Professional Experience:
October 2021 to Present at USAID / BHA
• Senior Humanitarian Advisor, Response Readiness Working Group Lead / Office of Field and Readiness Operations (FARO)
• Deputy Lead for Operations, Levant Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART)
• Senior Humanitarian Advisor to the Policy, Guidance, and Training Team under the Office of Humanitarian Business and Management Operations
• Senior Humanitarian Advisor (Mogadishu, Somalia)
• Senior Humanitarian Assistance Officer, Yemen Country Team
• Senior Advisor to the Bureau of Management’s Office of Acquisition and Assistance
• Senior Advisor to Talent Acquisition Management & Outreach Team under the Office of Humanitarian Business and Management Operations
• Team Lead, Talent Acquisition Management & Outreach Team under the Office of Humanitarian Business and Management Operations
• Afghan Complex Emergency Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) Lead
• Afghan Complex Emergency Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) Deputy Lead for Planning
• Senior Advisor to the Acquisition & Assistance Division under the Office of Humanitarian Business and Management Operations
Training Development Program Manager
National Wildfire Coordinating Group · Full-time
Mar 2019 - Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos
• Provided senior leadership, technical expertise, and supervision to a diverse team of 17 interagency direct hire personnel (GS-09 to GS-12) with fire, program, technical, and administrative expertise; communicate performance expectations; provide regular coaching, mentoring, formal and informal feedback; provide formal performance management and administrative functions relative to staff supervised; provide strategy (long-, medium- and short-term), direction, prioritization of work, projects, and goals. The Training Development Program consists of three teams (each with Team Lead): Distance Learning, Training Specialists, and Instructional Design & Creative Media.
USAID's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance · Full-time Jun 2012 - Mar 2019 · 6 yrs 10 mos
Served as Program Officer (Iraq, Yemen, South Sudan, South, West, and North Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean) and Policy Lead for the Award, Audit, and Risk Management (AARM) Team.
Wildland Fire Experience (2002 – 2011)
Prior qualifications: Incident Commander Type 4, Helibase Manager, Single Resource (to include Heavy Equipment Boss, Crew Boss, Helicopter Manager, SEAT Manager, Strike Team Leader, Firing Boss, Engine Boss)
Assistant Helicopter Crew Supervisor
o US Forest Service / Las Vegas, NV
o February 2010 - June 2011
o Managed interagency hiring processes and performance management for program.
Senior Smokejumper
o Bureau of Land Management / Boise, ID
o April 2007 - February 2010
Helitack Senior Crewmember
o Bureau of Land Management / Ely NV
o April 2006 - October 2006, April 2005 - October 2005
Engine Module Crewmember
o National Park Service | Boulder City, NV
o April 2004 - October 2004
Midnight Sun Interagency Hotshot Crew
o Alaska Fire Service | Ft. Wainwright, AK
o April 2003 - October 2003
Vegas 777 Type I Fire Crew
o National Park Service | Boulder City, NV
o April 2002 - October 2002