GIS, Survey, Cartographer, Mapping, Leadership, CAD

Robert C. Richards

Email: ******.************@*****.***

Phone: 703-***-****

Summary. Proven leader and Geospatial Subject Matter Expert (SME) with the

analytic skills, operational expertise, and broad-based experience needed

to solve complex problems and implement solutions.

Experience working across all interfaces between staffs, departments,

services, agencies, and alliances gained while serving as a senior staff

officer within the Department of Defense (DoD).

Broad knowledge of principles, practices, techniques, and procedures to

effectively perform management activities associated with project and

program development, execution, training, and advisory services in

planning, programming, budgeting, systems, and intelligence programs.

Hands-on experience developing and disseminating information in support of

GIS and surveying operations in Horn of Africa and Iraq, and the United

States

Extensive experience in political/military (POL-MIL) writing, briefing, and

public speaking gained as a top-level staff officer.

Extensive experience with peer leadership situations gained while serving

in leadership positions as a Marine.

Ability to adapt to changing conditions, learning quickly while on the job,

developed across 20-years in the military.

Clearance. Cleared for Top Secret information and granted access to

Sensitive Compartmentalized Information based on a Single Scope Background

Investigation dated 11 Mar 2008 ; SBPR adjudicated 21 Mar 2008.

Skills. Mapping Production Team Leader, Geographic Information Systems

(GIS) Analyst, Remote Sensed Imagery Analyst, Imagery Analyst, Computer

Aided Design (CAD), Survey Team Leader, Geodetic Surveyor

(TopCon/Trimble/Ashtech), Global Positioning Surveyor, Terrain Analyst,

Cartographer, Leadership Training, GIS Instructor, and Microsoft Office

(Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.)

Education. Ashford University 2011-current, pursuing a Bachelor's Degree

(BA), Major - Environmental Studies.

Marine Corps University Leadership Schools, Master Sergeant /First Sergeant

Course, Advanced Course for Gunnery Sergeants, Career Course for Staff

Sergeants, Sergeants Course.

Defense Mapping School - Defense Mapping Agency, Advanced Topographic

Analysis Course (ATAC), Remote Sensed Imagery and Geographic Information

Systems Course (RSI/GIS), Basic Terrain Analysis Course (BTAC), Basic

Cartography Course (BCART), Basic Geodetic Survey Course (BGS).

National Geospatial-Intelligence College - National Geospatial-Intelligence

Agency, Basic Instructor Training Course (BITC) and Basic and Senior

Instructor Certifications, Basic Imagery Analyst Course

Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), Data Production with ESRI

Defense Mapping Course, Advanced ArcInfo (ARC, ARCPLOT, and ARCEDIT)

Course, Workstation ArcInfo Course.

ERDAS Imagine, IMAGINE Essentials Course, IMAGINE Advantage Course, IMAGINE

Professional Course.

Work Experience

Project Surveyor - Fugro Chance Inc. Offshore Construction Division,

Houston, TX, March 2013 - Present.

Geospatial Analyst - National Ground Intelligence Center, Army GEOINT

Battalion, GI&S Section Springfield, VA, Department of the Army, December

2012 - March 2013

Provide excellent and relevant GEOINT sustainment training to the Army's

Brigade Combat Teams, Divisions and Corps GEOINT soldiers throughout the

Army through execution of the INSCOM Foundry Program.

Provide unparalleled and relevant GEOINT production and collection support

to Army elements within or The Continental United States as well as

providing reach-back support to GEOINT assets moving in and out of

theaters.

Collaborate and coordinate with other IC community GEOINT producers to

ensure we are providing the most current and best GEOINT information

available to our GEOINT consumers, as well as, providing unparalleled

requirement and collection support advice to GEOINT requirements/collection

managers throughout the Army.

Maintain a healthy, challenging, professional work environment to ensure a

high quality of work life for civilian, soldiers and contractors.

Additionally, create a professional development plan that fosters the

growth of professional GEOINT skills that prepare our personnel to perform

in challenging environments.

Topographic Chief, Geospatial Plans and Policy, Intelligence Plans and

Policy Branch, Intelligence Plans and Policies Division, Headquarters, U.S.

Marine Corps. Jan 2009-Dec 2012

Developed and coordinated geospatial funding input for the Congressional

Justification Book (CJB) supporting Military Intelligence Program (MIP)

budgeting requirements for system programmatic acquisitions.

Led Marine Corps team that worked with the U.S. Army to develop a joint

geospatial data model as the DoD standard.

Coordinated the development of data and data storage standards for Marine

Corps Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Enterprise.

Coordinated the mapping and analyzing of the communications architecture

supporting all Marine Corps ISR-Enterprise (MCISR-E) for geospatial

intelligence systems.

Directed Marine Corps Intelligence transformation efforts; analyzed

geospatial concept-programs, with respect to Doctrine, Organization,

Training & Education, Materiel, Leadership, Personnel, and Facilities, to

determine policy, doctrine, and funding implications.

Led the end-to-end revision (Writing) of Marine Corps Warfighting

Publication 2-26: Geospatial Information and Intelligence.

Led the end-to-end creation of the Marine Corps Geospatial Standards

Library e.g. standards, product development and training.

Chief Instructor, Marine Corps Intelligence Schools, Marine Corps

Detachment, National Geospatial-Intelligence College, Ft. Belvoir, VA. Nov

2005-Jan 2009

Served as USMC Senior Enlisted Advisor to the National Geospatial-

Intelligence Agency (NGA); co-authored a new Memorandum of Agreement

between NGA and the Marine Corps Training and Education Command (TECOM) for

Marine Corps training within NGA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence

College NGIC).

Served as primary, supplemental, & remedial instructor for 3 Geographic

Intelligence courses consisting of more than 17 different blocks of

geospatial instruction totaling over 450 hours.

Supervised course managers for Advanced Geodetic Survey (AGS), Basic

Geodetic Survey (BGS), and Basic Geographic Intelligence Specialist (BGIS)

courses.

Managed and directed the schools GIS laboratory that provided hands-on

training to Marines assigned to BGIS, BGS, and AGS totaling more than three

million dollars' worth of equipment.

Requirements and Dissemination Chief, II MEF G-2 (fwd), Operation Iraqi

Freedom, Fallujah, Iraq. March 2005-Sept 2005

Reviewed, validated, and prioritized collection requirements for Commercial

Imagery, Topographic Line Maps (TLM), Surveying Operations and GIS

hardware/software acquisition.

Developed and maintained Geospatial Information & Services (GI&S)/Mapping,

Charting & Geodesy (MC&G) products, requirements, and policy units deployed

in Iraq, Afghanistan, Horn of Africa; ordered and delivered over 14,000 map

products, including: cultural maps, compound maps, road maps, and

identified/probable Improvised Explosive Device (IED) location maps.

GIS Team Leader, Combined Joint Task Force (CJTF) J-2, Operation Enduring

Freedom, Horn of Africa (HOA). July 2003-Jan 2004

Supervised the creation of topographic products for CJTF-HOA, including:

gridded image maps, terrain fly-through movies, terrain relief maps, line

of site maps, flood prediction maps, map area enlargements, terrain

categorizations, and user-specific special products; fused geospatial data

with imagery and current intelligence to create all source operational

support products.

Created over 100 geospatial products in support of CJTF-HOA and Operation

Enduring Freedom.

Coordinated the approval of all airfield surveys across the Horn of Africa

to support CJTF-HOA air operations.

Acquired and fielded advanced GI&S computer systems to enhance the CJTF-HOA

Joint Intelligence Center's capability to produce mapping and imagery

products.

Supervised the planning, directing, and leading of GEOINT Team in the

execution of the assigned activities and effectively managing/reporting the

projects, personnel and systems.

Geospatial Analyst, Joint Forces Intelligence Command (JFIC), Joint Forces

Command, Norfolk, VA. July 1999-July 2002

Provided GIS support to Marine Corps units planning for contingency

operations along the Pacific Rim; considered an authoritative North Korea

analyst by Pacific Marine Commands.

Developed geospatial products for Joint Expeditionary Warfare Support

Product/Joint Expeditionary Warfare Support Product-Noncombatant Evacuation

Operations (JESP/JESP-NEO); included imagery analysis of multispectral

imagery (MSI) in supporting products.

Served as the GIS Systems Administrator for the command.; maintained all

geospatial databases supporting geospatial collection, analysis, and

production within the JFIC; tested and evaluated new versions of ArcView,

Arclnfo, and Erdas Imagine employed on JFIC GIS; developed geospatial

databases to support the JFIC Precision Engagement Division; geo-rectified

maps to support Infrastructure Analysis.

Developed geospatial products, incorporating rectified MSI, to support

Venezuela and Argentina JESP-NEO studies.

Produced route studies and foot mobility assessments to support II MEF and

MARFOREUR contingency planning for operations in the Balkans.

Supervised the planning, directing, and leading of GEOINT Team in the

execution of the assigned activities and effectively managing/reporting the

projects, personnel and systems.

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