Jude Plessas

Experience

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  Northrop Grumman Corporation

  May 2002 - May 2006

  Project Management and Planner (Level 4)

  Initially contracted to USPS HQ, Environmental Management Policy as coordinator for an emergency management integration and improvement project; subsequently contracted to USPS HQ, DPMG/COO as a planner for Emergency Initiatives.

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  United States Postal Service

  May 2006 - now

  Responsible to develop continuity and emergency management policy and standardized materials for the USPS; serve as the National Continuity Coordinator for the USPS; and represent the USPS in interagency forums.• Established emergency management policies, plan templates, response checklists, and training modules; crafted and released management instructions, policy memorandums, and standard operating procedures (ex., mercury spill response)• Oversaw integrated emergency management application projects• Coordinated cross-functional emergency action planning• Coordinated corporate after-action processes and facilitated resolution of improvement plan items• Oversaw USPS HQ Continuity of Operations (COOP) program activities including HQ COOP Plan maintenance and improvement; internal training, exercise and evaluation (i.e., the Eagle Horizon exercise series); and acquisition and testing of secure communications capabilities across three Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIF)• Acted as USPS continuity representative to the Executive Office of the President and other Departments and Agencies• Represented the USPS on multiple National Security Council Interagency Policy Committees, sub-committees, and working groups, and on the National Biosurveillance Integration Center’s Interagency Working Group• Acted as primary liaison to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on biological threats and USPS response support• Engaged on mail-borne threat issues encountered at the Federal level, including the formulation of interagency policy/protocol and USPS internal coordination thereof, and assisted in actual mail-borne threat incident response• Planned and implemented, in support of other Departments and Agencies, Federal emergency response operations, including the dissemination of donated COVID-19 supplies and equipment in coordination with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the distribution of over 650 million masks for HHS Show less Executive manager of the National Postal Model Program sponsored by HHS and the USPS, aimed at creating a joint Federal, State, and local capability to distribute medical countermeasures to the public in the event of a bio-terrorist attack. In this role, set overarching program objectives and priorities; formalized policy and planning materials, issuing initial planning instructions, then deployment guides and templates; led program planning processes, team formation, development and maintenance of program controls and reporting, and customer oversight of technology solutions development; wrote and/or edited all program communications plans and releases; served as COR on multiple contracts; trained contracted staff and USPS field staff in program support duties.Project manager on a joint pilot with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA): a small-scale proof-of-concept demonstration of continuous radiation monitoring of an urban environment using DARPA’s prototype radiological detection system, SIGMA, and USPS delivery resources. Show less

  • Director, Continuity Policy and Planning / Chief of Staff, National Security

    Oct 2015 - now

  • Executive Manager, Countermeasures Delivery and Distribution

    Oct 2010 - Sept 2015

  • Operations Specialist / Program Manager, Emergency Initiatives

    May 2006 - Sept 2010