John E. Chere Jr.707 591-1623 jcherejr@gmail.com

www.linkedin.com/pub/john-e-chere-jr In Search of new and challenging opportunities

Qualification Highlights• Over 30 years of superior performance as a senior military officer (Colonel) in the

U.S. Army. • Proven leadership, communications, and operational skills in combat and peacetime

in managing and leading diverse and complex organizations, including 17 years serving and living overseas.

• Exceptional Middle East regional expertise with comprehensive cultural and political understanding that has shaped senior-level policy decision making on a host of evolving and ground-breaking regional issues.

• Successful intelligence and political-military experience for past 12 years having served at the highest levels of international, inter-agency, and bilateral cooperation between the United States Government and several key allies, including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Iraq and Israel.

• Mentor and teacher to hundreds of current and future civilian and military leaders.• Lecturer on leadership, U.S. government decision making and current topics on the

Middle East.• Foreign Languages: Fluent French and basic Hebrew and Arabic proficiency.• U.S. Security Clearance: TS/SCI valid to August 2017

Skills : Dynamic leadership, task-oriented manager, effective communicator and briefer, intelligence analysis, team builder, foreign languages, professional and values-based work ethic.

Education• M.A.School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York,

1991• BA. Political Science (Middle East Studies), University of California, Berkeley,

California. 1982

Experience August 2002 – July 2014

• Served as the Senior Military Official and the Defense/Army Attaché for the United States Department of Defense and the Defense Intelligence Agency in the key allied countries of Morocco, Algeria, Iraq, Tunisia and Israel.

• Coordinated and executed all U.S. Defense programs and policies, which included region-wide security assistance and Foreign Military Financing programs valued in excess of $3B.

• Served at the epicenter of the Arab Spring in North Africa and on the front lines in Gaza, the Syrian border and the Palestinian-Israel Peace Process, and played a role in shaping policies and decisions on the course of U.S. actions and regional policies.

• Worked closely with the USG inter-agencies and host nation military and civilian officials on counter-terrorism strategies and capacity building programs designed to

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increase U.S. partner nation proficiencies and bolster nascent Governments struggling with internal security issues and weak government institutions.

• Led and managed highly capable teams from 5 to 50 personnel to collect and inform the USG on rapidly evolving events in the region and gave recommendations to the National Command leadership on courses of action to either respond or to pre-empt events.

July 2000 – July 2002• Senior Instructor for tactics and strategy and Small Group Mentor and Assistant

Professor, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

• Mentored and instructed over 500 officers from multiple services, 79 foreign countries and the U.S. Government inter-agency on military operations and strategies to employ the military at the strategic and operational levels of war and peace.

February 1983 - June 2000 • Led and deployed Combat Infantry organizations in the U.S. and overseas from

Platoon to Brigade (Regimental) level. • Responsible for the welfare of 35 to 5000 personnel and the accountability and

maintenance of sensitive equipment in excess of $1B. • Further responsible for all planning, training, safety and discipline and esprit of all

assigned soldiers and personnel.

Major Professional Training• U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas 1997• Defense International Security Assistance Management Course, Wright Patterson

AFB, 1993 and 2010• Assistant Professor, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 2000• Joint Military Attaché Course, 2002

Honors and Awards• U.S. Defense Superior Service Medal (2)• Foreign awards: Moroccan, Israeli and German Parachute wings, Order of the

Commander, Kingdom of Morocco, Israel Defense Force Service award, and Tunisian Order of the Commander.

• Department of State Honor Award (3)

Community Service• Served as Chairman of the International School Board, Tel Aviv, Israel 2008-2010

and Ambassador’s representative to the International School Board, Tunis,Tunisia 2011-2013.

• Served as Assistant Scoutmaster and Boy Scout Board Chairman 1997-2000, Fort Irwin, California

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