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William Gawthrop

46 + year’s experience in strategic, operational and tactical intelligence analysis (GS Series 0132) and law enforcement with supervisory emphasis on: developing task/project plans, assigning appropriate resources to accomplish the task, creating teams and work groups as necessary, overseeing execution of project plan, monitoring personnel performance, directing production and dissemination of analytical output, and leading preparation and briefing of analytical findings and products; providing expertise for integration of CI analysis activities in support of counterintelligence mission, goals and objectives; working independently to prioritize and staff issues and requirements within individual branches, work groups or other defined areas of responsibility.Established goals, guidelines and project/task milestones, resolved differences, and made decisions on work problems. 


Experience includes a wide range of responsibilities in intelligence analysis activities and functions such as: 


• University Level Instruction for National Defense Intelligence College (Graduate Level), University of Maryland University College, and American Military University, for intelligence professionals. 

• Leading, directing and supervising research team efforts for the early identification of the strategic context of intelligence issues to ensure congruency of operational and tactical efforts. 

• Leading, directing and supervising research team efforts for the early identification of the strategic context of intelligence issues to ensure congruency of operational and tactical efforts. 

• Leading, directing and supervising research team efforts for the identification of strategic, operational, and tactical centers of gravity, critical vulnerabilities and exploitable seams for targeting and exploitation. 

• Leading, directing and supervising research team efforts analyzing threats for specific contingency operations and plans, and processing, analyzing, and producing all-source intelligence in response to priority intelligence requirements. 

• Researching, producing, staffing, editing and reviewing staff papers, original analytical studies, and threat assessments including publishing daily near-term and monthly long-term assessments of tactical, operational and strategic areas of interests (AOI). 

• Providing subject matter expertise and product quality control in daily reports and in long-term projects such as country studies to include coverage of counterterrorism, political, criminal, and economic elements. 

• Supervising, directing and coordinating all source integration into products and preparing and delivering senior staff intelligence briefings on AOI intelligence issues. 

• Leading, directing and supervising the development of indications-and-warning analysis and participating in analytic exchanges with joint, allied, and coalition intelligence organizations. 

• Leading, directing and supervising the maintenance and situational awareness of political, economic, diplomatic, criminal, military, paramilitary and terrorism-related developments. 

• Mentoring the intelligence production efforts of senior and mid-level all-source analysts and producing expert level multi/single source Force Protection analysis and assessments. 

• Providing senior military staff with timely intelligence estimates, in the form of written strategic and operational assessments and graphical presentations, through classified research and coordination with other staff elements as required. 

• Directing and coordination with collection manager to achieve mission synergy by generating priority intelligence requirements, requests for information and coordinating analysts’ needs with collection priorities. 

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