Brian J. McKiernan

I led an organization of 90,000+ personnel headquartered in locations across the eastern United States with mission requirements in the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and South America. I provided vision, strategic guidance and prioritization of resources for execution of a $1.09B operating budget to ensure all components of the organization meet demands of the National Military Strategy. I directed the operations and maintenance of the largest installation in the US Army to ensure it was capable of supporting rapid deployment of all forces and the support to 280,000 beneficiaries.

- Drove process improvement to increase material readiness by more than 50% and gained an additional $102M in buying power for the organization within eight months.

- Provided strategic vision and guidance for the complete reform of military medicine at the Womack Army Medical Center supporting more than 100,000+ beneficiaries.

- Influenced members of Congress and their staff to garner the resources required to improve Fort Bragg infrastructure in support of hosted organizations and missions.

Led an organization of 65,000+ personnel that drove the doctrine development, organizational design, material development, education and leader development and facilities design for all Army Air and Missile Defense and Field Artillery forces.

- Thought leader that provided vision, strategic guidance and prioritization of resources including a $121M annual operating budget to provide trained personnel and modernized equipment for the Army's entire Air and Missile Defense and Field Artillery force structure.

- Directed the operations and maintenance of a $3.37B Air and Missile Defense and Field Artillery training complex supporting training of 67,000 students.

- Articulated and gained approval of a resource plan to increase student throughput by 25% in a single year.

- Collaborated with Federal Agencies to create the only Directed Energy Range in the US Army that supports above-the-horizon directed energy weapon engagements in support of experimentation.

- Influenced members of Congress to support critical modernization programs worth over $370B.

- Prepared the organization to achieve accreditation for all 37 education programs.

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- Led an organization of 3,500+ personnel with $17M annual operating budget that trained more than 300,000 Army National Guard and US Army Reserve forces.

- Led cultural change to transition the organization from the previous business model of "readiness evaluation" to "partnering with customers to increase readiness."

- Re-imagined and designed business processes to effectively govern operations with the elimination of a 350-person intermediate headquarters.

- Built personal relationships with the leaders of the National Guard in twenty-seven states and territories and the leaders of fifteen regional and functional commands in the Army Reserve to build mutual trust.

Synchronized and integrated training, operations and sustainment of 20,000+ US Army soldiers as a critical component of the defense of South Korea.

- Provided day-to-day leadership over a staff of more than 750 personnel.

- Served as the Army's primary representative for interoperability between the US Army and the South Korean Army.

Deputy to the Commander of the Army's only Airborne Division comprised of more than 19,500 personnel and with the mission of deploying forces anywhere in the world within 18-hours of notification.

- Directed all aspects of material, personnel, critical infrastructure maintenance; Army Aviation Operations; Artillery training and readiness; logistics planning and operations; and the Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness Program.

- Supervised 800 personnel providing resident and non-resident instruction for over 32,000 officers and enlisted students in 72 different courses from the US Army, US Marine Corps and Allied Nations.

- Led the Army's modernization, material development, organizational design, doctrine development and human resource management for the US Army's field artillery force.

• Communications and Electronics Association Writing Award.
• Strategic Research Project published in the 2007 Info Ops Anthology.

• Omega Rho Honor Society for Operations Research and Systems Analysis for outstanding academic achievement.

• ROTC Scholarship Student
• Chapter President, Kappa Sigma Fraternity