Krystle Holt
McAlester
Summary
Detail oriented, self-motivated administrative leader with eighteen years of government experience in office, training, program management, instruction, development, and analysis. Highly regarded leadership abilities with a team- player mentality. Innate interpersonal skills to establish and maintain positive relationships and excellent customer service. Productive under pressure and capable of multitasking, prioritizing, and meeting multiple deadlines. Expert in managing data, workloads, preparing reports, creating and editing policies, organizing and editing correspondence. Experienced ammunition and explosives training developer using design processes such as the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation (ADDIE). Hold a current U.S. Secret Security Clearance. High level proficiency in computer applications like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint, Project Builder, Adobe.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Training Specialist (Ammunition)
United States Army
12.2022 - Current
- Company Overview: Defense Ammunition Center
- DAC is a Center for Excellence for Munitions and Explosives Safety with technical expertise and training for ammunition surveillance, logistics management, technical transportation of hazardous materials, and explosives safety for Department of Defense (DOD) military, civilian, and approved contractor personnel through mobile training teams, satellite training locations, and via distance learning
- DAC is the Army integrator for explosives safety risk management, hazardous materials certification training, and supporting evolutionary changes in all disciplines of munitions safety, logistics management, quality assurance, as well as shaping explosives safety policy throughout the DoD and Other Government Agencies
- As a developer I am responsible for planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating training programs; performing training analyses, including but not limited to needs analysis, task analysis, audience analysis, and occupational analysis, to determine trends and root causes for gaps in performance or desired outcomes
- Utilizing the design processes such as the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation (ADDIE)
- Responsible for creating, reviewing and evaluating various documents - training requirements statements, training development plans, course outlines, instructor and participant guides, contractor training guides, etc., for adherence to instructional systems design principles and practices
- Completed the Common Faculty Development - Developer Course (CFD-DC)
- A two-week, 80-hour course designed to provide Army training and curriculum developers with the skills necessary to produce lesson plans and instructional products for the institutional domain
- Prepares and revises 19 resident and 29 distance learning Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) conformant training courses for military and civilian students on ammunition surveillance, logistics management, technical transportation of hazardous materials, and explosives safety training for Department of Defense (DOD) military, civilian, and approved contractor personnel
- Conducts lectures assists with course management duties, student registration, meetings, case studies, demonstrations, practical exercises, examinations, and critiques for assigned courses
- Interprets and applies ammunition logistics and safety procedures and policies
- Responsible for classroom management ensuring availability of training equipment and class materials, other related tasks
- Experience utilizing various automated computer programs to design and develop course materials, lesson plans, and instructional content
- Completed Blackboard 101 course
- Partner with internal and external SMEs to develop lesson plans that include accurate, detailed resources and document resources requirements in the Army’s Training Development Capability (TDC) software
- Lead scheduled and impromptu meetings to coordinate with internal and external partners to guide course and learning product development
- Observe learners and instructors/facilitators during instruction
- Use student surveys, verbal feedback, instructor/facilitator written feedback, and assessment item analysis to work with customers for training product improvement
- Identify trends, to make necessary changes in learning materials
- Manages multiple command programs simultaneously
- Lessons Learned Manager, OPSEC Officer, Accreditation Officer, Faculty and Staff Development Officer, Critical Task Board Lead, Contracting Officer’s Representative
- Developed and implement new or revised administrative program policies, regulations or procedures for command Lessons Learned Program, OPSEC Program, and FSD
- Accreditation Officer maintained and obtained reaccreditation with the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and the American Council on Education (ACE)
- Working with auditors to review all command programs and courseware
- Prepared multiple reports, self-study, briefs and fielded questions
- OPSEC Level II Certified and Program Manager
- Briefs command on OPSEC related issues, program changes, compliance and awareness
- Reviews site plans, courseware and all other content for appropriate protection and markings
- Approves all command information released to outside sources including website and social media releases
- Lead for the Critical Task Site Selection Board (CTSSB) to review Navy ammunition logistics and HAZMAT courses and update critical tasks for course revision with course subject matter experts from all areas of Naval training
- Lead for the Army CTSSB to review all ARMY courses that DAC teaches
- Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) managed all distance learning, information technology and training support services contracts worth over $22M
- Prepared all documents for contract including Market Research, Performance Work Statement (PWS), Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP), Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE), and Sole Source documents
- Track budgets, make program priority decisions when funding is limited or cut
- Monitored contractors' performance, weekly inspections and program surveillance, responsible for CPAR inputs
- Received award from Army Contracting Command Orlando for outstanding program management skills as a COR under their office
- Defense Ammunition Center
- DAC is a Center for Excellence for Munitions and Explosives Safety with technical expertise and training for ammunition surveillance, logistics management, technical transportation of hazardous materials, and explosives safety for Department of Defense (DOD) military, civilian, and approved contractor personnel through mobile training teams, satellite training locations, and via distance learning
- DAC is the Army integrator for explosives safety risk management, hazardous materials certification training, and supporting evolutionary changes in all disciplines of munitions safety, logistics management, quality assurance, as well as shaping explosives safety policy throughout the DoD and Other Government Agencies
Faculty and Staff Development Officer/Program Analyst
United States Army
03.2020 - 12.2022
- Company Overview: Defense Ammunition Center (DAC)
- Serves as a program analyst in the Academic Services Division, Defense Ammunition Center (DAC) as the Faculty and Staff Development Officer (FSDO)
- Responsible for input to and analyses of the training program planning which encompasses employees locally and those assigned at twelve Satellite Training Locations (STL), including Germany and Hawaii
- Includes analysis of DAC training requirements, training progress, missions and function coordinator, and Collateral duties include Professional Accreditation Manager, OPSEC Officer, Lessons Learned Manager, Contracting Officer’s Representative, and Foreign Disclosure Representative
- Consolidate instructor development plans in accordance with headquarters instructor credentialing standards
- Ensure Instructor Development training requirements are current and align with headquarters accreditation standards
- Manage and schedule the Training Directorate's required instructor development training in accordance with TRADOC instructor development training schedules
- Coordinated the qualifications new DAC instructors and developers ensuring their credentialing process was completed in a timely manner
- Managed and tracked all required training and development for 54 DAC instructors
- Maintain and update instructor credentialing plans for every DAC course.
- Manages the Lessons Learned Program
- Assess lessons learned and best practices for the training directorate and implement change where needed
- Maintaining DAC’s Joint Lessons Learned Information System (JLLIS)
- Created DAC Lessons Learned Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
- Coordinate with DAC TD leadership, SMEs, and Academic Services to evaluate and implement lessons learned and best practices
- Manages all professional accreditations
- Providing critical support and oversight functions for all DAC professional accreditations (e.g., International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), American Council on Education (ACE), Council on Occupational Education (COE)
- Ensuring DAC maintains those accreditations by complying with annual reporting requirements
- Participates in numerous course revisions, group trials, and assisted with the revision of lesson plans and Programs of Instruction (POIs) in accordance with TR 350-70, TP 350-70-14, and local DAC policies and procedures and other supporting TRADOC Pamphlets outlining guidance for the implementation of the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation (ADDIE) process
- Completed the Training Development Capability (TDC) Course, the Evaluating Instructors Course (EIC).
- Contracting Officer Representative (COR)
- Ensures all DAC employees get annual training and certified an OPSEC alternate for DAC in my absence
- Maintained OPSEC Level II certification
Capacity Planner
United States Army
09.2019 - 04.2020
- Capacity Planner for ammunition storage at McAlester Army Ammunition Plant
Production Scheduler
United States Army
12.2018 - 09.2019
- Production Scheduler for ammunition manufacturing at McAlester Army Ammunition Plant
Document Control Coordinator
United States Army
08.2017 - 12.2018
- Document Control Coordinator for the ammunition production lines at McAlester Army Ammunition Plant
Aviation Maintenance Administration
United States Navy
08.2005 - 04.2016
- Aviation Maintenance Administration for C-130T Aircraft Squadron
Education
Associate of Science - General Studies
Columbia College
Columbia, MO03-2012
Skills
- Ammunition and Explosives Safety education
- HAZMAT Transportation safety compliance
- Safety regulation compliance
- Office management
- Program management
- Instruction
- Workload management
- Report preparation
- Policy creation and editing
- Learning management systems
- E-learning platforms
- Training program development
- Training program design
- Training evaluation
- Program facilitation
- Needs analysis
- Product development
- Training material updates
- Verbal and written communication
Timeline
Training Specialist (Ammunition)
United States Army
12.2022 - Current
Faculty and Staff Development Officer/Program Analyst
United States Army
03.2020 - 12.2022
Capacity Planner
United States Army
09.2019 - 04.2020
Production Scheduler
United States Army
12.2018 - 09.2019
Document Control Coordinator
United States Army
08.2017 - 12.2018
Aviation Maintenance Administration
United States Navy
08.2005 - 04.2016
Associate of Science - General Studies
Columbia College
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