Leslie Keefauver
Bulverde, TX
Professional Summary
Analyst and/or Operations Specialist
Intelligence Analyst, Systems Operator, Team Lead, and Trainer with an over 40-year track record servicing national and local clients to ensure mission success and customer satisfaction. Well versed in defining and executing requirements based on customer input and/or customer need. Work ethic shaped by a 20-year military career followed by 20 years supporting government clients and programs in both classified and unclassified environments. Capable of operating in open and closed environments that demand a high level of accuracy and attention to detail. Reliable team member and/or team leader capable of leveraging off-the-shelf or proprietary software, systems, and processes with a value-added mindset and work history. Analysis and Reporting Resource Planning Requirements Definition Strategy Development, Execution, and Assessment Operations Collaboration Data Entry and Analysis Customer Engagement Training Mentoring
Select Accomplishments
• Led a team which developed, deployed, and assessed 33 unique multi-intelligence strategies satisfying national level objectives by conceptualizing and documenting the process flow as the lead analyst for AFRICOM and SOUTHCOM (Booz Allen Hamilton, 2013-2022)
• Created fewer but more effective work centers by championing iterative assessment and convincing managers that operationalized strategies leveraging national systems must provide value-added outcomes that were quantifiable and directly addressed “need” (Booz Allen Hamilton, 2017-2022)
• Ensured national security through the implementation of cutting edge intelligence gathering, exploitation, and reporting by leading, training, and mentoring airmen as a decorated United States Air Force Master Sergeant (retired) with 20 years of service.
• Addressed complex issues in the NSA, NRO, and NGA for 20 years by defining and refining national and local requirements, interacting with analysts world-wide, continually building expertise in intelligence disciplines across numerous work-centers. Work Experience
Modernization Specialist and Analytic Subject Matter Expert (SME) Royce Geo Consultants-St. Louis, MO
March 2022 to May 2024
• Expanded analytic capability in my organization by automating processes, shortening collection to production timelines by 25-50% and employing iterative assessment that helped identify process shortfalls, leading to more timely production of actionable intelligence.
• Created analytic models that improved efficiencies so that strategy modifications could be made within hours versus legacy timelines that often extended into days, or even weeks.
• 40 Hours per week
Strategy Analyst and Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) SME Booz Allen Hamilton-St. Louis, MO
October 2017 to February 2022
Supported AFRICOM and SOUTHCOM designing, developing, deploying, and assessing automated strategies to ensure analytic groups were provided the products need to provide near-real-time reporting to local and national level decision-makers. Was the catalyst for getting this process documented and implemented at NGA. 40 Hours per week
Strategy Analyst
Booz Allen Hamilton-Aurora, CO
January 2013 to October 2017
• Supported the formation of a multi-intelligence group tasked with laying the foundation for designing, deploying, and assessing combined SIGINT and GEOINT strategies to answer wide-ranging key intelligence questions (KIQs) by leveraging two decades of SIGINT expertise
• Instrumental in the design, development, deployment, and assessment (D3A) of a coherent process with defined, produced and evaluated strategic outcomes by spending two years of focused learning to fully understand GEOINT (and other-INT) trade craft, understanding the inner-working of tools and processes, as well as the associated data within these tools
• 40 Hours per week
Source Requirements Analyst
Booz Allen Hamilton/ASE-Aurora, CO
May 2010 to January 2013
• Serviced unique issues of importance to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the Intelligence Community (IC), and Department of Defense (DOD) by organizing and leading nine collaborative Communities of Interest (COI), comprised of SIGINT, GEOINT, and other-INT SMEs
• Collaborate with tasking authorities, collection managers, and analysts to develop and implement new collection techniques, refine and assess national resource allocations schemes, and implement pre-planned data exploitation plans.
• 40 Hours per week
Principal Engineer – Systems Analyst
General Dynamics AIS-Aurora, CO
March 2003 to May 2010
• Addressed past performance, current status, and future improvements in our organization by drafting over 300 reports for both internal and external customers, based on collaboration, data-mining of SIGINT tasking and reporting databases, and information sharing between collectors and resource managers, addressing past performance, current status, and future improvements.
• 40 Hours per week
Senior Multi-Discipline Engineer III/Team Lead
Raytheon Systems-Aurora, CO
May 1999 to January 2002
Led a seven-member team after being a team member for ~1.5 years. Collaborated with national level authorities whilst developing processes that ensured cross-mission tasking was properly implemented leveraging national systems. 40 Hours per week
Superintendent of Future Systems Mission Management Communications Analyst United States Air Force-Various
January 1979 to January 1999
Decorated career as a Morse Systems operator (3 years) and was required to cross-train into the Intelligence Analyst Field (which I chose at the time). Spent the next 10 years supporting various field operations centers until I was selected to support the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force (National Reconnaissance Organization) at Fort Meade, MD and then Aurora, CO. 40 Hours per week
Education
Bachelor of Science in Political Science
University of Maryland - College Park, MD
May 1984 to May 1992
Worked on the degree whilst on Active Duty in the USAF Skills
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• Collection management
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• Program Management
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• Data lake
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• Cash register (1 year)
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• Regulatory reporting
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• JEMA
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• Communication skills
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• Geospatial Intelligence
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• Analysis skills
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• Management
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• exercise support
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• Data entry
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• Military intelligence
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• Data collection
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• Signals intelligence
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• Business continuity planning
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• Data analysis skills
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• Intelligence analysis
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• Microsoft Office
Links
linkedin.com/in/al-keefauver-826044322
Certifications and Licenses
Driver’s License