AF ELS 18C Participant Biographies

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CHIEF MASTER SERGEANT SAMUEL J. SHAW SR.

Chief Master Sergeant Samuel J. Shaw Sr. is Chief, Senior Enlisted Management Division, Reserve Senior Leader Management Office, Office of the Air Force Reserve, Air Force Pentagon, Washington, D.C. He is responsible for the management of Air Force Reserve Senior Enlisted Leaders assigned to Air Force Reserve Command key Senior Master Sergeant and Chief Master Sergeant positions. CMSgt Shaw was born in Nampa, Idaho in 1968. He worked throughout much of his youth and completed an in-home educational program in 1986. He worked several more jobs prior to reporting to Lackland Air Force Base, Texas for basic military training on January 30, 1989 and later beginning his first active duty assignment in Berlin, Germany. After three assignments, he transferred into the Air Force Reserve in 1998. As a reservist, CMSgt Shaw has directly supported National Security Agency/Central Security Service, US Space Command, US Northern Command US Strategic Command, and multiple units within Air Combat Command. In 2010- 2011, he served as Superintendent, Multi-national Forces – Iraq, Joint Intelligence

Directorate, Document and Media Exploitation, Camp Slayer, Iraq. During 2013 he served full-time as the 544 th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group Superintendent while his active duty counterpart was deployed. CMSgt Shaw’s previous assignment was as Chief Enlisted Manager, Headquarters Air Force Reserve Command Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Directorate and Major Command Functional Manager of the more than two thousand Reserve Airmen assigned in the twelve core enlisted ISR career fields.

EDUCATION 1989

Electronics Intelligence Operations Specialist Technical Training, Goodfellow AFB, Texas

1993 1995 1996 1998

Airman Leadership School, Offutt AFB, Nebraska

EA 280 Intermediate ELINT Analysis, Ft George G. Meade, Maryland General Equivalency Diploma, Plattsmouth, Nebraska Associates in communications applications technology, CCAF

2000 Bachelor’s in computer information systems management, Colorado Christian University, Denver, Colorado 2003 Fundamentals of Systems Acquisition Management, Defense Acquisition University 2004 EA 2300 ELINT Seminar, Buckley AFB, Colorado 2006 Noncommissioned Officer Academy, by correspondence 2009 Senior Noncommissioned Officer Academy, by correspondence 2009 Project Management Certification, University of California Irvine 2010 Document and Media Exploitation Training, Reston Virginia 2011 Senior Enlisted Joint Professional Military Education, Joint Forces Staff College, (online) 2011 Cyber Operations Transition Course, (online) 2011 Senior Enlisted Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Master Skills Course Goodfellow AFB, Texas 2011 Air Force Reserve Command Chief Master Sergeant Orientation Course, Robins AFB, Georgia 2014 Professional Manager Certification, CCAF 2015 AFRC Senior NCO Leadership Course, 477 FSS, JB Elmendorf/Richardson Alaska 2015 IMA Leadership Course, AFRC/A2, Robins AFB, Georgia 2016 Senior Enlisted Joint Professional Military Education II, (online) 2016 The Keystone Course, Joint Forces Staff College, Fort McNair, Washington D.C. 2018 Senior Enlisted Legal Orientation, The Judge Advocate General’s School, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama 2018 Enterprise Leadership Seminar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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