Amber
Fuselier

Summary

I'm an operations leader with 25+ years managing large-scale logistics, supply chain, and program operations across global installations. I've led teams of up to 205 personnel while overseeing multi-billion dollar supply portfolios supporting 49,000 personnel and 334 aircraft. Most recently, I recovered $3 million in misplaced assets, identified $122,000 in unaccounted inventory, and drove $20 million in enterprise-wide cost savings through strategic consolidation initiatives. I specialize in turning around underperforming programs, streamlining warehouse operations, and delivering measurable results in high-stakes environments.

Impact

Experience

1. 2022-2026

   Logistics Operations Manager

   United States Air Force ·

   • Backlog Elimination: Audited and cleared a 6-month backlog of idle corporate materials, uncovering $122,000 in hidden assets and eliminating 1,300 hours of redundant administrative labor.
   • Vendor Collaboration: Partnered with top-tier defense contractors to accelerate high-priority orders within 24 hours, beating the 5-day baseline and restoring 8 critical product-testing projects.
   • Workforce Mobilization: Overhauled an organization-wide personnel deployment framework to seamlessly process 2,000 individuals while cutting check-in cycle times down to 5 minutes per person.
   • Inventory Recovery: Resolved a complex, two-year inventory tracking error to recover $3 million in missing equipment, facilitating 4,000 hours of technical training across three business units.
   • Logistics Blueprint Design: Constructed an integrated logistics support model for power projection that modernized standard inventory frameworks, resulting in adoption as the official operational blueprint across 8 regional divisions.
   • Infrastructure Assessment: Selected as the subject matter expert to lead an infrastructure activation task force, successfully reconciling corporate facility requirements with existing personnel shortages.
   • Resource Procurement: Sourced 125 mission-critical assets and engineered 2 specialized response frameworks to meet projected operational demands across the wider enterprise.
   • Organizational Restructuring: Steered an executive initiative to restructure specialized regional field teams, aligning operations with long-term national strategic goals.
   • Diversity & Inclusion: Initiated an inaugural corporate cultural celebration, managing 20 volunteers to highlight cross-organizational diversity and improve workplace culture for 400 members.
   • Corporate Training: Facilitated an Effective Leadership Symposium for 62 senior supervisors and structured team-building seminars for 35 personnel across 10 distinct job specialties.
   • Strategic Divestment: Executed the structural decommissioning and divestment of 4 major aviation assets to align with organizational milestones and legislative budget strategies.
   • Global Logistics & Supply Chain: Managed complex logistics for 18 temporary domestic assignments and 3 international deployments, ensuring the secure transit of 22.4 million corporate assets valued at $63 million.
   • Asset Portfolio Management: Oversaw 208 high-value equipment accounts and 435,000 mobility assets across multiple regional divisions, managing $3 million in baseline stock and $871 million in specialized reserve packages.
   • Budget & Personnel Management: Directed a team of 205 personnel, mentored 5 junior executives, and managed an operational budget to align multi-department workflows.
   • Quality Assurance: Partnered with maintenance executives to draft a comprehensive Quality Assurance Inspection Program, dropping asset deficiencies by 75% in 6 months.
   • Process Innovation: Engineered an asset retrieval framework that accelerated standard supply chain delivery times by an average of 37 hours over industry peers.
   • Account Integration: Negotiated the turnover of 34 inventory accounts totaling 17,000 line items, ensuring strict compliance and enabling strategic staff realignments.
   • Facility Optimization: Led a large-scale asset onboarding project, integrating 500 new equipment pieces and consolidating 3 warehouses to maximize operational footprint.
   • Executive Coaching: Selected to launch a corporate executive coaching program, directly mentoring over 200 employees and families during professional development seminars.
   • Leadership & Awards: Assumed an advanced executive leadership role for 5 months, elevating team performance to secure 15 organizational and fast-track promotion awards.
   • Crisis Response & Readiness: Coordinated 3 rapid-response asset deployments, preparing and transferring critical inventory packages within a strict 72-hour delivery window.
   • Operational Performance: Guided operations across 21 business units executing 2,000 supply transactions to support multiple maintenance divisions, generating 12,000 corporate missions and 18,000 operational hours.

2. 2021-2022

   Compliance and Readiness Manager

   United States Air Force · Florida

   • Strategic Alignment: Aligned the organization's focus with master qualification standards and nuclear operations readiness plans.
   • Quality Standardization: Regulated 10 major training exercises and standardized operations for 195 compliance inspectors, validating 235 distinct audit findings.
   • Large-Scale Audits: Directed a comprehensive organizational readiness evaluation, coordinating a 270-member internal inspection team across 279 emergency response test events.

3. 2019-2021

   Supply Chain Manager

   United States Air Force · Hawaii

   • Regional Material Scaling: Managed the regional allocation of 27 critical spare parts packages, optimizing 3,000 operational authorizations across 23 international offices to generate $208 million in financial value.
   • Enterprise System Migration: Spearheaded an enterprise database migration to the Defense Property Accountability System (DPAS) for 314 business units, transferring 400 complex inventory records worth $2.3 million.
   • Multi-Billion Account Management: Managed a $3 billion asset account containing 5 million individual units, ensuring seamless support for 3 major regional divisions and 326 aviation assets.
   • Requisition Coordination: Directed regional equipment policies, managing 9,000 technical requisitions across 14 global locations in under one week to unify branch operations with corporate headquarters.

4. 2018-2019

   Asset Logistics Coordinator

   United States Air Force · Idaho

   • Asset Optimization: Managed field operations and distributed 593 critical equipment parts for 14 operational vehicles, generating a 2% supply rate efficiency boost that outpaced corporate benchmarks.
   • Supply Chain Distribution: Distributed aviation parts kits valued at $65 million, fulfilling 6,300 urgent operational demands, relocating 800 staff members, and managing the transit of 556 tons of cargo.

5. 2017-2018

   Customer Service Operations Manager

   United States Air Force · Poland

   • Cross-Border Problem Solving: Reconciled a global transportation demand by locating missing complex components and orchestrating rapid delivery to international partners, restoring critical machinery to full operational capacity.
   • Infrastructure Upgrades: Synchronized a $2.4 billion technology and radar infrastructure overhaul, ensuring full organizational readiness for overseas contingency environments.
   • Deployment Acceleration: Accelerated global deployment logistics for 6 separate business units and audited 26 equipment accounts valued at $5.5 billion.

6. 2015-2017

   Equipment Accountability Manager

   United States Air Force · New Mexico

   • Team Supervision: Directed 9 multi-disciplinary military and civilian staff members while providing full logistics and asset support for 40 distinct tenant business organizations.
   • Multi-Base Consolidation: Piloted a high-visibility, corporate-directed inventory consolidation project, collaborating across 50 international facilities to transfer 80,000 assets valued at $32 million, saving the organization $20 million.
   • Executive Event Planning: Chaired an annual regional awards program, leading a 6-person protocol team to draft scripts, coordinate seating charts, and host state executive leadership and VIP dignitaries.
   • Professional Mentorship: Completed advanced leadership and crisis management certifications, leveraging the training to mentor, develop, and guide 12 personnel within a joint-doctrine operation.

7. 2014-2015

   Senior Administrative Assistant

   United States Air Force · New Mexico

   • Program Custodian: Organized all corporate travel expense tracking, managed executive suites, oversaw regional employee recognition programs, and served as the primary custodian for executive records.
   • Calendar & Travel Management: Managed complex short-term and long-term executive calendars, coordinates all corporate travel itineraries, meetings, and high-profile VIP site visits.
   • Executive Liaison: Provided high-level administrative support to the Chief Executive Officer, acting as the primary point of contact for multiple regional divisions, 6 department heads, and 20 HR managers.

8. 2013-2014

   Logistics Operations Supervisor

   United States Air Force · New Mexico

   • Audit & Validation: Conducted a comprehensive logistics container audit, successfully validating 2,500 inventory item locations worth $374,000, increasing equipment packaging efficiency by 75%.

9. 2008-2013

   Human Resources Operations Manager

   United States Air Force · New Mexico

   • Health & Wellness Leadership: Directed a corporate physical fitness program, leading 4 weekly high-performance workouts for 170 students and 4 staff members, raising average team fitness scores by 13% with zero failures.
   • Data-Driven Course Correction: Analyzed testing metrics to identify performance variations between classes, implementing 21 hours of targeted corrective training to eliminate educational gaps.
   • Training QA & Instruction: Supervised corporate talent development, providing 15 hours of instruction for 4 training specialists to reach a 100% certification rate.

10. 2006-2008

    Logistics Readiness/ Audit Manager

    United States Air Force · New Mexico

    • Auditable Record Management: Maintained 100% accuracy of all auditable corporate files and reports within the enterprise database, directly safeguarding $270 million in managed stock assets.
    • Asset Decommissioning: Coordinated the formal deactivation and turn-in of an aviation spare parts inventory program, accurately processing 362 line items valued at $9 million to support ongoing global missions.

11. 2001-2006

    Logistics & Quality Assurance Specialist

    United States Air Force · Kansas

    • Frontline Supply Support: Delivered parts, inventory, and logistics services directly to industrial maintenance teams to minimize downtime for 57 operational aircraft and their associated component repair shops.
    • Multi-System Fleet Support: Provided direct supply and maintenance support for 45 heavy aircraft, ground support machinery, data communications, and vehicle fleets.
    • Technical Guidance & Compliance: Provided technical instruction and quality assurance compliance frameworks to 295 team members, ensuring high-quality operations for a fleet of 39 aircraft.

Skills

Education and certifications

Service record

Branch

U.S. Air Force

Rank

SMSgt/E8

Years served

25

Specialty / MOS

2S0X1/Materiel Management

Security clearance

Secret