Brian Arrington, M.S.

• As the CEO of Arrington Consulting, I provide visionary leadership and strategic direction, helping small and medium-sized businesses thrive through AI-driven personalization, business coaching, and trust-based customer engagement. My expertise spans consulting, leadership, mentorship, and customer service, ensuring businesses build authentic relationships that drive long-term loyalty and success. Beyond business, I am deeply committed to serving military families and veterans, addressing housing and food insecurity through impactful initiatives and partnerships. My empathy, altruism, and strategic thinking fuel my mission to create meaningful change in both the business and nonprofit sectors. Core Expertise: ✅ Business Strategy & Innovation – Crafting growth-focused, customer-centric solutions ✅ Leadership & Team Building – Inspiring teams to achieve extraordinary results ✅ Relationship & Trust Building – Elevating brands through authenticity and personalization ✅ Community Advocacy & Impact – Developing initiatives to support veterans and families As a visionary, advisor, and confidant, I help businesses and communities thrive. Follow Arrington Consulting for groundbreaking insights on AI automation, business growth, and impactful leadership.

VETS2INDUSTRY LLC is the new generation in the journey that was started by me and amazing volunteers 6 years ago! Follow me and the many other volunteers who have left the .org and we are going to do amazing things for our community that we couldn’t do under the new management of VETS2INDUSTRY!

VETS2INDUSTRY Provides a single site library that is completely FREE to access, browse, and discover at www.vets2industry.org of all the FREE VETERAN and DEPENDENT resources and Veteran Service Organizations nationwide (updated weekly). V2I also provides a list of the Top 100 Military Friendly Companies from the preceding year (with direct access to the military hiring pages), and tons of valuable info through articles and videos for Active Duty, Guard, Reserves, former service-members, retirees, and all of their dependents. Portfolio and Skill Building Activities: 1. VETLANTA Social Media Content Creator (FB, LinkedIn), Marketer, and Administrator. Produced marketing campaign resulting in a 21.5% increase in new Linkedin subscribers in two weeks, and a 9.14% increase in new Facebook subscribers. Separate social media marketing campaign for Q2 Summit led to a 342% increase in registered attendees from previous Quarter Summit (Q1) after I came aboard (360 to 1,050) as a VETLANTA volunteer Marketing Team Relationship Manager. Secured registration, attendance, and Case managed needs for 20 of the 46 organizations tabling the veteran event at Mercedes Benz Stadium (7 May 2019).

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In this role I reached out to companies of all sizes and explained how to start their DoL paid Apprenticeship Program so that they can onboard on a one year apprenticeship (leading to FTE), highly trained Cybersecurity professionals who are from the military, Milspouse, Dependent work age children, and civilian workforce who all are able to receive advanced cybersecurity training via virtual simulators, all for Free. I also attend events around the nation explaining why RapidAscent is changing the world using a patented virtual simulator that puts the trainee in a real world simulated environment where they are learning with hands on keyboard training how to combat cyberattacks and patch vulnerabilities in real time. After the three months of this training, the cybersecurity professional starts on the job training for one of RapidAscents partner companies and is able to gain certifications like Sec+ at the same time. As the Director of Community Relations at RapidAscent, I leverage my CRM and communication skills to reach out to companies of all sizes and explain how to start their DoL paid apprenticeship program and use the DoD SkillBridge program supported by my nonprofit VETS2INDUSTRY. This program enables them to onboard highly trained cybersecurity professionals who are from the military, milspouse, dependent work-age children, and civilian workforce, and who receive advanced cybersecurity training via virtual simulators, all for free for the service member/veteran/dependent child with GI Bill or paid apprenticeships from the companies that pick the candidate apprentice up.

As Director, Military Programs and Recruiting I am responsible for creating the military hiring strategy for the firm, identifying and sourcing exceptional military and milspouse talent, and overseeing all military programs to include MHA, LLC DoD Skillbridge Program.

Corporate and Investment Banking- Business Initiatives Consultant

Wholesale Control & Strategy Transformation- Strategic Initiatives - Business Initiatives Consultant

1. Brand creator, business card creator, and web page designer for Beauty Salon without a web presence prior to my solicitation. 2. Marketing and design creator for Neighborhood Watch community. 3. Marketing campaign of which I designed, organized, executed and led resulted in 10,500 school supplies raised (valued at over $40,000), all achieved in less than 30 days and with only a 5-volunteer staff, a $0 marketing budget authorized (due to government restrictions), and zero access authorized to government marketing channels. Raised supplies supported 2,200 local off-base school teachers supporting 28,530 students within the Houston County School District, Georgia. At the end of the 2nd week of the campaign, in order to increase exposure and donations, I devised and instituted a competition between all agency's on base and solicited support from industry. The organization raising the most supplies per item would be crowned winner and receive a plaque (designed by me) presented by Robins Air Force Base Installation Commander. The result of this initiative was a 60 percent spike in donations, and $30,000 of value gained between the value of supplies donated the last two weeks and monetary contributions to Houston County Board of Education from industry. This was all accomplished with only one week of planning before the start of the campaign.

Directed 84 employees through execution of complex multi-layered defensive measures protecting 24K personnel and $18B in real government property and assets. • Successfully managed the career development of 8 direct reports and 76 indirect reports over the course of 12-months resulting in the promotion of 14 employees and recognition of 11 individual and team, monthly & annual awards. • Optimized operations and payroll accounts by developing requirements, managing change control, tracking schedules and monitoring cost performance and overtime; ensured project activities aligned with business objectives by cutting wasteful spending and unnecessary manpower assignments. • Drove daily status reports to senior executives outlining tasks completion status, risks, and solutions to conflicts.

Managed travel reception, planning, logistics, and lodging for C-Suite executive guests. Organized and executed planning for multi-national ceremonies, meetings, and relation-building events. • Planned, marketed, and executed 10 multi-national events, facilitating the attendance of 5,000 personnel in concert with Host nation/coalition protocol officers and the U.S. Department of State. • Chaired, planned, coordinated, led radio/poster/flyer/tv advertising campaigns, and levied the support of 15 executive officers on behalf of CEO to host 61 Congressional visits to Incirlik Air Base Turkey. • Facilitated receptions, itineraries, celebrity photo ops and autograph signing events, and lodging management for 148 VIP’s including Hollywood A-list actors, Congressional/Staff delegations, and three Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff visits.

Led 36-security personnel in monitoring and response to Intrusion alarms and ISIL surveillance attempts, affecting the U.S. #1 national warfighting asset and closest coalition strategic air launch point for military operations in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan • Analyzed risks, generated reports, tracked human resource usage and communicated best practices to senior staff. • Authored plans, reviewed external agency addendums for errors/process conflicts, staffed final products for execution for stakeholders.

Managed 2 direct reports for staff controlling and maintaining $1.25M in technology equipment. • Conducted daily reviews of system reliability and status. • Maintained detailed data trends analysis of equipment dwell times, prioritized tickets for repair, requisitioned replacement equipment, conduit for contractor support, monitored scope, schedule, and cost of contract project and requirements to ensure minimum degradation of organization productivity and zero work-loss.

Instituted organization program to identify threats and risks associated with external environmental factors poised to disrupt, degrade, or destroy organizational operational capabilities. • Managed a cross-functional team of 3 direct reports ensuring real-time data was accurate to the minute. Ensured stakeholders and decisionmakers had full scope visibility to commit to action and risk mitigation. • Identified a process improvement area and immediately designed a web-based tracker, for executive level staff, to identify potential disruptions in operational processes to institute stop-measures ahead of time. Upon implementation, 62 identified threats were instantaneously highlighted and eliminated prior to any breach of organizational processes. Reduced organization risk matrix from moderate to low. • Drove daily status reports to senior executives outlining tasks completion status, risks, and solutions to process conflicts.

Managed 6 direct reports and 30 indirect reports. Directed reports on 6 employees through execution of complex multi-layered defensive measures protecting 188K personnel and $18B in real government property and assets. • Managed a cross-functional team of 8 direct reports and 70 indirect reports ensuring stakeholder satisfaction and ensure deliverables are on time and on budget. • Optimized operations by developing requirements, managing change control, tracking schedules and monitoring cost performance and overtime; ensured project activities aligned with business objectives • Drove daily status reports to senior executives outlining tasks completion status, risks, and solutions to conflicts

Instructed over 20,000 students annually across five training tracks in advanced military skills training prior to their deployment in support of combat and humanitarian missions overseas. Subject Matter Expert in Verbal and Non-verbal Communication, Cross-Cultural Communication, International Relations, Travel planning, and Logistical accountability. • Authored curriculum development and implementation for 5 lessons in advanced communication application, detail focused planning, cross-cultural acceptance & communication, negotiations, and resiliency. • Logged 1,400+ hours of instruction, developed/administering & proctored tests, facilitated student critique evaluations, and led instructional system designs for course validations.

Risk identification, mitigation, information gathering, threat analysis, combat support, humanitarian action, community engagement and safety/security, program and project management, cross cultural promotion/engagement/and cross-cultural teamwork and collaboration.

Fellow, learning the finer points of Corporate America and to successfully transition!

Attended two years before spur of the moment decision to enter US Air Force