About Me
- Quick Stats
- Looking For
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5-10 yrs experience job
- Current Organization
- Navistar Defense
- Current Location
- Afghanistan
- Status
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High School
College
Between Terms/Jobs
- Hometown
- Puyallup
- About me
- Results-oriented, motivated professional with proven capacity to lead staff and support complex operations, leveraging wide-ranging administrative, leadership, and professional skills to meet evolving priorities.
- Contact Information
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- Cell phone
- 253-548-7511
- City / Town
- Puyallup
- Address
- Spanaway, WA 98387
- Education
- High School
- Brookland-Cayce
- HS Graduation Year
- 1983
- College / University
- Capella University
- Degree & Major
- Homeland Security
- Graduation Year
- 2015
- Other Training
- EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS BS Degree in Homeland Security, In Progress • CAPELLA UNIVERSITY, Minneapolis, MN Coursework in Law Enforcement and Automotive • CENTRAL TEXAS COLLEGE, Killeen, Texas Security Clearance: Secret | Licensure: Class A Commercial Driver’s License | Language Skills: German Certification: Six Sigma • Safety Officer • HAZ-MAT Level I & II • Instructor / Trainer • ASE Certification – Medium/Heavy Duty Diesel Training & Development: Navistar Defense Training, Field Service Representative Qualification • Army Instructor Training & Qualification • First Sergeant’s Course – Honor Graduate • Advanced Leadership Academy – Honor Graduate • Special Forces Advanced Training – CAG / 1st SFOD-DELTA (ABN) Selected Honors: Defense of Freedom Medal nominee • TECOM Award for Military Training Excellence SELECTED TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY Tactical Management: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including comfort interfacing with Directors and VPs * Ability to develop and implement department goals and strategies based on broader organization goals * Strong analytical skills with demonstrated problem solving ability * Windows 7, Vista, XP * Microsoft Office 2010, 2007, 2003 * Adobe SELECTED TACTICAL PROFICIENCY Expertise in Tactical Vehicles: including Heavy Military Track / Wheeled Vehicles; M998 HMMWV; M1098 LMTV; M923 5-TON Truck; M113A2 & M113A3 Personnel Carrier; M88A1 Medium Recovery Vehicle; M88A2 Hercules Heavy Recovery Vehicle; M1, M1A1 & M1A2 Main Battle Tank, STRYKER & MRAP Family; Weapons Expertise: includes Qualified Marksman & Instructor in Machine Gun, Rifle, Pistol.
- Experience
- Company
- PKMM
- Position
- Network Installation Manager
- When
- 2007 to 2008
- Overview
- Provided excellent network analyst and implementation of C-RAM (Counter-Rocket/Artillery/Mortar) systems for US DoD missions in Iraq. Team Lead for C-NET (CRAM-Network) installations and transitions to Cisco devices 3845, 3750 stacks, 2960G, 2950, and ASA Firewalls. Professionally installed, networked, and incorporated radar, motion sensor input, RF signals, and wireless communications to offer counter air defense to hostile fire producing precise Point-of-Origin and Point-of-Impact trajectories. CNET cutover included VLANS with access ports, Gigabit Ethernet trunk ports, fiber optic trunk links, RSTP (802.1w) protocol for faster convergence of new network topologies, creation of network addressing schemes, and inter-FOB connectivity via OSPF routing protocol. Other technologies and devices used for mission included Motorola PTP 600 series point-to-point 5.8 GHz Ethernet bridge radios, Army tactical C2 FAAD Systems, WAVES alert systems, AMDWS, Audio & Video Encryption devices, LPWS Phalanx systems, NTP servers, and Inter-mapper monitoring servers for network integrity per FOB.
- Company
- General Dynamics
- Position
- Technical Trainer / Technician
- When
- 2006 to 2007
- Overview
- Provided technical instruction in a wide array of US military defense platforms for classes of military and civilian professionals, including the ABRAMS family of main battle tanks, STRYKER variants such as Infantry Carrying Vehicle (ICV), Command Vehicle (CV), Medical Evacuation Vehicle (MEV), Reconnaissance Vehicle (RV), Mobile Gun System (MGS), Mortar Carrier (MC), Engineer Support Vehicle (ESV), NBC Recon Vehicle (NBCRV), and Anti-Tank Guided Missile (ATGM) Vehicle. Completed instructor / training qualification and certification at the intensive Army Instructor Training Course in Fort Benning, Georgia; trained classes of up to 60 personnel and played an instrumental role in training and qualifying the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team for deployment to Iraq.
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Randy Thackston
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