Justino Macias

Certified Senior Instructor and Doctrine Writer for a tactical program, physical and virtual.

• Developed and directed virtual and online programs during the height of the pandemic to continue training and education safely that focused on building knowledge and creating instructors.
• Trained/certified over 1,000 students with over 800 hours of instruction in development and tactics in outdoor and indoor environments.
• Led, advised, and recruited a lethal, professional team of seven instructors to better complete the annual task of certifying service members of Fort Benning, Georgia in tactical and educational programs.
• Conducted course, program, and personnel analysis, accounting for variables of the organization and environment to improve the unverisal effectiveness of the course, instructors, and establishment.
• Invented new course material in pre-existing programs for the government that is still in use today.
• Created new programs that combine stress management, leadership, and tactics.
• Planned and facilitated a seminar for UFC World Champion Royce Gracie in a MMA/grappling facility.
• Established logistical support and created supply chains for continuous training and education on behalf of all programs.

Resiliency Coaching and Counseling.

• Implemented coping strategies in high conflict moments to enhance the focus and stress management of servicemembers negotiating fully resistant opponents.
• Held several events, testing stress adaptability of students in tactical and educational based scenarios.
• Conducted educational briefings on life skills and effective counseling for service members and civilians of all ages.

Instructor, Training Director and Manager

• Managed hundreds of personnel in high stress conditions, while meeting critical time hacks, and remaining calm and collective, successfully training over 900 service members in education and development.
• Effectively established efficient logistical support and supply chains for hundreds of personnel, ensuring the success of all programs and systems.
• Awarded for being the most effective drill sergeant due to having the highest averages of physical fitness, marksmanship, and tactical success instilled into the 300 future servicemembers/trainees while being compared to over 30 other peer drill sergeants.
• Created and facilitated several training operations for 250 personnel at a time over the span of four-to-six months per training cycle, with four training cycles total.
• Facilitated and developed transportation and living conditions during the height of COVID19 for over 900 servicemembers by testing and securing safe living safe for personnel needing quarantine.

Mental resiliency coach, counselor, and educator

• Coached servicemembers and peers through various forms of resiliency training as a Master Resiliency Trainer, to establish self-efficacy, coping strategies, and confidence so that they may demonstrate flexibility in moments of catastrophe and stress, in the workplace or in personal lives.
• Conducted over 30 individual and group counseling sessions regarding outcomes of catastrophizing and the importance of overcoming diversity.
• Trained over 1,000 servicemembers in stress management tasks to increase self-efficacy in the workplace, leading to a more manageable work environment.
• Established quarterly briefings on the importance of resilience applied in the office environment, with families at home, and in the field of training for combat professions.
• Tailored high stress training to test stress management of advanced servicemembers, further developing and enhancing the mental flexibility of the participants.

Software/Digital Training Manager and Director

• Led executive sized organizations in virtual and software training, teaching effective use of digital recording of data and information, forever changing the standard operating procedures.
• Built manuals and guides for online training programs for the use of over 4,000 servicemembers within the unit in order to achieve a better standard of tracking unit training in the field and digitally, leading to the readiness of deployment.

Executive Supervisor

• Displayed mental agility and adaptiveness by being placed in positions of trust and expertise ahead of peers and higher ranking superiors.
• Placed in charge of senior ranking officers and senior enlisted non-commissioned officers regarding administration, transportation, sustainment, tactical posture, and readiness, assisting senior leaders in over 10 multi-echelon operations.
• Awarded for conduct in this position.

Security of Government officials and Commanding Generals

• Placed in a position of high trust in order to defend and secure the business and movements of commanding generals and officials of government office, both foreign and domestic while in Afghanistan.
• Embedded with U.S. Army Special Forces, Navy Seals, and U.S. Marine MARSOC to facilitate the protection of Domestic and Foreign VIPs.
• Successfully completed over 90 movement and security operations while in the most chaotic conditions of Afghanistan.
• Awarded for honorable service and consistent display of professionalism by the commanding general of the security detail and awarded a token from the Security of Defense.

Team Manager and Coordinator

• Commanded oversight and tactical planning to streamline operations and enhance emergency preparedness procedures under dire and chaotic conditions, displaying immense resiliency in moments of high stress.
• Successfully completed over 40 infiltration missions during training across multiple echelons, being the biggest contributor to the unit's mission success by identifying key positions and personnel.
• Trained six different personnel in the use of precision rifles, establishing two lethal sniper teams who earned rewards and recognition throughout the unit.
• Have been awarded for feats and achievements in these positions.

Small Teams Supervisor, Training Coordinator

• Became a subject matter expert on all tasks involved with the profession; tactics, ballistics, hand-to-hand combat, transportation, sustainment.
• Led several different sizes of elements of peers and subordinates through stressful and harmful conditions overseas, concluding all tasks and missions with success and no casualties in two different campaigns overseas in Afghanistan during war-time.
• Displayed great courage and heroism as stated by superiors in times of initial conflict, leading to morale boosts across the element of personnel in order to succeed.
• Have been awarded for feats and achievements in these positions.