Tommy M. White
Command Watch Officer
Atlanta,GA
Summary
Command Watch Officer with extensive expertise in incident response and operational oversight within Department of Army, showcasing proficiency in intelligence analysis and risk assessment while managing critical situations.
Overview
43
43
years of professional experience
Work History
Command Watch Officer, Civilian Intelligence Program
Department of the Army
Fort McPherson, GA
10.1985 - 11.2021
- Served as the Watch Officer responsible for maintaining continuous operational oversight and ensuring effective coordination, communication, and response to all incidents and activities within the watch area. This role requires sound judgment, situational awareness, and the ability to make timely decisions in a dynamic environment to support mission objectives and organizational readiness.
- In charge of after-hours staff and incident response. Make vital decisions on how to address and handle incidents throughout the shift. Oversee shift operations specifically after hours and on weekends when Task Leads and other Leadership team members are not immediately available.
- Ensure staff coverage and availability in all areas of the program where applicable. Execution of On-call to address reported incidents (i.e. active shooter, armed robbery, carjacking, hostile taking, bomb threats, hijacking, assassination threat, kidnapping, etc). Provide directions to Watch Staff Specialists to execute emergency response procedures and address concern and contact Management/Leadership Authority and other stakeholders when needed.
- Serve as the primary point of contact and decision authority for after-hours operations, incidents, and facility matters. Oversee shift operations during nights, weekends, and holidays, ensuring adequate staffing, coverage, and continuity of mission support.
- Monitor and update the Master Station Log, displays, and prepare updates for daily stand-up briefs. Track and manage Critical, High, and High-Visibility Incidents, ensuring timely escalation, stakeholder notification, and proper documentation. Lead incident coordination and response in accordance with the programs Major Incident Plan, including on-call activation when necessary.
- Ensure facility and security readiness, addressing environmental issues, access control, and physical security incidents as needed. Coordinate with Operations Staff members to ensure accurate and timely notifications and reporting. Act as Major Incident POC, providing situational updates to leadership and assisting with Command briefs.
- Maintain and audit personnel status (PERSTAT) records during day shift operations.
- Support system access and security processes, including reviewing and approving access requests for entrance to Watch Command Center in accordance with DoD guidelines and security procedures.
- Assist in examining system security architectures, identifying vulnerabilities, and supporting authorization efforts per DoD, Army, and NIST requirements. Develop and maintain process documentation, SOPs, and training materials to enhance operational efficiency and compliance. Proactively manage incidents and monitor network performance to identify and resolve potential problems before escalating. Collaborate with other escalation teams to ensure efficient and effective reporting to stakeholders.
- Intelligence Division, Fort McPherson, GA
Military Intelligence/CI Specialist, (MOS: 96BTLU)
Department of Defense
Fort Benning, GA
05.1979 - 12.1985
- Serve as a Staff Intelligence/Counterintelligence Analyst in the Combat Development Branch, Threat Office, United States Army Infantry Center/School, Ft Benning, GA. In this job, I maintain the Intelligence database. Prepared a bi-weekly 'Black-Book' with current Intelligence Information and holding on Current-World-Wide Situation. Develop expertise in the area of projected and current weapons, equipment organization and tactics, special studies and present briefing on Soviet Military Forces to senior military and civilian officials. Monitor the strengths, capabilities, and activity of the Soviet Army. Prepared and provided Intelligence threat data to team members. Prepare all-source intelligence products to support the area combat commander. Assist in establishing and maintaining systematic, cross-referenced intelligence records and files. Receives and processes incoming reports and messages. Assist in determining significance and reliability of incoming information.
- Assists in integrating incoming information with current intelligence holdings prepares and maintains the situation map. Assist in the analysis and evaluation of intelligence holdings to determine changes in enemy capabilities, vulnerabilities, and probable courses of action. Assist in the preparation of Order of Battle records using information from all sources and in the preparation of strength estimates of enemy units. Assembles and proofreads intelligence reports and assists in consolidating them into military intelligence. Prepare Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB) products.
- Analyze current intelligence holdings to identify gaps, and subsequent intelligence collection requirements. Consider enemy Order of Battle records in the development of collection tasks and assessment of enemy vulnerabilities and probable courses of action. Assist in the preparation of reports on captured enemy material. Drafts periodic and special intelligence reports, plans, and briefings. Performs duties shown in preceding skill level and provides supervision and guidance to subordinate soldiers.
- Supervise the receipt, analysis, dissemination, and storage of intelligence information. Supervise the IPB process. Quality controls analysis performed by subordinates, assists in the preparation of indicators to satisfy priority intelligence requirements. Provide indicators and current situation briefings to subordinate. Receives, produces and disseminates intelligence reports containing information obtained from all sources. Assist in preparing and conducting command intelligence training programs. Supervise intelligence operations within a combat battalion.
- Conducts investigations, collections and operations to detect, identify, counter, exploit and neutralize adversarial, Foreign Intelligence Service and Terrorist (AFIST) threats to Army and Department of Defense (DoD) Equities. Utilize appropriate reporting and communications equipment. Conduct liaison and operational coordination with foreign and U.S. Law enforcement, Security, and Intelligence Agencies. Plan and conduct counterintelligence operations/activities related to national security; conduct high-profile counterintelligence collection activities and source operations ranging from overt to clandestine collection; conduct surveillance operations; providing support for counterintelligence analytical products, to include preparing counterintelligence reports, estimates, and vulnerability assessments; and with additional training, may conduct technical surveillance countermeasures (TSCM), credibility assessment examinations, or exploit cyber threats.
- Assemble enemy intelligence information and material. Coordinates flow of intelligence information between intelligence disciplines and supervises the all-source production process. Supervise intelligence operations within combat brigade. Conduct general intelligence training. Supervise collection management in an Analysis Control Element (ACE). Train immediate subordinates in specific phases of Counterintelligence operations. Gather, share and process information received from members of the intelligence communities on threats from foreign intelligence services and U.S law Enforcement, Security and intelligence agencies. Focus on the military insider threat from radical members of the military community to neutralize the spread of anti-military propaganda. Assist in appraisal of intelligence, operations, and training procedures. Coordinates operating requirements of subordinate units, Supervises intelligence operations.
- US Army Threat Analysis Branch, Fort Benning, GA
Civilian Intelligence Analyst/Counterintelligence Specialist (CI)
Department of the Army
Fort McPherson, GA
12.1982 - 10.1985
- Performed duties as an Intelligence Analyst in the Intelligence Division conducting, planning organizes complex analytical studies for combatting potential terrorist and criminal activities on US Army Installation (Military Bases) throughout the southern region of the United States. Prepare written analysis and assessment of terrorist and criminal threats to include action plans and preparedness for restoring law and orders in affected areas of the Military community.
- Provides technical support to internal and external customers on various Intelligence information/preparation of re-occurring threats (i.e. active shooter, armed robbery, carjacking, hostile taking, bomb threats, hijacking, assassination threat, kidnapping, etc). Communicating and interacting with supervisors, employees, members of the general public and ability to analyze crime information and prepare recommendations on findings.
- Responds to questions, complaints and requests for information by telephone or in person from analysts, zone personnel, merchants, the general public, attorneys, court personnel, other agencies, employees, superiors, etc.
- Organizes and conducts daily or weekly briefings of Intelligence/Criminal information during shift changes to on and off duty Law Enforcement Senior Official, Criminal Investigators, Military Police and Civilian Security Officers. Conduct liaison federal, states and local law enforcement agencies (i.e. CID, FBI, GBI, Georgia State Patrol (GSP), Atlanta Police Department (APD), Atlanta Military Intelligence Agency (AMIA), Marta Transit Police, etc.)
- Maintains current field and code manuals, policy and procedures, employee handbooks, various maps, etc. for reference and/or review. Research and monitors developing crime trends in various areas.
- Intelligence Division, Fort McPherson, GA
Education
Some College Coursework Completed - Public Dispute Resolution
University of Maryland (Francis Carey School of Law)
Baltimore, Maryland03.2015
Some College Coursework Completed - Settlement Decisions and Impasse: Preventing Bad Settlements
Pepperdine University School of Law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution
Malibu, CA06.2014
Technical or Occupational Certificate - Civil Aviation
Federal Aviation Administration
Oklahoma City, OK01.2002
Some College Coursework Completed - Conflict Resolution
Federal Leadership Institute
Washington, DC01.2000
Coursework completed - Counternarcotic Analyst Course
US Defense Intelligence College
Washington, DC05.1993
4 Years of College - Social Science
Troy State University
Fort Benning, GA06.1982
Technical or Occupational Certificate - Intelligence Analyst Course
US Intelligence Center and School
Fort Huchucza, AZ, United States01.1978
Skills
- Incident response
- Operational oversight
- Security management
- Intelligence analysis
- Risk assessment
- Situational awareness
References
Available upon Request
Military Service
- US Army, Active Duty, 01/01/78, 10/31/85, Staff Sergeant/E-6, Honorable
- US Army Reserve, Active Reserve, 01/01/86, 01/31/89, Staff Sergeant, Honorable
- US Air Force Reserve, Active Reserve, 09/01/01, 11/30/04, MSgt/E-7
- US Air Force, Active Duty, 12/01/04, 05/31/06, Honorable
Timeline
Command Watch Officer, Civilian Intelligence Program
Department of the Army
10.1985 - 11.2021
Civilian Intelligence Analyst/Counterintelligence Specialist (CI)
Department of the Army
12.1982 - 10.1985
Military Intelligence/CI Specialist, (MOS: 96BTLU)
Department of Defense
05.1979 - 12.1985
Some College Coursework Completed - Public Dispute Resolution
University of Maryland (Francis Carey School of Law)
Some College Coursework Completed - Settlement Decisions and Impasse: Preventing Bad Settlements
Pepperdine University School of Law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution
Technical or Occupational Certificate - Civil Aviation
Federal Aviation Administration
Some College Coursework Completed - Conflict Resolution
Federal Leadership Institute
Coursework completed - Counternarcotic Analyst Course
US Defense Intelligence College
4 Years of College - Social Science
Troy State University
Technical or Occupational Certificate - Intelligence Analyst Course
US Intelligence Center and School