Josiah Brown

• Served as a senior technical editor and writer to communicate complex and technical information more clearly.

• Applied expert knowledge of grammar, punctuation, corporate writing standards, substantive editing, and formatting to review and prepare technical reports for publication.

• Partnered with other editors on the team to review and release projects in support of complex publication deliverables; communicated, transmitted, processed, and stored proprietary US Government information in a secure and authorized manner.

• Developed production timelines and best practices with editor team to ensure the delivery of high-quality production.

• Edited and processed complex text and graphics for senior government officials in the Intelligence Community (IC) and other Federal Government agencies, adhering to established technical production guidelines and quality control standards.

• Trained government customers and team members on different aspects of the technical editor discipline. Facilitated senior-level customer product feedback and accurately incorporated comments into the final product. Disseminated finished products to broader IC and archived digital files after product delivery.

• Edited and published more than 1,000 highly analytical products, including all cyber, domestic, strategic, and insider threat production.

• Vetted, trained, and developed new editors to ensure competency and knowledge base to meet job performance standard.

• Collaborated with other editors on the team to identify and harmoniously resolve editorial issues and inconsistencies in complex textual, graphic, and multimedia products.

• Coordinated editing changes with graphic designers, cartographers, SME authors, tradecraft reviewers, and senior government managers.

• Applied publishing tradecraft principles to conceptualize a variety of complex intelligence projects.

• Applied intelligence analysis techniques to monitor, assess, and report on intelligence situations pertaining to foreign underground facilities.

• Analyzed the framework of foreign infrastructure networks and systems (transportation, energy, telecommunications) providing intelligence products essential to national security.

• Detected, identified, and characterized underground facilities used by adversarial countries and nonstate actors to protect and conceal critical assets, including WMDs, CW, C2, leadership relocation, military forces, and strategic industries.

• Reviewed, edited, and performed quality control on finished intelligence products and ad hoc requirements in accordance with DIA policy and tradecraft.

• Collaborated with partner editors to review and disseminate strategic products to CENTCOM Commander and IC agencies.

• Met with regional intelligence analysts and managers in the production of daily strategic and current intelligence products and briefings.

• Curated and published daily in-depth regional, military, and political analytical products. Conducted SharePoint production workflow management for finalizing and disseminating intelligence products to the CENTCOM Commander, Coalition partners, and IC agencies.

• Served as an all-source intelligence analyst in support of Middle East contingency operations.

• Analyzed intelligence to assess area of responsibility, military and political intentions, and ally and adversarial courses of action.

• Collaborated with intelligence teams to assess most probable courses of action for existential and emerging terrorist threats.

• Produced and briefed strategic intelligence products to the commanding officer and staff to increase situational and operational awareness of factors that could undermine national or regional stability and potentially affect US national security interests.