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Steve Purtle
334-315-0740 / spurtle@charter.net
1806 Chenoweth Lane, Montgomery, Alabama 36106
Employment Objective: Join an intellectually challenging creative team focused on developing
and implementing long-range strategies that make a positive impact on people’s lives. Work may
be full or part-time, on-site or telework. Organization may be for- or non-profit. Open to travel.
Areas of Expertise: Management, Change Management, Problem Solving, Training/Education.
Leadership Style: Systems thinker. Ability to conceptualize, create and build new models.
Willing to relentlessly reorganize whole systems when necessary. Organizes ideas into action
plans. Works to remove obstacles to goal attainment. Effectively conceptualizes and teaches
others how system operates as a whole and its interaction amongst components. Detail-oriented.
Key Experiences: Aircraft logistics expert (USAF Lieutenant Colonel ret); Strategy/Change
Mgt. consultant (Booz Allen Hamilton); IT Commodity Strategic Sourcing Project Team Lead;
(Sumaria Systems);
Skills Summary:
 Great Troubleshooter: Led three failing fighter maintenance organizations from worst to first
 Excellent Writer: Writer/editor for AF maintenance guidance; advised research projects
 Organizer: Assisted in simultaneous stand up of three aircraft engine depot repair lines
 Coach: Championed teams to win two Air Force Quality Awards (Malcom Baldrige Criteria)
 Educator: Designed Curriculum, trained faculty and taught leaders at college level
 Systems Thinker: Designed two major maintenance command and control facilitates
 Leader: Led 400-person squadron to high effectiveness levels while undergoing outsourcing
 Thorough: Led exhaustive Navy classified component repair cost-benefit analysis
 Insightful: Advised 12 installation leadership teams during large scale IT implementation
 Communicator: Taught over 200 personnel change management techniques
 Program Mgr: Led IT strategic sourcing for laptops, notebooks, and ruggedized products
Education: B.S: Aerospace Mgt., Middle Tenn. State; M.A: Procurement, Webster University.
Relevant Training: Program Management Master Certificate, Villanova University; Certified
Change Management Professional, PROSCI; Certified Supply Chain Professional, APICS; Air
Force Academic Instructors Course; Group Facilitation Skills for Business Process Engineering
Course; Introduction to Lean Manufacturing Course.
Other Info: Strengthsfinders: Achiever – Strategic – Context – Belief – Learner. Myers-Briggs
Personality Type Indicator: ENTJ; Excellent writer; Proficient in MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel.