Kevin Polosky
Clinton Township,Michigan
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Director - Commanders Initiative Group (CIG)
US Army TACOM
Warren, MI
07.2024 - Current
- The Commander's Initiatives Group provides essential direct assistance to the commanding general by developing, synchronizing and distributing key elements of his vision and strategic objectives to internal and external audiences in order to successfully execute the Army Aviation Campaign Plan
- The Commander's Initiatives Group's mission is to Oversee the Command Engagement Team, which develops and sustains the commanding general's Command Engagement Plan, develop commanding general's strategic communications plan for all briefings, speeches and articles, develop and coordinate agendas for major conferences (e.g
- AUSA, MDEX, GVSETS), Develop and sustain the Army Maintenance Synchronization Plan, travel with and serve as the senior advisor to the Commanding General for all relevant topics
- - Set up the TACOM Commanders Initiative cell, developed duty description, roles and responsibilities and requirements for this new department
- - Served as the senior advisor to the Commanding General, traveled with him to all locations providing critical advice and detailing all interactions
- - Was a key liaison for TACOM when dealing with other command, interagency and government partners, set up meetings, developed strategies for the meetings and prepared the Commanding General to ensure he was ready and able to execute all engagements with TACOM interests
- - Lead planner for Advanced Manufacturing, Fix Forward and the Army Operational Readiness Program, all new initiatives that TACOM developed and executed to improve Army readiness and deliver ready combat formations
- - Represented US Army TACOM as the senior representative for numerous speeches, meetings and engagements
- Salary: $144,412.00 USD Per Year
- Hours per week: 70
- Supervisor: MG Michael Lalor (586-282-5131)
- Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes
Chief of Staff
US Army TACOM
Warren, MI
06.2023 - 08.2024
- Chief of Staff for Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM), consisting of 15,000 Military and Civilians from the Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology communities that develop, acquire, field and sustain 65% of the Army's end items that ensure Army mobility, lethality, survivability, and readiness
- Synchronizes and supervises a staff of 480 functional experts in 14 diverse staff sections that provide workforce planning and development, security, strategic planning, informational technology, resource management, logistics, planning, operations and other staff services to a workforce serving at 11 CONUS and 130 worldwide locations
- Principal responsibility to organize, synchronize, and prioritize all headquarters functions and administrative actions for the command
- Serves as the Command's Community Engagement Representative, responsible for day-to-day coordination with Detroit Arsenal Garrison Leaders, community leaders, industry partners and non-governmental organizations
- Successfully led a staff of over 600 people supporting over 25,000 Soldiers civilians and contractors across a global landscape
- Managed a 4.9-billion-dollar budget in current year spending while developing realistic and appropriate POM requirements to ensure TACOM had the resources required to support the force for years to come
- Revamped the recruitment and retention process, hosted the first ever on site hiring fair and ensuring that TACOM was able to complete and win the war for talent
- Oversaw a 7-year Operational Industrial Base Modernization plan valued at over 300 billion dollars working with the Corps of Engineers and Industry to streamline processes and facilities across six arsenals and depots ensuring that our production facilities were updated with standardized machines, equipment and networks and was ready to sustain Army formations in the future
- Served as a subject matter expert on advanced manufacturing as the Army moved to bring advanced and subtractive manufacturing to bear rapidly producing and machining parts to fill current Army operational needs
- Salary: $14,400.00 USD Per Year
- Hours per week: 70
- Supervisor: MG Michael Lalor ((586) 282-5131)
- Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes
Commandant
Army Recruiting and Retention College
Fort Knox, KY
06.2021 - 06.2023
- Directs all Army Recruiting and Retention College (RRC) education and operational activities in accordance with the policies and direction established by CG, US Army Recruiting Command (USAREC), Department of the Army G1, and TRADOC G3/5/7, Quality Assurance Office, and Army University
- RRC Commandant has command authorities and responsibilities for all personnel assigned or attached to the RRC totaling 289 individuals
- Works across the educational enterprise to ensure all regulatory guidance is being met to standard while continuing to maintain both military and civilian accreditation
- Overseas all USAREC doctrine and manual publication and serves as the proponent lead for all 79 series Military Occupational Specialties
- Led an effort to completely revamp the curriculum for the Army Recruiting Course adding an additional 90 hours of training for new Army recruiters, completed the process in less than 90 days
- Oversaw the efforts to receive our accreditation from US Army Training and Doctrine Command, as well as the Council on Occupational Education (COE) ensuring that our curriculum remained relevant, was developed and taught to standard, and our students could obtain civilian education credits for their work at the college
- Managed a diverse staff of instructors and educational specialist and managed a budget of over three million dollars ensuring we were fiscally responsible with government resources while fostering an environment of teamwork, open communication and workforce development
- Graduated over seven hundred new Army recruiters over a two-year period ensuring that we were manning USAREC with highly trained and skilled recruiters who were ready to take on an extremely challenging mission for the Army
- Developed a Recruiter Live Fire exercise where we sent students to areas across the country giving them hands on experience prior to being sent to their recruiting stations, while contracting individuals to join the Army, over a two-year period this exercise resulted in over four hundred new Soldiers enlisting in the Army
- Salary: $13,500.00 USD Per Year
- Hours per week: 70
- Supervisor: LTG Johhny Davis ((502) 624-2244)
- Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes
G3
Army Sustainment Command
Rock Island, IL
06.2019 - 06.2020
- Served as the G3 (Director of Operations) for the United States Army Sustainment Command (ASC) a global organization consisting of twenty-nine thousand Soldiers, civilians and government contractors that integrates and synchronizes the delivery of Army Material Command (AMC) capabilities and enablers at the operational and tactical point of need
- Responsible for synchronizing policies and operations across the ASC staff and 10 subordinate BDE’s as well as direct coordination with the Department of the Army and all major Combatant Commands
- Responsible for the direct supervision of sixty civilians and twenty-one military personnel
- Served as the Chief Operations Officer for a global support organization totaling over 30,000 people and executing a yearly budget of over 3 billion dollars
- Developed the first ever campaign plan allowing the organization to develop strategic goals and separate them into specific lines of efforts, then organized operational planning teams across these specific lines of efforts to ensure measures of performance were being met and the organization was achieving its strategic goals
- Managed COVID vaccine testing and distribution plans across the globe working with industry to set up LOGCAP contracted sites for initial testing, and once complete tracking shipment and usage of vaccines on a line-by-line basis
- Oversaw a training shop of over 20 personnel who established training plans and executed both virtual and in person training to ensure that our personnel were trained to standard and in accordance with all Army and DOD regulations
- Developed an executed a civilian training and mentorship program titled, 'journey to leadership,' were we trained and mentored over 60 government civilians in how to be better supervisors and leaders and allowed for networking and cross training enhancing their job skills and allowing them potential future growth
- Salary: $134,000.00 USD Per Year
- Hours per week: 70
- Supervisor: BG Beth Behn ((703) 697-8468)
- Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes
Enlisted Branch Chief
Humar Resources Command US Army
Fort Knox, KY
06.2018 - 06.2019
- Lead and directed the enlisted Transportation Branch for US Army Human Resources Command (HRC)
- Responsible for developing, managing, analyzing evaluating and executing programs required for the personnel management of over seventeen thousand active component Soldiers in the CMF 88 comprised of six military occupational specialties (MOS)
- Advises the Division Chief, Director of enlisted personnel management directorate (EPMD), Commanding General of HRC and the Chief of the Transportation Corps on all enlisted matters
- Informed Commanders and Command Sergeants Major across the Army on all HRC policies, procedures and guidance in accordance with Headquarters Department of the Army manning guidance
- Responsible for the health and welfare of six Non-Commissioned Officers and six Department of the army civilians
- Served as the lead HR director for all transportation branch MOS’s responsible for the assignment and management of over 10,000 enlisted Soldiers
- Worked with the Chief of Transportation and US Army CASCOM to ensure that the Army had the correct number of transportation Soldiers and formations to support the Army’s changing requirements and build for the Army of 2030
- Developed a series of videos to inform the force on how the manning system works, ways that they can make themselves more competitive and provide insight on career management and development opportunities for the force
- Managed the White House Transportation Program screening and interviewing potential applicants to serve in critical billets to support POTUS and POTUS support staff
- Assigned over 3,000 Soldiers to billets across the globe ensuring that the Army had the right transportation Soldiers in the right locations to assist in our ability to project power forward and serve as a key deterrent for near peer competitors
- Salary: $128,000.00 USD Per Year
- Hours per week: 60
- Supervisor: COL Christine Enriquez ((703) 695-7783)
- Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes
Timeline
Director - Commanders Initiative Group (CIG)
US Army TACOM
07.2024 - Current
Chief of Staff
US Army TACOM
06.2023 - 08.2024
Commandant
Army Recruiting and Retention College
06.2021 - 06.2023
G3
Army Sustainment Command
06.2019 - 06.2020
Enlisted Branch Chief
Humar Resources Command US Army
06.2018 - 06.2019
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