John Harris

Experience

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  US Army

  Oct 1991 - Jun 1997

  Commander of a separate towed 155mm M198 Artillery Battery equipped with 1st generation digital fire control equipment serving as a test bed for future digitization of towed artillery for the US Army. Responsible for training, planning, operations, supply accountability, personnel management, maintenance, and leadership of the battery personnel and equipment. Battery served as the only General Support Artillery located at Fort Campbell, KY in support of 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). Battalion Headquarters located at Fort Bragg, NC. Provided artillery and fire support for each of the maneuver brigades in the 101st ABN DIV, deployed twice annually to Fort Bragg to train with parent Battalion and 18th Field Artillery Brigade. Battery consisted of 2 x 4-Gun platoons, a large headquarters platoon with all necessary support capability enabling field feeding, medical support, maintenance and logistics organic to the battery. Show less Responsible for Joint Fire Support planning, coordination and execution in support of an Attack Aviation Battalion. Develop tactics, techniques and procedures to better integrate joint fires with an Apache battalion in support of deep and close operations. Led a small fire support element, providing digital connectivity for planning and execution of fires. Provided fire support planning as part of the battalion battle staff. Planned and execute Joint Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses for multiple cross FLOT deep attack missions. Show less Responsible for running motor pool and maintenance operations for a heavy self propelled artillery battalion in the Republic of Korea. Managed battery maintenance contact teams, prioritizing daily work, repair parts ordering and management, to maintain the fleet of wheeled and armored vehicles, howitzers and logistics vehicles for combat operations. Managed, maintenance teams, tools, repair parts, ordering, maintenance facilities, and managed annual, quarterly, and monthly services, equipment repair and recovery operations. Provided daily, weekly and monthly reports to battalion through division on readiness status, repair status and inbound parts. Planned and executed recovery operations for damaged vehicles during field operations and established and ran unit maintenance collection point operations during field exercises. Show less Battery second in command and executive officer - provided overall gun line supervision and leadership of a 6-gun firing battery. Provided training, leadership and supervision of fire direction center, logistics, safety and firing during operations. Responsible for training, leadership, supervision of the line of metal. Trained and rehearsed airborne artillery rigging and de-rigging procedures in support of airborne and air assault artillery raids. In garrison, served as supply, maintenance, arms room, physical security and personnel officer in support of battery operations. Show less

  • Commander

    Feb 1996 - Jun 1997

  • Chief of Human Resources

    Jun 1995 - Feb 1996

  • Battalion Fire Support Officer with 3-101 Attack Aviation (AH64) Battalion (Air Assault)

    Jun 1993 - Jun 1995

  • Director Of Maintenance

    Jun 1993 - Jun 1994

  • Battery Executive Officer, Charlie Battery, 3-319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 82nd ABN DIV

    Jun 1992 - Jun 1993

  • Company Fire Support Officer, A/3-504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd ABN DIV

    Oct 1991 - Jun 1993
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  British Army

  Jun 1997 - Jun 1999

  US Army Exchange Officer to the British Army

  Senior Field Artillery & Fire Support Trainer at the British Army Command And Staff Training Unit at Catterick Garrison, in Richmond, North Yorkshire, UK. Served as US Exchange Officer to the British Army as the SO2 Arty - training Battalion Battle Group through Specialized Brigade units on military planning and decision making process. Traveled to Malaysia, Brunei, Ireland training Field Artillery and Fire Support personnel in the UK, Singapore, Malaysian, Ghurka, Australian and other Armies on current military doctrine and procedures. Also provided training for several UK Government and Civilian companies on planning, project management and decision making procedures in support of complex problems. Served as guest speaker at numerous military schools on targeting and linkage of observer plans, intelligence requirements and decision support planning. Show less

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  US Army

  Jun 2001 - Jun 2003

  Technical Trainer

  Develop Joint Fires Tactics, Techniques, Procedures and equipment in support of Combined and Joint Special Operations Forces. Field Artillery & Fire Support Trainer with Operations Group Charlie. Led training seminars and training events, provided observations and recommendations for Battalions and Brigades on use of joint fires in support of combat operations. Provided subject matter expertise on fire support in urban operations. Served as the Fire Support advisor for the Urban Operations Mobile Training Team which trained with each brigade before deploying to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Show less

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  Joint Special Operations Command

  Jun 2004 - Jun 2009

  Provide leadership, direction and management of future operations cell responsible for anticipating and describing requirements 5-7 years ahead of current operations. Anticipates and establishes programs, ideas, exercises to move organization towards conditions consistent with predicted future requirements. Develop Joint Fires Tactics, Techniques, Procedures and equipment in support of Combined and Joint Special Operations Forces.

  • Chief of Future Operations - SMU

    Jun 2007 - Jun 2009

  • Field Staff - Special Mission Unit

    Jun 2004 - Jun 2007
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  US Army

  Jun 2009 - Jun 2011

  Commander

  Responsible for command, leadership, training, discipline, and administration of a multi functional 800+ person unit dedicated to supporting, securing and sustaining the Iron Brigade Combat Team Battle Command Nodes in the Republic of Korea. Battalion consisted of: 2 Headquarters Companies, a Military Police Platoon, a Military Intelligence Company, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Platoon, a Network Signal Company, a Combat Engineer Company, a Logistics Support Company and a Chemical Company with Reconnaissance, Decontamination and Biological Detection capabilities. Show less

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  United States Forces Korea (USFK)

  Jun 2011 - Jun 2012

  Division Chief of Fires

  • Division Chief of a 25 person team providing planning, expert advice, coordination and delivery of activities and effects in support of a 25K person organization.• Trained team to expedite tracking, processing, approval and delivery of 3 work projects per hour, exceeding the industry standard, while maintaining both digital and manual tracking and redundant communications methods

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  US Army

  Jun 2012 - Jul 2013

  Director of Training and Exercises

  • Principle director for 3 large annual exercises between US and Republic of Korea armed forces involving roughly 30K people.• Managed Directorate with 30 people and 3 subordinate branches to plan, manage and execute Training, Exercsies, track/report readiness metrics on a monthly and quarterly basis to Department of the Army.

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  US Special Operations Command Korea

  Jul 2013 - Jul 2014

  Director of Operations

  • Led day to day operations functions of US Special Operations and interaction with Republic of Korea SOF Headquarters consistent with operational demands, organizational values, and strategic objectives.• Refined operational procedures in anticipation and support of crisis situations requiring sensitive or special operational capabilities during armistice and wartime. • Led efforts to refine structure, reporting, and execution of high tempo, time-sensitive planning and activities requiring controlled access and restricted knowledge. Show less

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  NATO Allied Rapid Reaction Corps

  Aug 2014 - Jul 2017

  Chief of Influence Operatrions

  • Deputy to UK senior leader for a large branch with 7 subordinate branches and hand-selected personnel from 12 partner nations.• Led innovation team efforts on information warfare, competing narratives, strategic communications, media monitoring in competitive space - highly sought after speaker with best practices in support of contingency/crisis situations.• Maximized shared value and minimized cost, through a Community of Interest between Defense, Science & Technology Centers, and Private Commercial entities to cross-level user needs, available data sets technical and field expertise. Show less

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  US Army

  Jul 2017 - Dec 2020

  Director Of Training and Exercises US Army Africa

  • Organized Largest Training Exercise in Africa, delivered $30M event (US, Senegal, Morocco, Tunisia, Spain, UK, Italy, & The Netherlands) for 10,000 troops and logistic transport of vehicles and equipment from USA and Europe to Africa.• Organized and ran a week-long African Land Forces Summit 2018 in Abuja, Nigeria attended by over 50 senior national defense officials from Africa, USA and Europe.• Planned and executed $60m budget, delivering 11 multi-national exercises across Africa engaging in excess of 33 separate African countries, 5 European countries, 1 South American & 1 Far Eastern Country.• Planned and executed: 6 Senior level staff training events, 18 Medical Readiness Exercises, 5 Senior Leader Seminars, 12 newcomer training courses, 3 Emerging Enterprise Leader Cohorts, and 9 African Partner rotations to the Joint Readiness Training Center. Show less

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  Research Innovations Incorporated

  Jan 2021 - now

  Joint All Domain Warfighting System focused operations support - linking Joint and Coalition partner's systems to accelerate domain understanding and decision making; leveraging AI/ML to inject, sort, analyze, and highlight relevant data to enable warfighters to see, understand and act faster than our adversaries. Develop, coordinate, and manage product development/release/deployment schedule, manage scope and priorities; conduct product management activities, reporting, customer training, and stakeholder management, provide continuous internal and external communications to maximize value to customers while achieving Program Objectives.

  • Director of Operations

    Apr 2023 - now

  • Product Owner

    Jan 2021 - Apr 2023