Steven Rankin

About Steven Rankin

Clearance: TS/SCI. Executive Leadership, Strategic Planning, Stakeholder Management. Transitioned from DoD with more than 25 years of successful military professional leadership experience adept in Program Management, Resource Allocation, Risk Analysis and Planning, Emergency Management, Crisis Response, Policy Review and Development, Medical Entomology and Vector Management, and Capacity Development. Managed up to $1Billion budgets, globally dispersed assets, and diverse education and training programs impacting 24 thousand students annually. Interacted with international Ministries of Health and Agriculture, US Departments of Homeland Defense, State, Health and Human Services, Interior, and state and local agency stakeholders. Proactive change agent working in employee environment encouraging professional and personal development while pursuing enhanced productivity and customer service.

Experience

1. Public Health Analyst, Scientist Sr Advisor

   General Dynamics Information Technology

   Aug 2020 — Present · Portsmouth, VA, US

   Public Health Research Scientist supporting the Navy Expeditionary Preventive Medicine efforts of the Navy Marine Corps Public Health Center. • Assists the client achieve effective medical, public health and senior leader preparedness for identification and mitigation of environmental hazards, toxic industrial chemicals, emerging diseases and other hazards impacting environmental health mission requirements. • Manages projects that involve multiple organizational units within the medical readiness and response area. Establishes and manages project/program goals and proposal development. • Applies working knowledge of force health protection and training procedures to meet mission requirements. Develops new business opportunities in the environmental health and /or hazard protection areas. • Maintains both formal and informal communications and relationships with Navy and other DoD clients including responsibility for reports and presentations. Utilizes US military experience working complex issues in environmental health, operational preventive medicine, operational military chemical and biological defense, health physics, entomology or a combination of related experience covering a wide range of military operational environments. • Develops and evaluates training and policy products utilizing knowledge of force protection/CBRNE defense principles in an operational theater/ homeland security environment, and through experience in the science and application of operational preventive medicine from a training or operational perspective. • Assists other GDIT elements in product development, help interpret/define customer requirements, develop and direct tasks for execution within GDIT to best support the client. Participates in matrixed staff support for project execution across the Market Sectors. Performs highly complex assignments by compiling and evaluating test data and planning experiments resulting in decision analysis products.

Education

• Texas A&M University

  Master's degree, Entomology

  1982 — 1984

• Regents University of New York

  Bachelor's of Science, Sociology

  1996 — 1996

• US Army Command and Staff College

  Master's degree, Military Operational Art and Science/Studies

  2000 — 2001

• Midwestern State University

  Bachelor's of Science, Classical Biology

  1978 — 1982