COMMANDER SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, AND JOB REQUIREMENTS

Updated: Dec 08, 2024 - The Commander adeptly supports senior military and civilian leadership at the Combatant Command level and beyond, engaging effectively with Joint, non-DoD, and international entities. Possessing a TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph, this role includes drafting critical documents like executive summaries and speeches, ensuring thorough preparation for high-level meetings. The individual excels in a high-stakes environment, demonstrating outstanding organizational, analytical, and communication skills to streamline complex processes.

Essential Hard and Soft Skills for a Standout Commander Resume
  • Strategic Planning
  • Operational Analysis
  • Security Protocols
  • Tactical Communication
  • Weapons Proficiency
  • Emergency Response
  • Logistics Management
  • Technical Surveillance
  • Defense Technology
  • Intelligence Gathering
  • Leadership
  • Decision Making
  • Adaptability
  • Team Building
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Communication
  • Stress Management
  • Problem Solving
  • Situational Awareness
  • Integrity

Summary of Commander Knowledge and Qualifications on Resume

1. BS in Military Science with 7 years of Experience

  • Professional experience in IT Operations/Incident Management
  • ITIL Certified or equivalent
  • Proficiency with ITSM tools like Service Now, Pager Duty, ITIL, IT Operations and Incident Management
  • Confidence and presence to interact with executives and cross-team stakeholders
  • Ability to persuade and influence teams to drive solutions to business-critical issues
  • Exposure to handling and engaging vendors and vendor management
  • Exposure to incident management process for cloud-hosted applications environment on Azure and Oracle
  • Excellent verbal and written communication and the ability to work well with business and technical teams
  • Event response experience with one or more – New Relic, Nagios, Splunk, Grafana, Datadog
  • Strength in building partnerships, working collaboratively with a variety of skills and levels
  • Proven ability to prioritize, multi-task, and adapt to changing requirements and direction
  • Technically literate and able to articulate technical issues in a meaningful way to both engineers and executive-level management.
  • Have a good understanding of eCom retail architecture design and platforms hosted with Cloud Service Providers such as MSFT, Oracle, Google, etc.

2. BA in Leadership Studies with 12 years of Experience

  • Hands-on experience with a focus on areas such as systems, networks, or information security/cybersecurity
  • Experience leading/handling the response to major cybersecurity incidents and a thorough knowledge of all phases of the cybersecurity incident response lifecycle including preparation, analysis, notification, response, recovery, and post-mortem
  • Ability to conduct cybersecurity investigations, analyze and distill relevant findings and determine the root cause
  • Strong understanding of logging events/SIEM and broad understanding of security technologies (e.g. Full Packet Capture, Firewalls/NGFW, IDS/IPS, EDR, DLP, UEBA, etc.)
  • Strong technical experience and familiarity with various types/techniques of cyber-attacks, and with incident response and threat-hunting lifecycles
  • Industry-recognized certification(s) are a plus (e.g. CISSP, SANS, Security+, etc.)
  • Knowledge of Federal compliance requirements and frameworks, including DFARS 252.204-7012, ITAR NIST 800-171, and/or CMMC Level 3 is helpful
  • Experience managing ransomware incidents is a plus
  • Strong technical, written, analytical and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to manage multiple activities at one time in a high-pressure environment
  • Strong problem-solving/analytical skills and strength in driving business outcomes and results

3. BS in Security Management with 15 years of Experience

  • Experience in working directly with senior leaders at the Combatant Command level and higher
  • Experience supporting DoD operations, strategy, policy analysis, and planning with Service, Joint, non-DoD (Inter-Agency) organizations, or foreign nations
  • Experience with working in Military service or Joint staff, including supporting senior military personnel and civilians
  • Knowledge of Military processes and methodologies
  • TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
  • Experience with writing speeches and talking points for senior military leaders
  • Experience in working with and writing for Combatant Command senior leaders
  • Experience with working at, and coordinating throughout, the major headquarters staff level
  • Experience with drafting and editing executive summaries, information papers, and other papers on key topics to prepare senior leaders for senior DoD, Inter-Agency, and international meetings
  • Ability to pay strict attention to detail
  • Possession of excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills
  • Possession of excellent oral and written communication skills

4. BS in Emergency Management with 10 years of Experience

  • Strong technical communication skills (oral and written) and customer demeanor, including experience briefing executive management
  • A desire to work with customers to solve complex cybersecurity events and crises
  • Strong understanding of cyber threat actor intrusion techniques 
  • Ability to create customized strategic and tactical remediation plans for compromised organizations
  • Experience in cybersecurity operations or incident response
  • Relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and work experience
  • Technical or professional certifications such as CISSP, CISA, CISM, or GCFE
  • Experience mentoring and leading teams of technical staff
  • Former CISO or senior security leader in a business
  • Experience managing military cyber defense capabilities
  • Experience managing and conducting cyber incident response investigations for nation-state threat actors, organized cybercrime, and hacktivists
  • Proven track record in developing/cultivating IR business and customer relationships
  • International data privacy and cybersecurity control regulatory framework knowledge and experience

5. BA in International Relations with 5 years of Experience

  • Experience in an Incident Response role providing Customer Support, Management, or a similar function or role.
  • Ability to ensure customer escalations are resolved within agreed-upon timelines and SLAs
  • Effectively operate with high energy and flexibility in a fast-paced, constantly evolving team environment
  • Ability to develop collaborative relationships with customers, partners, and developers across the business at all levels
  • Demonstrate strong interpersonal and communication skills while working with diverse audiences including highly technical IT professionals, developers, and architects
  • Experience managing relationships with peers and managers as it relates to support and services
  • Ability to navigate complex collaborative cross-functional solutions
  • Ability to assess the severity and priority of multiple incoming inquiries from management, customers, and internal employees
  • Proven ability to work well cross-functionally at various levels up through executives, influence, manage without direct authority, and align communications strategies and outcomes accordingly
  • Have incident Commander understanding/experience and demonstrated capacity to lead under pressure
  • Ability to make decisions in ambiguous situations, and drive cross-group consensus in short periods
  • Ability to identify problem identification and resolution through judgment and decision-making competencies.

6. BS in Criminal Justice with 5 years of Experience

  • Experience in a Security Operations Center, Security Communications Center, security/alarm monitoring center, or other closely related operation
  • Ability to prioritize workload based on urgency
  • Able to delegate tasks, and communicate to a range of audiences including executive management
  • Demonstrated analytic and critical thinking skills
  • Demonstrated ability to ensure compliance, monitoring of assets, and making rapid notifications via mass communication tools
  • Demonstration of strong computer skills (hardware, software & network operations) with the ability to communicate effectively with IT and Security Systems professionals
  • Proficient computer skills including Microsoft Office
  • Effective oral and written communication skills
  • Active listening skills and attention to detail
  • Ability to assess and evaluate situations effectively
  • Ability to identify critical issues quickly and accurately
  • Experience in a Security Ope

7. BA in Homeland Security with 8 years of Experience

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 
  • Can communicate appropriately with customers at both technical and C Levels.
  • Ability to size up a situation, assess the effectiveness of various tactics/strategies, and make rapid decisions on appropriate courses of action
  • Has flexibility, and can listen to expert feedback, modifying plans on the fly
  • Has been involved in multiple high-severity, high-priority incident responses, either as a spectator or as an active participant
  • Understand the lifecycle of an incident and how to discover contributing factors from a Post Incident Review
  • Has gravitas, takes command, and is willing to kick people off a call to remove distractions, even if it's the CEO
  • High-level knowledge of how the different Twilio services interact with each other
  • Certification(s) in Incident Management (CEIM), Security Incident Management (CSIRT), program management/project management, Six Sigma, Scrum, or similar
  • Experience working independently, without substantial direction, and in a team setting to identify, develop, and execute sound solutions for highly complex security and sensitive issues.
  • Demonstrated strong verbal and written communication skills 

8. BA in Political Science with 7 years of Experience

  • Ability to secure and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance which requires U.S. citizenship.
  • Related experience with an armed protective force, traffic, strategies
  • Security emergency response
  • Experience and skills using lethal and non-lethal weapons and weaponless defense.
  • Ability to complete all DOE requirements including an 8-week basic academy, obtaining and maintaining medical certification
  • Physical fitness, firearms, and training requirements as outlined in 10 CFR 1046 and DOE orders.
  • Demonstrated analytical skills and extensive knowledge
  • In-depth understanding and experience applying government regulations, security procedures, State law and vehicle codes
  • Thorough working knowledge of all security disciplines, including the protection strategy, various security conditions and related implementing actions, compensatory measures, physical security systems, traffic safety, access control, alarm functions, emergency response plans and rules
  • Ability to develop and execute security policy and guidance.
  • Experience leading, managing, and coordinating a variety of security-related activities
  • Have strong, decision-making skills

9. BS in Public Administration with 9 years of Experience

  • Strong organizational skills to independently manage competing priorities and complete multiple projects/assignments.
  • Demonstrated strong verbal and written communication skills with
  • Ability to direct, negotiate, influence, and coordinate with all levels of management and local law enforcement agencies
  • Experience developing and writing policies, procedures, reports, implementation plans, and correspondence.
  • Demonstrated interpersonal skills and experience interacting with a wide spectrum of personnel, exercising a high degree of mature judgment, discretion, and tact in handling issues of a sensitive and confidential nature.
  • Strong computer skills and proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite applications
  • Learning ability to use available technology (portable radios, smartphones, tablets, video monitoring systems, etc.).
  • Knowledge of LLNL’s mission and program goals.
  • Experience leading and/or supervising an armed DOE protective force.
  • Knowledge, understanding, and experience applying DOE Orders and the 10 CFR.

10. BA in History with 7 years of Experience

  • Experience in Managing Major Incidents, providing leadership to resolution and clear communication throughout
  • Working knowledge of ITIL incident, problem, and change management components
  • Ability to coordinate technical, incident, and supplier side teams to ensure that all incidents are accurately prioritized and effectively managed
  • Experience to identify early indications of major incidents not progressing well and get things back on track
  • Ability to determine precise customer impacts on incidents through analysis of CS, social, error codes, and playback failures
  • Experience with monitoring tools
  • Knowledge of KPIs that indicate performance and customer experience (eg re-buffering, video playback failures, video-start failures, capacity monitoring)
  • Operations experience in a 24x7, x365 support model
  • Knowledge of ticketing system – Service Now or JIRA
  • Working knowledge of physical IT infrastructures such as Enterprise Server Platforms and related IT architectures and equipment, specifically around cloud-based environments and distributed system

11. BS in Naval Science with 5 years of Experience

  • Experience in security or law enforcement operations experience in the armed forces, security, police
  • Specialized experience directly related to the work performed in physical security or law enforcement.
  • Must be able to meet and maintain NASA Physical Certifications.
  • Must be able to successfully pass all required Psychological examinations.
  • Must be able to meet drug testing and alcohol-free workforce requirements to include random drug and/or alcohol testing.
  • Must be able to pass and maintain NASA Federal Arrest Authority (FAA) certification.
  • Have no record or history of illegal drug use, sale, possession, or manufacture.
  • Have no felony convictions and no convictions that reflect on the individual’s reliability including those crimes classified
  • Must be able to maintain and qualify periodically on a course of fire with handgun, or other special weapons.
  • Must be able to meet the National Incident Management System (NIMS) requirements
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