Jeff Rains
U.S. DoD Project Manager | Defense Aerospace Consultant | Marketing & Sales Director | World Series Youth Baseball Coach
- Role
- Program Director, Foreign Military Sales (Fms) at Cruz Associates, Inc.
- Location
- Williamsburg, VA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Jeff Rains
West Point graduate, with MBA from Kellogg (Northwestern University) and WHU (Germany)- Army aviator and Special Operations Aviation acquisition professional- Servant leader with exceptional cross-cultural communication and interpersonal skills - Successful track record of leading and managing multi-million dollar projects for complex organizations- TS/SCI clearance- Pilot: Commercial Rotary-Wing / Instrument; Private Airplane Single-Engine Land- Youth baseball coach. World Series Runner-up (2021) and National All-State Champions (2022)
Experience
Program Director, Foreign Military Sales (Fms)
Jul 2017 — Present · Fort Eustis, VA, US
Program Director for a $2B Foreign Military Sales (FMS) case, supporting the Technology Applications Program Office (TAPO), U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command, SOCOM. Managing the procurement of Special Operations Aviation (SOA) peculiar parts to support the production and post-production modification of 14 Special Operations Forces (SOF) variant H-47 Chinooks.
Education
United States Military Academy at West Point
Bachelor's degree - General Engineering Core Curriculum, French and German
1991 — 1995
Florida Institute of Technology
Master's degree, Project Management
2007 — 2008
US Army Logistics Management College
Level II, Contracting
2008 — 2008
Defense Acquisition University
Certified, Level II, Program Management
2008 — 2011
Tel Aviv University
Recanati Business School
2013 — 2013
Kellogg-WHU Executive MBA
Master of Business Administration - MBA
2012 — 2014
Skills
- Electronic Warfare
- Military Aviation
- Project Planning
- Special Operations
- Organizational Leadership
- Military Training
- Military Experience
- Aviation
- Government Contracting
- Tactics
- Military Logistics
- Weapons
- Program Management
- Helicopters
- Dod
- National Security
- Defence
- Military
- Strategic Planning
- Aircraft
- Military Operations
- Management
- Aerospace
- Uav
- Training
- Intelligence
- Team Leadership
- Systems Engineering
- Government
- Security Clearance
- Business Strategy
- Aircraft Maintenance
- Force Protection
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Army
- Operational Planning
- Flight Test
- Strategy
- Engineering Management
- Project Management
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