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Professional Consulting
Focus Areas:
- IT Project Management
- Cybersecurity &Risk Management
- Organizational Structure Assessments
- Leadership Development
What I Do
How Do You Get to 'Yes'?
Professional, Vetted, Educated
How Do You Get to 'Yes'?
"No" is not in my lexicon. Your business is my business and I believe in not wasting your time or money. My services are tailored to your needs, affordable, and flexible.
I wholeheartedly welcome left-field challenges that seem insurmountable! Let me help you define your true requirement scope, details and funding package through crucial conversations at all levels of involvement.
Need a custom solution? No problem.
Need an independent Risk Analysis Assessment?
Too easy.
Having difficulty reaching our next generation's motivation button?
Transformational Leadership Education.
Language Barriers between your Communities of Interest?
20 years of experience in translating COI vernacular between Sales, Engineering, IT, Logistics, Ops, Medical, Security, and forging a common framework for all stakeholders!
The Technical Stuff
Professional, Vetted, Educated
How Do You Get to 'Yes'?
- 26 years in IT
- 20 years USAF
- 18 years cross-functional communicator & bridge builder
- 17 years Risk Management
- 16 years front-line leadership
- 14 years SME navigating GSA, NETCENTS II, 2GIT, RDT&E & other contract mechanisms via 3080, 3300, 3400, & 3600 PPBE funds IAW DoD 7000.14 FMR
- 10 years mid-level leadership
- 9 years RDT&E SME
- 6 years as a cross-functional senior leader
- 4 years hand-picked SEL for a 3-letter Air Staff echelon
- 3 years routinely advising several 2-letter Air Staffs
- 2 years Ag SMB Owner
Professional, Vetted, Educated
Professional, Vetted, Educated
Professional, Vetted, Educated
ISC² CISSP
CompTIA
- Security+ce
- Network+ce
- A+ce
- Server+
Education
- AS Degree in IT Management
- USAF SNCO Academy top 10%
- 47 semester hours in Electrical Engineering
Worldwide Experience
- 8+ years in 39 countries across Western Europe, the Middle East, Southwest Asia, & Africa
- 2 years Technical Liaison with British Telecom
- 3 years Lead Technical Liaison with Deutsche Telekom
- 7 months Technical Liaison with Afghan Telecom
Moving Foward On
- AWS Cloud Architect
- ITIL v4
- MS Azure Infrastructure
- PMP
My Tenents & Ethos
Job Proficiency
Job Proficiency
Job Proficiency
As a jack of all trades, master of few, I have grown a deep appreciation for each individual expert and what they bring to the table for each mission set I have encountered. Not sure how to continue your experts' professional development within budget, or perhaps you'd like an independent training plan review? I can provide a third-party assessment of your training requirements and development pathways, and align them to your organization's strategic goals.
Initiative
Job Proficiency
Job Proficiency
Being insatiably curious and a voracious reader throughout my life has driven me to become a self-starter, able to perform in a variety of roles with a minimal learning curve.
Just ask my wife, my typical books and shows cover the gamut of history, engineering, medical techniques, IT management, IT operations, technology, business management, leadership development, agriculture, cooking, environmental concerns such as waste water management, and many more topics!
Adaptability
Job Proficiency
Emotional Intelligence
How many deadlines are missed, projects have failed, and teams have shattered in the face of some form of adversity?
Moving deadlines, lack of clear strategic vision and operational intent, mediocre managers, untrained or overworked staff, lack of funding, and many other situations are often blamed for these travesties. In many cases, encouraging and enabling an adaptive environment, sometimes referred to as an Agile environment, would have empowered the organization to have yielded a different result. Often times we ask for adaptability but then stove pipe these employees into a complicated organizational structure instead of promoting a complex environment where they were empowered to handle each contingency directly with stakeholders and influencers.
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence
There are three sides to every coin, and the same is true for every human interaction. There is their truth, your truth, and the convergence of actions or words in the middle (the reality of the result, devoid of intention). Sound interesting? This and so many more concepts are covered under the term "Emotional Intelligence"!
How is your messaging interpreted by other cultures?
How does your body, written and spoken language affect your internal and public interactions generationally, amongst different genders, culturally, and those with potentially traumatic backgrounds?
Case in point, I had a boss who was extremely intelligent but had a very animated body language and tended to over emphasize their words and over explain their concept when asked for details. How did this affect their employees? Well, one woman almost quit as she found the combination of body language and louder words threatening based on past and recent traumatic experiences. If we hadn't found a common ground through open, honest and somewhat uncomfortable discussions, our team would have lost a true leader in her field. Thankfully she came to me and asked me to review her letter of resignation, which naturally generated questions, and I was able to diffuse the situation; not to mention, encourage and support her eventual decision to cut toxic elements out of her life.
Communication
Emotional Intelligence
Communication
Clear, concise, positive-contact communication is critical in today's fast-paced environment. In the Internet of Everything era, many skills have suffered and communication is certainly one of them.
How many of your employees can type 60+ words per minute with minimal errors and not have to rely on the efficacy of Microsoft Word's spellcheck?
How many times have your employees averted their eyes in any direction but yours when the pleasantries have expired and now they have to talk business? How was their body language during a difficult conversation, professional or not?
How many American resumes have you read where they used the word "grey" instead of "gray", or spelled common words in SMS jargon?
Two areas of interest that I provide in this arena are: A Back to Basics class for those who need some assistance with professional level communications, typically for newly hired junior executives and managers, or those who have been out of an office environment for an extended period of time.
I also provide professional reviews of draft documents with the aim to reduce complex messages into clear and concise language, avoid embarrassing mistakes before publishing or submission, and ensure logical flow of the topic(s) presented. This service can also be performed on web documents if desired.
Stewardship
Emotional Intelligence
Communication
When I was 12 years old, my father handed me the IT administration for his entire portfolio. He believed that he couldn't keep up with the rapidly developing technologies (in the mid-90's) that affected his geophysical consulting business. So while I had previously dabbled in some basic DOS and Windows administration, I suddenly found myself responsible for others property and resources.
Fast forward through the next 26 years of my life and I have been entrusted with various equipment, projects, and portfolios. One of which was valued in excess of $700M, had an annual budget of several million dollars, and was my responsibility for over 2 years.
Accountability
Decision Making
Decision Making
When I was 12 years old, my father handed me the IT administration for his entire portfolio. He believed that he couldn't keep up with the rapidly developing technologies (in the mid-90's) that affected his geophysical consulting business. So while I had previously held very little responsibility beyond my grades and obeying the rules of the house, I suddenly found myself accountable for balancing my schedule, prioritizing tasks, and owning my successes and failures as they affected HIS business and global reputation.
After I turned 17, I enlisted in the USAF and then learned a lot more about personal and team accountability over the next 2 years.
Fast forwarding through the next 18 years of my life and I was entrusted with 167 subordinates, responsible for their on and off-duty actions, safety, performance, attitudes, professional training and development, readiness, financial education, and even their personal growth. All while leading teams that supported multi-million to multi-billion dollar missions who success or failure often hinged on our performance and adaptability.
Decision Making
Decision Making
Decision Making
Throughout my personal and professional career, I have routinely had to make decisions; often under a severe time constraint. Drawing upon whatever resources I had at my disposal, and over the course of many snap decisions, I developed an instinct for making the right decision, most of the time.
When there was time to thoroughly research the available courses of action, I developed a solid habit of involving stakeholders at several points during the research and analysis phase. In the beginning, to help define the actual requirement; during periodic update meetings, to identify any gaps in my research and to gain their opinions; and slightly prior to the final decision, to offer a closed-door opportunity for any counter-arguments on my proposed recommendation.
Why does this all matter? Experience has taught me that one, sometimes we aren't afforded the luxury of time to gather all of the facts and that we must act and adapt as the situation unfolds. Two, when the the time is available, to involve and include your team in the decision making process in order to produce the best possible outcome. After all, nothing great was ever developed in a bubble.
Innovation
Decision Making
Adversarial Perspectives
Being insatiably curious throughout my life has grown a unique, intangible skillset. I have the ability to not marry any specific idea or concept even if I originated it. This skill has driven me to continuously research and routinely reassess each of my development projects and portfolios throughout my military career; often leading to significant savings while achieving a simpler solution that doesn't sacrifice the desired capabilities.
One project comes to mind in this train of thought. A basic overview would far exceed the scope of this area, so I will briefly summarize the expected versus achieved results. If you would like a deeper explanation, please look under my Innovation portfolio.
This was to be a four-year project and the standardized equipment the military defaults to for consideration would have cost several million dollars to provide the accessibility and reliability defined in the initial requirement (a maximum of 15 minutes downtime per day regardless of environmental conditions). Over the first year, I drafted the technical proposal, and gained the initial budgetary funding. During the beginning of the second year, I was able to devote much more time to the project and just couldn't escape the feeling that we were grossly limiting our acceptable technologies for the project. So I spent a couple of months cold-calling commercial companies and eventually found one that not only met our technical requirements, it would cost significantly less (by a full order of magnitude).
Adversarial Perspectives
Adversarial Perspectives
Adversarial Perspectives
Organizations are routinely tasked with red-teaming their risk portfolio. What I bring to the table in this arena is an unbiased analysis rooted in current adversarial capabilities, cultural perspectives, and third-party viewpoints to identify your gray areas in public image communications, information security, and the physical security of your employees, tangible resources and intangible resources.
Confidentiality
Adversarial Perspectives
Confidentiality
What makes your organization successful is your proprietary information. After all, your Tactics, Techniques, Insights and Procedures have been developed over years of hard-won experience. With over 20 years as a cleared professional, and a foundational 6 years of working for my father's consulting firm where I was routinely handling commercially sensitive datasets, I appreciate the gravity of maintaining your information securely.
About Business Name
Our Experience
Our Experience
Our Experience
After 10 years in the industry, we decided to alter direction. Now, we share our passion by helping others. Our ramp up process is designed to empower your team and outfit them with the tools they need to succeed. Talk to us today about how we can support your growth, limit your turnover, and put you on a solid track to success and profit.
Our Approach
Our Experience
Our Experience
Our service includes a comprehensive consult to help identify gaps and opportunities, a comprehensive report that includes a project plan with timelines and milestones, a cost analysis, and a schedule. We also offer a suite of quality products that will help you get there quickly and smoothly. That’s how we ensure your success.
Why Us?
Our Experience
Why Us?
Business mentors are key—that’s why when it comes to client selection, we’re choosy. We want to give each of you the time and guidance you deserve. Whether you’re seeking a strategic alliance with the right partner or a special skillset or tool, call us today. Together we’ll create and refine your plan for success. We didn’t get there alone. And neither will you.
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