O. Shawn Cupp Ph.D.

Experience

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  US Army

  Jan 1987 - Jan 1988

  Executive Officer
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  U. S. Army

  Sept 1990 - Oct 1991

  Project Officer

  Managed over $2.1 million inventory of repair parts while maintaining a 95% operational readiness rate of over 400 missile systems during deployment and redeployment to Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm.

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  US Army

  Sept 1992 - Nov 1994

  Program Manager (Company Commander/HHC, 8th Maintenance Battalion)

  Served as a commander supporting a staff of 50 individuals responsible for training, morale, welfare, professional development, and family fitness of over 1000 soldiers in the Republic of Germany. Personally accountable of over $1.2 million in property with less than a 1 % loss in accountability. Directed change in the movement of unit property, housing, motor vehicle maintenance facility, and office space from one location to another based on the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE). Show less

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  United States Army Force Management Agency

  Nov 1993 - Jun 1996

  Program Manager Director (Operations Officer/Document Integrator)

  Responsible for developing policy, workload management, and planning guidance for 40 Document Integrators (DIs) managing Table of Organization and Equipment (TOE) and Basis of Issue Plan BOIP) combat developers in a Field Operating Agency (FOA) of HQDA, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans (ODCSOPS). Coordinates with Service Schools, TRADOC, and MACOMS on development of TOEs and BOIPs required to support multi-functional logistics and personnel service support doctrine. Served as Maintenance Branch Chief (GS-14) in his absence. Show less

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  U. S. Army

  Dec 1996 - Dec 1997

  Risk Manager (Operations Officer Brigade S-3/501st Corps Support Group)

  Leads an eighteen soldier operations section for a multifuncational forward deployed Corps Support Group with a no-notic relocation requirement within the Republic of Korea in support of U.S. policies and objectives. Responsible for battle focused training, security operations, planning, and coordination for a Group with 1,100 soldiers during Armistice and over 4,000 soldiers during conflict located at eight installations spread over 3,000 square miles. Develops and integrates operations of both active and Research components into contingency plans. Show less

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  U. S. Army Special Operations Support Command

  Jan 1998 - Apr 1999

  Corporate Event Planner (Operations/Exercises Planner)

  Served as the Special Operations Support Command PACOM Plans & Operations Officer, responsible for planning and coordinating logistics, health support, and signal support for all Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF) deploying to the Pacific Theater. Assist in the development of the Korean peninsula Operations Plan for all ARSOF units aligned to support operations in Korea.

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  U. S. Army

  Mar 1999 - Jun 2000

  Senior Program Manager Director (S-4 Logistics Officer)

  Supervised nine people in the management of over $94 million in property inventory with less than a 1% loss in accountability while supporting world-wide operations including successful deployment of communication equipment in order to sustain over 32 gigabytes of secure information within 63 days to support Operation Joint Guardian in Kosovo.

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  US Army

  Jun 2001 - Jun 2002

  Instructor, U. S. Army Active Duty Major

  Faculty member of the Department of Logistics and Resource Operations (DLRO) teaching legacy Command and General Staff Officer Course (CGSOC) on topics including tactical, operational, and strategic logistics, force management, and the Military Decision Making Process (MDMP). Position also included teaching other logistics electives during the elective term of the CGSOC course. Lesson author for Lesson 2 in the legacy core curriculum which included computation of logistic requirements. Course included a diverse audience of US and international field grade officers. Show less

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  US Army

  Sept 2005 - now

  Faculty member of a multi-departmental teaching team instructing the Intermediate Level Education (ILE) including the ILE Core Course and the Advanced Operational Warfighting Course (AOWC). Responsible for presentation, revision, development, and evaluation of graduate-level, force projection and maneuver sustainment, resource planning and force management instruction; to a diverse audience of US and international field grade officers. Serves as a mentor and coaches 16 operations career field students as their Staff Group Advisor (ASGA). Educate and counsel officers in a course which develops and improves their problem solving, critical reasoning and creative thinking, leader development, cultural awareness, and military-media relations. Curriculum, course author, and lesson author duties include A430 Characteristics of Domestic Incidents in the Advance Application Program (AAP) as part of the Homeland Security Studies Program Track V. Subject matter expert within the college for adult education, domestic threats, agroterrorism, and research in homeland security threats. Show less Faculty member of a multi-departmental teaching team instructing the Intermediate Level Education (ILE) including the ILE Core Course and the Advanced Operational Warfighting Course (AOWC). Responsible for presentation, revision, development, and evaluation of graduate-level, force projection and maneuver sustainment, resource planning and force management instruction; to a diverse audience of US and international field grade officers. Serves as a mentor and coaches 16 operations career field students as their Staff Group Advisor (ASGA). Educate and counsel officers in a course which develops and improves their problem solving, critical reasoning and creative thinking, leader development, cultural awareness, and military-media relations. Curriculum, course author, and lesson author duties include A430 Characteristics of Domestic Incidents in the Advance Application Program (AAP) as part of the Homeland Security Studies Program Track V. Subject matter expert within the college for adult education, domestic threats, agroterrorism, and research in homeland security threats. Show less Faculty member of a multi-departmental teaching team instructing the Intermediate Level Education (ILE) including the ILE Core Course and the Advanced Operational Warfighting Course (AOWC). Responsible for presentation, revision, development, and evaluation of graduate-level, force projection and maneuver sustainment, resource planning and force management instruction; to a diverse audience of US and international field grade officers. Serves as a mentor and coaches 5 operations career field students as their Assistant Staff Group Advisor (ASGA). Educate and counsel officers in a course which develops and improves their problem solving, critical reasoning and creative thinking, leader development, cultural awareness, and military-media relations. Curriculum, course author, and lesson author duties include A430 Characteristics of Domestic Incidents in the Advance Application Program (AAP) as part of the Homeland Security Studies Program Track V. Subject matter expert within the college for adult education, domestic threats, agroterrorism, and research in homeland security threats. Show less Faculty member of a multi-departmental teaching team instructing the Intermediate Level Education (ILE) including the ILE Core Course and the Advanced Operational Warfighting Course (AOWC). Responsible for presentation, revision, development, and evaluation of graduate-level, force projection and maneuver sustainment, resource planning and force management instruction; to a diverse audience of US and international field grade officers. Serves as a mentor and coaches 5 operations career field students as their Assistant Staff Group Advisor (ASGA). Educate and counsel officers in a course which develops and improves their problem solving, critical reasoning and creative thinking, leader development, cultural awareness, and military-media relations. Curriculum, course author, and lesson author duties include A430 Characteristics of Domestic Incidents in the Advance Application Program (AAP) as part of the Homeland Security Studies Program Track V. Subject matter expert within the college for adult education, domestic threats, agroterrorism, and research in homeland security threats. Show less Supervised management and operations of five functional departments with over 40 Joint and Coalition forces maintaining engineering project oversight, air mobility planning, ammunition support, maintenance support, and contract management of over $8 million of humanitarian assistance programs (including veterinarian capabilities exercises, medical capabilities exercises, and dental capabilities exercises) in five countries serving in one exercise (Gode, Ethiopia) over 14,000 animals and 9,000 people for treatment during deployment to Operation Enduring Freedom in Djibouti, Africa (2005-2006). Show less

  • Professor, Force Sustainment & Management

    Aug 2015 - now

  • Associate Professor, Force Projection and Manuever Sustainment

    Sept 2008 - Jul 2015

  • Assistant Professor, Force Projection and Maneuver Sustainment

    Aug 2006 - Aug 2008

  • Assistant Professor, Actve Duty U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel

    Jun 2002 - Aug 2006

  • Chief Executive Officer (Deputy CJ-4)

    Sept 2005 - Mar 2006