The Ready Roster
Every month we publish a group of veterans who are verified, available, and worth a conversation. Not resumes — people we have interviewed, checked, and would put our name behind.
Veterans ready to work
Each profile shows what the person actually did, in numbers, plus what they are looking for and when they can start. Names and contact details come with the introduction — see below for why.
Chris C.
Army · CaptainArmy — Infantry Officer
Operations executive who started up and ran a 65,000 sq ft greenfield coffee plant with $45M in net sales.
- Started up a greenfield coffee roasting and packaging plant and led its operations and engineering from 2008 to 2017 — 65,000 sq ft, over 13 million lbs of output, $45M in net sales, and over $12M in capital assets. Helped build the company from 5 personnel to over 250 across that 9.5-year period.
- Held P&L for four divisions of a fire-protection contractor across three states — over $29M in revenue and over 230 employees — while serving as the company safety and risk executive over field operations and a fleet of over 400 vehicles. Led the implementation of a behavior-based safety system across all 14 company divisions; company injuries dropped 50% from 2018 to 2019.
- Ran operations for a start-up beverage manufacturer as it went from a partial shift of 6 personnel to a multi-shift operation of over 45 — over 4.1 million cans and $3.8M in net sales. As the main SQF practitioner in the company, raised its SQF Level II NSF audit score from a 'Good' 92 to an 'Excellent' 99.
Jeffrey H.
Army National Guard · 20+ years
Operations director who has led 100+ personnel and delivered a 98.6% accreditation inspection score — the highest in organizational history.
- Directed eight direct reports and a staff of 100+ personnel across HR, logistics, operations, and IT, running 13 leadership development programs that supported approximately 900 participants annually.
- Managed a $4.2M payroll budget planning and forecasting model and coordinated a $30M annual enterprise resource portfolio spanning personnel, facilities, equipment, and training resources. In an earlier role, ran mobilization readiness on a $4M annual operating budget, coordinating the deployment and return of 14 units totaling 2,500+ personnel.
- Led three statewide emergency response operations — 75 personnel across 15 missions supporting the evacuation, sheltering, recovery, and assistance of approximately 160 civilians — and delivered high-stakes briefings to the Governor during emergency operations.
Eric S.
Army National Guard · 16 years · still servingArmy National Guard — Behavioral Science Officer
Operations and program leader who commanded a 100+ person Army National Guard medical organization with $13M+ in equipment accountability.
- Commanded a 100+ person Minnesota Army National Guard medical organization — operations, logistics, training execution, and personnel readiness — with accountability and maintenance readiness for $13M+ in medical and operational equipment across distributed assets. In a concurrent Guard role as Behavioral Science Officer, supported deployment operations as Task Force Behavioral Health Officer across six bases in three countries.
- Co-founded and led a multi-provider behavioral health organization with full P&L accountability, clinical operations oversight, and regulatory compliance — standardizing intake, scheduling, documentation, billing, and telehealth workflows from the ground up for a startup, and managing budgeting, payer relations, and revenue cycle management.
- Co-designed and rolled out a standardized enterprise SOP for Critical Incident Response Services at a national healthcare enterprise, aligning clinical and operational service lines into a single, auditable workflow — and served as lead for the quarterly enterprise reporting cadence to executive leadership. Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt; MSW, University of St. Thomas.
Alvin K.
Navy · 8 years · SubmarinerNavy MM — Nuclear Machinist's Mate
Facilities and maintenance leader who ran a 1M sq ft, 24/7 semiconductor campus.
- Administered the CMMS/EAM program across 1,300+ assets on a $25M+ operating budget — electrical distribution, chilled water, compressed gas, HVAC, fire suppression, and building automation.
- Redesigned the campus KPI framework, cutting unplanned production interruptions by 50%+.
- Stood up the full preventive-maintenance program at a newly acquired out-of-state facility — staffed, trained, and compliant ahead of schedule.
Joe M.
Marine Corps · E-4
Distribution leader who has run buildings to 1.65M sq ft and launched four new sites.
- Ran the largest transload facility worldwide for a global ocean carrier — 9 national retail accounts, $39.8M annual revenue at a 33% average margin.
- Managed a $19M operating budget and 243 associates across 1.65M sq ft of distribution space; training programs he built cut damages 30% (about $150K a year).
- Runs a fresh-food distribution operation today — 120 warehouse associates and 38 drivers — with 100% USDA audit scores.
Austin C.
Army · 2009–2020 · CaptainArmy — Field Artillery Officer
Production operations leader who cut overtime 75% with Lean and raised laser factory output 20% at a medical device manufacturer.
- Ran multiple cost centers in the component-building business unit of a medical device manufacturer (2020–2023) — applied Lean thinking to capacity models to cut overtime by 75%, and used Theory of Constraints to raise laser factory output 20% and a stent line 40%.
- Commanded a basic combat training battery as an Army captain — 18 drill sergeants, 480 total personnel and equipment, $2.6M+ of assets and a $45K annual operating budget — and led the team through 7 training cycles that graduated 1,600 Soldiers.
- M.S. in Supply Chain Management, University of Minnesota (2023); B.S., United States Military Academy at West Point (2009). Master's capstone helped a team right-size a company's inventory, saving $5.6M on one line, and received a perfect score.
Christopher D.
Army · 5 years · CaptainArmy — Infantry Officer
Fleet operations manager who ran 29 specialized rail machines at 98% service reliability.
- Managed 29 specialized rail-maintenance machines and 85 field personnel serving 7 freight and 4 passenger railroads — $34M in annual service revenue.
- Held 98% service reliability across dispersed 24/7 field operations, with machine-level P&L accountability.
- Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient; MBA, Carlson School of Management (2022).
Nicholas K.
Army · 8 years · CaptainArmy — Aviation Officer (UH-60M Black Hawk)
Dual-rated helicopter pilot and commander who led $250M in assets through a 9-month overseas deployment.
- Commanded an aviation company of 50+ personnel and 10 aircraft; met 100% of mission objectives across 5 allied nations.
- Governed budgets to $27M and asset portfolios to $400M with 100% audit compliance.
- Project Management Professional (PMP), May 2026; brigade-level planning for a 3,000-member organization.
Jason L.
Army National Guard · 13 yearsArmy National Guard — Supply Chain Manager, Aviation unit
Army National Guard supply chain manager who held 100% accountability on $260M in aviation property and now runs a 48-state fleet operation.
- Managed material accountability, procurement, inventory, maintenance, transportation, and disposition for an Army Aviation unit — monthly inventories held 100% property accountability on equipment worth $260 million.
- Planned all purchased and manufactured parts at an industrial equipment manufacturer — EOQ, min/max, and fixed-days ordering to a 92% service-level target, with ERP work orders released to a 90% A+ delivery target. Provided work direction and prioritized shop-floor schedules across eight product lines and eleven personnel on two shifts.
- Assisted the director with a $3 million purchasing budget under Federal Acquisition Regulations and Minnesota statutes, through a team of four senior-level and fifteen mid-level purchasing managers. Managed the supply chain for twenty-two supply chain managers across multiple states and five countries — cadence tasks, equipment upgrades, and data reconciliation.
Olivia T.
NavyNavy — Machinist's Mate (Nuclear); Army NG — 31U Battlefield Communications
Lead database administrator on a 2019-2022 DoD contract who set up inter-continental synchronous replication on a 100TB Oracle database.
- Lead database administrator on a DoD contract at a defense IT firm from 2019 to 2022 — supported Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MS SQL, and cleaned up MySQL views and queries to take performance from minutes to milliseconds. Built a global-scale Galera cluster for a performance-sensitive application, developed a local-use MariaDB STIG from the default DBMS STIG, and built out the database support team.
- Technical lead for cloud operations at a cloud data-analytics platform from 2022 to 2026 — diagnosed and fixed database performance problems in AWS Aurora and RDS and optimized operations and queries for the company's custom data warehouse and reporting engine. Managed high-visibility service degradation responses, served as operations liaison for security incident response, and identified cost savings opportunities in AWS.
- Co-founder and managing director of IT at a customer-survey technology company from 2001 to 2018 — designed and built its telecom, networking, and server infrastructure, deployed and maintained a production survey platform carrying more than 1M live survey records, and optimized its database servers for consistent sub-second query response times. Recovered a corrupted primary file server from a RAID 5 array with under one day of work lost and greater than 95% of historical call-recording data recovered, and managed the reporting platform's transition from MySQL to PostgreSQL without downtime.
Alexander B.
Air Force · 2009-2015Air Force — F-15/A-10/U-2 Aircraft Maintenance Technician
Avionics and simulator technician who kept nine full-flight simulators running for pilot training scheduled 20 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Took sole ownership of the Quality Test Guide program for every simulator at a commercial flight-training center within six months of being hired — weekly testing that simulator behavior matched the actual aircraft, to the training-quality level the FAA requires and a federal examiner inspects annually.
- Repaired and returned certified aircraft components totalling over $11,000,000 at an aerospace component MRO, working from schematics, wiring diagrams, and technical data across more than 12 product lines — and found a safety flaw in one line's testing process, then coordinated through the proper channels to get both the test set and that line's technical data changed.
- Performed Air Force avionics maintenance on 28 assigned A-10C aircraft valued in excess of $364,000,000, then spearheaded the integration of digital-interface tablets into the support section — putting technical procedures, safety announcements, and maintenance database changes in technicians' hands in real time.
Eric B.
Air National Guard · 18 years · Technical Sergeant (E-6)Air National Guard — C-130H Avionics and Electronic Warfare Technician
Avionics technician who maintained C-130H communications, navigation, and defensive systems and ran shop training for 17 personnel.
- Served in the Minnesota Air National Guard from 2004 to retirement in July 2022 as a C-130H electronic warfare and integrated avionics technician — shop training program manager for 17 personnel, Electronic Warfare Shop Chief, and manager of the Maintenance Group's explosive safety and laser safety programs.
- Worked as an Avionics Technician III at an aerospace component MRO — initial inspection of avionics components for reparability, diagnostic root-cause analysis, and repair plans developed with engineering. Earlier built and integrated automation systems for an industrial automation company and maintained semiconductor defect and mapping tooling, including scanning electron microscopes.
- Completed four deployments to Afghanistan and Kuwait as an electronic warfare technician, with career deployments also including New Zealand, Qatar, and Germany. Awarded the Air Force Commendation Medal and a 7-level (Craftsman) skill rating; AAS in Avionics Systems Technology, Community College of the Air Force (2009).
Christopher B.
Marine Corps · 2006–2011Marine Corps — 6433 Rotary Wing Aircraft Systems Technician
Maintenance manager who runs PM, repair, and budget for 357 pieces of industrial equipment; former Marine production control supervisor.
- Runs the maintenance program for 357 pieces of industrial equipment today — PM schedules and documentation, machine upgrades, contractor and large-project oversight, downtime tracking, inventory, and budget control. Serves as Safety Group Leader.
- Served as production control supervisor in a Marine Corps aviation maintenance squadron — coordinating 13 work centers and crews of approximately 40-80 maintenance technicians across flight control, weapons, and radio systems. Deployed to Iraq, served as a collateral duty inspector under the Naval Maintenance Procedures for Quality Assurance, and received two Certificates of Commendation.
- Worked as a repair and calibration technician — diagnosing and troubleshooting electro-mechanical quality control equipment, calibrating precision measuring devices in accordance with ASTM standards, and supporting customers with phone troubleshooting.
Dylan F.
Army National Guard · 9 years · Staff SergeantArmy National Guard — Infantryman Squad Leader
Service manager who led a team of 7 technicians, generated $4.4M in annual revenue, and grew department revenue 30% year over year.
- Led and developed a team of 7 technicians at a garage door service company, driving performance through coaching, structured training programs, and accountability systems.
- Generated $4.4M in annual revenue and increased department revenue 30% year over year — spearheaded sales process improvements, led company-wide sales training, and drove higher technician productivity and average ticket value.
- Infantry squad leader and Staff Sergeant in the Army National Guard since December 2016 — provided technical and tactical guidance to fellow soldiers and deployed to the Horn of Africa; Basic Leadership Course, Non-Commissioned Officer School (2021).
Cole J.
Marine Corps · Sergeant
Production manager who has run daily scheduling, materials, staffing, and quality checks for a metal fabrication shop.
- Runs daily production scheduling, materials, and staff assignments — rotations and overtime included — at a metal fabrication shop today, coordinating with the sales team so production matches customer demand. Oversees equipment maintenance, quality-control checks, and cost-reduction and process-improvement work.
- Supervised fabrication processes to specification and coordinated workflow between departments as a lead fabricator; before that, worked as a lead welder at heights for a construction contractor — supervising welding operations on construction projects and inspecting welds for compliance with industry standards.
- Marine Corps Sergeant; Associate degree in Business and Renewable Energy, Air Stream Trade School (2021). Trained new team members on equipment operation and safety protocols, and junior welders on technique and safety, across both trade roles.
Juan B.
Army National Guard · SergeantArmy — Company Armorer
Company armorer who held accountability for over $1 million in weapons and sensitive military equipment while serving overseas.
- Served as company armorer for two separate companies while overseas — accountable for over $1 million in weapons, sensitive items, and military equipment. Planned and executed an international transfer of armory assets with zero loss.
- Serves as regional director for a restaurant business today — food quality, customer service, operational standards, hiring, employee training and performance, and bookkeeping. Previously general manager at a multi-location restaurant company, supervising 15+ employees.
- Performed Level 10 operator maintenance on up-armored HMMWVs — inspections, preventive maintenance, and basic troubleshooting. Army Commendation Medal and two Army Achievement Medals; promoted to Sergeant in March 2026.
Pierce E.
Army Reserve · 10+ yearsArmy 88N — Transportation Management Coordinator
Transportation coordinator who has moved $18M+ in equipment by ground, air, rail, and sea.
- Coordinated multimodal shipments for 500+ personnel; standardized routing that lifted on-time delivery 18%.
- Audited freight billing across 44 carrier partners, recovering $250K+ in billing variances.
- Trained and supervised 19 personnel, improving task accuracy 25%; Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.
Trae S.
Army National Guard · since 2013 · Squad Leader
Glazing project manager and window glazier who coordinated fabrication and installation on projects valued from $10K to $400K.
- Coordinated fabrication and installation of glazing systems for residential and commercial projects valued from $10K to $400K at a glass fabrication and installation company, February 2018 to August 2024 — managed material ordering, job scheduling, and on-site coordination, and collaborated with contractors, superintendents, and project managers to align scope, schedule, and installation sequencing.
- Led and trained teams of up to nine personnel as a Minnesota Army National Guard squad leader, planning and executing operations that required logistics coordination, documentation, scheduling, and risk assessment. Completed Basic Leadership Course (2019) and Advanced Leadership Course (2021).
- Verified site measurements, material specifications, and shop documentation for accuracy and constructability, and inspected fabricated glass, mirrors, windows, and assemblies before installation — an architecture student, enrolled at Dakota County Technical College 2024 to 2026, working in Revit 2024, AutoCAD 2024, and Bluebeam.
Justin C.
National Guard · 14 yearsMinnesota National Guard — Communications Supervisor / Culinary Manager
Certified Master Auto Technician who has diagnosed and repaired brakes, transmissions, engines, and drive trains on cars and trucks.
- Worked as an auto mechanic at three shops between 2014 and 2020 — routine maintenance, diagnostics using advanced diagnostic tools, and repair or replacement of faulty components. In the longest of those roles (2014-2018), inspected, serviced, and repaired brakes, exhaust systems, transmissions, engines, suspension systems, drive trains, and fuel systems on cars and trucks.
- Served in the Minnesota National Guard from 2005 to 2019 as a communications supervisor and culinary manager — coordinated internal communications for personnel across multiple units, monitored equipment and notified proper personnel to correct problems, and supervised kitchen staff on safety compliance, inventory management, and procurement.
- Works today as a self-employed residential builder and remodeler — collaborates with clients on their needs and design preferences and manages material inventory to keep work moving on-site. Between 2020 and 2024, assembled components and inspected finished parts to specification at a plastics manufacturer, then applied powder coat finishes with electrostatic equipment and inspected products for surface imperfections at an industrial equipment manufacturer.
Eric A.
Army Reserve · 2007-2016Army Reserve — Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic
Army Reserve wheeled vehicle mechanic (2007-2016) who has since assembled HVAC panels, snowplow hydraulics, and heavy machine products.
- Maintained, inspected, serviced, repaired, and tested wheeled vehicles, their associated trailers, and material handling equipment systems as an Army Reserve wheeled vehicle mechanic, 2007-2016 — awarded a Challenge Coin by the Battalion Commander, and honorably discharged.
- Wired high- and low-voltage HVAC panels at an electrical equipment manufacturer from 2023, assembling products to customer specification from blueprints and schematics and inspecting parts for defects — perfect attendance, and recognized by management for work ethic and attention to detail.
- Assembled snowplow valves and reservoirs to build sheets and blueprints at a hydraulics supplier, building manifolds to completion, inspecting incoming parts, and assisting with valve testing. Earlier built heavy machine products to engineering and manufacturing prints at a heavy equipment manufacturer — torque tools, metric units, hydraulics, and electrical components, within allotted process time.
No surnames, phone numbers, or employer names on these profiles — that is deliberate, and the reasons are below. You get the name and a direct introduction the moment you tell us you want to talk to someone.
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Tell us who you want to talk to and the role you have in mind. We confirm availability and set up the conversation — same business day in almost every case.
Every profile is represented
We represent them
Every veteran on the roster is represented by LockLeed on our standard terms — you pay on a successful hire and nothing before it, and the fee is stated on the profile. Request an introduction and we set up the conversation the same business day.
Before anyone appears here
A resume is a claim. Everything on these profiles is something we checked ourselves, and anything we could not confirm is left off rather than softened into something vaguer.
- DD-214 on file — branch, dates, rank at separation, and occupation all match it
- The two most recent employers, confirmed directly
- Two references by phone, at least one a direct supervisor
- Every certification checked against its issuing body
- A signed release, and the veteran has approved the exact wording you are reading
We protect the candidate first
Publicly announcing that a named person is job hunting can cost them the job they still have. Minnesota is an at-will state and there is no protection against being fired for looking.
A published phone number is its own problem: employment scams have been climbing fast and veterans are among the most targeted people in the country for them. We are not going to hand a scammer a pre-verified list.
So you get everything you need to decide whether this is a person worth an hour of your time, and we make the introduction the moment you say yes. It costs you a two-minute form and nothing else.
Get the roster when it publishes
One email when a roster goes up, with that month's veterans and what they do. If someone fits, reply and we set up the conversation. If nobody does, you delete it and nothing else happens.
Telling us what you hire for is optional, but it is the difference between a general list and us flagging the one person who fits your shop.
How to get on the roster
Send us your resume and say you would like to be considered. Everything LockLeed does for candidates is free, permanently — being on the roster costs nothing and never will.
Being featured is voluntary and reversible. You sign a short release covering exactly which fields we publish and where, you approve the final wording before it goes up, and you can have your profile taken down at any time.
We do not publish your surname, your phone number, your employer, or anything about your health or disability status — and if you are currently working and your employer does not know you are looking, we will not list you at all. That rule costs us good candidates and we keep it anyway.
Roster criteria
- Verified service record — DD-214 or NGB-22 on file
- Available inside about 60 days
- Achievements we can state as numbers, not adjectives
- Unemployed, separating on a known date, or your employer knows you are looking
- References who will actually pick up the phone
We publish everyone who has cleared verification and is genuinely available that month — some months a handful, some months a dozen or more. A thin month is a thin month — we do not pad the list to hit a number.
About the Ready Roster
When does each roster publish?
A new group goes up each month — the first published in August 2026. Every veteran is verified before appearing — service records, employment history, references and certifications, one at a time — and nobody appears on the page until that is finished. If you want it in your inbox the day it goes up, there is a sign-up on this page.
How often does it update, and what happens to old profiles?
The size of each month's group moves with who is looking and who has cleared verification — some months a handful, some months a dozen or more. Profiles come down as soon as someone is hired or their availability window closes, so what you are looking at is current rather than an archive of people who took other jobs months ago.
What is the Ready Roster?
Every month we publish a short list of veterans who are verified, available, and worth a conversation. It is not a resume dump — each person has been interviewed by us, their DD-214 is on file, and their employment history and certifications have been checked before they appear here.
What does it cost to hire someone on the roster?
Everyone on the roster is represented by LockLeed on our standard terms — you pay on a successful hire, and the fee is stated on each profile so there are no surprises. If we do not place the person, you do not pay a placement fee.
Why don't you publish full names and phone numbers?
Two reasons, and both protect the veteran. Publicly announcing that a named person is job hunting can cost them their current job, and a published phone number puts them in the middle of the employment-scam wave that has been targeting veterans hard. You get everything you need to decide whether to talk to someone; we make the introduction the moment you want it.
How fast do I hear back after requesting an introduction?
Same business day in almost every case, and always within one. We confirm the role you have in mind, tell you honestly whether the person is still available, and set up the conversation.
What has actually been verified?
Service branch, dates, rank at separation, and military occupation against the DD-214; the two most recent employers; two references by phone, at least one a direct supervisor; and every certification against the issuing body. Anything we could not verify is left off the profile rather than softened.
I'm a veteran — how do I get on the roster?
Send us your resume and tell us you would like to be considered. Everything LockLeed does for candidates is free, permanently. Being on the roster is voluntary, requires a written release, and you can ask us to take your profile down at any time.
Why does the size of the roster change month to month?
Because we only publish veterans who have cleared verification and are genuinely available. Recruiting supply is lumpy and a content calendar is not — some months that is a handful, some months it is a dozen or more. We would rather show you the real number than pad or trim the list to hit one.
The roster is a sample, not the whole bench
Even a full month's roster is a fraction of who we have. Tell us the role and we will go find the person for it — your search retainer credited in full against the placement fee.