Kevin C. Drost, LPEC

Experience

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  Air National Guard

  Sept 1989 - Oct 2022

  • Global Movement and Logistics: Processed over 1500 individual travel events totaling over 16k days and valued at over $3.6M. Moving teams and individuals, fully trained and properly equipped, to Staff, combat, and humanitarian positions domestically and in more than 20 nations and territories.• Passport and Immigration: Official Passport Agent for 11 years, having processed over 200 passports and visas. Assisted and sponsored Afghan Interpreters in securing SIV’s. Demonstrated passion for ensuring processes are monitored from cradle to grave• Budget and Resource & Procurement: Senior Advisor to Leadership on budgetary issues. Managed and executed an annual budget in excess of $500k while ensuring compliance with Federal and State fiscal laws. Served as Approving Official for all travel vouchers with pecuniary responsibility for ensuring accuracy and legality. • Training and Facilitating:o During the COVID-19 pandemic, transitioned all team training events from an in-person environment to a virtual platform for more than 6 months, achieving 100% of training goals and maintaining a level of productivity equal to that achieved during in-person gatherings.• Supervisor and Mentor: Monitored workforce health and career progression of all members as well as provided feedback and performance reports for junior staff.• Recruiting: Senior unit manager directly involved in the startup of a new Civil Engineering team in 2008. Assisted in recruiting and responsible for all onboarding actions for over 50 team members.• Security Manager: Ensured compliance with all Privacy Act regulations. Administered Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) program to the unit. Managed members’ security clearances and ensured timely submittals of reinvestigations. Show less

  • Program Analyst, Team Leader and Logistics Manager

    Jun 2008 - Oct 2022

  • Logistics Manager

    Feb 2007 - Jun 2008

  • Supply Technician

    Jun 1999 - Feb 2007

  • Power Lineman

    Sept 1989 - Jun 1999
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  Olive Culinary Works

  Feb 2010 - Jan 2022

  Creative Content Writer

  Sole creative content writer for over 450 weekly blog posts and menus for Charlotte-based prepared meals company, producing over 120k words of content in nearly 11 years.

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  Naval Nuclear Laboratory (FMP)

  Dec 2022 - now

  Principal Compliance Professional

  Leads the development and implementation of strategic compliance validation programs within the NNL’s Materials and Information Management team.• Principal architect of a portable and scalable internal inspection and self-assessment program to be utilized by all subdivisions.• Ensures regulatory, contractual, and technical requirements are identified and included on inward-facing and externally published self assessments.• Consults and collaborates with senior leadership to seek out areas of undetected non-compliance, compliance gaps, and internal control failures to assist in ensuring organizational goals and objectives are met. • Authors relevant technical documentation (Operating Instructions and Procedures) and post-assessment publications. Show less