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Work History
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DEMETRY P. SPIROPOULOS

Chesapeake,VA

Summary

Assistant Professor who expertly applied contemporary and emerging planning concepts, techniques, and procedures in combat logistics support, operational logistics, joint operational planning, and crisis action planning. A clear thinker who demonstrated success in a collaborative information environment that developed agile and adaptive leaders with the requisite values, strategic vision, and critical thinking skills to graduate, international and nontraditional students.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience

Work History

Director for Material Management and Life Cycle Operations

Marine Forces Command
Norfolk, VA
08.2017 - 01.2019
  • Manage lifecycle and supply chain operations critical for the replacement/reconstitution of original equipment affecting operational readiness across multiple regions and domains
  • Monitor and develop supply chain metrics, asset visibility, inventory costs, new acquisitions, distributions, and policy development

Course Director/Assistant Professor

Joint Forces Staff College
08.2013 - 08.2017
  • Applied contemporary and emerging planning concepts, techniques, and procedures, joint doctrine, and joint operations concepts, in a collaborative information environment developing agile and adaptive leaders with the requisite values, strategic vision, and critical thinking skills to keep pace with the changing strategic environment
  • A primary focus of the review was to develop a set of Desired Leader Attributes while leveraging modeling, and simulation into campaign/theater planning operations

Current Operations Director

Marine Corps Forces Central Command
Bahrain
07.2012 - 07.2013
  • Led, managed, and directed the Combat Operations Center ensuring that routine and crisis activities within the Marine Forces Central Command Area of Responsibility were quickly identified, defined, verified, processed, and then presented to the leadership to facilitate executive-level decisions
  • Served as the Information Management Officer/Knowledge Management Officer

Exercise and Training Director

Joint Staff
Norfolk, VA
07.2011 - 07.2012
  • Global force personnel coordinator for top-level Joint and national level Department of Defense Joint and coalition exercises aligned and integrated task-based requirements, plans, events, and assessments to missions and mission essential tasks

Joint Logistics Analyst

United States Central Command, Joint Forces Command
Norfolk, VA
07.2009 - 07.2011
  • Advised and assessed regional Operational/strategic logistical enterprises affecting programmatic, personnel, fiscal, and organizational capabilities
  • Incorporated findings reduced force structure by 11% while maintaining support metrics for all critical combat forces

Lead South East Asia Logistics Planner

Marine Forces Pacific
Honolulu, HI
07.2006 - 07.2009
  • Lead Operational-level logistics planner within the Korean Theater of Operations responsible for linking strategic resources with tactical units
  • Responsible for planning and coordinating the movement of resources including managing transportation, customs clearance, documentation, and compliance, ensuring efficient delivery of products to their final destination while adhering to relevant regulations across the supply chain

Operations Officer

2d Supply Battalion
, NC
07.2003 - 07.2006
  • Directed 1000+ person organization that provided supply, distribution, fiscal oversight, and contracting support to Marine Corps expeditionary forces in the eastern United States
  • In addition, led a deployed unit responsible for inventory management and intermediate supply support for all Marine Corps forces in Iraq while integrating, contracting services, and distribution operations integrating military and commercial nodes within the United States, Europe, and the Middle East that handled over 70,000 shipments, 295 convoys, and 320 flights

Formal Instructor

Marine Corps Combat Service Support School
, NC
07.2000 - 07.2003
  • Supervised 22 instructors, responsible for the Development, budgeting, and management of three formal classes while supervising the scheduling, instruction, and graduation of 64 entry-level classes for over 1100 student enlisted and officer Marines

Regimental/Battalion Supply Fiscal Officer

, NC
07.1995 - 07.2000
  • Reduced deficiencies within a $64 million account by 15%, improved accountability, recognized as the Division Supply account of the year

Education

Doctor of Philosophy - College of Business and Leadership

Regent University
05.2025

Bachelor or Art - Economics

University of Calgary
Canada

Master of Science - Business Management

Boston University

Certificate of College Teaching -

Virginia Tidewater Consortium

Certificate in Online Education -

The University of Wisconsin

Skills

  • Data analysis
  • Supply chain management
  • Project management
  • Strategic planning
  • Financial analysis
  • Team building

References

  • Charles Davis, Ph.D., Dean of Faculty and Academic Programs, Joint Forces Staff College, 7800 Hampton Blvd., Norfolk, VA, 23511, 757-443-6395, davisc@ndu.edu
  • Peter Yeager, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Joint Advanced Warfighting School, 7800 Hampton Blvd., Norfolk, VA, 23511, 757-639-4726, peter.e.yeager.civ@ndu.edu
  • Drew Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff Logistics, Marine Forces Command, 1775 Forrestal Drive, Norfolk, VA, 23505, 757-836-1518, drew.miller@usmc.mil

Published Works

  • Demetry Spiropoulos and Others, The Joint Staff Officer's Guide, Joint Force Staff College National Defense University, 6th Edition, 4-1, 4-56, 2017
  • Demetry Spiropoulos, Exegetical Analysis of Genesis 2:15-25, 3:1-13: Comparative Development of Workplace Consciousness, Journal of Biblical Perspective in Leadership, 13, 174-196, 2023
  • Demetry Spiropoulos, The Influence of Moral Potency to Deviant Workplace Behaviors While Controlling for Generational Affiliation, Doctoral dissertation, Regent University, 2025, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Qualification Highlights

  • Formal Educator/Instructor, Assistant Professor. Providing graduate-level instruction, adept in both written and verbal communication; articulate, confident concise writer and briefer who has authored numerous lessons, lesson plans, joint capability documents, study reports, and professional articles.
  • Senior Team Leader, Administered, scheduled, and supervised the planning and execution of a diverse curriculum focused on the Joint Operational Planning Process to over 145 senior military officers and international fellows. Responsible for coordinating local and guest lectures, various government agencies, and off-site case studies while incorporating Google Cloud, Blackboard, Canvass, and Microsoft applications which increased classroom collaboration.
  • Theater Campaign Planning Curriculum Course Director, Responsible for the design and analysis of 48 hours of graduate-level instruction, and curriculum redesign, while integrating over 460 files and references into a collaborative IT network, with oral and written lesson notes into a virtual collaborative educational environment. Awarded Master Faculty Status for mastery of the core curriculum, curriculum development, and leadership.
  • Lead Editor, In the development, collaboration, planning, fact-checking, and publishing of the 2017 'The Joint Staff Officer's Guide', distributed to US and Partner Nation Military Colleges.
  • Formal Instructor, Marine Corps Combat Service Support Schools. Supervised 22 instructors, responsible for the Development, budgeting, and management of three formal classes while supervising the scheduling, instruction, and graduation of 64 entry-level classes for over 1100 student enlisted and officer Marines.

Timeline

Director for Material Management and Life Cycle Operations

Marine Forces Command
08.2017 - 01.2019

Course Director/Assistant Professor

Joint Forces Staff College
08.2013 - 08.2017

Current Operations Director

Marine Corps Forces Central Command
07.2012 - 07.2013

Exercise and Training Director

Joint Staff
07.2011 - 07.2012

Joint Logistics Analyst

United States Central Command, Joint Forces Command
07.2009 - 07.2011

Lead South East Asia Logistics Planner

Marine Forces Pacific
07.2006 - 07.2009

Operations Officer

2d Supply Battalion
07.2003 - 07.2006

Formal Instructor

Marine Corps Combat Service Support School
07.2000 - 07.2003

Regimental/Battalion Supply Fiscal Officer

07.1995 - 07.2000

Doctor of Philosophy - College of Business and Leadership

Regent University

Bachelor or Art - Economics

University of Calgary

Master of Science - Business Management

Boston University

Certificate of College Teaching -

Virginia Tidewater Consortium

Certificate in Online Education -

The University of Wisconsin
DEMETRY P. SPIROPOULOS