Diego Fernandez

Experience

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  United States Marine Corps

  Jul 2001 - now

  - Serve as the Marine Corps Communications Chief and Senior Advisor at Expeditionary Strike Group 2, Amphibious Communications Detachment, ensuring embarking Marine Air Ground Task Forces, Navy staffs, and afloat Communications Information Systems are effectively integrated. - Supervise the execution of communications plans in support of assigned forces. - Coordinate with appropriate Navy and Marine Corps commands, ships, program offices and embarking MAGTFs pertaining to all amphibious command and control information systems. - Prepare Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and policies for communications personnel, which cover operations, training and maintenance. - Maintain awareness of all IT equipment statuses within all Landing Force spaces in order to ensure compliance with Marine Corps requirements and guidelines. - Coordinate staffing of all enlisted billets with higher headwuaters and adjacent units.. - Identify communication capability deficiencies and provide recommended solutions while managing training in order to enhance productivity. Show less - Supervise and oversee all matters pertaining to discipline, conduct, morale, and welfare of all enlisted personnel aboard MCCOG. - Ensure all legal, administrative, and command related matters are conducted properly in accordance with Marine Corps Orders. - Responsible for dissemination, enforcement, and maintenance of orders and policies of the Commanding Officer and higher command. - Review and track all fitness reports and Pro/Con's ensuring accuracy and correctness. - Responsible for the mentorship, training and development military enlisted personnel. - Lead, train, counsel and mentor enlisted Marines on professional and personal matters. - Ensure the completion of annual training and PME of all enlisted Marines in the command. - Assume charge of the section Request Mast program and maintain the administrative and reporting requirements set forth by the MCCOG Commanding Officer. Show less - Facilitate the daily operations of the Marine Corps Enterprise Network (MCEN) by effectively applying resources towards competing operational requirements.- Ensure continuous command and control capabilities exist through the employment of a 24/7/365 operations center and globally stationed network support personnel. - Coordinate MCEN operations and activities with the Regional Network Operations and Security Centers (RNOSC), MAGTF IT support Centers (MITSC), Marine Corps Operating Forces and Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command. - Analyze operational impact to the MCEN caused by the implementation of new technologies and/or associated actions to mitigate potential network threats. - Lead, train, counsel and mentor enlisted Marines on professional and personal matters.- Supervise the division's formal training program to ensure military and civilian annual training requirements are met. - Account for section's assets and equipment. Show less - Perform duties as the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joint Directorate Six, Deputy Directorate Information Technology Services (JS J6 DDITS), Server and Application Operations Staff Non-Commissioned Officer.- Supervise the direct IT support for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other high ranking officers and officials.- Supervise reporting and resolution of all network issues and the implementation of infrastructure maintenance, upgrades, and modifications incudind domain architecture, networks administration, VOIP admimistration, VTC infrasturcture,, for NIPR, SIPR, JWICS, and BICES networks.- Responsible for technical planning, guidance and support of daily operations of enterprise wide Information Technology Systems. -Provide IT communications capabilities necessary to conduct operations at the National Military Command Center (NMCC). -Plan, coordinate, and report continuity of operations to ensure uninterrupted Information Technology services at the Pentagon, Hampton Roads, Suffolk, and COOP Site. -Support consolidation to the Joint Service Provider structure while maintaining services to the Legacy Networks. Show less - Instructor at the Marine Corps Electronics and Communications School for the Data Supervisors Course.- Complete all training requirements required for instructor personnel in order to be proficient with the subject matter and to be able to develop advanced level students. - Ensure the welfare and needs of student personnel meet standards to include living conditions, uniform requirements, academic materials, and administrative requirements. - Revise and make recommendations to course materials to enhance student development. -Ensure required student counseling are conducted and provide professional development to students to include MOS training, leadership, and basic Marine Corps skills. - Maintain an orderly classroom environment and operational training equipment ensure battalion and company policies and orders are enforced. Show less - Plan, install, operate and maintain the Secure Internet Protocol Router, Non-secure Internet Protocol Router and the Coalition Enterprise Regional Information Exchange Systems.- Install, operate, maintain, and supervise Local Area Networks (LAN) and Wide Area Networks (WAN).- Install, operate, maintain and supervise domain infrastructure, active directory management, cloud services, disaster recovery, database management, scripting, hardware/software management, Storage Area Network (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), virtualization and messaging.- Managed the International Security Assistance Force networks for over 1500 users within Area Distribution Node (ADN) 2.- Plan, coordinate, maintain and execute network operations for 1st MLG (FWD) G-6 and its Major Subordinate Elements (MSEs). - Advise the 1st MLG (FWD) G-6 staff in all matters pertaining data communications within 1st MLG (FWD). -Make liaison with 1st MLG (FWD), MSEs and I MEF C-6 for all computer programming, switching operations, routing operations, data network planning, and all other subject matters within the data field. -Responsible for the maintenance, readiness, and accountability of the data portion of the Consolidated Memorandum Report (CMR) account YG6 (valued over ($2M) to include detailed supervision and coordination of all temporary loans or transfers. 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  • Communications Chief

    Aug 2020 - now

  • Marine Corps Cyberspace Operations Group Senior Enlisted Advisor

    Jan 2020 - Aug 2020

  • DODIN Communication Chief

    Jul 2018 - Jan 2020

  • Joint Staff J-6 Server Operations Chief

    Feb 2015 - Jul 2018

  • Instructor Data Network Supervisor Course

    Nov 2011 - Feb 2015

  • Data Chief -Systems Administrator

    Feb 2008 - Nov 2011

  • Recruiter

    Jun 2005 - Feb 2008

  • Logistics Vehicle System Operator

    Jul 2001 - Jun 2005