John ("Jack") Haefner, PMP

Experience

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  U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

  Jan 1988 - Jan 1990

  Technician

  Water Resources Division

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  27th Engineer Battalion

  Jan 1991 - Jan 1994

  Platoon Leader, HHC Executive Officer, Adjutant
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  US Army Corps of Engineers

  Jun 1991 - Jan 2019

  Engineer Officer

  Led in worldwide positions of increasing complexity and responsibility.

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  US Army

  Jan 1994 - Jan 2019

  Led a results-driven team of 1200 US and foreign civilian and military employees providing professional public works, safety, security, fire, logistics, environmental stewardship, and recreation across 17 installations, camps, and stations supporting 16,000 United Nations and US soldiers and civilians.• Maintained over 1,900 facilities, 10.1 million sq ft of Real Property, and 14,000 acres of land during both armistice and wartime using an annual budget of $133 million; provided readiness platform for US and allied forces to achieve national and mutual security objectives.• Relocated a combat force of 8900 Soldiers to and from the US mainland and integrated their capabilities into the severe operating environment just south of the DMZ. Show less Led a focused, professional multi-national military and civilian team serving the Soldiers, civilians, and family members of an 18,500-member command. Responsible for all engineering matters such as military plans, general construction, master planning, facilities transformation, force and equipment generation, and environmental engineering. • Planned all engineering support for US Army and Korean allies during peacetime and wartime.• Planned diverse aspects of military construction for 425 family housing units and US Army effort against $10.7B infrastructure build at Camp Humphreys, Korea.• Coordinated facilities transformation, programming, design, and construction with the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Engineering and Environment; Headquarters, Department of the Army; Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management; the Installation Management Command; and the US Army Corps of Engineers. Show less Led a professional team of 350 employees providing public works, safety, security, fire, logistics, environmental stewardship, comprehensive planning and recreation focused on a single goal of delivering the best and largest active Army mid-Atlantic regional training platform to our military and interagency partners.• Maintained 119-square miles of prime training areas serving 330,000 US military forces and interagency personnel using an annual budget of over $43 million while achieving a 21.6% total energy savings from 2009 to 2012.• Developed first ever Citizens Academy; accelerated community relationships across three counties and two independent towns, their citizens, and local/state/federal elected officials.• Led all facility, safety, and security of 2010 National Scout Jamboree; led to zero preventable accidents and unforgettable experience for 20,000 scouts and adult leaders and 100,000 visitors. Show less

  • Army Officer

    Jun 1991 - Jan 2019

  • Garrison Commander (City/County Manager or Executive)

    Jun 2014 - Jun 2016

  • Assistant Chief of Staff Engineer (VP for Engineering)

    Jul 2013 - Jun 2014

  • Garrison Commander

    Jun 2009 - Jun 2012

  • Student (University of Missouri at Rolla)

    Jan 1994 - Jan 1995
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  94th Engineer Battalion

  Jan 1996 - Jan 1997

  Assistant Operations Officer, Maintenance Officer
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  535 Engineer Company (Combat Support Equipment)

  Jan 1998 - Jan 1999

  Company Commander
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  The School of Geospatial Intelligence

  Jul 1999 - Jun 2002

  Instructor

  Instructor for both Joint Geospatial Information and Services Staff Officer Course (JSSOC) and Geospatial Defense Data Users (GEODDUC) Courses. Developed, instructed, and updated curricula for both courses.• Created a database-driven, web-accessible system for visualizing geospatial data holdings (NGA spec CD ROMs), managing shelf inventory, and reordering shortages from DLA. System also allowed spatial visualization of holdings using ArcView 3.2.• Editor/co-developer of SRTM Tutorial (NSN 7644-01-494-1024). Show less

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  29th En Bn (Topographic)

  Jul 2003 - Jul 2006

  Led staff to oversee all personnel, logistic, security, maintenance, and operational functions of a 800 person diverse technical unit for geospatial engineering, geodetic survey, dive, construction, and watercraft. • Led redesign and reequipping of the Army’s Digital Topographic Support System-Deployable (DTSS-D); led to increased geospatial intelligence support to US forces.• Supervised deployment of geospatial assets in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Exercises ULCHI FOCUS LENS and RSO&I in Korea, as well as airfield survey missions to Japan, Korea, and the Philippines. Show less Provided operational and technical oversight to theater topographic battalion consisting of one Topographic Planning and Control. Detachment, one Theater Topographic company, one Dive Detachment, and one Transportation Watercraft Company, Enhanced geospatial integration among all units as data providers and elicited subsequent analysis. Advanced all theater initiatives such as Theater Geospatial Database, NGA Distributive Printing, Hydrographic Survey, and HLS Sole Source Production (Pacific Theater). Managed operational requirements of terrain team deployments in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Exercises ULCHI FOCUS LENS and RSO&I, as well as survey assets to Alaska and California. Show less Led a team of 9 military and civilians to provide planning and technical support to the Commander of US Army forces in the Pacific. Planned all in-theater topographic production and analysis, joint and Service doctrine formulation, theater geospatial information and services programming. • Designed, built, and established the Army’s first Theater Geospatial Database (TGD); proven model and workflow enabled support to Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines and continues to support US Army operations fifteen years later (as of 2018).• Built critical alliances across the geospatial community; led to unique data sharing with national databases distributive printing arrangements to support operations in Korea. Show less

  • Chief of Staff (Executive Officer)

    Jun 2005 - Jul 2006

  • Operations Officer (S-3)

    Jun 2004 - Jun 2005

  • GI&S Officer/5th En Pet (P&C) OIC

    Jul 2003 - Jun 2004
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  Knights of Columbus

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2009

  Lecturer
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  National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)

  Jun 2006 - Jun 2009

  Geospatial Intelligence Staff Officer

  Led a team of 20 civilian and military employees across five states to provide national geospatial-intelligence (GEOINT) support to US Army engineering and intelligence centers, and Army units and their mission partners worldwide.• Planned, coordinated, and executed the Agency’s support to the Iraqi Surge; provided needed data and analysts for warfighter requirements for Operation Iraqi Freedom.• Conceptualized and delivered mobile training support to deploying Army units; delivered critical geospatial and intelligence products and services in a time-constrained environment.• Established units first budget and accounting system; ensured effective obligating and tracking of $113,000 of travel and training funds. Show less

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  US Army War College

  Jul 2012 - Jun 2013

  Student
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  National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

  Jul 2016 - Jan 2019

  Brings people together to deliver the very best of advanced sciences and methodologies, content, and tradecraft to deliver actionable intelligence• Organizes and facilitates basic and applied research, IT developers, IT operations, and users in an Agile environment; speeds tool delivery to 5000 analysts, solving today and tomorrow’s intelligence problems.• Advances key Agile computer vision projects; saved program costs by holding stalled acquisitions and rapidly advancing new capabilities for advantaged algorithms. Show less Co-founded first-ever mission management capability for geospatial-intelligence enterprise. • Coordinated and communicated 12 Unifying Geospatial-Intelligence Plans for regional and functional mission areas; first of their kind, plans analytic effort across the Defense and National Intelligence community. • Supported defense, the intelligence community, allied, and international partnerships through comprehensive and multinational planning and coordination. • Built first geospatial-intelligence mission value framework; provided a comprehensive view geospatial-intelligence value as compared to all intelligence disciplines, focusing analytic approaches against national and defense intelligence priorities. Show less

  • Deputy Director, Technology and Tradecraft for Analysis Directorate

    Jan 2018 - Jan 2019

  • Chief of Plans and Strategy, Mission Management Integration

    Jul 2016 - Jan 2018
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  Esri

  Feb 2019 - now

  Defense Team Lead

  Leads a talented team of Esri professionals to help our US Defense Installations & Environment, Defense Health, Defense Logistics, Corps of Engineer, Modeling & Simulation, and National Guard communities “see what others can’t.” Works across a highly-matrixed organization for sales, product development, service delivery, and training delivery.