Professional Profile
- Senior Leader, Consultant and Advisor and Motivational speaker; recognized as senior strategic transformation executive.
- Analytical decision-maker with extensive U.S. governmental experience including implementing strategy, improving operations and workforce, increasing productivity, enriching diversity.
- Senior Executive served as the senior-level Chief, Programming, Financial & Accounting Executive, Audit Readiness Executive, Acquisition Executive, and Manpower Executive.
- Senior Executive served as Chief, Human Resources Executive focused on talent and performance management, and enhanced employee engagement.
- Senior-level Transformation Executive, Logistics Executive, and Engineering Executive.
Professional Experience
President and Chief Executive Officer, Ellen M. Helmerson & Associates, LLC
October 26, 2019 – present:
- Delivers influential consulting capabilities and experience to inform and transform the opportunities for an organization, company or business domain.
- Offers a broad spectrum of functional knowledge, including financial management, program analysis and evaluation, auditability, human capital planning and development, manpower management and analysis, acquisition planning and delivery, engineering, logistics, workforce diversity; and pursue operational changes that include business practices, organizational design, change management, leader development, professional development, career coaching, individual mentorship, contract managing, and strategic planning. Designs and produces business consulting services and analysis on potential contracts.
- Provides/provided professional senior business consultation, advice and operational excellence to Management Concepts: Turtle Reef Holdings LLC; ORACLE, Stellar Solutions, Definitive Logic LLC, Technical and Project Engineering LLC; IQ Exchange; Patriot Enterprise; and Mission Consulting & Services.
Chief Senior Resource and Financial Executive and Chief Senior Acquisition Executivefor the largest post-secondary education system in the U.S.(Deputy Chief of Staff, G-8 (Resource Management and Acquisition) (Senior Executive Service, Tier 2), Headquarters, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Eustis, VA 2015-2018):
- Effectively managed an annual operating budget in excess of $8.4 billion educating over 500,000 students in 37 campuses located nationwide.
- Designed and implemented resourcing models to enable requirement; generated an increase in over $468M dollars and 3,422 manpower spaces. Successfully reshaped and resourced Cyber Center of Excellence that enabled the advance of Army cyber capabilities.
- Transformed contracting operations by re-shaping policy and leveraging technology to improve visibility, affordability and accountability; generated a cost savings of over $210 million per year.
- Active advocate for organizational, fiscal, auditability, and process innovation to improve business processes, enhance resource utilization, and optimize organizational design.
- Reshaped and executed an entire organizational redesign which save over 3,000 military and civilian positions by optimizing organization design and implementing business process improvements.
Chief, Human Resources, Logistics and Engineering Officer,one of only four C-Level executives for an organization of over 40,000 Soldiers and 13,000 civilians located in every U.S. state and territory.Deputy Chief of Staff, G-1/4 (Personnel, Logistics and Engineering), (Senior Executive Service, Tier 2, Headquarters, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Eustis, VA 2008-2015):
- Instituted policy and oversaw execution of human resources, logistics, engineering, medical, religious, diversity, and history functions across the USA Training and Doctrine Command.
- Successfully designed and directed resourcing for a $6.9 billion facilities construction programs.
- Reduced operational costs by $170 million/year, and generated $46 million in savings by increasing employee engagement and extending diversity, to include Army gender integration.
- Designed innovative solutions to achieve business goals and meet customers by improving new acculturation, workforce productivity, employee engagement and diversity.
- Crafted an extensive outreach program between U.S. university leaders to share best practices on Sexual Harassment and Assault programs.
Director of Manpower and Force Analysis,(U.S. Government GS-15),(Headquarters, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, DCS, G-8, Fort Eustis, VA, 2007-2008):
- Senior Subject Matter Expert for manpower management and related resource issues, ensured prime use of manpower and equipment to achieve Command mission. Crafted analytical models to quickly and accurately predict organizational resources needed to meet changing requirements.
- Optimized organizational design and structure generating a reshaping of the workforce and adapting individual best practices across the command. Saved over 1,000 manpower spaces able to offset expanding training mission requirements.
- Determined best methods and practices for establishing resource and manpower distribution and utilization by conducting programmatic analytical efforts. Implemented technology enhancements to improve visibility of resource decisions and an assessment tool to evaluate courses of action.
- Developed workload-based models, manpower allocation and programming, force accounting, and supporting PPBES activities, and manpower and equipment documentation in support of 100 organizations and 52,000 manpower positions.
Other senior Governmental Army leadership positions include:
HQDA ASA (Manpower and Reserve Affairs), Director, Strategic Planning & Integration
HQDA Army G-1, Director, Manpower Plans, Policy, & Programs
HQDA ASA (M&RA), Director, U.S. Army Manpower Analysis Agency
HQDA DUSA Business Transformation, Director, Business Initiatives
HQ USA Europe, Director, Manpower & Program Analysis and Deputy G-8 (for 8 months)
HQ Military Traffic Management Command, Director, Manpower & Base Realignment Closure
Education And Certifications
- Bachelor of Science in Management Studies, University of Maryland (UMUC), MD, 2001
- Certified Department of Defense Financial Management, Level III
- Presidential Rank Award – Senior Executive Service – 2017
- Government Security Clearance (Current): Secret
Professional Affiliations And Memberships
- Stellar Solutions Advisor
- Executive Partner to William & Mary University (Mason School of Business)
- Chairperson, AUSA Civilian Advisory Board (2019-2022), & Member of Board (2016-18)
- Lifetime Member Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA)
- Member, National Association of Female Executives; Member, Senior Executives Association; Member, American Society of Military Comptrollers; & Member National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association
