Darnell A. Beckett

Experience

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  United States Air Force

  Nov 1990 - Jan 1993

  Fire Protection Specialist Journeyman

  Protects people, property, and the environment from fires and disasters. Provides fire prevention, fire fighting, rescue, and hazardous material responses. General Duties and Responsibilities: Controls and extinguishes aircraft, structure, wildland, and miscellaneous fires. Effects entry into aircraft, structures, and other enclosures. Protects people and the environment from hazardous material releases. Plans, organizes, and directs all fire protection activities. Provides fire prevention guidance Show less

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  United States Air Force

  Oct 1993 - Apr 1998

  Fire Protection Journeyman

  Responded to 2000 gallon fuel bladder spill, aided United States Naval engineers in retrieval and cleanup of contaminated fuel, eliminated potential environmental impact. Selected contemporaries to attend the Department of Defense Firefighter Rescue School. Major contributor to the successful introduction of the first Firefighter II practical evaluation conducted in the Republic of Korea, resulted 100% certification rate of all eligible candidates. Protects people, property, and the environment from fires and disasters. Provides fire prevention, fire fighting, rescue, and hazardous material responses. General Duties and Responsibilities: Controls and extinguishes aircraft, structure, wildland, and miscellaneous fires. Effects entry into aircraft, structures, and other enclosures. Protects people and the environment from hazardous material releases. Plans, organizes, and directs all fire protection activities. Provides fire prevention guidance. Show less

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  United States Air Force

  May 2006 - Jan 2008

  Managed all work requirements for new construction, maintenance, repair and renovation of 2,000 facilities with 20 Million square feet valued at $3.6B supporting 53 thousand people. Lead 5 military personnel to provide 24-hour service call/customer service in support of 20K facility managers. Developed facility reports utilizing the Air Force Work Information Management System to provide work order status and updates for customers to ensure accurate cost accounting of personnel, material and equipment. Reviews emergency night logs utilized by commanders, flight chiefs and superintendents. Provides work analysis data to key leadership functions for all direct scheduled work and recurring work program for 16 shops and 400 craftsmen. Managed section's training record program. ran the largest CE customer service unit in all the United States Air Forces in Europe, led the push for IWIMS to ACES/ Next Gen IT (TRIRIGA) for Base Civil Engineering. Selected by USAFE Inspector General as a lead Operations Manger; identified 45 CE Mat acquisition Wing findings during evaluation--educated for success. Completed 40 hr Material Acquisition train-the-trainer course; equipped to fine-tune new curriculum/Operations duties. Show less Managed force generation, institutional training, and modifications to organization and equipment for the Iraqi Support Command, National Supply Depot, Regional Support Units and Garrison Support Units. Served as the subject-matter expert for life support issues throughout the Iraqi Army, Planning and executing an emergency fuel push and guiding a multi-national fact finding trip to the contentious Al Anbar Region. Developed and sustained Iraqi Security Forces in order to support Iraq's ultimate goal of a unified, stable, and autonomous nation. Show less

  • Manager, Civil Engineering Operations & Facilities Management

    Jan 2006 - Jan 2008

  • Supervisor, Base Management

    May 2006 - Nov 2006
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  United States Air Force

  Oct 2008 - Sept 2014

  Ranking Facility manager and Civil engineer, responsible for 2.5K people covering 500K sq. ft. of real estate and infrastructure. Managed and oversaw cost allocations, statement of work for maintenance, repair, construction and custodial contracts. As the primary Air Force ISR Agency Inspector General member for Facility Management and Emergency Management inspected, educated and trained facility managers on Emergency management, environmental standards, Fire safety, DoD/Civilian policies as it all relates to facilities, HVAC systems and generators. Ensured the performance and quality to over 320 work/project/construction requests totaling $85M, managed the overall work-tracking program. Rewrote Units Emergency Action Plan; bolstering Risk Management, Emergency Management while enhancing continuity of operations. As Unit Environmental Coordinator I was responsible for formulating, researching, and enforcing environmental policies while helping set environmental goals and making sure that those goals were met. Planned and organized agencies Space Utilization Board, initiated and processed requests for space utilization, developed meeting agendas and kept the minutes. Led security escort program, organized 9K hours of surveillance on 500 plus contractors. I ensured all security requirements were met without fail. Show less Taught over 1.4K hours of Civil Engineering operations, contingency and material acquisition curriculum. Maintained, monitored and updated training web page used by over 30K personnel. Selected by the Air Force Civil Engineer Support Agency to create and write a new Material Acquisition (Supply) curriculum that was used to replace an outdated one. Trained 800 reservists to use local & deployed databases. As the material purchase approval officer and a buyer I procured and distributed over $70.8K in construction, training and building materials, ensuring all training needs for instructors and students were secured.Government Travel Card administrator, managed 92 travel cards/50 TDYs & 3 deployments, sustained 95% on-time payment rate. Engaged Air Force Civil Engineering agency as Operations Management lead instructor, identified 3 unrealistic class requirements, improved viability of 3 training sites. Taught contingency operations to Active Duty/ Reservist, CE & Supply personnel during contingency training. Responsible for scheduling all training for Civil Engineering, Fire Rescue, Emergency Management, and Supply training for over1000 students per year. Managed $1.5M in tactical/non-tactical land mobile radio assets for contingency operations. Authored principles of instructions lesson plans for operation managers and command/control training. Managed five Principles Of Instruction re-writes, established long-term blueprint for three training course instruction sites. Selected to revamp squadron’s logistical acquisition process, developed tracking systems, increased delivery efficiency. Led AF Civil Engineer Agency team; developed 364 hour curriculum w/3 new training courses, 415 Operations Management personnel readied for wartime mission. Coordinated w/communications squadron for training sites first ever Video Teleconference, pre deployment Command and control were able to have a secret turnover briefing to down rang command staff. Show less

  • Superintendent Facility Management Branch

    Aug 2012 - Sept 2014

  • Manager, Operations Management Contingency Training

    Oct 2008 - Aug 2012
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  Road Master Driving School

  Jan 2015 - Mar 2015

  Student
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  TMC Transportation

  Mar 2015 - Oct 2020

  Professional Diver
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  Cherokee Federal

  May 2019 - Oct 2020

  Data Manager (TRIRIGA)

  Researching, analyzing and developing recommendations for the most efficient use of facility space across the whole of Joint Base San Antonio. Contribute to JBSA's mission by inputting, updating, and maintaining data in their Enterprise Business Systems including TRIRIGA and BUILDERTM Sustainment Management Systems. Conduct TRIRIGA and SMS data entry, data analysis, data quality assurance, data quality control, and data integration in support of the 502 CEG mission. Assist in the preparation of space utilization recommendations, reports, responses to customer queries, validation of space requirements, and presentations. Support the 502 CEG through the use of other Air Force developed tools and programs. Work closely with government personnel to provide recommendations and advice on future facility repairs and investments in accordance with Air Force asset management principles. Ensure, project programming and engineering construction data is accurate and complete thru TRIRIGA report writing. Show less

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  USAF Civil Engineer

  Oct 2020 - Oct 2022

  Engineering Technician
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  United States Air Force

  Oct 2022 - now

  Basing Specialist