Oversaw five commodity production facilities staffed by over 450 personnel and advised executive leaders on subsistence supply matters sustaining an organization comprised of over 24,000 personnel during training, domestic, and overseas operations, in both war and peacetime.
 - Assisted in development and planned integration of a new logistics staffing and support model presenting a significant paradigm shift for the U.S. Military; resulting in a manpower reduction of over 100 personnel and a $1.8M cost avoidance to the government
 - Coordinated multi-agency support between government and private organizations ensuring de-confliction and continuity of provided logistical support
 - Managed assignments of 450+ personnel based on professional developmental needs, proven performance, organizational requirements, and key strategic initiatives

Senior Logistics Commodity Manager (Training and Development)

Responsible for the direct supervision, development, safety, morale, welfare, and training of 30 Special Operations personnel. Responsible for the requisition, receipt, storage, and handling of all items and equipment associated with water purification, water production, food preparation, petroleum, chemical detection and decontamination as well as their strategic employment and integration.
 - Managed the career development and initiated personnel moves based on organizational needs and team dynamics to ensure operational readiness of a rapid-response Task Force comprised of over 1000 people
 - Initiated and managed logistical contracts requiring cash and deferred payment to third-country national and local national contractors while operating overseas
 - Served as the senior logistician while deployed overseas in a complex environment at a Special Operations Outstation; coordinated retrograde of over 5000 tons of equipment and maintained accountability of equipment in excess of $24M

Lead Logistics Supervisor

Coordinated directly with government agencies, senior, and parallel organizations for contracted and organic support. Accounted for all cash transactions, inventory management, requisition, receipt, storage, handling, and preparation for all subsistence required to support a rapid-response Special Operations Task Force. Responsible for the safety, training and development of 24 organic personnel and 8 contracted employees.
 - Served as the assistant senior logistician while deployed overseas in a complex environment at a Special Operations Outstation comprised of 350 personnel
 - Planned, coordinated, and executed multiple complex commodity resourcing operations domestically and internationally to support organizational training needs and national security requirements
 - Responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of a $2M+ production facility; managed a revolving subsistence inventory valued in excess of over $500K ensuring uninterrupted subsistence support to a rapid-response Task Force

Commodity Manager

Advised senior organizational leaders and key staff on commodity operations. Oversaw organizational maintenance program and developed implementation plan for inclusion of changes based on organizational needs and equipment evolution. Responsible for the direct supervision, training and development of 33- 72 organic employees. Coordinate directly with government agencies, senior, and parallel organizations for contracted and organic support. Inspect, supervise, and ensure compliance of one facility responsible for in-house cash transactions, inventory management, requisition, receipt, storage, handling, and commodity preparation.
 - Identified discrepancies in requisition and inventory process resulting in cost-reduction of approximately 20%
 - Improved operational readiness of organizational equipment by 60%
 - Developed standard operating procedures and eliminated redundant processes resulting in assigned facility being recognized as one of the top 3 facilities in an organization with over 150 facilities
 - Developed accelerated training plan for 8 junior leaders allowing them to operate autonomously in remote foreign locations with minimal support

Senior Commodity Supervisor

Coordinated directly with government agencies, senior, and parallel organizations for contracted and organic support. Accounted for all cash transactions, inventory management, requisition, receipt, storage, and handling of commodity during production. Responsible for the direct supervision, safety, training and development of 24 organic personnel and 8 contracted employees.
 - Improved administrative and functional areas of facility, resulting in facility being identified as the best facility in an organization comprised of over 200 facilities
 - Trained and assisted 8 personnel on logistical resupply operations by both ground and air while deployed to combat
 - Developed and implemented training plans for identified Hazardous materials within the organization ahead of organizational and industry demands

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Nathan Weed

Frameworks are good but could used more mocl examples

Great overview. It really helps to set the right expectation during the prep process. Thanks for sharing loopholes and how the internal process works.

Jay Raj

Great. I'm learning a lot. The trade-off section is really awesome!

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Ramesh Mithas

Used this material to prep for the Facebook "Data Scientist, Product Analytics" role — VERY helpful. The frameworks for answering execution questions were very helpful (like "thinking in extremes"). Ended up picking Google instead but really glad I went through this.

Luishan Zhou

Found out about this course on the Lewis Lin slack: I was on the fence but I'm really glad I bought it. Execution in particular was really helpful, didn't find anything online that went to this level of depth. I nailed the tradeoff question in my onsite (and really struggled with tradeoff questions before). Waiting for my final offer now

Scott Sanders

 - I like the product sense framework in this course, it really emphasizes the importance of user needs (over the traditional CIRCLES method)
 - For execution, there's videos on goal setting, troubleshooting and tradeoffs: I found the frameworks for goal setting + tradeoffs very clarifying
 - I wish there were more example answers for execution
 - David knows his stuff and it's a breath of fresh air

Aditya Kumar

Told all my friends about this course, basically got my RPM offer because of it. David is the real deal! Was lucky to do some mocks with him and it made a huge difference

Ben Wyatt

This is the real deal. Wish there was one for Google!!

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