Neal Odell Zimmerman

LTC, (Ret) U.S. Army, Special Forces

DC Metropolitan Area

acfmy7@r.postjobfree.com

Cell: 703-***-****

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

It is my professional objective to obtain an Executive or Senior Management

position in National Security, Defense, or related industry activities,

capitalizing on my personal knowledge of Special Operations and Homeland

Defense Communities, Capitol Hill, the Inter-agency policy process,

leadership experience, problem solving ability, and expertise in achieving

organizational goals. I am seeking a position that will allow me to use;

31 years' experience in Special Operations and possess a current Top

Secret/SCI clearance.

. 26 years of active service as a U.S. Army Special Forces Officer.

. Possess knowledge of most aspects of the U.S. Government's War on

Terrorism initiatives, combined with 22 years of Middle Eastern/Far

Eastern and African cross-cultural communication experience, in

addition to on-the-ground leadership experience across the spectrum of

Special Operations initiatives.

. Proven professional in Defense Department capabilities and

requirements, acquisition systems, Special Operations Forces research

and development requirements and creating synergy across U.S.

Government departments. These include specifically the Departments of

Defense, State, Homeland Security (including Customs), and Treasury.

. Incident Management, Emergency Medical Management Planning and

Execution.

. Highly proficient in handling complex strategic, operational, tactical

and inter-personnel issues.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

May 2013 - Present: Director, Special Programs and Strategic Initiatives,

the National Security Group, ORACLE, Reston, Virginia.

Responsible for building and managing business operations, resources and

development opportunities within the Special Operations, Senior

International, and Domestic Law Enforcement communities within the

Corporation's "National Security Group". Oracle's National Security Group

includes over 400 technologists and engineers exclusively supporting

classified clients in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community

for over 30 years. All staff possess and maintain TS/SCI clearances, with

appropriate SAP/SAR and polygraph-based access.

. Provided Operational/Strategic oversight/vision for the research and

development upgrade of a Cross-Domain security system to meet mobile

operational needs of Special Operations and Homeland Security forces in

conducting border security, counter narcotic, human trafficking

tracking/smuggling activities.

. Orchestrated meetings and demonstrations of current research and

development innovations in Secure Mobile Information Sharing (SMIS)

featuring mobile data encryption, secure mobile data application

containers, secure communities of interest and coalition partner access.

These capabilities are the result of my R and D efforts to support the

Special Operations and Federal Law Enforcement communities in the

interest of national security.

June 2012 - May 2013: President, Strategic Federal Planning or Consulting

LLC (SF PoC), A Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, Lansdowne,

Virginia.

Personally providing services to veterans and companies pursuing business

opportunities with the U.S Government. Teamed with other

consultants/planners, as required.

August 2005 - May 2012: Principal, Multi-Disciplined Systems Engineer,

International Homeland Security Coordinator, Center for Connected

Government, The MITRE Corporation, McLean, Virginia.

Personally assisted in leading both the Departments of Defense and

Department of State's initiatives abroad, focusing on border security,

counter-narcotics, illegal trade and movement of dangerous persons and

material. Provided strategic and operational expertise to combatant

commands, embassies, and other federal agencies guiding them with technical

research and development, and tactical solutions (TTP's) to train and equip

representatives from friendly nation-states in securing their own borders.

Provided leadership to develop technical plans and procedures to assist in

the procurement of communications, biometric and hazardous materials

screening capabilities and apparatus.

. MITRE subject matter expert (SME) and liaison between the Special

Operations and Intelligence Communities leveraging the full spectrum

of Research and Development tools applicable to Special Technical

Operations and Intelligence Operational activities across the spectrum

of R&D, Special Technical Operations and Intelligence Operational

activities.

. Program Manager and lead for the MITRE team that developed the Border

Security Initiative for the countries of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan and

was personally called upon by the U.S. Central Command to lead the

surveys and develop a phased approach to assist the Chairman,

Kyrgyzstan Border Security, with increased means for secure

communications and the passage of sensitive information.

. Program Manager and lead for the MITRE evaluation team assisting U.S.

Central Command and Drug Enforcement Administration with the selection

and implementation of long range and emergency communications.

Provided technical data and strategic direction for employing the

technology to securely pass biometric data from FAST teams in

Afghanistan.

. Deputy Program Manager and Senior Operations officer supporting the

Jordanian Border Security Program. This program provided system

engineering; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR);

command and control; communication solutions; radars and sensors; and

modeling and simulation with technical and strategic expertise for

long term development. To providing contributions in systems

engineering, ISR, command and control, communications, radars and

sensors, modeling and simulation.

. Crafted the Memorandum of Agreement between the Department of State

and the African Union (AU) in support of Department of State's

Security Assistance (SA) initiatives of communications, command and

control initiatives to assist the AU in meeting its peace-keeping role

on the African continent.

. Program Manager and team lead for several overseas site surveys and

conferences on behalf of the Department of State at the personal

request of the U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia and the African Union.

. MITRE's operational and ISR lead assisting the Department of Homeland

Security's Science and Technology initiative with developing, planning

and evaluating procedures to circumvent the use of improvised

explosive devices (C-IED - scenario twelve) against civilian targets

and critical infrastructures within the United States. This

initiative required working closely with research and development

scientists to develop measures and devices to detect and thwart C-

IEDs,

May 2004 - July 2005: Special Assistant for Special Operations and

Homeland Defense, Legislative Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense,

The Pentagon.

Represented Senior Leadership of the Department of Defense, focusing on the

areas of Special Operations, Homeland Defense and the War on Terrorism and

also assisted the Under Secretaries and Assistant Secretaries of Defense

with their congressional priorities to include hearings, correspondence,

briefings and meetings. I developed legislative strategies to achieve goals

in policy arenas or to support funding of major defense programs.

. Assisted in procuring over $90 billion from Congress benefiting

programs for the Special Operations-Low Intensity Conflict and Special

Operations Command and garnered support for the President's budget for

99% of the programs specific to the War on Terrorism and Homeland

Defense activities.

. Authored legislative strategies that assisted senior defense

leadership in a time of intense scrutiny and difficult relations with

the U.S. Congress.

. Coordinated and promoted major policy decisions for the Department of

Defense, protecting the interests of the Secretary of Defense and the

Combatant Commands, while providing prompt, coordinated policy

positions to Capitol Hill leadership.

April 2003 - April 2004: Executive Officer/Senior Strategic Planner (LTC.,

U.S. Army), Deputy Directorate for the War on Terrorism, Strategic Plans

and Policy, The Joint Staff, Department of Defense, The Pentagon.

Principal military advisor to the Strategic Planning Division, Director for

the War on Terrorism. Served as the focal point leader to facilitate

iterative and adaptive strategic planning over the duration of the war to

influence National policy decisions. Recommended and coordinated policy

between the Joint Staff, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Combatant

Commands and other U.S. and international governments/agencies involved in

the War on Terrorism.

. Authored the first revision of the National Military Strategic Plan

for the War on Terrorism and led a group of more than 110 military,

academia, and subject matter experts to revise the blueprint for the

war.

. Developed legislation to support the Department of Defense Rewards

Program and numerous concepts of operations enabling combatant

commands to effectively use the program while coordinating DoD Rewards

efforts with similar programs from the Departments of State, Justice

and the CIA.

. Provided research and assistance to senior military leaders and the

Executive Branch Inter-agency Policy Coordination Committee on

countering terrorist financing within the U.S. and abroad.

June 2001 - April 2003: Senior Strategic Politico-Military Planner, (LTC.,

U.S. Army), Deputy Directorate for United Nations and Multi-National

Affairs, Strategic Plans and Policy. The Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department

of Defense, The Pentagon.

Supervised all aspects of 15 United Nations peacekeeping missions

worldwide, while transitioning the directorate to address War on Terrorism

policies to include, crafting the DoD Rewards Program, Detainee Policy, the

changing role of Special Operations Command and the inception of Northern

Command.

. DoD lead planner for U.S. involvement in 15 United Nations

Peacekeeping and world- wide security assistance operations. Provided

advice to the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff on DoD polices toward

each of these missions. Briefed senior UN officials on numerous

occasions on the capabilities of their peacekeeping contributors and

U.S. involvement with each of the missions, to include UN involvement

in Afghanistan and Iraq.

. Provided advice and policy recommendations for numerous complicated

war issues, to include: detainee screening, holding and interrogation

issues, use of Special Operations forces in the War on Terrorism and

the emerging changes in DoD's structure to better promulgate the War

on Terrorism.

May 1999 - June 2001: Special Operations Officer - Current Operations,

(LTC, U.S. Army), Special Operations Command - Central (Forward), State of

Bahrain.

Forward deployed current operations officer responsible for the command and

control of all joint special operations activities throughout the Middle

East and the Horn of Africa. Coordinated and de-conflicted special

operations activities with U.S. Embassies, host nations and other U.S.

Government agencies. Simultaneously facilitated the execution of 43 Special

Operations, Joint Chiefs of Staff exercises, joint/combined exercises, de-

mining and counter drug operations in both hostile and permissive

environments.

. Personally established close relationships with senior Yemeni Minister-

of-Defense officials and the U.S. Ambassador to Yemen despite many

operational and political obstacles.

. Following the attack on the USS Cole, managed the deployment of the

Central Command Survey and Assessment Team (CSAT) to Aden, Yemen and

was responsible for the recovery of all human remains and the

management of DoD Special Operations DoD assets.

. Directed the time-sensitive combined U.S./Bahraini maritime CSAR and

Personal Recovery response to the crash of a Gulf Airbus, flight 072,

off the coast of Bahrain resulting in the complete recovery of 17

diplomatic pouches of classified material, both flight recorders and

all human remains.

May 1998 - May 1999: Commander, (LTC., U.S. Army) Group Support Company,

5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Ft. Campbell, Kentucky.

Commander of 450 soldiers in 42 different military occupational specialties

as well as numerous civilian contractors. Responsible for the direct

support of three (3) Special Forces Battalions, while in the U.S. and

deployed overseas and the maintenance of a property book in excess of $17

million. This unit consisted of signal, service, intelligence, medical and

chemical reconnaissance detachments, a consolidated SCUBA/maritime

maintenance facility and a sniper school.

. Selected the top commander of ten and in the top three of 31 officers

of equal grade.

. Ensured complete logistical support for nine overseas deployments and

eight within the U.S. from Kirghizstan, through the Persian Gulf and

the Horn of Africa.

EDUCATION:

2010/2011 - Regent University, Candidate, Doctor of Philosophy, School of

Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship, Virginia Beach, Virginia

2000 - Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Virginia, - Joint Officer

Certification

1997 - U.S Army Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas,

- Graduate, Military Studies

1992 - Troy State University, M.S. International Relations

1985 - University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, B.S. Emergency

Medicine and Emergency Medical Services

1983/1984 - President, Emergency Medical Student Advisory Committee

1983 - Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., - ROTC Cadet Commander,

Distinguished Military Graduate

1982, 1984, 1993 to 1994 - John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and

School, Ft. Bragg, North Carolina - Attended Special Forces/Operations

Qualifications and Training; Special Forces Officer and Special Forces

Medical Schools; Middle Eastern Studies (Honor Graduate); Modern Standard

and Egyptian Arabic; Psychological Operations and Civil Affairs

(Distinguished Honor Graduate)

VOLUNTEER/COMMUNITY EFFORTS:

. President, Bayside Operations - A 501C dedicated to recovering

veterans, LE officers and first responders

. Washington D.C. Regional Coordinator - Special Operations Warrior

Foundation

. Director, Washington D.C. Region - The Sanctuary International

. Founder - The Battlefield Run, benefiting the Special Operations

Warrior Foundation, specifically the children of those operators

killed in combat or training.

. Mentor - The Maryland National Guard Freestate Challenge Academy

RECOGNITION:

U.S. ARMY - Legion of Merit; Bronze Star for Valor, Defense Meritorious

Service Medal (3 Awards), Combat Infantryman's Badge; Special Forces Tab;

Ranger Tab; Master Parachutist Badge; Office of the Secretary of Defense

Badge; Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Badge; and numerous others

associated with a variety of active duty and supporting assignments.

MITRE Corporation - Directors Award/Jordanian Border Security Program;

Directors Award/Kyrgyzstan Border Security Communications Survey and

Strategic Plan

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