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KEEPING WARFIGHTERS LINKED PM P2E provides the full spectrum of network and information services enabling Soldiers, commands and supporting organizations to access, process and act upon information any- time, anywhere. Here, Afghan Border Police and Soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment conduct a joint patrol in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Dec. 1, 2012. (U.S. Army photo by SSG Ryan Sheldon, 117th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment (Hawaii)).
dam Babin was a junior in college when he happened upon a Program Executive Office Enterprise Information
Systems (PEO EIS) booth at a career fair. Babin learned that day that his military background as a former Marine sergeant and a contractor in Iraq, as well as his academic
field of study—information
systems management—fit well with the PEO EIS mission of providing infra- structure and information management systems. Babin left his resume with the gentleman staffing the booth.
Two months later, Babin received a phone call asking whether he was interested in a job. It so took him by surprise that he had to recall where he’d had the initial conver- sation. He decided to take a chance and go for the position, which gave him the opportunity to apply his real-world expe- rience and academic background, and to regroup after multiple deployments.
Babin’s official assignment in August 2010 was to the Office of Personnel Management Student Career Experience Program (SCEP), where he began his career path in acquisition, logistics and technology (AL&T) as a government intern for the Army. Restructured and renamed in June 2012, the SCEP pro- gram is now officially called the Pathways Internship Program.
Te Pathways program was designed for undergraduates and graduate students to gain experience working for the govern- ment in jobs related to their fields of study. For Babin, the offer was especially attrac- tive because he embraced the opportunity to travel and perform in a tactical envi- ronment. Another key motivator was directly supporting Soldiers. Te flexibil- ity within Pathways allows for individual organizations to set requirements sup- porting their missions. As a Pathways
intern with the Product Manager Power Projection Enablers (PM P2E), Babin worked with various AL&T organiza- tions as part of P2E’s overarching global mission of providing large-scale technol- ogy and communication platforms.
LEARNING THE TECHNOLOGY Babin’s first assignment at PEO EIS was to intern for John Howell, director of the Integration, Strategy and Logistics Division, on the knowledge manage- ment
team supporting area processing
centers (APCs). Te APC mission was to deliver standardized, secure, global enterprise services that set the conditions for deploying enterprisewide support and communications for the Army’s current and future mission requirements.
Howell’s team was charged with spearheading the creation of the P2E Knowledge Management Portal at PEO EIS, along with managing several Armywide contracts and acquisition efforts. Babin quickly gained the train- ing and skills to become the SharePoint administrator for his team. According to Babin, “Mr. Howell was a great mentor for me when it came to understanding the technology at hand. He helped me understand the processes involved as a government civilian, and he worked with me through my first full annual review as a GS-5, Step 7.”
Howell said Babin’s experience as an
active-duty Marine “allowed him to both be a leader on the team as well as the voice of reason, to make certain that solu- tions met the common-sense ‘Soldier test’ of usability and effectiveness.”
Babin also gained critical knowledge management skills through Howell’s mentorship by working on objectives and developing integrated product teams (IPTs). “We worked on building out
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