Joel A. Burdette

*** ****** ****** **, *********, AL 36078 cell 757-***-**** acapqo@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE: Seeking an opportunity to apply leadership and business acumen by serving as a

Production Manager.

SUMMARY

Offering an extensive background with over 20 years of leadership, administration and human resource

management experience as a recently retired Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel. Proven track record of

problem solving and identifying core competencies that enable success. Renown as a team player that can

motivate, chasten, inspire and maximize the individual as well as team and enterprise loyalty and

productivity. Credentials reflect extensive ability to plan, develop curricula and implement strategies with

continuous feedback and closure mechanisms. Articulate, compassionate and sincere in maximizing

others’ potential. Maintains an active Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance which

translates to implicit trust and confidence at the highest level. Vast experience as an instructor, mentor,

planner, administrator and commander. Recent exemplary record of senior executive level leadership in

the management, personal and professional development and readiness of 300+ personnel and associated

equipment as a Marine Corps Battalion Commander. Excellent communication, credibility and people

skills, preceded by a reputation of one who forges a rapport with his associates – whether they are senior,

same or subordinate.

KEY QUALIFIERS

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Leadership Administrator Advocate

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Planner Visionary Problem Solver

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Mentor Teacher Motivator

EXPERIENCE

Leadership

• Directed, inspired, budgeted, managed and led personnel and over 25 million dollar equipment

accounts in combat and peace spanning a platoon sized entity of 30 personnel at the tactical and

technical level through a battalion sized entity consisting of over 300 personnel at the operational

level.

• Renown as a fair and impartial implementer of both praise and reprimand with a servant-leader

approach to motivating the individual and organization to excellence.

• Consummate desire to lead by example via establishing credibility in a specified task or job and

simultaneously maintaining a rapport with subsequent spheres of influence.

• Consistently provided sage counsel and advice ranging from personal, personnel, relationship and

family issues to detailed investigations and enforcement of policy as well as adjudication of

punitive and non-judicial ramifications of legal issues.

• Recognized uncanny ability to empathize, quickly forge a rapport, assess and offer solid advice on

how to maintain mental, physical, spiritual and social wellness.

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Administrator

• Authored a plethora of personnel performance appraisals as either a direct or over-seeing

supervisor that succinctly mapped out employee job/task expectations, accomplishments and goals

in order to maximize the personal and professional development of the individual as well as enrich

the organization.

• Dynamic ability to collate disparate entities and personalities for a common goal by first

understanding the individual’s unique contribution, then empowering him or her to excel.

• Planned, approved and enforced quarterly budget restraints and subsequent financial reports.

Visionary

• Proven ability to discern the bigger picture and how to maximize or create opportunities that

advance proofs of concept in both the employment of systems and personnel.

• Savvy in understanding the confines of a box while fostering an environment that encourages and

rewards out of the box thinking.

• Recognized and rewarded as a leader that seeks to answer how something can be done better,

never satisfied with status quo.

• Developed, implemented and participated in a command-wide policy to forge a rapport with the

local community through monthly volunteer service as ambassadors and conscientious citizens

spanning adopt a school programs to nursing home assistance.

Problem Solver

• Unparalleled foundation in planning and problem solving with in-depth and hands-on experience

in deliberate and hasty planning processes and decision cycles.

• Credentialed senior instructor, curriculum developer, mentor and planning team leader with a

concrete grasp of identifying key components in developing courses of action for problem

resolution.

• Results-driven and articulate in providing assessment, feedback and closure mechanisms.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

• 2013-present President, BGMc, LLC

o Healthcare Administration Consultant

• 1993-2013 United States Marine Corps Commissioned Officer

o Air Defense Control Officer and Aviation Command and Control Officer

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Master of Military Operational Art and Science (i.e. all aspects of operational level planning, development

and execution)

o Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, AL (resident, 2004-2005)

• Bachelor of Science

o Aviation Management, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama (1993)

• Graduated multiple military schools and courses to include:

o Joint Air and Space Senior Staff Officer Course (2012)

o The Commander’s Course (2010)

o Amphibious Warfare School (2001) and Adjunct Professor for Marine Corps University

o Weapons and Tactics Instructor Course 1-98, designated as an Air Defense Instructor

o Curriculum Developer and Administrator’s Courses (1999)

o Top Gun graduate (1997), designated as an Air Intercept Control Instructor

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