Travis Carlile
Kingsland ,TX
Summary
Licensed Vocational Nurse and Army Noncommissioned Officer with a unique background spanning Level I trauma emergency medicine, urgent care operations, family medicine, and multispecialty clinical practice. Experienced in high-acuity patient care, rapid assessment, clinical procedures, patient education, and interdisciplinary coordination. Proven leader with 14 years of military service, three combat deployments, Special Operations experience, and a demonstrated ability to lead teams and make sound decisions in complex, high-pressure environments. Adaptable, mission-driven clinician recognized for clinical excellence, leadership, and the ability to integrate quickly into diverse healthcare settings while delivering safe, efficient, patient-centered care.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Licensed Practical Nurse
Baylor Scott & White
Kingsland, Texas
10.2025 - Current
- Currently serve as a full-time float LVN across Family Medicine and multiple specialty clinics, rapidly integrating into different clinical teams, workflows, and patient populations while maintaining safe, efficient, patient-centered care.
- Provide nursing support across diverse outpatient specialties, including Gastroenterology, Pain Management, Ophthalmology, and Primary Care, with experience in procedure support, patient education, medication administration, clinical assessment, documentation, and care coordination.
- Directed operations at an Army urgent care clinic, ensuring support for approximately 2,500 service members from various branches of the Armed Forces while overseeing clinical operations, personnel coordination, patient flow, readiness, and continuity of care in a fast-paced environment.
- Provided direct patient care in a Level I Trauma Center Emergency Department, supporting rapid assessment, stabilization, treatment, and disposition of patients across a broad range of acuity levels, including medical emergencies and traumatic injuries.
- Recognized for the ability to adapt quickly to unfamiliar clinical environments, anticipate provider and team needs, and function effectively with limited supervision while remaining within nursing scope of practice.
- Bring a combined background in civilian emergency medicine, ambulatory specialty care, primary care, and military operational medicine, with demonstrated leadership in both clinical and austere/high-tempo settings.
- Coordinated a joint-service medical training operation that delivered live-tissue trauma training to approximately 240 personnel within 48 hours, synchronizing personnel, resources, clinical support, and operational requirements.
Forward Observer
Army
, TX
02.2013 - 12.2023
- Combat veteran with 2 combat deployments and extensive experience leading personnel and coordinating operations in high-risk, resource-constrained environments.
- Led a dismounted team, completing approximately 197 combat patrols with zero friendly personnel killed in action, while maintaining personnel accountability, mission planning, risk management, communications, and tactical decision-making.
- Selected to serve alongside Polish Special Operations Forces, operating as an embedded U.S. liaison and breacher during multinational operations in Eastern Europe.
- Assisted with evacuation of civilians during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, coordinating efforts across Polish, Danish, and other allied elements in rapidly evolving a rapidly evolving operational environment.
- Functioned as a Senior Joint Fires Observer (JFO), integrating ground and aviation assets and coordinating complex joint and multinational operations.
- Trained, mentored, and evaluated approximately 350 Joint Fires Observers from U.S. and allied forces, including personnel from Poland, Lithuania, and Spain, ensuring competency in demanding operational and technical requirements.
- Planned and executed operations requiring coordination across multiple military branches, foreign partner forces, aviation assets, medical elements, and senior leadership, frequently operating with significant autonomy and limited resources.
- Developed extensive experience in team leadership, personnel development, operational planning, crisis response, risk mitigation, cross-cultural communication, and decision-making under pressure.
- Leveraged over a decade of military leadership experience in operational roles to transition into Army medicine as a 68C Practical Nursing Specialist. Integrating clinical expertise with operational acumen.
Education
High School Diploma -
United States Army Enlisted Nursing Program
San Antonio, TX08-2025
Skills
- Direct patient care
- Patient assessment
- Patient assessments
- IV Therapy
- Vital signs monitoring
- EKG administration
- Wound care
- Documentation accuracy
- Emergency response
- Outpatient care
- Infection control
- Multitasking and prioritization
- Time management
- Family communication
- Patient advocacy
Timeline
Licensed Practical Nurse
Baylor Scott & White
10.2025 - Current
Forward Observer
Army
02.2013 - 12.2023
High School Diploma -
United States Army Enlisted Nursing Program