Jared Alexander Dumale

Geospatial Professional | PhD scholar | Military Leader

jared.dumalej@afacademy.af.edu dumalej@gmail.com Projects

Summary

Geospatial professional and educator who blends hands-on technical work with clear, decision-ready analysis. Results-driven and obsessed with practical solutions: automating data workflows, creating maps and dashboards, and turning messy information into simple, actionable insights. A self-starter who has led teams through high-pressure missions and can brief, teach, and motivate diverse audiences to execute.

Work Experience

Senior Instructor & Deputy Director of Geospatial Intelligence

United States Air Force Academy

2024 – Present
  • Course Director: designed curriculum (in-person and e-learning), assessments, and developed learning objectives for courses in Cultural Geography and Geospatial Intelligence.
  • Executive Officer: managed admin load & coordinated 44 faculty members, led operations planning in complex academic setting.
  • Deputy Director, Geospatial Intelligence Certificate Program: Managed training, accreditation, and partnerships for >40 students.
  • Principal liaison to the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF).
  • Strengthened undergraduate certificate program to accommodate additional majors while preserving academic rigor; increased enrollment by 75%.
  • Academic advisor for 11 students; provided structured career coaching and encouraged continuous learning opportunities.
  • Authored multiple program self-studies, managing data collection, metrics, and compliance documentation to successfully secure external accreditation.

Senior Intelligence Duty Officer & Operations Briefer

United States Air Force

2022 – 2024
  • Air Operations Center duty officer; led a 7-person team running 24/7 air operations coverage; synthesized multi-source inputs into actionable assessments and senior-leader briefings for 30,000+ missions.
  • Established & maintained 7 workflow tools that automated intelligence analysis and generated launch itineraries for dissemination.
  • Deployed intelligence officer; conducted threat monitoring for humanitarian airlift, evacuation, and refueling operations in Southwest Asia & Africa.
  • Fused intelligence across foreign policy, defense, signals, and geospatial domains to support joint & multinational operations.

Chief, Intelligence Unit Support

United States Air Force

2019 – 2022
  • Directed 6-person team charged with developing policy for organizing, training, and equipping 114 worldwide intelligence units.
  • Served as the intelligence lead on a 4-star general’s battle staff, monitoring Russian force build-up and the lead-in to the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine; delivered time-sensitive indications & warning and operational updates to inform senior leader decision-making.

Noncommissioned Officer

United States Air Force

2013 – 2019
  • Technical lead & team leader for aircraft avionics systems on Search & Rescue aircraft, responsible for scheduled maintenance, system reliability, mission readiness, and coordination between aircrew and maintenance teams.
  • Supported U.S. and partner counter-narcotics operations by turning sensor and mission information into clear updates for interagency teams to help track and disrupt drug-trafficking activity.
  • Worked on global missions across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Indo-Pacific, supporting large training exercises and real-world operations; completed 5 deployments in high-tempo environments.

Soft Skills

Customer Engagement, Time Management, Adaptability, Lateral Thinking, Operational Planning, Training & Curriculum Development, Teamwork (leadership & followership)

Presentations & Appearances

Leveraging Breakthroughs in AI to Manage, Process, and Protect Space Data, Infrastructure, and Mission Outcomes

London, UK

2025
  • Invited panelist at an international defense geospatial conference, discussing AI integration, data governance, and mission assurance.

Using GeoAI to Enhance Air Operations in the Future Battlespace

United States Air Force Academy, CO

2025
  • Research seminar delivered to senior academic leadership and cadets outlining applied GeoAI concepts, use cases, and implications for future air and space operations.

From Compass to Cloud to Claude: Reimagining Collaborative Geospatial Intelligence Education for Future Missions

London, UK

2026
  • Invited panelist on modernizing GEOINT education via cloud platforms and AI-enabled workflows.

Practice to Performance: A Portrait of the Future Geographer

Florence, AL

2026
  • Keynote address to the University of North Alabama Geoscience Alumni Association (UNAGAA) conference.

GEOINT³: Reframing Geospatial Intelligence Education Across Concepts, Representations, and Reasoning

Denver, CO

2026
  • Presented a framework integrating conceptual understanding, spatial representation, and analytical reasoning.

Projects

GeoAI Research Project

The Pennsylvania State University

2024
  • Created proof-of-concept LLM workflow to extract entities/locations, generate summaries, and visualize geocoded events in GIS dashboard. Supported trend identification and early-warning. Validated through 12 demo sessions with analyst feedback.

Geo412 Game-Learning

United States Air Force Academy

2024 - 2025
  • Developed a series of geography trivia games to help USAFA cadets learn the association of different countries with combatant commands
  • Visit the website here: Geo 412 Games

COVEY 535 Geospatial Recovery Study

United States Air Force Academy

2025 - 2026
  • Led undergraduate geospatial research supporting recovery efforts for a missing USAF aircraft in Laos; analyzed 22 historical imagery scenes and [DEM/source] terrain models to generate 4 map products that refined priority search areas.
  • Oversaw geospatial analysis integrating 3 data types to support recovery of missing USAF aircraft in Laos, involving coordination with 3 major institutions.

AFSC Atlas: Career & Training Dashboard for USAFA Cadets

United States Air Force Academy

2025 - 2026
  • Supervised capstone project that is a a proof-of-concept ArcGIS Dashboard that enabled cadets search their Air Force Specialty Code (AFSC) and instantly view training base locations, pipeline sequencing, and timeline milestones in a single, map-forward interface.
  • Curated and structured AFSC job and training metadata into a reusable dataset, demonstrating how geospatial visualization can improve cadet career planning, expectation management, and advisor/cadet conversations.

Volunteering

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Mapper & Spatial Analyst

2024 – Present
  • Contributed 65+ hours to crisis-response mapping & analysis (earthquake relief and South Sudan mass-casualty support), including the validation of over 1K features and 40 km of waterways mapped to improve humanitarian planning and access.

Awards

  • Competitive Doctoral Scholarship in Geospatial Intelligence — Stu Shea USGIF Endowed Scholarship ($15,000).
  • Meritorious Service Award — Applied geospatial and intelligence contributions; automated threat assessment supporting 13,000 air missions across 200+ locations.
  • Competitive Research Funding Award (Quality of Analysis Program) — Two-time selectee ($7,000) supporting studies on U.S. and partner-nation geospatial analysis capabilities.
  • Distinguished Graduate, Military Leadership School — Top tier of a 60-person cohort.
  • Emergency Response & Incident Leadership Award — Leadership in medical triage and airlift coordination after a civilian mass-casualty incident.

Training / Courses

  • Headquarters Staff Orientation Course — Learned how large headquarters (1,000+ personnel) operate: command relationships, staff workflows, administrative systems, and decision-support processes.
  • FADE Academy — Advanced training in efficiently discovering, accessing, and integrating national-level, tactical, and open-source datasets using structured tradecraft and repeatable methodologies.
  • Basic Intelligence Officers Course — Core intelligence analysis and briefing/writing tradecraft supporting cyber, space, and multi-domain operations; emphasized clear communication under time pressure.
  • Officer Training School — Commissioning program focused on leadership, accountability, and managing teams in high-stakes operational environments.
  • Airmen Leadership School — Frontline leadership and supervisory training (performance management, team leadership, and mission execution); Distinguished Graduate (Top 10%).
  • HC-130J Avionics Craftsman Courses — Advanced avionics maintenance and troubleshooting for HC-130J communications, navigation, and guidance/control systems; trained to diagnose complex faults and restore mission-capable status.
  • Basic Military Training — Military foundational training in discipline, teamwork, and performance under stress; Honor Graduate (#2 of ~750 trainees).
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