RedTale Communications, LLC

Seeing your story, concepts, ideas, and work come to life through visual communications is the best way to understand one another and make things happen. RedTale Communications offers graphic recording, sketchnoting, tailored illustration, narration, visual communications and more to present your information in new and exciting ways. If you are looking for more ways to tell your story, we should chat.

Chief Illustration/Hope Officer

Redtale Communications LLC

Curated my daily illustrated quotes during the pandemic and shared 90 of them in four seasonal journals that can be purchased on https://shopccmd.com/product-category/redtale-communications/

Book Author, "90 Days To Write Your Way to (Winter, Spring, Summer, & Fall)"

MBO Partners

Created storyboards, illustrations, graphic recording charts, and rich pictures to represent organizational capabilities in a way that demonstrates value, bonded teams together, generated strategic discussions, and helped unify companies and their customers so they can all speak the same way about what is going on around them. Deliverables included rich pictures spread across shorter reports to help explain what was going on, how we got here, and how things worked.

Sketchnoting | Red Teaming | Design Thinking

Noblis

•	Supported military planners, strategists, and policy makers to represent enemy and alternative perspectives towards developing plans, strategy, lines of efforts, and Commander's end states;
•	Co-facilitated and participating in operational design (developing shared understanding, group learning, problem framing) workshops (20+) to aid planners, operators, analysts, and strategists in developing appropriate and necessary steps, uncover faulty logic, and explore alternative futures, establishing current and future frames, providing expert problem solving;
•	Tailored Red Team (alternative analysis, devil’s advocacy, and enemy perspectives) support to Campaign planners, cyber strategists, and policy makers;
•	Conducted intelligence support to planning and strategic development by refining and discussing meaningful priority cyber intelligence requirements;
•	Represented enemy, friendly, or competitor perspectives with specific emphasis on enemy control, communications, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR), operations, planning, and training efforts;
•	Analyzed platform IT (PIT) industry norms, cyber incident reports and mitigations, policies, and plans to support kick off of DoD-wide working group and PIT strategy development;
•	Provided unorthodox and non-traditional approaches to elusive cyber issues;

Red Teaming | Cyber Threat Intelligence | Design Thinking

Sally Daniel Training Company

•	Delivered (25+) presentation and communication skills courses to strategic consultants; 
•	Provided in depth training, guidance, and consultation to improve briefing presence; 
•	Generated critical assessments and feedback for students in simulated briefing modules

Corporate Training Specialist

Summit Solutions

* Conducted root cause analysis for business processes, communications, and technical tools/training;
* Recommended changes to improve organizational effectiveness and efficiency based on strategic
objectives and organizational strategy;
* Developed visually appealing information graphics to present organization statistics, metrics, and emerging topics that required additional focus and addressed future planning objectives.

Intelligence Analyst, Strategic Consultant

BCT LLC

* Designed and hosted ten unique 'Ask the Hacker' sessions with certification and accreditation professionals;
* Conducted network defense and trending analysis to influence future defense strategies;
* Designed and delivered open source research plan for obtaining emerging threat and technology
information on information assurance and information security issues from industry sources;
* Coordinated network defense mission areas to aide in efficiency across incident response teams;
* Researched network events to propose policy updates and network defense investments;
* Developed table tops and training for information assurance and information security issues;
* Populated intelligence for attack trees, attacker's goals, network defense capabilities, recovery costs, and notional probabilities of attack and defense successes for strategic decision makers;
* Conducted extended enterprise information assurance assessments for maturing the capabilities and improvement strategies;
* Delivered all customer strategic communications: briefings, white papers, website content, ghost written correspondence to stakeholders, partners and leaders throughout government;
* Developed and provided communication skill curriculum for senior executives for more effective briefing and communication techniques.

Cyber Intelligence Analyst, Corporate Communications Specialist

Booz Allen Hamilton

Worked with Special Projects to identify critical information for high priority targets;
* Identified to work with analytic cell on emerging hostile groups, individuals and websites;
* Created analytic profiles to substantiate ongoing operations against high value targets, authored
analytic standard operating procedures (SOP) for cyber analysts;
* Developed sharable network defense resources between customers and mission partners;
* Provided open source analysis on electrical power grid and Supervisory Control and Data
Acquisition (SCADA) systems for ongoing modeling and simulation efforts;
* Researched and examined specifications, user behavior, and critical infrastructure by exploring
the unclassified web, trade magazines, blogs, social networking sites, and technical journals;
* Designed and delivered an extensive analysis and production training plan for more than sixty
inbound military, contractor, and government civilians;
* Briefed senior military leaders on high priority intelligence targets/centers of gravity;
* Co-authored SOP for open source research lab to initiate and maintain best practices.

Intelligence Analyst

Researched, compiled, and authored vendor profiles for clients using market research databases,
open source, industry journals, and conference materials to initiate vendor identification and
proposal efforts;
* Created vendor profiles for client selection for major IT outsourcing and offshoring engagements;
* Planned, organized, and implemented professional conferences and recruiting events.

Commercial Competitive Intelligence Researcher

Sheppard Pratt

Taught fifth and sixth grade students with learning disabilities and emotional disorders,
ultimately leading to creative problem solving skills and a wealth of patience
* Created daily lesson plans and Individualized Education Plans (IEP) to correspond with regulated
educational goals, social skill recommendations, and curriculums
* Developed curriculum enhancement tools to encourage the application of social skills with adults
and peers in the forms of tailored cartoons coupled with specific behavior management plans
* Co-chaired weekly family counseling sessions for students and family members and provided daily
crisis counseling and emotional support

Special Education Elementary School Teacher & Adjunct Family Therapist

A Thinker Who Draws, Illustrator, Sketchnote Artist, Graphic Recorder: Focused on spreading hope using #graphicrecording #sketchnoting #illustration #art #emotionalintelligence

I'm a thinker who draws, and you'll often find me with pen in hand, drawing while listening.  Illustrating concepts helps me understand information in a far greater way than just hearing or reading whatever content I'm learning. 

Throughout my life, I always found that I would remember pictures better than words alone. After nearly 20 years on a winding path of experience, I decided that this valuable skill could be used to help others understand better, too. Now I spend my days bringing conversations to life and creating art for clients of all kinds. Whether I am drawing live for your event, creating a tailored illustration for your story or book, or just drawing a daily quote about hope, I'm visualizing everything.

I believe that in a world filled with words, more pictures will always do. I've found that starting small and working your way is always best. Bring me your stories and watch them come to life in a new way.

RedTale Communications was founded in February 2020 to help people tell their stories through visuals and narration. If you are finding yourself in the same meetings over and over again or stuck in a project that lacks the creative influence and flow you desire, contact us to hear more about how we can help.

Wade Forbes

Cyber Reliant

Vice President, National Security & Justice

Leading Trivalent federal client outcomes, shaping business opportunities, and contributing to a terrific small firm with very high upside.  Optimizing experience with private equity and start-ups to enable Trivalent's success across the federal sector and the defense industrial base.

Senior Director/Program Manager

Noblis NSP

Program Manager leading ~140 diverse colleagues serving the DoD, the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security by providing mission enabling cyber all-source intelligence, indications & warning, collection management, human and counter intelligence, combat targeting, ops, and exercise planning.
- Nearly doubled defense program cyber intelligence workforce in two years and expanded capability to two joint force military headquarters and one regional combatant command.
- Led business development technical solution for two FBI task orders totaling 32 cyber intelligence experts valued at ~$6M annual and delivering informed cyber threat intelligence assessments.
- Shaped success through team development, candidate-hiring, strong subcontractor teammate collaboration, and effective & efficient business processes for programs exceeding $24M annual.  
- Championed seven Noblis-sponsored cyber threat intelligence awareness R&D projects in 2015-16.

Director, Cyber Operations and Analysis

544th ISR Group, 70 ISR Wing, United States Air Force

Led staff of operations, logistics, manpower and financial analysts to leverage $4.4M annual operations & maintenance budget supporting and shaping training and operations for hundreds of Intelligence Airmen at several global sites conducting sensitive national security mission; traveled extensively.
- Initiated Standardization & Evaluation program to ensure compliance with Department of Defense policies and to enforce rigorous performance standards; institutionalized operational accountability.
- Drove change in individual readiness posture to enable stronger contribution to higher headquarters deployment demands; transformed Airmen mindset to enable group’s increased reputation.
- Selected as senior mentor for inaugural Air Force Intelligence Master Skills course.

Group Superintendent (Chief Master Sergeant)

Senior signals intelligence functional expert for global USAF ISR organizations and many thousands of Airmen. Engaged network across Air Force, Air Combat, Special Operations and NSA headquarters to shape policy, education, training, manpower, employment of ISR Airmen in response to emerging priorities shaped by global political, military events – represented the Agency via extensive travel.
- Panel member on AF executive boards to enable career development and performance recognition.
- Engaged to identify cross-functional career tracks for emerging cyber capability mission demands.
- Marshaled organizational change in response to chief operating officer’s emphasis – enabled field operations, established sustainable career development models, shaped language management office to lead seven-fold growth from $350,000 to $2.4M annual skills development investment.
- Traveled extensively to shape low-density, high-demand airborne reconnaissance capabilities; key to success attributed to operational & combat assignments with airborne reconnaissance qualifications.

Operations Superintendent (Chief Master Sergeant)

- Senior signals intelligence functional executive leveraging team of operations experts serving 24/7 cyber and information operations missions performed by ~5,000 Airmen at dozens of global units; dynamically redirected $12M in response to emerging combat development capabilities required overseas.
- Interpreted ambiguous cyber operations requirements, identified and employed uniquely-capable linguist against high-visibility cyber campaign, standardized decision processes to select and correctly equip skilled Airmen traveling to hostile destinations to enable Air Force global operations.

Operations Executive Leader (Chief Master Sergeant)

Advised senior U.S. intelligence director on skills development, assignment, and optimizing performance for all joint military personnel.  Represented U.S. diplomatic and intelligence interests to senior foreign military leaders.
- Balanced competing mission human resources demands through consultation with senior executives.
- Orchestrated planning and execution and participated extensively in physically demanding short duration project to remove U.S. remote sensing sites from host nation mountain locations.

Senior Executive Leader (Chief Master Sergeant)

United States Air Force, 41st Electronic Combat Squadron, Air Combat Command

Leveraged airborne intelligence expertise to optimize chief operating officer decisions for employment and sustainment of Squadron Airmen flying 3,400 hours annually aboard 7 EC-130H Electronic Combat aircraft.  Qualified and certified electronic combat mission systems operator.  
- Led squadron operational readiness and training assessments to inform higher headquarters planners; ensured aircrew compliance with periodic training events associated with Ready Aircrew Program.
- Led short-notice, 3-week, 2-aircraft European deployment for diverse Airmen to establish 24/7 mission operations including aircraft maintenance and aviation life support mission enablers.

Defense Intelligence Agency

Intelligence mission director representing defense interests in the United Kingdom; built relationships with U.S. DoD units and host nation counterparts.  Senior functional expert for several dozen Airmen assigned to more than a dozen European locations.  Selected to study Serbo-Croatian with British Army.
- Represented U.S. diplomatic and intelligence interests with foreign hosts, traveled 320 days in 20 months  
- Deployed to Bosnia Herzegovina for Stabilization Forces operations.
- Traveled with senior U.S. and NATO officials on military-to-military and diplomatic engagements

Detachment Director of Operations (Senior Master Sergeant to Chief Master Sergeant)

United States Air Force, Air Education and Training Command, 17th Training Wing

Competitively screened and selected to represent group commander in assessing training effectiveness through established criteria, academic accreditation requirements, and specialized emphasis items at the commander’s direction.  Lead training evaluator for cryptologic, intelligence, and firefighter training at Goodfellow AFB, Texas - Presidio of Monterey California – Corry Station, Florida.
- Evaluated cross-organizational training effectiveness, compliance with accreditation requirements, and quality assurance.  Shaped all aspects of classified technical training to include faculty development and student performance; ensured remedial training, counseling and documentation.
- Augmented Air Education & Training Command Inspector General’s unit performance assessments at sister training wings at Keesler AFB, Mississippi and Lackland AFB, Texas.
- Certified Occupational Instructor, Teaching Practicum; Instructional System Design, Technical Writer, Objectives & Test Development; taught cryptologic training to newly assessed Airmen.
- Selected 17th Training Wing Service Person of the Year and 2d AF Performer of the Year, 1994

Senior Training Evaluator (Technical Sergeant through Senior Master Sergeant)

Instructor-rated operator and evaluator for airborne cryptologic linguist positions aboard RC-135 Rivet Joint, Combat Sent, Cobra Ball reconnaissance mission aircraft.  Excelled in multiple roles including airborne operations, mission scheduling chief, mission trainer, mission evaluator, flight chief.
- Coordinated across four squadrons to deploy three full aircrews in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait; selected rapid deployment aircrews to launch and establish operations in Saudi Arabia.
- Deployed to DESERT SHIELD, DESERT STORM and Operation Northern Watch areas of responsibility; relocated mission operations, two aircraft and four aircrews from established base to austere location while sustaining 24/7/365 mission coverage for northern Iraq operations.

RC-135/Rivet Joint Squadrons (6985 ESS, 6916 ESS, 6988 ESS) (Sergeant through Technical Sergeant)

Full time study of intermediate Russian language in an academic environment with secondary objectives including military training requirements.  A program with 300 level courses designed as continuing education for Basic Russian language program graduates who have served in the field in a professional specialty. It is designed to advance the student’s listening comprehension to ILR proficiency level 2+, reading comprehension to 2+, and speaking ability to level 2 and to further develop the student’s overall proficiency in writing. The instruction varies according to the student’s initial competence and the difficulty of the language. Prerequisite: ILR proficiency Level 2 in listening comprehension and in one other skill in the language to be studied. This course is eligible for the AA Degree.

Student/American Airman (Sergeant)

Superb business leader and intelligence community professional specializing in signals and human intelligence with strong emphasis in cyber security intelligence operations.  An adept tactical/operational/executive leader who encourages creative approaches, common sense risk analysis, and maximum team engagement.  Cleared Top Secret/SCI with Counterintelligence Polygraph.

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