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- 1. Charles Wayne McCullough 205Saint Marys Parkway Fayetteville, NC 28303 Cell (785)477-7702 charles.w.mccullough@gmail.com LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-mccullough-5a086291 Security Clearance: Active NACLC SECRET granted February 2010 Availability: June 1, 2017 Summary: Army Veteran with over 24 years of aviation expertise across the U.S. Army at the strategic planning, operational execution, and tactical levels. In-depth experience with manned and unmanned aviation systems, program management, strategic planning, setting and achieving milestones. Highly experienced conducting one-on-one meetings with individual senior leaders on UAS lines of business and providing staffing solutions identified by a variety of UAS Executive Working Groups. Provides senior level briefings at the Army Command, Corps and Division level as well other stakeholder committees and organizations on the strategic plan. Manages my own travel schedule, task assignments, and strategic plan deliverables, and ensures that the final staffing solutions, Strategic Plan and Implementation Plan are accepted by the senior leaders and integrated into Forces Command Orders and/or Training Guidance. Additionally supports other day-to- day activities of the Aviation Division including acting as an Aviation Resource Management Survey (ARMS) Team Chief on TDY trips, managing Freedom of Information requests, facilitating records management, resource allocation, contractor performance, and coordination activities with Department of the Army down to Platoon level organizations. Provides Forces Command leadership with objective information for making decisions on the administrative and programmatic aspects of operations and management. Manages studies of Forces Command subordinate units organizational efficiency and productivity and recommends changes or improves in organization, staffing, work methods, and procedures. Experience: Unmanned Aircraft Systems Functional Area Lead Fort Bragg, NC Jul 2014 Present By name selected by Department of the Army as the Staff Advisor to the Forces Command Commanding General on all Unmanned Aircraft Systems issues which affect unit readiness resources to include equipment fielding, flying hours, manning shortcomings, deployment strategies, and newly acquired technologies. Managed the functional area and the resources allocated to Army UAS units. Communicated effectively so that everyone in the Aviation Branch understood the Commanders vision, mission, values, and plan. Ensured personnel understand how their work performance relates to that plan, and the results expected of them. Aviation Resource Management Team Chief for unmanned unit surveys. Coordinated resources to all Forces Command Gray Eagle Companies. Worked closely with Corps, Division, and Brigade elements to ensure successful deployment of 6 Gray Eagle Companies and numerous Shadow Platoons. Manager, Gray Eagle Standardization Training Officer Fort Riley, KS and FOB Shank, Afghanistan Sep 2012 Jul 2014 Exercised supervisory personnel management responsibilities. Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Monitored and evaluated all section activities to include standards and evaluations, qualification training and tactics, techniques, and procedures. Performed oversight in the following sections: Weapons and Tactics, Instruction of weapon system capabilities, Systems optimization for employment and integration in Combat operations. Operations Training: Ensured combat readiness and deployment of unmanned aircraft pilots/operators. Standardization/Evaluation: Evaluated unit compliance in gaining major command standards and directives. Operations Evaluations: Provided subject matter expertise to Division and Joint Forces during operational test, exercises, and development activities. Managed training which led to greater than 10,000 flown and over 30 weapons engagements while deployed.
- 2. Charles Wayne McCullough Page 2 Advised Division level leadership on combat techniques which reduced indirect fire events at FOB Shank by 50%. Supervised Imagery Analysis civilian contracts in the performance of their duties leading to over 5,000 post mission data products created and disseminated to units through eastern Afghanistan. Branch Chief, Army Aviation Night Vision Devices Branch , Fort Rucker, AL Mar 2010 Sep 2012 Served as Branch Chief and responsible for the supervision and management of a 10 person team employed at the United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence Aviation Night Vision Devices Branch. Develops and drafts Program of Instruction for academic instruction for Aviation Night Vision System-6 and thermal imagery equipment for 3,000 personnel annually. Developed regulations and other guidance, considered recommendations for the inclusion into the Aviation Resource Management Survey (ARMS) for Night Vision Devices. Briefed senior level leadership on Night Vision on new technologies available at the state and national level, solicited requirements to vendors to improve existing capabilities, and provided guidance to Aviation Standardization agencies throughout the Department of Defense. Incorporated thermal imaging as a topic of instruction. Authored Aviation Safety Action Message which reinforced the prohibition of blending Night Vision and Thermal Imaging equipment due to unsafe effects to AH-64 aircrews. Developed job descriptions used by hiring agencies to adequately staff the Branch to full capacity which enabled instruction to over 3,000 personnel annually. Middle Manager, Instructor Pilot, AH-64D Attack Helicopter Fort Stewart, Ga and FOB Speicher, Iraq Aug 2005 Mar 2010 Piloted the Worlds most technologically advanced Attack Helicopter on tactical/non-tactical assigned missions using advanced precision flight techniques in conjunction with air navigational aids. Administered combat flight training to military air crews. Assessed flight instructors, pilots and other air crew members assigned, attached or newly acquired to the unit to determine flying background and proficiency in the AH-64D Apache Longbow. Projected unit training requirements and prepared required training records. Maintained a thorough knowledge of aircraft systems and procedures under day/night, instrument, and emergency conditions to give timely and accurate instruction to air crews in the air or on the ground. Briefed and instructed preflight preparations including intelligence briefings, mission planning, weather factors, mission objectives, and other agency coordination to ensure safe flight procedures and effective mission accomplishment. Managed the Commanders Aircrew Training Program for Attack Helicopter Company. Trained Army Aviators in all phases of simulator and live flight Attack Helicopter Company operations and employment. Responsible for the mission success of hundreds of Attack Weapons Team missions. Conducted manned-unmanned teaming operations with Shadow Tactical UAS. Education: Bachelor of Science , General Studies, Columbia College, Columbia, MO FAA Rotary Wing Commercial Instrument Pilot Rating Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technician AH-64D Instructor Pilot, Aviation Master Gunner, Aviation Tactical Operations Air Traffic Control Tower Operator (CTO)