Ryan Padgett

Monument, Colorado, United States
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I have a passion for bringing peace and community to my military and first responder…

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  • Bold Face Fly Fishing Foundation Inc.(501c3)

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Volunteer Experience

  • Student Veterans of America Graphic

    Vice President - UCCS Student Veteran Organization

    Student Veterans of America

    - Present 1 year 9 months

    i18n_veterans

    Responsible for organizing connection, support, and advocacy for all student veterans at UCCS; local liaison to the Student Veterans of America; manage team of 109 student veterans/SVO members

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    President/Co-founder

    Bold Face Fly Fishing

    - Present 6 years 4 months

    Education

    Our public servants: our police, fire, EMS, military, and healthcare workers, literally carry the world on their shoulders. What they don't always have are healthy outlets for relieving the cumulative and traumatic stress that has ended careers, family's, and even lives. Our mission at Bold Face Flyfishing is to introduce our "everyday heroes" to the peace, excitement, and fellowship that those of us in the flyfishing community already exererience by partnering with flyfishing professionals…

    Our public servants: our police, fire, EMS, military, and healthcare workers, literally carry the world on their shoulders. What they don't always have are healthy outlets for relieving the cumulative and traumatic stress that has ended careers, family's, and even lives. Our mission at Bold Face Flyfishing is to introduce our "everyday heroes" to the peace, excitement, and fellowship that those of us in the flyfishing community already exererience by partnering with flyfishing professionals, para-professionals, commercial ventures, and industry leaders that want to find a practical and fun way of "saying thank you" to those we owe so much...by taking them fishing!

    "Bold face" is an aircrew term that are procedures we commit to memory without reference to a checklist.When we are under stress, they become our "autopilot", whether healthy or not. Our vision at BF³ is to give our public servants a "bold face" stress relief technique, so when that "bad call" happens, they have something powerful and cathartic, as well as kind and reliable community they can turn to...and find a way to not carry that burden alone.

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    Advisory Board Member

    Spring Canyon Camp & Conference Center

    - Present 3 years

    i18n_veterans

    I provide advice, fundraising support, and project management support to Spring Canyon Conference Center, it's staff, and the Officers Christian Fellowship. military/military family members who attend the camp. Currently leading building a fly fishing activity project for Spring Canyon.

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    Small Group Leader

    Officers' Christian Fellowship

    - 10 years 5 months

    Social Services

    Leads small group in religious education, discipleship, and peer crisis support. Communicate with OCF National Staff to recruit and engage new and current members. Coordinate with military chaplaincy to provide mutual logistical and spiritual support to chaplaincy and congregants.

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    Police Chaplain

    Fairfield Police Department

    - 5 years 5 months

    Social Services

    Crisis Intervention services, wedding/funeral officiant, ride-alongs, spiritual/emotional/psychological care for LE officers, their families, and crime victims/families

  • Program Manager

    Operation: Combat PTSD

    - 3 years

    Social Services

    Lead advocate, liaison for Operation:Combat PTSD, an education and awareness program at Travis AFB. Conducts educational briefings on PTSD awareness, organizes mental health briefings by Travis Mental Health professionals. Advocates and promotes resources for those suffering from PTSD and those around them also affected by it.

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    Volunteer Service Coordinator

    Life.Church

    - 2 years

    Social Services

    Responsible for managing 70-80 volunteers, financial accounting of tithes/offerings, and position staffing for 3 church services with over 1200 people average daily attendance.

  • Law Enforcement Chaplain

    Law Enforcement Chaplaincy Sacramento

    - 4 years 11 months

    Disaster and Humanitarian Relief

    Provided crisis intervention,pastoral care, and officer/victim support services for 21 different law enforcement agencies in the greater Sacramento Area.

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    Advisory Board Member (Solano County)

    The Salvation Army

    - 4 years 4 months

    Disaster and Humanitarian Relief

    Developed Solano County Salvation Army/Travis AFB partnership through various military/community outreach programs:
    1. Salvation Army Youth summer camps(Kroc Fest) - organized Air Force future career orientation program for approx 110 youths to experience various USAF jobs through presentations/base visits.
    2. Developed scaled military scholarship program for Salvation Army Kroc Center membership.
    3. Selected as guest speaker for Red Kettle Kickoff annual fund-raiser. Raised $32K…

    Developed Solano County Salvation Army/Travis AFB partnership through various military/community outreach programs:
    1. Salvation Army Youth summer camps(Kroc Fest) - organized Air Force future career orientation program for approx 110 youths to experience various USAF jobs through presentations/base visits.
    2. Developed scaled military scholarship program for Salvation Army Kroc Center membership.
    3. Selected as guest speaker for Red Kettle Kickoff annual fund-raiser. Raised $32K for 2022 Christmas Season.

  • Advisory Board Member/Marketing Committee

    Centurion Christian Classical School

    - Present 3 years 11 months

    Education

    Provides marketing advice/guidance to the Board of Directors and Headmaster, executes school fundraisers/awareness/education events, acting as a volunteer teaching assistant as needed.

    https://www.centurionschool.com/

  • Board Member

    Valor to Wellness Foundation

    - Present 1 year

    Social Services

    Provide the President/membership advice and support, especially with regard to non-profit launching, administration, fundraising, and organization. Championed AI-driven product management and generation.

Publications

Courses

  • AF Continuous Process Improvement

    Green Belt

Projects

  • Psychological Statistics Virtual Teachers Aide

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    Created & deployed an AI-powered virtual teacher/student aide for UCCS PSY 2100(Psych Statistics) course. Provided virtual tutoring, concept explanation, problem "walk throughs", student self-assessements, and course syllabus navigation.

  • SVA NATCON 2025 Breakout Presenter

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    Developed and presented hour-long breakout session on military veteran wellness to 25 student veterans and advisors. Presented theory/framework for student veterans to understand the psychological loss experienced through leaving the military, and how to practically rebuild/re-develop overall psychological health and wellness. Created AI-enhanced presentation, participant guide, and mobile-friendly engagement tool..

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  • Expanding the Boundaries

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    Developed the "Travis Kit" for airmen being treated for Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Established equipment list, user-level setting customization, additional equipment, medical guidelines, and operational unit testing for CPAP kits/accessories in deployed/tactical/aviation/contingency operations environments. Reduced required power available from 56 hrs of AC power/week to 4 hrs of AC/DC power/week to meet CPAP therapy compliance guidlines, allowing airmen to deploy to austere environments and…

    Developed the "Travis Kit" for airmen being treated for Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Established equipment list, user-level setting customization, additional equipment, medical guidelines, and operational unit testing for CPAP kits/accessories in deployed/tactical/aviation/contingency operations environments. Reduced required power available from 56 hrs of AC power/week to 4 hrs of AC/DC power/week to meet CPAP therapy compliance guidlines, allowing airmen to deploy to austere environments and still receive OSA treatment. Adopted by the Dept of Defense as of December 2019; portable CPAPs with batteries now offered as a TriCare benefit for all active duty service members with OSA that travel on duty or deploy. Counseled 7 active duty servicemembers/commanders/medical teams on benefits; saved 7 deployments.

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  • AMC Loadmaster Non-Combatant Evacuation Order Guide

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    Authored and implemented the 1st comprehensive aircrew guide to executing Non-Combatant Evacuation Orders(NEO) in 2018. Coalesced 45 years of USAF NEO lessons learned with state-of-the-art aircrew expert experience to create a 26-page pre-planning and execution guide for mobility crews faced with NEO support and little to no prior experience. The guide was accepted and published to every C-5 Galaxy crew member's required electronic publications. Further designed aircrew mission planning…

    Authored and implemented the 1st comprehensive aircrew guide to executing Non-Combatant Evacuation Orders(NEO) in 2018. Coalesced 45 years of USAF NEO lessons learned with state-of-the-art aircrew expert experience to create a 26-page pre-planning and execution guide for mobility crews faced with NEO support and little to no prior experience. The guide was accepted and published to every C-5 Galaxy crew member's required electronic publications. Further designed aircrew mission planning training curriculum to prepare crews for NEOs. Two years later, the guide proved instrumental in devising the rapid response plan for Operation: Allies Refuge, the largest aerial Non-Combantant Evacuation in history. The kits designed from the guides direction allowed mobility crews to reduce aircraft turnaround times and both passenger/crew safety, reducing both the number of casualties and safety incidents. The operation successfully evacuated 123,000 personnel in two weeks. I was awarded the Air Force Commendation medal.

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Honors & Awards

  • Alpha-Tier Inductee, SALUTE Veteran National Honor Society

    UCCS SALUTE National Honor Society

    Inducted into SALUTE, the national honor society recognizing academic excellence, leadership, and service among U.S. military veterans and service members. Alpha-tier criterion: 3.75-4.00 cumulative GPA

  • President's List

    College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences

    For full time students with a 4.0 GPA

  • Presidential Member

    National Society for Leadership & Success

    3.92 Cumulative GPA

  • Travis AFB Diamond Sharp Award

    Travis AFB 1st Sergeants Council

    Awarded by council nomination among all squadron diamond sharp awardees. Selected for exceptional performance as the additional duty 1st sergeant during the unexpected passing of an active duty servicemember.

  • Squadron Team of the Year

    22nd Airlift Squadron

  • Distinguished Graduate, Basic Instructor Course

    Air Education & Training Command

    Selected based on instructor/peer recommendation, 95% minimum academic score.

  • Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal

    Department of Defense

  • Distinguished Graduate - Non-Commissioned Officers Academy

    Air Education and Training Command

    Top 10% Academics/Selected as Class Commandant for class of 8 flights/120 NCO's

  • Military Hero Award

    American Red Cross

    Selected for combined volunteer work as an airman and chaplain, and leading elementary school children in a letter writing campaign for deployed mililtary members.

  • Air Medal (1st Oak Leaf Cluster)

    Department of Defense

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Spanish(Castilian)

    Elementary proficiency

  • American Sign Language

    Elementary proficiency

Organizations

  • Cadence International

    DoD Skillbridge Intern (Headquarters)

    - Present
  • Gideons International

    Member

    - Present
  • Officer Christian Fellowship

    Travis AFB Lead Small Group Coordinator

    - Present
  • Fishing Buddies for Veterans

    Flyfishing Program Director/Chaplain

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    Planning, organizing sponsorship, training, recruiting, building, and casting vision for FB4V.org's flyfishing program. On-call for crisis intervention and membership consultation for clients in crisis.

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