Steven Shea

Joint Operations Planner responsible for managing, coordinating, and directing the execution of research, analysis, and information assessment for future operations and strategic planning. Supports Joint Chiefs of Staff and Combatant Commands Planning Guidance; increases dialogue with Multinational partners; provides logistics solutions and research.

Coordinator for the Defense Logistics Agency Operational Planning Team entrusted with distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to overseas DoD sites and Fleet personnel. Embedded in the DoD COVID-19 Vaccine OPT, working extensively to leverage inter-agency partnerships to plan, execute, and track COVID-19 shipments to more than 89 military treatment facility and Fleet sites overseas, exercising the global cold chain management distribution capability.

Lead exercise planner responsible for design, planning and execution of DLA participation in Joint Exercises. Developed planning objectives and milestones, staffed exercise objectives and training objectives, organized exercise control groups, developed lessons learned and after action reports. Prepared senior participants; briefed senior leadership through all phases of exercise planning, execution, and at conclusion of the exercise. Developed annual Director’s Training Guidance.

Defense Consultant specializing in supply chain, distribution, and transport planning and operations. Recognized expertise in joint logistics planning and execution, joint logistics command and control, transport, distribution, and joint strategic level exercises.

Assist and advise the Director for Force Projection and Distribution on matters relating to transportation, strategic mobility, and distribution. Coordinate directly with the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Chief of Staff, and Service staffs. Regularly prepare and present reports to the Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics. Coordinate staff actions across three divisions encompassing all transportation, strategic mobility, and distribution issues.

Reviewed and developed joint and Army integrated distribution future concepts, as well as review and development of joint and Army doctrine. Coordinated directly with the Distribution Process Owner for the development of joint integrated distribution concepts that enabled the Joint Deployment and Distribution Enterprise. Explored innovative concepts to address deployment and distribution lessons learned emerging from Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.

Planned and implemented the Distribution Process Owner transformation to U.S. Transportation Command, integrating over 500 major Automated Information Systems and multiple, service-centric organizations into a coherent end-to-end distribution system. Command lead for the Joint Deployment and Distribution Process Improvement Integrated Process Team Coordinated with Commander, US Transportation Command, in development of distribution strategy and command guidance

Trained and ensured wartime readiness of seven separate units comprising over 120 people. Charged with duties as Chief of Staff, 13th Corps Support Command (Rear), ensuring readiness of over 6,000 personnel in three brigades. Directly supervised personnel, intelligence, logistics, communications, and comptroller staffs. Planned and controlled a $15.5M budget with a 75% reduction in staff.

Commander, 80th Transportation Detachment, Ft Hood, Texas, Djibouti, and Kuwait. Opened the sea and airports in the Horn of Africa for U.S. military operations from August through December 2002, clearing all U.S. cargo arriving in Djibouti via air and sea Managed the aerial reception, staging, and onward movement of all Coalition Forces in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from December 2002 to May 2003, moving over 250,000 people and 100,000 tons of equipment

Managed all transportation assets within the Corps, providing guidance and advice to the Corps Commander and staff on asset utilization and transportation planning issues. Revamped air deployment operations at Robert Gray Army Air Field that supported the rapid deployment of Corps forces in the wake of 9/11.