Christopher C Kuehne
Email: ********@*********.***
Address:
City: Temecula
State: CA
Zip: 92592
Country: USA
Phone: 949-***-****
Skill Level: Any
Salary Range:
Primary Skills/Experience:
Senior-level manager with 20 years of managerial experience. Strong strategic-planning and people-management skills. Experienced, working in fast-paced environments demanding strong leadership, organizational, technical and interpersonal skills. Confident and poised in interactions with individuals at all levels to include Executive management. Detail-oriented and resourceful in completing projects.
Educational Background:
High School Dipolma from Columbia College, Columbia MO 1/2001 to 12/2002 (Criminal Justice)
High School Dipolma from Basic Officer Artillery School, Columbia MO 1/2001 to 10/2012
High School Dipolma from Columbia College, Columbia MO 1/2001 to 10/2012
High School Dipolma from American Military University, Columbia MO 1/2001 to 10/2012
Job History / Details:
Career Focus
Experienced and innovative Program Manager offering distinguished career in working collaboratively with senior management and subject experts on assessment of work requirements and development of plans, goals, and objectives. Results-driven leader with proven success in management of operations, administration, budgeting, logistics, and training program for domestic and international facilities. Solid history of program conceptualization, development, launch and ongoing management. Skilled in prioritizing and completing multiple projects with overlapping deadlines. Thrive in fast-paced ever changing environments, requiring flexibility, innovation, and resourcefulness.
Accomplishments
Program Management
Executed all facets of Education Center operational management, including staffing, budgeting, resource allocation and employee performance management.
Conceived, developed, and launched strategy for evaluating and re-accrediting all distance learning courses available to over 250K domestic and international students.
Provide hands-on leadership in training needs assessments, program evaluation, existing course modification, new curriculum design, and training requirement forecasting.
Operations
Designed and executed short- and long-range business plans, establishing and managing operational practices, and ensured operational initiatives aligned with overall organization direction.
Worked collaboratively across all organizational levels to ensure optimal readiness of equipment, inventories, and human capital needed to achieve defined mission.
Process Improvement
Increased distance learning productivity and effectiveness 27 percentage by creating and introducing innovative plans, policies and procedures.
Defined and launched standards and protocols that ensured all education course products achieved accreditation with the American Council for Education (ACE).
Training and Development
Facilitated procedural and operation training programs for all levels, including leadership, of multinational, multicultural teams and partners.
Built and managed high performing teams by consistently offering and making available latest process training and professional development opportunities.
Professional Experience
January 2010 to Current
United States Marine Corps
Operations Executive
Serve as primary adviser to senior leadership on all facets of worldwide human capital planning, allocation, and tracking.
Provide executive oversight on all pay related matters for over 5,000 global employees.
Develop and delivery strategic plans to team of Personnel Manager related to effective filling of manpower requests globally and locally.
January 2007 to January 2010
United States Marine Corps Washington, DC
Program Manager
Directed all operational management functions for distance learning and education development center.
Managed all facets of submission, creation, validation and implementation of distance education materials available to over 250K students worldwide.
Led strategies and performance of high performing team consisting of 11 Instructional System Designers, 36 Subject Matter Experts, and 8 editors.
January 2004 to January 2007
United States Marine Corps
Assistant Operations Director
Directed daily activities of diversely sized and experienced teams dedicated to supporting staffing, training, and relocation needs of extremely large domestic and international employee operation.
Collaborated with departmental and program unit managers on assessing current and projected inventory and staffing resources needed to support complex, time-sensitive operations.
Assisted executive leadership with development of strategic operational plans, budgets, and logistical projections.
January 1993 to January 2004
United States Marine Corps
Assorted Leadership Positions
Established career of achievement and advancement to positions with increasing responsibilities over 10-year tenure.
Education
Columbia College, MO
Bachelor of Arts Criminal Justice
2013 Villanova University, FL
Master of Arts Program Management
Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate
United States Marine Corps,
Advanced Leadership Training
Legal Officer Training