Stephen Coker

Experience

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  US Navy

  Apr 1989 - Feb 1993

  Division Officer, USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)

  Served in a variety of division officer billets, including Wardroom Officer, Disbursing Officer, Assistant Aviation Stores Officer, and Supply Quality Assurance Officer.

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  US Navy

  Apr 1993 - Mar 1999

  Department Head for the Supply Department, managing an inventory of over 7,000 line items of ship repair parts, financial management of an annual $1.5M shipboard operating budget, and directing food service operations, retail operations, and disbursing.- Led the department to its first logistics management excellence award in four years. Responsible for aviation spares inventory management and financial management of aviation related operating budget. Responsible for aviation spares inventory management and financial management of aviation related operating budget.

  • Supply Officer, USS WADSWORTH (FFG 9)

    Oct 1996 - Mar 1999

  • Aviation Stores Officer, USS GUAM (LPH 9)

    Apr 1995 - Oct 1996

  • Material Control Officer, Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron FOURTEEN (HM-14)

    Apr 1993 - Apr 1995
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  Rainbird

  Mar 1999 - Mar 2001

  Senior Buyer/Planner

  Senior Buyer/Planner for T.H. Molding, a plastics injection molding company wholly owned and operated by the Rainbird Sprinkler company. Responsible for planning production for 36 injection molding machines, entering sales and delivery orders and purchasing required supplies and materials.

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  US Navy Reserve

  Jul 1999 - Apr 2005

  Responsible for the planning and execution of operations, training and administration of a Navy Cargo Handling Company comprised of 2 Officers and 33 Enlisted personnel. While assigned, qualified as watch officer, debark officer and earned NOBC 1215 (Cargo Handling Officer). Completed Cargo Handling Supervisor's Course, Command and Control Course, Naval Safety Supervisor's Course and Defense Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT) Waste Handling Course.- Drove increased battalion readiness in core mission areas -- led ship evolutions aboard USNS Pollux resulting in the PQS qualifications of over 70 Battalion personnel in all aspects of cargo operations, from Ship's Supervisor to Basic Stevedore. Qualified 60 battalion personnel in crane/winch operations, tripling the battalion's capabilities in this mission critical area. Show less

  • Commanding Officer, NSA Bahrain Reserve Det F

    Oct 2004 - Apr 2005

  • Company Commander, Navy Cargo Handling Battalion THIRTEEN

    Nov 2001 - Sept 2004

  • Logistics Officer, Commander Naval Forces Korea, Reserve Detachment

    Jul 1999 - Oct 2001
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  Baker Hughes

  Apr 2001 - Jul 2007

  Organized, planned and directed repair & maintenance cost analysis for all North American operations, internal controls, general ledger maintenance and direct supervision of accounting staff. - Created customized training materials to instruct maintenance, procurement and finance personnel on the use of SAP software in a re-manufacturing environment. Managed inventory levels, placed purchase orders, resolved invoicing discrepancies and supported maintenance staff with enterprise IT data entry at the Baker Hughes - Inteq Western Hemisphere Maintenance Facility.

  • Finance Manager

    Aug 2006 - Jul 2007

  • Senior Buyer / Planner

    Apr 2001 - Aug 2006
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  Naval Reserve VTU 1003

  May 2005 - Dec 2006

  Drilling Reservist

  Served as a drilling rservist in volunteer training unit at the Naval Operational Support Activity in Baton Rouge, LA. During this time, I provided mentoring to junior officers in the NSA Bahrain Reserve Detachment, for which I had previously served as Commanding Officer.

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  US Navy Reserve

  Jan 2007 - Jul 2007

  Operations Officer, Reserve Det, Fleet Forces Command

  Served as Department Head (Operations Officer) for USFFC Reserve Detachment, training for Joint Task Force support operations in Djibouti, Africa.

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  US Navy

  Aug 2007 - Apr 2017

  As a financial manager in the Chief of Naval Operations N96 Surface Warfare Directorate, my responsibilities include:• Developing proposals for POM development• Preparing both narrative and data driven justifications and presentations to support acquisition budget estimates and execution analysis• Maintaining day-to-day contact with Navy senior military staff members to identify emergent issues• Providing technical advice on identifying and presenting options to support complex decisions • Using various statistical and trend concepts to provide analysis for decision making Show less Directs contracting and external procurement activities in support of the Naval Intelligence enterprise. Processes and coordinates $100M+ in annual procurement actions, manages a government purchase card program with over 90 cardholders, and directly manages, as a second level supervisor, a staff of 18.- Serving as DAWIA Program Manager for Naval Intelligence, expanded Acquisition workforce by 35%, raising awareness and understanding of acquisition processes across the Naval Intelligence Enterprise, resulting in increased efficiency and improved customer satisfaction.- Serving as Acting Director of Acquisition for 15 months, implemented organizational changes within the department to improve alignment of resources and establish viable succession paths for employee development.- Coordinated planning and program management oversight for the development and award of four separate enterprise-wide contract vehicles that will provide for critical intelligence production analysis support over the next five years. These were awarded in time to avoid any gaps in existing services. Show less Managed the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution process for the Tomahawk Cruise Missile and the Tactical Tomahawk Weapons Control System programs. Led the development and presentation of seven sets of Program Objective Memorandum Budget briefs, coordinated responses to 270 data calls from senior Navy and Defense stakeholders and Congress, and led a team of 12 government and contract support financial analysts to flawlessly process 2,600 financial transactions, obligating $1.4B in support of the Tomahawk Weapons System.- Established a data-driven focus on funding execution by instituting customer-focused execution status reports, enabling a strategy that executed $55M in congressional budget reductions while ensuring continued support for critical program priorities.- Developed and presented a strategy to resource and procure 221 Tomahawk cruise missiles to replenish combat expenditures in Libya, resulting in $34M in savings that were reallocated for higher priority requirements. Practiced in producing and briefing budget materials to senior Navy stakeholders and Congressional Staffers.- In response to urgent tasking from Navy leadership, developed the resourcing strategy for an Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare capability, supporting an aggressive schedule to rapidly expand the targeting capability of the Tomahawk cruise missile. Show less Managed the sustainment of the NTCSS Program, an IT system supporting maintenance, supply & administrative functions aboard 238 Navy warships, 258 Naval aviation squadrons and 109 ashore installations. Led a cost efficient expansion of the program to support Navy expeditionary forces, as well as coordinated integration with Navy IT initiatives, including critical enabling for the CANES (Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services) program.- Key contributor to supporting SPAWAR’s (Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command) successful N-ERP (Navy Enterprise Resource Planning) implementation, personally training over 60 Project Managers. - Exercising daily supervision, oversight and guidance, led the NTCSS (Naval Tactical Command Support System) support team’s response to a fire aboard USS George Washington, quickly restoring capability and supporting the ship’s critical forward deployment to Japan. Show less

  • Financial Manager, OPNAV N96

    May 2016 - Apr 2017

  • Deputy Director, Acquisition, Office of Naval Intelligence

    Jun 2013 - Apr 2016

  • Lead Business Finance Manager, Naval Air Systems Command

    Sept 2010 - May 2013

  • Assistant Program Manager, SPAWAR

    Aug 2007 - Aug 2010