Gary D. Burleson
**** ********** *****, **** ***** Texas 76133 817-***-**** adto7n@r.postjobfree.com
SUMMARY
** ***** ** ********** **********. Passionate, resourceful, results-oriented and detailed. Manager with over 18 years of operational and project management experience. An exceptional track record of superior performance, creative problem solving and team building.
Excited to bring my military experience to support your company business plan.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
S-3 Operations Management
Camp Arifjan, Kuwait/Austin, Texas 2018-Current
Managed logistical planning of 800+ members and 7 billion dollars of resources for the organization. Prepared and reviewed operations and concept plans to include simulation exercises IOT respond and anticipate situations that took place during deployment. Established and monitored policy and standards for unit readiness. Concerned with the execution of operations, plans and training in support of assigned missions. Operational directives and plans, tactical orders for specific deployment actions, field training exercises and training schedules. Planned the operations, organization and training as directed by the commander. Worked closely with the Command group and higher organizations to accomplish the mission. Prepared courses of action and recommended actions or decisions to the commander for the accomplishment of the mission. Prepared detailed plans which support execution of policies and strategy. Determined training needs and supervised training to support those needs. Established the composition of forces required to support plans, from the fiscally constrained force to the resourced force level.
S-3 Operations Management
Fort Worth, Texas 2014-2017
Managed planning the daily operations providing support to 700+ members in the organization. Managed $2MIL in personnel logistics; responsible for coordinating the daily operational actions for 5x support companies and 5x operating officers working in 3x separate locations providing logistical maintenance and support. Responsible for training of the battalion before, during, and after deployment. Evaluated the performance of the organization during training exercises. Defined and wrote manuals for the tasks that the unit and its individual Soldiers were expected to perform. Coordinated with outside Police, Firefighter and Emergency personnel for city events.
DFWHomeSeeker, Operations Manager
Fort Worth, Texas 2014-2015
Oversight of the profit and loss statement to forecast revenues, costs and expenses incurred each fiscal quarter. Directly responsible for the day-to-day administrative and operational support to a high grossing real estate business. Managed complex calendars, customer fire drills and various projects. Organized internal and external meetings. Lead and provided support and follow up on various businesses and special projects. Conducted research and created reports and/or presentations. Performed as Executive Assistant to Owner. Held meetings. Prepared materials for meetings including planning, agenda preparation and keep minutes. Reduced expenses 20%. Provided the task, purpose and direction to make the company more efficient. Managed internal and external communications including email and phone correspondences. Planned and assisted owner with prioritizing, strategizing and keeping focused on key tasks and projects. Always ensured organizational system were in place. Coordinated travel arrangements for seminars.
Space Operations
Fort Hood, Texas/Camp Arifjan, Kuwait 2013-2014
Director Satellite Support Operations, Electronic Warfare and Communications Intelligence. Provided nations in the Middle East answers to information on high end equipment to determine interest in purchasing equipment from the U.S. The determination set the way forward to a Foreign Military Sale of eighty (80) Patriot MIM-104E Guidance Enhanced Missiles (GEM-T) missiles, sixty (60) PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) missiles and related equipment for an estimated cost of $3.5 billion.
Space and Missile Defense Command, Space and Missile Defense Plans
Colorado Springs, Colorado 2009-2013
Lead for planning, coordinating and integration of high-end equipment in support of United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command. Developed and Coordinated plans to support USSTRATCOM and Geographic Combatant Commands (COCOM) with regards to US Code Title 10 Functions. Support crisis action and deliberate planning through Operational Planning Teams Maintain
situational awareness and a running estimate of Army forces/capabilities. Supported planning efforts to integrate future capabilities to ensure Army and command requirements are met and capabilities comply with doctrine. Coordinated with numerous agencies to deploy high tech radars and missile defense forces on world-wide contingencies.
4th Infantry Division, Deputy Air and Missile Defense Officer
Baghdad, Iraq 2007-2009
Senior Leader for Multi-National Division Baghdad in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom 07-09. Responsible for the employment of over $100 million in Missile Defense Equipment. Supervised the key aspects in the integration of the local, extended and joint digital architecture that provided the 3-dimensional situational awareness for all aircraft in Iraq. Monitored daily operations of Sentinel Radars. Maintained the status of database, report generation/distribution and database replications. Plotting of friendly and enemy unit real-time locations and movement and status of graphics generation pertaining to all related situational awareness operations. Managed operators of AMDWS, ADSI, FAAD C2I processor and the command-and-control radio systems.
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) 2013
GPA 3.7/4.0
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO (UTEP)
El Paso, Texas
Masters Leadership Studies 2009
GPA 3.8/4.0
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS
Denton, Texas
Bachelors of Science in Management 2001