Kevin has served as ThayerMahan’s Director of Business Strategy and Marketing where his portfolio included strategy, marketing, and business development; and Director of Maritime Operations, where he planned operations, assessed risk, coordinated logistics, executed autonomous unmanned vehicle tactical operations, and delivered tailored analysis and near-real-time customer reporting.
During his 27-year career in the U.S. Coast Guard, Kevin held positions, including: command of a USCG cutter; Chief of Planning and Response at Sector New Orleans; Incident Commander for oil spill and HAZMAT response; Operations Section Chief for the DM-932 barge spill response; and Finance Section Chief for the Deepwater Horizon unified response. His responsibilities have included: port/waterway/coastal security, maritime commerce, incident response, search and rescue, marine environmental response, drug interdiction, law enforcement, living marine resources enforcement, migrant interdiction, defense readiness and hurricane response.
As a Certified Defense Financial Manager, Kevin oversaw the Coast Guard’s enterprise financial policy when the Department of Homeland Security earned its first clean audit opinion. He led an enterprise-wide transformation initiative to modernize financial management, procurement and contracting, and property management business processes. In the academic realm, he was a Professor of Management and lectured on leadership, organizational development, change management, negotiations, and conflict management.