
VP/COO at Howard Supply Company
Dallas/Fort Worth Area

VP/COO at Howard Supply Company
Dallas/Fort Worth Area
DYNAMIC SENIOR STRATEGIC LEADER
Highly successful ethics based strategic leader with proven leadership development, management and team-building skills, and extensive military, international, and academic experience
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
•Results-driven visionary, with extensive experience in leadership and character development , diplomacy, negotiations, and team-building in diverse political and cultural environments
•Demonstrated strategic analysis, planning, and transformational leadership capabilities
•Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, capable of resolving multiple and complex issues and motivating staff to peak performance
•Superior ability to create, execute, and improve programs and enterprises
•Broad-based command, combat, and tactical aviation experience
• Extensive graduate level teaching experience with emphasis on leadership, ethics, character development, strategic planning, military history, joint military operations, and national defense strategy
• Last held Top Secret Clearance; fluent in German
Howard Supply Company offers a wide variety of products and services to the oilfield, mining, and industrial Markets. We specialize in supplying products to the Well Servicing Industry.
(Oil & Energy industry)
July 2008 — Present (5 months)
Howard Supply Company offers a wide variety of products and services to the oilfield, mining, and industrial Markets. We specialize in supplying products to the Well Servicing Industry.
Stocking over 90,000 items throughout our 19 locations, HSC has immediate availability for those items you need everyday. We can also save you time and money by sourcing those hard to find items for you.
(Investment Banking industry)
September 2007 — July 2008 (11 months)
Western Strategic Advisors (Investment Banking)
Facilitating mergers, acquisitions, and re-capitalization of privately held companies, and providing consultant services in organizational management, executive leadership, team building, strategic planning, and ethics in the workplace
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; USMC; Military industry)
July 2005 — July 2007 (2 years 1 month)
Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps and Commanding Officer (CEO/COO)
Marine Aircraft Group (MAG) 41, Marine NAS/JRB Fort Worth, Texas; commanding 1,500 Marines and Sailors in a complex operational aviation organization during a time of war. The organization encompasses a Group headquarters staff, two operational aircraft squadrons (12 F/A-18A+ Hornet aircraft and 14 KC-130T Hercules aircraft), an Aviation Logistics Squadron (intermediate aircraft maintenance capability), an Air Traffic Control unit, and an Aviation Support Engineering Unit.
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; USMC; Military industry)
June 2003 — April 2005 (1 year 11 months)
Executive Staff Officer and Marine Corps Advisor
Air University and Air War College
Served as an Air War College Faculty member in the Departments of Joint Military Operations and Leadership and Ethics. The Air War College is an executive level military post-graduate school for senior U.S. and international military officers and government civilians; programs focused on strategic and institutional leadership, joint and multinational warfighting, multi-agency international security operations, and national security planning.
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; USMC; Military industry)
July 2000 — July 2002 (2 years 1 month)
Commanded a large and highly diverse 900 Marine, Sailor, and civilian organization responsible for operating the most dynamic airfield in the Marine Corps. Occupational specialties included air traffic control, search and rescue, fire department, military police, disbursing, personnel and household goods transportation, administration, facilities, and utility and sanitation services.
•Led the strategic planning group for Marine Corps Air Station Yuma to formulate a ten-year comprehensive plan for the air station’s support to operational commands
•Adjunct Faculty Member, Marine Corps Command and Staff College; specializing in strategic and operational planning
•Adversary Pilot, Tactics Instructor, and Mission Commander flying the F-5
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; USMC; Military industry)
June 1997 — June 2000 (3 years 1 month)
Directed all US Conventional Arms Control Operations in Western Europe, the former Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact Nations and the Balkan Region. Duties involved extensive foreign travel and military diplomatic contact with high-level foreign military officers and political figures.
•Participated in a high-level military and diplomatic effort to professionalize military factions of the Bosnian (BiH) military
•Directed the efforts of the military advisors to the Bosnian tri-presidency to establish a national arms control agency
•Taught Dayton Peace Accords arms control policies and related military confidence-building measures at the NATO School, Oberammergau, Germany
Master of Strategic Studies, Strategic Military and Political Studies, 2002 — 2003
Master of Military Studies, Military Studies, 1996 — 1997
BA, Political Science, International Affairs, German, 1977 — 1980
Business Executive for National Security, NDIA, MOAA, MCA, ,MCAA, SemperFi Leadership