Manager Management
Resume:
Stephen M. Ackman
***** ****** **** ***** ( Loveland, Ohio 45140 ( H: 513-***-**** C: 813-486-
6216
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A LEADER WITH SKILL IN HR, TRAINING AND FACILITY MANAGEMENT
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Broad experience: A leader pulling the best from people, delivering on
budgets up to 80 million, training individuals and groups, maintaining work
environments, dealing with complexity (analyzing concepts and
organizational structure) and always, always looking for better ways and
means.
SUMMARY OF SKILL
Human Resource and Organizational Management Experience
. Staff redesign to bring organizational effectiveness fending off
external competition.
. Re-wrote 15 year-old employee handbook to implement HR policies and
programs.
. Organizational EEO Officer. Mediated over 25 complaints without
outside intervention.
. Compliance with equal employment opportunity and affirmative action
plans and goals.
. Direct work of subordinates and staff relating to employment,
compensation, employee relations.
. Direct recruitment/selection staff in hiring to replace critical
shortage.
. Transfer of training from operations to HR, requiring development of
annual training program.
. Budget control (15% reduction of 2010 budget to meet constraints).
. Writing separation decisions in collective bargaining environment.
. Organizational strategic plans (led first true plan for Fort
Buchanan).
. Metric management (experience with daily metrics for the Joint Staff
and political leadership covering over 150,000 personnel of all
services).
. Managing temporary organization structures (7000 individuals for 22
different structures).
. Care for over 300 "wounded warriors." The Medical Retention
Processing Unit Commander reported to me. We got medical support,
housing, feeding, transportation and administrative processing without
major complaint or scandal at a time when both were a prime concern.
. Performance standards (focused Fort Buchanan Garrison performance
reviews as goal oriented).
Leadership, Supervision and Management
. Led staffs from 11 to 1000 (through 17 directors and staff elements).
. Set strategic objectives and interim objectives for strategic plans.
. Oversaw master plans, including land use and concepts for future
construction.
. Reduced EEO complaints at Fort Hunter Liggett from 25 (for staff of
150) to 1 in two years.
Training Experience
. Training, development of plans and programs for both individuals and
collective groups.
. Developed evaluation and assessment methods.
. Assistant Professor of Military Science (APMS) with daily use of
platform teaching skills.
Budget Control
. Terminal responsibility for budget of two Army installations (22 and
70 million dollars).
. Pay, maintenance of facility, improvement and development program
accounts.
. Exercised final decision over use of discretionary funds.
. Five years in command, five budgets executed without excess spending
or loss of revenue, while the Army was using installations for cash
flow to the theater of combat.
Facility Management and Planning
. Comport policy to local conditions - e.g. decision for greater
security concerns in Caribbean region and use of police rather than
contract guards with zero sum shifting of budget funds.
. Led real property planning process resulting in new child-care
facility construction in 2009.
. Planned for natural and man made disasters and gamed possibilities -
realized in tropical storm in 2004 and neighboring oil storage
explosion in 2009.
. Eliminated a difficult Congressional "construction moratorium;"
construction proceeds today.
. Officer In Charge of the Emergency Operations Center supporting the
Chief of the Army Reserve (CAR) in weeks following 9/11.
. Represented CAR in Continuation of Operations planning in the wake of
9/11 in DC area.
. Persuaded reduction of excess property declaration (give away) from
330,000 sq ft to 70,000 sq ft at Fort Hunter Liggett.
Understanding Complex Organizations
. Responsible for organizations designed to achieve strategic
objectives.
. Involved in concept development at Department of the Army level.
. Participated in capabilities based planning methodology working group,
Defense Planning Scenarios and a working group required by Defense
Planning Guidance.
Representing the Organization
. Represented two installations to state and local officials (briefed
and hosted governor, resident commissioner, surgeon general of U.S.,
Consuls of Spain, Mexico, Venezuela, Papal Nuncio to the Dominican
Republic, members of Congress, senior general officers and others),
special interest groups and visitors.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Director, Human Resources, The Metro, Cincinnati, Ohio (July 2008 -
February 2010)
Direct and manage the policies, plans, and programs governing
organizational development, employee/labor relations, staffing,
compensation, training, management planning, and management and employee
counseling.
Commander (Chief Executive Officer), Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico (July 2004-
June 2007)
Managed, led and commanded a U.S. Army installation (750 acres, 70 million
dollar budget, 800 personnel with 2 million sq ft of building
infrastructure).
Division Chief, Personnel Readiness Division (Personnel Manager), U.S.
Central Command, MacDill AFB, Florida (June 2003-July 2004)
Managed a division of the Manpower and Personnel Directorate of U.S.
Central Command, validating
manning documents (22 joint manning documents, 7000 positions) procuring
personnel for Iraq, Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa.
Strategic Concepts Analyst (Analyst of Complex Problems), Directorate of
Strategy and Policy, Headquarters, Department of the Army, the Pentagon,
Washington, D.C. (September 2002-June 2003)
Team member: analyze conceptual designs of the Department of Defense for
inclusion in the Army.
Deputy Chief of Operations (Manager of group executing plans), Office of
the Chief of the Army Reserve (OCAR), Washington, D.C. (August 2001-
September 2002)
Service on staff Headquarters Department of the Army for policy and budget
of the Army Reserve (AR).
Commander (Chief Executive Officer), Fort Hunter Liggett, California (June
1999-August 2001)
Commanded, led and managed a U.S. Army installation on the central coast of
California (22 million dollars, 150 personnel, 165,000 acres, 1 million
square feet of building space).
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts, History, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio
Master of Public Administration, Western Kentucky University, Bowling
Green, Kentucky
Master of Strategic Studies, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
AWARDS AND HONORS:
Appointment, United States Army Reserve Ambassador, April 2009 (volunteer
spokesman for Chief, Army Reserve
in southern Ohio, position carries protocol of Major General and is
flagged)
Certificate of Recognition from the Senate of California, August 2001,
Monterey County, California, July 2001,
City of King, California, August 2001
Resolution of Welcome from the Senate of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,
July 2004
Resolution of Recognition for support from the Senate of the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico, October 2006
Key to the City of San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 2007 and Gonzalez,
California, August 2001
Resolution of Congratulations on completion of command and retirement from
the Senate of the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Legion of Merit, February
Defense Meritorious Service Medal
Meritorious Service Medal (5)
Army Commendation Medal (3)
Army Achievement Medal
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES:
Ms. Mary Moning, Chief Operating Officer. The Metro, Cell phone: 513-518-
5128
Major General (retired) Felix Santoni, Civilian Aide to the Secretary of
the Army (Puerto Rico), Cell phone: 787-***-****; Email:
ablybb@r.postjobfree.com
Brigadier General (retired) Jose Rosado, Chief, Antilles Construction
Office, Corps of Engineers, Puerto Rico (area engineer), Cell phone: 787-
948-1039; Email: ablybb@r.postjobfree.com
Mr. Mark Hamelin, Site Manager, Fort Hunter Liggett, California, PO Box
838, Fort Hunter Liggett, CA 93928 Office phone: 831-***-****; Email:
ablybb@r.postjobfree.com
Mr. Joseph Plunkett, Director, Southeast Region, U.S. Army Installation
Management Agency, Office phone: 404-***-****; Email:
ablybb@r.postjobfree.com; personal phone: 678-***-****,
ablybb@r.postjobfree.com
Ms. Rosa Emilia Rodriguez-Velez, United States Attorney, United States
Department of Justice, District of Puerto Rico. Torre Chardon, Suite 1201,
350 Chardon Street, San Juan, PR 00918. Office phone 787-***-****; Email
ablybb@r.postjobfree.com
PERSONAL REFERENCES:
William N. McMillen Jr., Technical Writer, Retired Army Officer, President
of the Board of Education Ludlow Independent Schools, Friend of 30 years,
701 Oak Street, Ludlow, Kentucky 41016, Home phone: 859-***-**** Email:
ablybb@r.postjobfree.com
Scott M. Ackman, Brother, Special Agent Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Oklahoma City, 1108 Bradford Place, Edmond, Oklahoma 73003, Home phone:
Father Alan McIntosh, Benedictine Priest, Pastor of Saint Joseph Parish,
Bowling Green, Kentucky during service as Parish Council President, 737
Kimsey Lane Apt 808, Henderson, KY 42420 Home phone: 270-***-**** Email:
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