- Over 25 years of documented experience in defense and geospatial-intelligence operations, applying relevant analysis, problem-solving, decision-making, personnel training, and communication skills.
- Vast knowledge of implementing Full Spectrum Geospatial-Intelligence (FSG) solutions to intelligence problem sets.
- Staff officer with planning, operations, and program budgeting experience.
- Experience supervising imagery analysts, production management, and intelligence dissemination.
- Coordination and execution of geo-spatial intelligence system fieldings, operations, and deployments.
- Led teams to accomplish tasks as both a team leader and/or member.
- Motivated, dependable, self-starter, with an aptitude for teaching and acquiring new skills.
Sr. System Engineer/Outreach Representative (SETA) @ Provide Systems’ Engineering, and Technical Advising (SETA) support to the Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED) of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Establish and maintain communications with new and existing intelligence community users through in-person meetings, presentations and/or electronic media. Convey user requirements to government leadership and other engineering staff for potential solutions. Create and update executive summaries on various GED systems and capabilities for the Director, GED and subsequently to other intelligence community, senior level officials. Brief GED systems’ capabilities for various levels of consumers and VIPs to include Armed Services General Officers and Senior Executive Staff Members. Create and maintain the capabilities matrix of all GED systems and applications for broader dissemination to users across the intelligence community. Facilitate new capabilities and/or sustainment training on NRO systems for new and existing users. From April 2015 to Present (9 months) Program Manager/SETA @ Program Manager providing Systems' Engineering, and Technical Assistance (SETA) to the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Establish the mission functions and the operational system, application and tool environment for a new and innovative GEOINT Production Center. Provide systems analysis and recommendations to senior NRO personnel regarding advanced analytical concepts, processes, and technology. Maintain SETA oversight to technology developer to ensure government requirements and guidance is followed and provide government direction crafting emerging capabilities.
Collaborate with and gather input from various mission partners throughout the Intelligence Community in evaluating prototype products supporting ground combat operations. Implement and manage the Discrepancy Report and Product Change Request processes to ensure the government’s oversight and approval of all functionality modifications being made to the software baseline. Lead a team of GEOINT analyst in implementing analytical techniques, training and product support to customers providing worldwide, operational support. Provide written reports and executive level briefs to capture program’s progress and identify shortfalls with recommended solutions. Oversee quality control on the team’s daily product assessment. Schedule work for team members and manage time and attendance records. Evaluate and record team members' performance annually.
Provide corporate business development support. Screen potential employee resumes against contractual statements of work. Provide input to request for proposals for contract award. From May 2011 to April 2015 (4 years) Chief of Plans @ Chief of Plans for the Office of Counterterrorism and the National Geospatial Intelligence Officer - Counterterrorism (NGO-CT), National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). Provide substantive review of Joint Chiefs of Staff publications and all other Department of Defense (DoD) planning documents relating to geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) support to CT planning and operations. Advise the Senior Executive NGO-CT on assessment and response to these planning documents. Serve as the focal point for review of Operations Plans (OPLANs) and Contingency Plans (CONPLANS) covering Counterterrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction-Terrorism. Interface with Combatant Commands, military services (including U.S. Special Operations Command), and Intelligence Community member agencies and departments in support of their strategy and operational planning. Ensure GEOINT is positioned to support the breadth of GEOINT CT users and is optimized in support of special operations. From May 2010 to April 2011 (1 year) GEOINT Advisor/System Integrator @ From 1989 to 2011 (22 years) Chief of Operations @ Chief of Operations for the National Geospatial-Intelligence (GEOINT) Agency (NGA), Task Force-Iraq in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Provided GEOINT expertise and guidance for all NGA, GEOINT Support Teams integrated at the United States Armed Forces level to the Army Division and Brigade echelon levels. Managed and trained NGA analysts embedded with the National Security Agency's Cryptologic Support Teams that were further integrated into the Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Platoon supporting the Brigade Combat Team (BCT). Coordinated all equipment, personnel and communications activities involving the NGA/NSA CST embed program within the BCT. Provided comprehensive, weekly intelligence summaries capturing significant events throughout the Iraq Joint Operational Environment. Reports were uploaded to Intellipedia to maximize dissemination throughout the intelligence community. Provided analytical and systems advice regarding employment of NGA analysts and capabilities integrated within the CST. Briefed senior-level officials on NGA-Iraq deployed requirements and operations From October 2009 to April 2010 (7 months) Operations Officer @ Served as the Operations Officer for the Counterterrorism Airborne Analysis Cell under the Office of Counterterrorism. Coordinated with mission partners to ensure Full Motion Video exploitation requirements were satisfied in support of US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). Developed training standards supporting FMV exploitation for the SOCOM Processing Exploitation and Dissemination organizations. Managed and updated classified organization’s Wikipedia page to inform intelligence community of current operational capabilities and to solicit feed back and discussions through blogs. From January 2009 to October 2009 (10 months) Senior Geospatial Intelligence Officer @ Served as the senior imagery intelligence analyst tasked with providing indications and warning (I and W) analysis of critical intelligence in support of executive level policymakers, the Secretary of Defense, and the President of the United States.
Integrated intelligence from multiple disciplines (SIGINT, HUMINT and OSINT) into comprehensive reports. Developed collection strategies for a diverse set of intelligence problems, which facilitates the most efficient use of national-level collection assets. Test and integrated new technology to improve intelligence operations in a time-sensitive environment. From June 2008 to January 2009 (8 months) Systems Integration and MASINT/AGI Chief @ Chief of a multi discipline intelligence division supporting US Army Pacific Intelligence Center. Directly responsible for the GEOINT Federation initiative between the United States Army Pacific and the United States Pacific Command. Coordinated the migration of legacy HUMINT, SIGINT and GEOINT systems to the Distributed Common Ground Station - Army. Selected by senior leadership to be the Contracting Officer Representative for nine contracts totaling over 40 contractor personnel in providing intelligence system’s support for the US Army Pacific Intelligence Center.
Served as the Chief of the Measurement and Signatures/Advanced Geospatial Intelligence (MASINT/AGI) Regional Node where I led a section of nine contractor personnel and three U.S. Army Severice Members. Established efficiency in intelligence analysis and production by merging the MASINT/AGI Regional Node with the Imagery Intelligence Analysis Section. This merger established the GEOINT Analysis and Production Section consisting of over 40 DA civilian, contractor and military service members. From June 2004 to June 2008 (4 years 1 month) Requirements Staff Officer @ Managed Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) requirements during combat operations in support of Operations ENDURING FREEDOM and IRAQI FREEDOM. Provided the ground component commanders input to the U.S. Central Command’s Joint Exploitation Concept of Operations. This CONOPS addressed analysis and dissemination of national as well as tactical collection assets. Reviewed and validated theater and national imagery intelligence collection requests from subordinate ground component forces in support of US Army Central Command/Coalition Forces Land Component Command’s Priority Intelligence Request. Created numerous executive papers for the commander regarding intelligence architecture and operations. Served as a Foreign Disclosure Officer responsible for providing intelligence disclosure and releasing guidance during major combat, deployed operations. Submitted collection requirements while deployed in a combat enviornment supporting border crossing threat assessments. Provided technical advice to the Army Space Program Office on future imagery architecture developments. Supervised and mentor five soldiers. From April 2001 to May 2004 (3 years 2 months) Analysis and Production Chief @ Supervised, trained, and mentor over 40 soldiers in daily operations of imagery exploitation, imagery processing, satellite communications, and security procedures of a national level deployable imagery system that served as the US Central Command Indications and Warning (I and W) Back-up Center and Deployable Receive Location.
Coordinated the fielding of the US Army’s Tactical Exploitation System (TES). Transitioned imagery section from a hard copy to soft copy imagery environment per DoD directive. Led a 13 member, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle exploitation team during an operational deployment in the Southwest Asia Area of Operation.
Coordinated with national intelligence agencies, sister services and government contract personnel for system fieldings, equipment upgrades and maintenance support. Managed government resource and equipment in excess of ten million dollars. From November 1998 to April 2001 (2 years 6 months)
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Management Information Systems, General, 3.0 @ Wayland Baptist University Hector Vasquez is skilled in: Project Management, Team Building, Collection Management, Systems’ Integration and Acquisition, Knowledge Management, Task Organization, Budget Analysis, Technical Report Writing, Contracting Officer Representative, Briefing/Presentation, Advanced Geospatial Intelligence Analysis, Mission/Asset Management, Intelligence Analysis, Management, Budgets