance of facilities and equipment to support cyber defense operations, including secret and top-secret systems. Expertly coordinated with Department of Homeland Security project manager to accept a new Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility and oversaw accreditation process to increase classified capabilities. Oversaw and managed the unit's training program, ensuring 800+ Active Duty, Reserve, Civilian, and Auxiliary personnel obtain required training and certifications to meet Defense Cyber Workforce roles. Managed over $5M annually in upskilling through personnel training, improving unit readiness and workforce expertise.

Primary analytic liaison between Coast Guard and NCTC. Ensured direct communications between the two organizations related to intelligence analysis and production. Coordinated analysis and production of intelligence reports between the two agencies. Published intelligence reports and briefed federal, state, and local partners on intelligence analysis.

• Provided timely strategic maritime counterterrorism and critical infrastructure threat analysis to policymakers and federal/state/local/Intelligence Community partners via written and published assessments and in-person briefs. Provided over 20 briefs to federal/state/local partners throughout the United States, ensuring broad reach of intelligence products to reduce risks.

• Researched and developed policy and operational opportunities to reduce or disrupt maritime terrorism trends, threats, and terrorist exploitation of the marine transportation system and threats to critical infrastructure. Established as the Subject Matter Expert regarding maritime terrorism and threats to critical infrastructure.

• Planned, researched, developed, and communicated in-depth analyses of complex and significant national/regional/global issues for senior policymakers and key components in the Intelligence Community, law enforcement, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Published intelligence products for senior policymakers across the federal government.

• Planned, promoted, and led the production of a broad range of finished intelligence products in support of United States foreign policy and national security interests. Requested to brief foreign partner nations on maritime terrorism trends.

• Led, planned, directed, and coordinated the preparation of tactical, multidisciplinary, and strategic analysis that supports key US national security and foreign policy objectives and helps shape IC analysis and priorities. Championed the development of and co-lead NCTC's Infrastructure Working Group, focused on identifying and analyzing non-state actor threats to all sixteen U.S. Critical Infrastructure Sectors.

• Earned Intelligence Community Advanced Analyst Program certification, one of only 12 Coast Guard members to earn this certification.

Performed as the senior intelligence officer for the Coast Guard in Connecticut and Long Island. Led all-source intelligence analysis efforts in support of the Coast Guard and federal, state, local, and private sector partners.

• Coordinated and executed implementation of national security and intelligence policies and strategies in USCG operations throughout Connecticut and Long Island. Developed priority intelligence requirements, implemented in-house collection requirements, and established local intelligence production processes.

• Supervised, performed, and oversaw law enforcement intelligence collection in support of the Sector Commander and USCG mission areas, with a specific focus on fisheries enforcement, drug and human trafficking, and protection and monitoring of maritime critical infrastructure. Developed strong partnerships with federal, state, and local partners through Connecticut and Long Island, enabling the intelligence staff to leverage a vast network to assess and respond to threat information.

• Established and maintained intelligence operations through a challenging period that included a 35-day federal government shutdown affecting the Department of Homeland Security and established and maintained new workforce management policies to mitigate impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic. Developed data aggregation processes, resulting in the output of a daily awareness brief provided to over 450 recipients among federal, state, and local partners, and equipping decisionmakers with key information and awareness.

• Instituted and revised vessel targeting practices to enable early identification of vessels of interest. Increased operational planning capabilities at the unit, resulting in 93 vessel boardings over a 12-month period. These boardings resulted in an unprecedented 47% of those vessels found in violation of fishing regulations with illegal catch onboard valued at $6.4M.

• Supervised open-source intelligence process throughout the unit during a period of heightened political tensions ahead of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections. Coordinated with local units and intelligence community partners to ensure critical threat information was provided to units during unregulated political events, including unpermitted boat parades that brought thousands of boaters to the area.

• Supervised 6 full-time staff and 14 collateral duty staff, and managed a $5K annual budget.

• Awarded Coast Guard First District Intelligence Unit of the Year for 2021.

Primary analytic liaison between Coast Guard and the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Ensured direct coordination between the two organizations. Coordinated with program offices on the development and execution of annual classified budgets.

• Coordinated and oversaw implementation of national security and intelligence policies and strategies in USCG operations to ensure Coast Guard allocation of resources support DNI priorities.

• As a Resource Analyst within ODNI Chief Financial Officer (CFO), oversaw, managed, and coordinated National Intelligence Program (NIP) budgets for Non-Defense accounts. Developed future year budget proposals, monitored agency execution of allocated budgets, and tracked performance metrics as related to budget items.

• Coordinated and communicated with CFO offices for the Departments of State, Treasury, Justice, Energy, and Homeland Security, subordinate agencies, and the Office of Management and Budget to ensure timely submission of NIP budgets for the Fiscal Year 2018 and 2019 Presidential Budget Requests to Congress.

• Conducted programmatic reviews of budget execution and evaluation of performance metrics with agencies. Ensured allocated budgets executed according to budget proposals and Congressional Authorizations and Appropriations.

Led all operations for the ship and its crew. Scheduled and executed deployments to the Caribbean in support of counternarcotics mission. Supervised training and preparation of the crew, including successful preparation for annual evaluation exercises.

• Coordinated successful deployment of the ship and crew following recovery from a major fire onboard the ship in February 2013. Overcame challenges presented by degraded ship status to successfully recertify for operations.

• Coordinated all shipboard operations and planning for five Joint Interagency Task Force – South counternarcotics patrols and one Coast Guard Seventh District migrant interdiction patrol. Successfully interdicted over 2,400 kilograms of illegal narcotics valued at $79M, and supported the prosecution of 20 suspected smugglers.

• Supervised development of organic intelligence reports regarding suspicious activity and narcotics smuggling tactics, techniques and procedures. Information provided details on emerging trends and tactics to inform other Coast Guard units conducting counternarcotics patrols.

• Managed shipboard electronic systems, information technology systems, and navigation systems, ensuring full operational capability. Oversaw equipment installation, maintenance, and repair. Ensured ship maintained full operational status ahead of deployments, and worked with shore-based support to rapidly repair equipment casualties while deployed.

• Primary point of contact for Coast Guard Cryptologic Unit deployable intelligence detachment. Coordinated five deployments of cryptologic detachments, significantly augmenting its organic intelligence collection capabilities.

• Served as the Command Security Officer, responsible for physical and information security for the unit. Responsible for the vetting of member's and controlling access to secure spaces onboard the ship, to include information systems spaces and weapons spaces.

• Managed department of 50 people and $150K budget, effectively executing shipboard operations and missions.

Primary action officer for the Coast Guard's $10.1B Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) ship acquisition. Coordinated efforts between the Ship Design Team and the Acquisition Program Office to garner Department of Homeland Security approval of the project.

• Oversaw the approval of the Coast Guard’s Operational Requirements Document for the $10.1 billion Offshore Patrol Cutter acquisition by the Department of Homeland Security. Enabled the program to move forward with soliciting for designs from shipbuilders, keeping the program on time.

• Liaised with Ship Design Team to identify cost effective requirements and demonstrate proof of concept for Offshore Patrol Cutter design. Provided clear direction for project goals to align Program Manager and Sponsor efforts, ensuring project remained on track and met acquisition milestones.

• Developed comprehensive fleet-wide homeporting plan, accounting for changes to fleet mix and new requirements. Accounted for the condition of ships, delivery of new assets, and decommissioning schedule of legacy assets to ensure appropriate fleet mix that reduced Coast Guard operational impacts. Plan minimized homeport shifts, resulting in a net savings to the Coast Guard of approximately $10M over a ten-year period.

• Provided direct feedback to managers and executive leadership on project status, challenges, and potential paths forward for the project. Provided detailed analysis of the Project Lifecycle Cost Estimate, identifying and validating cost-driving assumptions and directly supporting the Coast Guard achieving an Acquisition Milestone approval to continue the project.

Exchange officer serving with the Navy. Planned, coordinated, and executed all navigation plans for a seven-month deployment.

• Navigated over 50,000 nautical miles around Africa and Mediterranean during independent deployment in support of U.S. Africa Command and U.S. Navy Sixth Fleet. Ensured safe navigation of a billion-dollar warship and crew of 325 personnel. Successfully completed deployment for partner nation engagement, counterpiracy, and force projection.

• Prepared and executed navigation plans for four 24-hour Suez Canal transits and over 30 navigation plans for port visits across Southern Europe, West Africa, North Africa, and East Africa. Successfully ensured timely arrival at port visits to onload supplies and logistics during the 7-month deployment.

• Responsible for operation and maintenance of shipboard electronic navigation equipment. Ensured timely updates to software and routine maintenance to ensure uptime of over 99% through the duration of the deployment.

• Supervised 7 Navigation Division personnel and equipment. Managed $10K budget.

Performed as the ship's Weapons Officer, Law Enforcement Officer, and First Lieutenant. Oversaw maintenance and operation of the ship's gunnery and electronic weapons systems, law enforcement equipment and boarding teams, and all small boat, anchoring, flight operations, and search-and-rescue equipment.

• Served as First Lieutenant, overseeing ship’s Deck Department. Responsible for the operation and maintenance of ship’s small boats, rescue and survival gear program, anchor and mooring line equipment, and overall appearance of ship’s exterior. Proactive maintenance regime reduced costs by preventing major equipment casualties, saving the unit and the Coast Guard several hundred thousand over a five-year period.

• Managed shipboard Law Enforcement program. Served as primary boarding officer for counternarcotics boardings. Established policies and procedures for use of the ship’s newly acquired over-the-horizon cutter boat for long-range interdictions. Established the unit's first team, effectively managing training, qualification, and practical experience to ensure continued capability in the future.

• Served as Deck Watch Officer, safely navigating the ship over 20,000 nautical miles during five Joint Interagency Task Force – South counternarcotics patrols and one Coast Guard First District fisheries enforcement patrol. Responsibly ensured the safety of the multimillion dollar ship and the lives of 100 crewmembers.

• Supervised weapons systems maintenance and operations, ensuring full operational capability. Responsible for the operation and maintenance of shipboard fire control system. Successfully led unit through a rigorous technical weapons inspection with only a handful of minor discrepancies and extremely high praise from the inspection team.

• Managed department of 20 people and $75K budget.