Loren K. Maxwell has over 15 years of experience in leadership, operations management, consulting, sales, and instruction. She holds an MBA and certifications in program management, logistics, and continuous process improvement. Maxwell has worked as a military officer, consultant, analyst, instructor, and director. She offers quantitative skills and experience developing complex models, agreements, and process improvement initiatives.
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Loren K. Maxwell Beavercreek, OH 45440 http://www.linkedin.com/in/lorenmaxwell
Military officer offering leadership & operations management experience plus recent consulting & sales experience.
MBA with Program Management and Life‐Cycle Logistics certifications & Greenbelt in Continuous Process Improvement.
Experienced in quantitative analysis and published in several forums, to include textbook & major daily newspaper.
Professional Experience
Aug 2010 – present Course Director and Instructor, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson AFB, OH
Develop and sustain three Masters‐level courses reaching 850+ students annually at a regionally accredited corporate university.
Present complex technical/managerial topics to diverse audiences using varied delivery methods including exercises/simulations
Author and deliver curriculum on Continuous Process Improvement concepts, including Lean, Six Sigma, and Theory of Constraints
Aug 2007 – present Sports Analyst and Guest Columnist, Atlanta Journal and Constitution and GHSF Daily
Provide quantitative analysis concentrating on various team sports to a top 40 newspaper reaching nearly 400,000 subscribers.
Develop models in C++ and Excel with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to calculate maximum likelihood point estimates utilizing
multivariate regression methods and Bayesian analysis and to perform discrete event forecasting and Monte Carlo simulations
Publish results and present useful explanations and interpretations of complex data for consumption by general audiences
Mar 2012 – Sep 2012 Foreign Military Sales Consultant, Office of Security Cooperation‐Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq
Oversaw government‐to‐government sales for 26 contracts valued at $2.8 billion for defense equipment, services, and training.
Performed capabilities‐based assessment for Iraqi Director General of Armament and Supply for national airlift capability
Authored numerous technical government‐to‐government agreements for U.S. and Iraqi officials, including Iraqi Prime Minister
Developed and executed 3‐year recovery plan to improve ailing military airlift capability addressing training, logistics, and facilities
Nov 2005 – Aug 2010 Director of Operations, Aviano AB, Italy and Al Dhafra AB, United Arab Emirates
Led production at various levels, including 650 personnel with 12 direct reports and assets/equipment/facilitates valued at $3.4 billion.
Facilitated large‐scale Lean initiative to reorganize 450 person unit; absorbed 11% manpower cut with no degradation in capability
Reflowed aircraft parking plan at deployed location; increased aircraft parking capacity from 25 to 30 while simultaneously
increasing safety distance margins and eliminating 10,000 man‐hours annually in excess ground‐handling during daily operations
May 2003 – Nov 2005 Chief of Logistics, Global Hawk System Program Office, Wright Patterson AFB, OH
Led multidisciplinary, matrixed teams of civilian and military personnel; managed vendor performance on $1.79 billion effort.
Identified $20 million in logistics shortfalls as key logistics member of chartered team to uncover unfunded support requirements
Developed targeted Logistics Support Analysis; fault‐detection time reduced by 88% while boosting accuracy to 95%
Education
Masters in Business Administration, University of Cincinnati
3.7 GPA at AACSB‐certified, US News and World Report Top 75 business school
Capstone: “DreamWorks Animation SKG Distribution: Review and Recommendation”, reviewed and favorably received by
company executive and referred to Chief Executive Officer during negotiation period with several major studios
Bachelor of Science in Workforce Education, Southern Illinois University
4.0 GPA, Summa cum Laude and class leader of 30‐person cohort group
Internship: Researched and wrote drafts for nine of eleven chapters of Security Investigations: A Professional's Guide, a textbook
used nationally in corporate universities focused on delivering instruction in corporate security
Certifications
Program Management and Life‐Cycle Logistics, Department of Defense Acquisition Professional Development Program
Green Belt in Continuous Process Improvement (Lean Six Sigma), United States Air Force