WENDY BELTRAN DEL RIO
Helotes
Summary
Accomplished strategic leader and E-9 Chief Master Sergeant with 30 years of extensive military service, seeking to leverage proven executive leadership, project management, and risk mitigation skills to seamlessly transition back to the Environmental Engineer IV role at Northrop Grumman. Proven success as a Commander’s principal advisor, managing multi-million-dollar assets and budgets, leading large teams through complex operational environments, and ensuring enterprise-wide compliance with federal and state regulations. Expertise includes technical training program management, large-scale data migration for EHS information systems (DOEHRS, EESOH-MIS), process improvement, and cross-functional team leadership.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
MEDICAL GROUP SUPERINTENDENT (E-9, Chief Master Sergeant)
ANG
01.2020 - Current
- Commander’s principal advisor and senior enlisted leader for a large Medical Group, ensuring a fully trained, equipped, and operationally ready force.
- Strategic Leadership: Acted as interim Command Chief Master Sergeant during a leadership transition/COVID operations, advising the Wing Vice Commander and ensuring discipline, morale, and well-being for >1,100 personnel.
- Operational Excellence: Drove a cultural shift in required medical training metrics (CMRP), elevating the Group from 86th to 2nd among 89 ANG Medical Units nationwide.
- Budget & Resource Management: Achieved a 99% execution rate of the group's $308K budget and directed over $150K in O&M monies, enhancing response force capabilities.
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER IV
Northrop Grumman
01.2005 - Current
- Senior Lead Trainer and Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Defense Occupational and Environmental Health Readiness System (DOEHRS) and Enterprise Environmental, Safety, and Occupational Health - Management Information System (EESOH-MIS).
- Curriculum Development & Training: Developed, continuously reviewed, and updated over 400 pages of course curriculum and scenario packages for DOEHRS 40-hour certification courses.
- Technical Instruction: Conducted 40-hour certification courses for industrial hygienists from over 85 Army and 15 Air Force installations on using DOEHRS for occupational exposure and environmental monitoring data collection and analysis.
- Data Migration & Analysis (EHS Systems): Served as SME assisting Air Force installations with migrating legacy data (CCS and EMIS) to modernized systems (DOEHRS and EESOH-MIS) using Microsoft Access database tools. Analyzed data for accuracy, conducted cleanup, troubleshooting, and wrote software test cases for alpha testing.
- Quality Control & Reporting: Reviewed and validated student course critiques, analyzing scores and reporting metrics to the Defense Health Services Systems (DHSS) and military Service Level Representatives (SLR).
HEALTH SERVICES MANAGEMENT SUPERINTENDENT
ANG
01.2017 - 01.2020
- Managed and oversaw full-time staff responsibilities, including medical records management, customer service, and Commander’s Support Staff functions.
- Process Improvement: Revamped a broken Wing Line of Duty (LOD) program, increasing compliance statistics from 0% to 100%, restoring Wing resources and readiness.
- Disaster Response: Coordinated the Hurricane Harvey response, deploying emergency medical capability that treated >300 patients.
- Evaluation Success: Led a team of 47 personnel during a 2017 Operational Readiness Exercise (EXEVAL); the TX EMEDS-CM unit was validated as best in the nation with zero findings.
MEDICAL OPERATIONS & BIOENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SUPERINTENDENT
ANG
01.2008 - 01.2017
- Managed Joint Task Force Homeland Response Force expeditionary medical operations and engaged with inter-agency sister services, state, and federal responders.
- Logistics/Airlift Coordination: Coordinated the 1st ever JTF CERFP airlift capability, saving 940 man-hours and making the unit one of only two of twenty-seven national CERFPs with airlift capability.
- Readiness Transformation: Transformed the HRF respiratory program, increasing JTF readiness from 38% to 100% compliant; recognized as a National Guard Bureau (NGB) best practice.
- Training & Cost Savings: Directed 3 joint CBRN training events, coordinating no-cost training with national Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) that saved the ANG $450K+.
- Asset Management: Expertly managed $1.9M in Homeland Defense (HLD) / CBRNE assets for 840 items, boosting CERFP HLD mission capabilities by 97%.
Education
Bachelor of Arts and Applied Science -
Texas State University
01.2009
Associate of Applied Science - Bioenvironmental Engineering
Community College of the Air Force (CCAF)
01.2007
Skills
- Strategic Leadership
- Technical Training & Curriculum Dev
- Risk Management
- Data Migration & Analysis
- Compliance & Auditing
- Program Management
- Subject Matter Expertise (SME)
- Budget Management ($19M)
- Disaster Response
- Relationship building and management
- Project coordination
- Project management
- Quality assurance
- Strategic planning
- Key decision making
- Leadership development
- Continuous improvement
- Recruitment and hiring
- Community engagement
- Risk management
- Performance improvements
Accomplishments
Drove a cultural shift in required medical training metrics (CMRP), elevating the Group from 86th to 2nd among 89 ANG Medical Units nationwide. Achieved a 99% execution rate of the group's $308K budget and directed over $150K in O&M monies, enhancing response force capabilities. Revamped a broken Wing Line of Duty (LOD) program, increasing compliance statistics from 0% to 100%, restoring Wing resources and readiness.
Military Leadership Education
- ANG Chief Master Sergeant Orientation Course, 2023
- Senior Enlisted Joint Professional Military Education I & II, 2021
- Senior Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) Academy, 2016
- NCO Academy, 2013
Timeline
MEDICAL GROUP SUPERINTENDENT (E-9, Chief Master Sergeant)
ANG
01.2020 - Current
HEALTH SERVICES MANAGEMENT SUPERINTENDENT
ANG
01.2017 - 01.2020
MEDICAL OPERATIONS & BIOENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SUPERINTENDENT
ANG
01.2008 - 01.2017
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER IV
Northrop Grumman
01.2005 - Current
Associate of Applied Science - Bioenvironmental Engineering
Community College of the Air Force (CCAF)
Bachelor of Arts and Applied Science -
Texas State University