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James Patrick Coward Jr

James Patrick Coward Jr

Denton,TX

Summary

A Military Operational Professional with over 6 years of experience in operations, logistics, intelligence collection, team leading, Global and Stateside Operations, strategy development and analysis. Comfortable communicating with multiple levels of leadership. Experience working with and leading teams, as well as, individually. Knowledge in leadership positions and making high pressure decisions. Looking To seek and maintain a full-time position that offers professional challenges as well as growth within the company while utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

Work History

MANAGER OF OPERATIONS

United States Navy, USN
03.2019 - Current
  • - Orchestrated and implemented rolling schedule of day-to-day operations within department both Stateside and Globally
  • - Established positive and effective communication among unit staff and organizational leadership, reducing miscommunication and missed deadlines
  • - Identified and resolved unauthorized, unsafe or ineffective practices
  • - Primary Liaison between Executive Staff, department leaders and Operations team, ensuring programs ran smoothly
  • - Coordinated and mitigated with multiple organization to ensure airspace availability, ensuring completion of department goals
  • - Tracked and monitored over 300 direct reports and executives to ensure Organization monthly standards were met
  • - Maintained and networked key relationships as primary liaison between multiple departments and leadership teams.
  • - Accomplished operations and squadron mission by completing related results as needed
  • - Experience in creating and working out of makeshift temporary mobile operation sites around world
  • - Communicate job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions
  • - Forecast requirements; prepare annual flight hour schedule expenditure; analyze variances; initiating corrective actions
  • - Work closely with senior leadership and Executives to set and/or implement policies, procedures, and systems and to follow through with implementation.

Training and Development Manager

United States Navy, USN
03.2018 - Current
  • - Administer and maintain learning management system with junior sailors and upgraders
  • - Trained new aviators to perform cross training exercises with experienced aviators
  • - Conducted orientation sessions and organized on job training exercises for new sailors
  • - Responsible for preparing training metrics and scenarios with state-of-the-art simulator systems with the Department of Defense and the United States Navy
  • - Prepare and maintain a monthly and annual training calendar for upgrading and junior personnel
  • - Evaluate and counsel sailors on their performance with job duties and flights
  • - Coordinate with multiple leaders and executives during training to ensure quality of training across all positions
  • - Oversaw and ensured safety of flight procedures were adhered to in both simulators and flights
  • - Communicated and escalated to different levels of leadership if needed with issues in training or with individuals being trained
  • - Responsible for training and ensuring the proper movement of classified and sensitive materials with all members of flight crew
  • - Trained and drilled risk management scenarios within the workplace and aircraft
  • Input data and results of training within our tracking system on the completion of employee exercises and events, ensuring requirements were met

Database Administrator

United States Navy, USN
03.2016 - 03.2018
  • - Extracting and loading data from classified drives both on and off aircraft
  • - Administered, supported, and monitored databases by proactively resolving database issues and maintaining servers
  • - Tested programs and monitored databases to identify issues and make necessary modifications as needed
  • - Ensured all drives and system software and hardware were structurally sound and up to date
  • - Monitored performance of in-flight software and systems while flying missions
  • - Authenticated data every flight and ensured proper data collection procedures were carried out
  • - Ethically carried out movement, storage, and transfer of USN and DOD Classified data and information
  • · Ensured cybersecurity measures were in place to protect assets of State and DOD.
  • - Monitored and logged cybersecurity and physical security of classified drives and documents
  • - Operated multiple classified and unclassified data collection and transfer systems

Education

Associate of Arts - Business Administration

American Military University
Online
2023

High School Diploma -

Prestonwood Christian Academy
Plano, TX
06.2013

Skills

  • Mentoring and training
  • Planning and Coordination
  • Strategic planning
  • Staff Management
  • Operations management
  • Team Leadership
  • Departmental Operations
  • Business Operations
  • Department Oversight
  • Creative Problem Solving
  • Goal Setting
  • Training Programs

Work Availability

monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Additional Information

  • Posses Secret Clearance with DOD and USN
  • CPR/AED Certified
  • References supplied upon request

Quote

If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
Steve Jobs

Timeline

MANAGER OF OPERATIONS

United States Navy, USN
03.2019 - Current

Training and Development Manager

United States Navy, USN
03.2018 - Current

Database Administrator

United States Navy, USN
03.2016 - 03.2018

Associate of Arts - Business Administration

American Military University

High School Diploma -

Prestonwood Christian Academy
James Patrick Coward Jr