Kenneth Hynes

Experience

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  121st Signal

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2002

  Company Commander

  Commander of 120 Soldier Unit wiht the mission to provinding Voice and Data communications support to the Command Posts of the 1st Infantry Division

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  US Army

  Jul 2002 - Jul 2009

  Director of Communications (Brigade S6) for forward deployed Heavy combat Brigade in South Korea. Advised the senior commander on all aspects of Information Technology, commercial and tactical communications, and Information Assurance (IA) for assigned Command, Control, Communications, Computer, and Intelligence (C4I) equipment. Responsible for planning and deploying the brigade's communication packages in support of several contingency exercises.Areas of Emphasis:- Modernization of Brigade Automation equipment.- managed Unit IT budget - managed Brigade IT training program for over 20 administrators and 3000 users. Show less US Army Garrison Department of training Plans officer; responsible for the coordination of planning, training and mobilization of over 21,000 Active, Reserve and National Guard Service members. served as Installation Emergency Operations Center manager in charge of over 20 agencies and staff sections during critical installation missions. Areas of Emphasis:- Deployment and re-deployment status of all sodliers traveling though post- Fielded and primary trainer for WebEOC; trained over 80 garrison staff members on procedures - ICS emermency management courses 100-800 Show less Group Signal Officer For a Special Forces Group with technical and tactical communication oversight of three Battalion sized elements during two deployments to the Iraq Theater of Operations• Directed Network operations center that provided consistent communications connectivity through transition from tactical field systems to more persistent fiber connections that increased communications posture and reduced personnel overhead by 40% without a loss in day to day situational awareness.• Directed operations center in charge of installing and maintaining persistent and reliable communications to over 40 team locations throughout an austere environment; provided rapid troubleshooting and response to outages Show less Observer Controller for the US Army Joint Readiness Training Center. Served as the Communications Subject Matter Expert for the Special Operations Training detachment , and oversaw 10 training rotations a year For Special Operations Units doing Mission Readiness Exercises for Contingency operations• Selected to be to be Training Center Signal Operations trainer; responsible for teaching, coaching and mentoring 16 communication and information officers through high stress training rotations; focused on operations center management; problem solving; process improvement and incident management. Show less

  • Director of Communications (BDE Signal Officer)

    Jul 2008 - Jul 2009

  • Plans and Training Officer

    Jul 2007 - Jul 2008

  • Group Signal Officer

    Jul 2004 - Jul 2007

  • JRTC Signal O\C

    Jul 2002 - Jun 2004
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  General Dynamics C4 Systems

  Aug 2009 - Aug 2010

  Training With Industry Fellow with US Army

  Serve as the military liaison for the Warfighter Information Network tactical (WINT) INC 1 and INC 2 programs; programs that provided the next generation of communications support to the Warfighter. During tenure, I worked in the deployment and sustainment support operations of the current programs, while providing feedback to the development of the INC 2 systems. As well as life cycle management and personnel structure to support these programs. In addition used current Business practices and processes in an effort to bring that level of expertise back to the Army. Areas of Emphais:- Logistical and sustainment support of Deployed networks.- Life cycle management of key programs.- Adapting new technologies to fill current technological gaps. Show less

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  US Army

  Sept 2010 - Jul 2015

  Network Operations chief in charge of providing communications, information management, and staff support to enable contingency operations across the Pacific Theater of Operations. Coordinates with Strategic and Joint partners to provide support to parallel and subordinate units. Advises the Chief Information Officer on network operations, network engineering and frequency management. Responsible for the welfare and readiness of 22 SoldiersAreas of Emphasis:- • Responsible for physical and network layer planning, implementation and operation of five (5) Major executive level exercises in the Pacific theater that resulted in flawless communications support and availability to Operations centers ranging from 200 – 2000 personnel and involving Joint and Allied nations partners. • Increased department organizational efficiency acting as Project Manager responsible for directing the schedule, priorities and scope of work for combining several efforts in the information services, wide and local net-work and Cyber Security areas that resulted in persistent network connectivity, increasing mission network availability, and optimizing network resources- Developed and oversaw Corps Digital master Gunner training program to increase readiness throughout the Corps and subordinate units. Show less Material Requirements Branch Chief for US Army Signal Center of ExcellenceDirector for Material Requirements Division; responsible for all Signal Material Requirements development within the US Army Signal Regiment; senior consultant to the Director, Concepts, Requirements and Doctrine Division, visionary for the Signal Regiment focused on future Warfighter capabilities; led a team of 16 military and civiliansAreas of emphasis :• As Program Manager, improved organization productivity and cut financial cost by %25 by leading effort at Army premier new equipment fielding and testing event; over the course of 4 life cycles events developed and managed budget, personnel requirements, home station resources, and developed testing checklists for equipment and procedures. • Led department problem solving effort by analyzing current communication capabilities shortfall and providing operational and technical feedback on proposed solutions Show less

  • I Corps Network Operations Officer

    Jan 2013 - Jul 2015

  • Material Requirements Branch Chief

    Sept 2010 - Dec 2012
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  Washington State Department of Enterprise Services

  Aug 2015 - Aug 2018

  Network Engineer - ITS 5

  Provisioning is responsible for the technical provosopning of the state network. This includes the creation of technical orders to the Network Control Center, technical orders sheets to the vendors that WaTech purchases circuits and network equipment from, as well as the maintenance of resource and configuration databases for IP address information, VLANS, as well as the Operational Support System(OSS).

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  N/A

  Sept 2018 - May 2020

  Semi Retired
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  Self-employed

  May 2020 - now

  • Real Estate Investor

    Jul 2020 - now

  • Entrepreneur

    May 2020 - May 2022