United States Marine CorpsUnited States Marine Corps

I enlisted in May 2012 and spent the first five years in Okinawa. As a production manager I had thirty people, three divisions, and an international purchasing pipeline that took ninety days to turn an asset around; by the time I left that job it took seven. As a technical supervisor I stood up the CBRN protective equipment program on the island, bringing in-house four containers of gear that had been shipped back to the States for inspection every cycle, and came through two organizational audits with zero discrepancies. As a business process analyst I ran the Lean Six Sigma office, coaching three improvement projects and teaching thirteen courses to 295 Marines.

The last three years were in Craven County, North Carolina. I took over production control for sixty people and $1.4M in assets, found the shop coding parts at priority 9 when the regulation said 3, and cleared a three-year backlog: ready-for-issue went from 15.1% to 98.3%, replenishment from 36 months to 3. The digital tracking system I built to replace paper outlived my tenure and was adopted across the Navy and Marine Corps. I finished as a senior operations manager with 46 direct reports, a seat on the Ammunition and Explosives Certification Program Board, and a rewritten qualification standard for my trade that the service adopted. Two Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals. Honorably discharged in June 2020.