Director of Readiness & Training at NCTS Far East. Previously Deputy Business Director and Training & Workforce Development Director at NAVFAC Far East. Learning leader, designer, former U.S. Marine.
I’m a public-sector leader and former U.S. Marine with 20 years of experience across learning and development, human resources, business operations, and workforce analytics. My work has taken me from Southern California to Japan, supporting teams across the Far East.
These days, I lead readiness and training for 600 people across 10 sites at NCTS Far East. I design curricula, facilitate leadership exercises, manage learning systems, and use data to make organizations work better.
My background brings together business and visual communication design: a B.S. in Business and an M.A. in Visual Communication Design. I’m happiest when I’m combining design, technology, and teaching to make learning useful, engaging, and worthwhile.
Lead enterprise learning, IT and cybersecurity qualifications, and organizational readiness for 600 employees across 10 sites. Supervise 12 training specialists and coordinate more than 40 training representatives. Raised mandatory training compliance from 68% to 98–100%, rebuilt a five-day course for online delivery, and designed executive cybersecurity and continuity exercises.
Led workforce planning for 3,700 employees and managed 4,400 authorized positions across 14 locations. Built staffing and affordability models, led a 900-person productivity study, and translated workforce research into recommendations for executive leadership.
Led multidisciplinary teams serving more than 2,000 employees across 10 locations. Built the organization’s first in-house HR and training office, designed a two-week supervisory curriculum and new supervisor academy, and managed leadership development programs. Reduced vacancies from 28% to 12% in one year and managed more than $40M in operating budgets.
Led training and workforce development, administration, and security for more than 2,000 employees. Managed over $400K in annual training and approximately 1,000 training requests each year. Rebuilt the onboarding and sponsorship program, creating a 50-page manual and practical workshops for supervisors and sponsors.
Advanced from Management Analyst to Director of Business Analysis in 2014. Led process improvement events, developed competencies and learning plans for more than 100 analysts, and taught workforce data analysis. Reduced workforce-record discrepancies from 42% to under 2% over time and helped correct $10M in labor authorization discrepancies.
I bring design, learning, and data together to help people do their best work.
Turn complex ideas into clear, engaging visuals, learning materials, and intuitive digital experiences.
Build and manage digital learning pathways, course content, and compliance reporting that make training easier to deliver and track.
Equip new and experienced supervisors with practical tools for coaching, communication, performance, and leading teams.
Translate workforce and operational data into useful dashboards, staffing insights, and clearer decisions.
Find bottlenecks, simplify workflows, and build practical automations that save time and improve results.
Designed and published an after-school curriculum and activity workbook for Aboriginal Australian children, in coordination with Wanyara.
Built web and iOS mapping applications using public data to help travelers find more than 90,000 international-card-capable ATMs across Japan.