Jorge Soto

Background

About Jorge Soto

Retired Navy Command Master Chief with 29 years’ active duty service. Thrives on challenging assignments in dynamic environments bringing a broad range of expertise and experience in Executive Leadership and Management, Project Management, Doctrine Development, Training and Curriculum Development, Leadership Development, Information Operations Planning, Military Deception, Psychological/Military Information Support Operations, Operations Security, Electronic Warfare, Cryptology, Data Collection and Metrics Analysis. Established operational leadership and championed all aspects of employee relations and talent development for 10K+ team colleagues. Responsible for entire employee life cycle, maximizing employee engagement with strategic HR planning. Mentored, coached, and led a direct reporting team of 66. Established benchmarks and key performance indicators to which delivered powerful and diverse high-performing teams across the diverse military departments. Implemented best practices amid devising new innovative Navy HR and business processes. Initiated new recruitment strategies, utilizing metrics from job performance evaluations, attrition rates, and advancement rates to align people to the needs of the organization. Mitigated talent short falls in order to enhance expertise in specifically skilled areas, ensuring strategic HR planning and effective executive succession planning. Implemented new HR Operating Procedures Improved productivity and efficiency, handling conflict resolution, team performance evaluations, benefit education and training programs, Equal Opportunity and Sexual Harassment Program Management, and formal counseling to evolve job performance. Designed, led development of and implemented a training and readiness process across 6 diverse mission sets delivering basic through advanced unit-level Electronic Warfare and Cryptologic training team events for surface combatants and submarines. Formulated annual operating budgets and monthly forecasts, and tracked team spending. Conducted financial analysis to support the establishment of a dedicated $5.2 million budget for training support. Developed proposals, informational briefs, reports, instructions, and other written internal and external correspondence in support of command level operations and planning.