Richard M. Sierra
Menifee, Ca, 92284 Cell:
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SUMMARY
Results-oriented, combat experienced, middle management leader focused on harnessing and maximizing the potential of a team by mentoring and managing their talent to achieve desired outcomes. Extensive military experience as an enlisted Marine and Marine Corps Officer. Committed to ideals of consistency in performance, sustainment of momentum, and humility in conduct. Exceptional interpersonal communication skills and dynamic personality.
HIGHLIGHTS
Efficient Task Management
Process Improvement
Leadership by Example
Resourceful and Driven
Strong Interpersonal Skills
Willingness to Embrace Change
Lifelong Learner
Talent Recruiter
Talent Manager
Analysis &Production
Detailed Problem Solving
Investigation Skills
EXPERIENCE
Intelligence-Information-Operations Integration Support Specialist, Tactical Training Exercise Control Group, MCB 29 Palms 7/1/2023 Present GS-12, Step 2 full-time, Flex 80 position.
Led efforts to improve training curriculum for clients to meet current and emergent threats in accordance with guidance from service leadership.
Develop relationships with external agencies to support mission and exercise objectives.
Coordinate with other services to leverage information operations capabilities in direct support of Service Level Training Exercises.
Serve as primary agent for information operations contractor support for exercise control group.
Serve as government technical manager for all specialized contracting services for the exercise control group totaling 2.5 million dollars.
Key action officer to support intelligence-information operations integration into existing and future exercise design.
Service Technical Consultant, Constellation Technologies, Inc., Maryland 5/1/2023 7/1/2023 Full-time, 40 hr work week, Contractor support at 95 USD per hour.
Provide subject matter expertise on Intelligence operations and operations in the electromagnetic spectrum for clients.
Plan, organize and direct appropriate information related effects to support client vision for success.
Led efforts to improve training curriculum for clients to meet current and emergent threats in accordance with guidance from service leadership.
Maintain Top Secret/Special Compartmented Information clearance.
Assistant Operations Officer/Recruit Training Regiment MCRD SD 6/29/2021 5/1/2023
Lieutenant-Colonel (O-5 position), filled as a Major (O-4).
Lead, mentor, direct and supervise the training and employment of a section comprised of 9 Senior Enlisted Marines and Company Grade officers in the development and execution of recruit training.
Inform and advise key leaders within the unit on training status of ~4500 recruit population as well as maintain readiness of permanent personnel.
Serve as mentor and advocate for 40 company grade officers.
Led efforts to improve training curriculum to meet current and emergent threats in accordance with guidance from service leadership.
Led efforts to fully integrate entry-level training for males and females at MCRD San Diego.
Led efforts to ensure MCRD San Diego was fully compliant to accept and train transgender applicants.
Regiment Intelligence Officer/Intelligence Tactics Instructor 6/15/2019 6/28/2021 7th Marine Regiment 29 Palms, CA Major (O-4) principle staff officer for an O-6 level command.
Lead, mentor, direct and supervise the training and employment of a section comprised of 15 Marines in the intelligence warfighting function to support the unit in the full spectrum of conflict in peacetime and war.
Inform and advise key leaders within the unit on current and emergent intelligence capability and policy to support operations and planning.
Successfully integrated multi-domain full spectrum intelligence support to the regiment, resulting in unprecedented victories over a numerically superior and technologically advanced adversary during service level training exercises.
Successfully integrated national intelligence assets to support regiment missions.
Serve as mentor and advocate for 20 front-line intelligence officers/managers Serve as Senior Intelligence Officer and adviser for 7 th Marine Regiment Military Occupation Field Specialist- Marine Corps Intelligence Officers 6/28/2016-06/15/2019 Headquarters Marine Corps- Intelligence Department Arlington, VA
Responsible for manpower and training policy management for intelligence officer population within the Marine Corps, ~350 Marine Officers and ~5000 Marine Enlisted.
Inform key components of the service on current and emergent intelligence capability and policy to develop future warfighting concepts.
Represent Director for Intelligence Department at functions and conferences to discuss current and emergent intelligence capability the service can provide to the joint force.
Assist operating forces and Marine Corps Manpower Assignment in coordinating personnel assignments of Officers in support of unit requirements, and to better facilitate intelligence support.
Drafted and advocated for the creation of a new tactical level intelligence cell for the ground combat element, creating new structure and material requirements for the service, both of which were validated, staffed, and funded.
Company Commander/ Battalion Intelligence Officer 08/21/2013- 06/27/2016
Division Intelligence Operations Officer
3d Reconnaissance Battalion/3d Marine Division Okinawa, Japan
Lead, mentor, direct and supervise the training and employment of a company comprised of 150 Marines and Sailors, with various military occupation specialties, across the warfighting functions and the full spectrum of conflict in peacetime and war.
Accounted for and managed a consolidated inventory totaling $2,122,065 USD.
Train, mentor, and supervise a diverse intelligence section of 9 Marines comprised of all-source, geospatial, and counterintelligence/Human Intelligence specialists.
Train, mentor, and supervised a 39 Marine section assigned to the Division G2 to provide analysis, production, dissemination of intelligence products to the 3d Marine Division Commanding General.
Tasked to participate and support the service force modernization project and experimentation process.
Signals Intelligence Officer/Detachment Commander 07/01/2010-08/20/2013 2d Radio Battalion Camp Lejeune, NC
Lead, train, mentor and supervise 74 Marines of various ranks and military occupation specialties, and 49 civilians assigned to support forces in Helmand Province, Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom 13.1.
Served as the senior signals intelligence officer for Regional Command-Southwest; the direct liaison for the commander to NSA/CSS leadership and adjacent SIGINT units.
Support Special Operations and other government agencies in the discovery and prosecution of 43 targets on the Joint Prioritized Effects List.
Coordinated with national agencies to implement joint training and operational employment concepts that support national-to-tactical integration.
Accounted for and managed a consolidated inventory totaling $11 million USD.
Other Military Experiences available upon request.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Masters of Arts- History 2016
Norwich University Northfield, VT
Bachelor of Arts- History 2008 University of California Los Angeles, CA
Military Training- Available upon request
References
Available Upon Request