Bruce Myers
Huntsville,AL
Summary
Highly effective leader with 25+ years of military service and 20+ years of specialized experience across 5 key positions: Model & Simulation Operations – Battle Command System Integrations - Project Management - Civil Military Operations – Operational Knowledge Management. Strong
expertise in business development, operational control measurement, and process and system streamlining. Energetic and mission-focused with success in developing and leading cross functional teams to achieve exceptional outcomes. Result driven manager with broad experience in domestic and international projects, skilled at seeing the ‘big picture” while retaining a critical eye for detail and supporting strategic priorities.
Active Top Secret Clearance SCI
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Model and Simulation Analyst
Trideum
06.2021 - Current
- Assists in integrating capabilities to the Army's M&S modernization initiative under the Army G-8 and acts as the M&S DOTMLPF analyst.
- In charge of conducting analysis and evaluations of M&S enterprise needs and issues impacting Army modernization initiatives; responsible for analyzing Army M&S enterprise GAPs and requirements throughout the six Army M&S communities.
- Plan, coordinate, and facilitate annual, long-range, and short-range planning initiatives in order to support AMSO's goal.
- Ensure that Army policies and Army strategy are in sync by managing cross-functional domains within the M&S Enterprise that support OSD, Combatant Commands, and the Services.
- Integrate project requirements, prioritize needs across the Army's future strategy, solve M&S GAPs, and track suggested solutions for project and product-level development that are prioritized to satisfy the Department of the Army's M&S strategy.
- Manages organizational operational requirements while overseeing contractors on-time completion of key deliverables.
- Facilitates staff prioritization efforts and participates in hiring contract support, managing training, and performance evaluations to establish and enforce policies and procedures for business functions.
- Managing the M&S Enterprise Innovation Environment for the Army; enabling exploration and migration of open architecture solutions.
- Manages the Army Organization Server for Data, enabling data to become a more accessible, standardized, and authoritative solution supporting the Army's modernization efforts.
Deputy Chief of Nuclear Integration
Defense Threat Reduction Agency
08.2018 - 05.2021
- Delivered multiple projects, synchronizing delivery to ensure task orders were met.
- Acting as a liaison to multiple agencies such as NGA, DIA, and DARPA along with supporting OSD, Combatant Commands, and the Services in order to meet M&S enterprise issues at the DoD level; cross-leveling functionality and capabilities supporting the National Strategy to ensure tools were compatible with DoD guidance.
- Developed and executed innovative implementation plans, goals and concepts that supported organizational M&S needs, issues and requirements to the Office of Secretary of Defense in order to maintain national goals and readiness.
- Developed, planned and executed M&S initiatives supporting multiple domains, synchronizing efforts and managing the Budget of multiple projects.
- Lead 2 source selections provide Contract office with required documents to award contract under required timeframe.
- Served as strategic advisor and counsel led for the nuclear technology environment; Coordinated internal communications, provided operational support and fostered cross-department relations to enable leadership success.
- Responsible for all staff training, internal and external coordination of activities, administrative procedures, and for synchronization of organizational resources and operational calendar to include short-term and long-term planning.
- Improved procedures to ensure efficiency was met through standardization of tools, commitment to process and improvement of training, resulting in a culture of shared understanding.
- Program Manager for War-gaming Initiative valued at 8 million in support of DoD focusing on nuclear planning and analyzing new capabilities for future acquisition training and education.
- Led planning and operations for 3 sites. Directed teams of 75 staff members. Managed 15 projects and controlled budget of 15 million dollars. Provided oversite of an additional 7 million-dollar budget.
Exercise Lead and Information Integration
82nd Airborne Division
08.2016 - 07.2018
- Facilitated synchronization of senior leaders' calendars, operational calendars, training calendars, and external calendars. Executing System Administration functions, deconflicting and managing change requests, and maintaining a fully networked schedule for the entire organization.
- Managed oversight of four networks: NIPR, SIPR, JWICS, and Coalition networks. Provided analytical reports on critical tasks to illustrate efficiency and effectiveness across all functional domains.
- Developed tools to track change, support variances, manage critical path and mitigate conflict resulting in commander's dashboard that enabled the transference of knowledge.
- Facilitated the synchronization of Army's M&S goals, Army policies, and operational objectives within the organization's operational needs.
- Facilitated multiple Joint and Army exercises in support of mission readiness.
Model and Simulation Coordination and Integration
NATO
08.2012 - 08.2015
- Advises action and decisions regarding the governance, development, resourcing and employment of modeling and simulation across NATO; collaborating with the OSD, Joint Staff, MACOMs and functional organizations on future strategies, Policies effecting M&S development, deployment of M&S capability and technical and training best practices.
- Ensure modeling and simulation initiatives support training, operations, defense planning, and capability development.
- Provide oversight of 17-million-dollar delivery capabilities to modernize next generation of M&S
- Coordinated with 30 nations to identify, validate and priorities requirements, resulting in a standard baseline of requirements used across the alliance.
- Developed and executed a 13 million Euro program focusing on collective training and exercises.
- As Chair of the Military Operational Requirements Group (MORS), lead meetings approved projects that supported the overall direction of the NATO mission, which resulted in improved processes; approved and validated priorities resulting in reduction of ideas to approved solutions; and managed program control measures to ensure projects stayed on task.
- Tracked and provided oversight of multiple projects, working with leads to ensure requirements were met, deliveries were kept, and budgets were maintained.
- Managed a program, CoreSim 2020, enabling the Alliance to expand their M&S capacity of resource sharing and improve their ability to provide better training in a shorter amount of time; built international teams; identified gaps; developed requirements; and managed the budget.
Integration Division Chief
Joint Staff J7
08.2007 - 08.2012
- Led the development and sustainment of a joint exercise federation of tools in support of the 24 Combatant Command's exercise program.
- Oversaw and optimized the work of 100 personnel performing high level technical requirements. Managed program budget over 21 million dollars.
- Led the joint requirement board to verify and validate user requirements, determining prioritization for delivery.
- Managed the life cycle of multiple projects to include developing capabilities, testing technical solutions, and delivering products to stakeholders.
Division Exercise Planner
101st Airborne Division
08.2005 - 08.2007
- Provided oversight of training in preparation for deployment into IRAQ of more than 5 thousand soldiers.
- Led 101st Divisions new equipment procurement, reception and training program that modernized critical weapon systems and communication equipment.
- Led Divisions reception cell supporting deployment into IRAQ for all deploying units within 101st Divisions Organization for reception and onward movement of equipment and personnel.
Education
Master of Science - Management And Leadership
Webster University
St Louis, MO07-2015
Bachelor of Science - Management
University of Tennessee
Martin, TN07-1994
Skills
- Staff Management
- Database Administration
- Analysis skills
- Team Building
- Planning and Coordination
- Project Management
- Conflict Resolution
- Agile framework
- Resource allocation
- Strategic Planning
Certification
- Knowledge Management Qualification
- Simulation Operations Certification
- Civil Affairs Operations Certification
- European Regional Studies Training
- Joint Staff Combined Arms and service Staff Qualification
- Combined Arms and Service Staff Qualification
Timeline
Senior Model and Simulation Analyst
Trideum
06.2021 - Current
Deputy Chief of Nuclear Integration
Defense Threat Reduction Agency
08.2018 - 05.2021
Exercise Lead and Information Integration
82nd Airborne Division
08.2016 - 07.2018
Model and Simulation Coordination and Integration
NATO
08.2012 - 08.2015
Integration Division Chief
Joint Staff J7
08.2007 - 08.2012
Division Exercise Planner
101st Airborne Division
08.2005 - 08.2007
Master of Science - Management And Leadership
Webster University
Bachelor of Science - Management
University of Tennessee