Air Force Operational Excellence

EDWARD “SCOTT” BREWER

San Antonio, TX 210-***-**** https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-brewer-texas/ **********@*****.***

* VISIONARY LEADER skilled at turning challenges into focused solutions and opportunities

* STRATEGIST and CHANGE AGENT helping large organizations innovate, adapt, and thrive

Results-driven executive with a proven track record in leading large-scale organizations, cultivating robust relationships, and driving operational excellence across aerospace, defense, education, logistics, social services, and transportation sectors. During my distinguished 31-year military career, I led a wing, a group in combat, and the Air Force’s premier think tank. I also ran an international airport, organized international disaster relief operations, developed future leaders, oversaw a $10 billion aircraft acquisition program, managed modification programs for 1,500 aircraft and steered several organizations through meaningful change. Recently, I established a new business division.

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• Strategic Leadership: Led three organizations with 1,000 to 3,500 employees, where I instilled a culture of excellence and achieved unmatched operational effectiveness. Managed $100M+ annual budgets and billions in assets. Provided strategic oversight for $15 billion in contracts supporting 12 USAF installations and 23 wings.

• Operational Excellence: Led AETC’s top-rated wing, excelling in “community relations, cross-command synergy, and operational effectiveness.” Restructured officer accession/education programs, earning “One Air Force” award for improved effectiveness through integrated solutions. Achieved best accreditation score in a decade.

• Business Development: Helped establish a new business division dedicated to the care of unaccompanied migrant children. Increased international C-130 training throughput by 33% despite an 18% budget reduction and no corresponding increase in personnel. Qualified the first Afghani, Iraqi, and Polish C-130 aircrews.

• Financial Management: Strategically prioritized allocation of a Major Command’s $9 billion annual budget. Directed Lead Command oversight of AFLCMC’s acquisition of the T-7A and three $500M+ aircraft modification programs, ensuring adherence to budget, schedule, and performance objectives.

• Change Management: Transformed training/education to produce the joint force the Nation needs to win high- end competition. Developed, then executed strategic plan to implement student-centric, competency-based learning for AETC’s 312,000 students across Air University, the Community College of the Air Force, and every flight and technical training school. Achieved $500 million in cost reductions while maintaining graduation rates.

• Risk Mitigation: Led COVID-19 response by creating strategies and guidelines to recruit 45,000 people, continue USAF pilot training operations, and educate 312,000 students, preventing a generational experience gap.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Established a 113-person Capital Region Team, serving as USSOCOM’s link to 18 interagency organizations. Chaired a C-130 total force leadership council comprised of 31 wing commanders to address mutual challenges and ID future needs. Aided foreign governments in building responsive institutions.

• Talent Management: Employees flourished under my stewardship, earning over 50 major awards for superior performance. Guided the team that recruited, educated, and commissioned 80% of the Air Force’s officer corps.

• Innovation and Technology Development: Spearheaded the development of dozens of innovative operational strategies and cutting-edge technologies to prepare the Department of Defense for intensified competition.

• Lifelong Learner: Graduated from multiple executive leadership forums, honing my skills in business management, strategy, decision-making, change leadership, finance, ethics, and collaboration.

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Executive Vice President, InGenesis (contract) March 2023 – December 2023 Established a business division dedicated to caring for unaccompanied migrant children, encompassing direct care, social services, case management, education, healthcare, and facility management

- My team meticulously crafted operational procedures, stringent safety protocols, and forecasted cost data used to secure inclusion in a government Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity contract

- Formed partnerships to extend the company’s education and healthcare services to other sites

Colonel, U.S. Air Force – Served in a wide array of leadership capacities in over 100 countries 1992 - 2023

• Chief of Strategy, Air Education and Training Command: Led strategy development to modernize USAF recruiting, education, training, and focus DEI initiatives; managed acquisition/modification programs for a fleet of 1,500 aircraft; provided performance oversight for $15B in service contracts

- Transformed how the USAF develops and educates its workforce...authored a strategic action plan and led leadership council to synchronize 7 key focus areas and allocate a $9B budget strategically

- Managed $10B aircraft acquisition program, guaranteeing the government met obligations despite challenges like construction cost hikes, supply chain disruptions, and regulatory approval delays

• Vice Commander, Air University Holm Center: Led Officer Training School (OTS), AFROTC & AFJROTC; managed 3,500 employees, 132,000 students at 144 colleges & 944 high schools, and $300M budget

- Implemented an integrated IT and facility management system to optimize maintenance/logistical activities, ID areas for improvement, reduce downtime, and enhance capital planning/forecasting

- Negotiated amendments to a long-term land lease to build new facilities and expand operations

Partnered w/colleges; created flight academy to address national pilot shortage, increase diversity

• Chief of Concepts, Pentagon/Headquarters USAF: Led Air Staff’s operational think tank, pioneering innovative approaches to enhance resilience, counter emerging threats, and deter aggression

- Authored strategies to strengthen resilience of the defense ecosystem; focused $8B in research

- Tore down barriers by connecting the Pentagon, Services, academia, and laboratory innovators

• Wing Commander, Little Rock AFB: Senior authority overseeing the DoD’s largest foreign military flight training center serving 48 nations; managed 1.7K employees and $4 billion in assets/contracts

- Revamped flight training with 60 enhancements...expanded international training 33%, improved qualification scores across 79 courses by 4-22%, reduced recycle rate by 16%, and saved $10M/yr

- Ensured compliance with financial reporting, labor, health/safety, environmental, and aviation regulations, resulting in zero violations through proactive oversight and continuous improvement

- Top IG compliance rating…cut discrepancies 57%; 76% of areas assessed as Excellent/Outstanding

- Ranked #1 of 23 wings; secured best accreditation score in a decade; AR Federal Team of the Year

• Chief of Staff, Air Mobility Command: Directed major command’s staff activities and $22M budget

The Headquarters’ senior authority to discuss and negotiate workplace matters with the union

--- EDUCATION ---

• National Security Fellow Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, MA

• Executive Enterprise Leadership Program University of Virginia Darden School of Business, VA

• Master’s degree in Strategy Air University School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, AL

• Master’s degree in Military Operational Art & Science Army Command & General Staff College, KS

• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science Angelo State University, TX

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