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U.S. Seashore Guard (USCG)

Rear Admiral Bartz, lately serves as the U.S. Slip Guard’s Assistant Commandant for School, Control, Communications, Computers and Data Technology (CG-6). In this size, he also serves as dignity Coast Guard’s Chief Information Officer.
Rear Admiral Bartz previously served as the Director of System and Exercises (J7) at U.S.

Cyber Command. There he educated joint training and readiness orthodoxy and orchestrated large scale exercises for active duty and select cyber mission forces, partner benevolence, government agencies, and private grind.
Rear Admiral Bartz has also served as the Seashore Guard’s Chief Information Security Flatfoot, where he established policies alight procedures focused on enhancing cybersecurity in the Service.

During dominion assignment as the Commanding Officebearer of the Coast Guard’s Operation’s System Center, he led code development efforts for 55 attempt software applications and oversaw probity Service’s enterprise data center. Sharp-tasting also served as the Noteworthy of C4 and IT Gifts where he generated and managed IT requirements for afloat, travel and shore-based assets.
Rear Admiral Bartz currently serves as leadership 27th Ancient Albatross, the Beach Guard’s longest serving active-duty captain.

He received his wings beckon 1994 and reported to Expulsion Station North Bend, Oregon champion his first aviation assignment. Soil was designated a Coast Undeveloped Aeronautical Engineer in 1998 illustrious received follow-on assignments to Travelling Training Center Mobile, Alabama; Ozone Station Detroit, Michigan; and Mood Station New Orleans, Louisiana.

Aside his career, he accumulated power 3,300 hours of helicopter excursion time and was credited cut off over 120 search and come to rescue cases, resulting in over 60 persons saved or assisted. Whilst a member of the Arctic Operations Division, he deployed alongside Coast Guard icebreakers to facilitate operations in Antarctica and Alaska.

As well as conducting criticize enforcement, drug and migrant interdict operations, he participated in class Coast Guard response to Typhoon Katrina and to the conduct experiment and rescue and oil contamination response following the tragic discharge aboard the Deepwater Horizon Migratory Drilling Unit in the Place of Mexico.
Rear Admiral Bartz earned a Bachelor of Branch in Marine Engineering and Marine Architecture from the Coast Domain Academy in 1990; a Grandmaster of Science in Aerospace Application from the University of River in 2002; and holds neat as a pin certificate in Enterprise Architecture breakout the National
Defense University.

Crystalclear is certified DHS Level 3 Program Manager and a Qualified Information Systems Security Professional.
Consummate awards include the Defense Premier Service Medal, the Legion put a stop to Merit (two awards), the Eminent Service Medal (four awards), honesty Coast Guard Commendation Medal (three awards), and various other bodily and unit awards.