Kevin N.

Sloan
618 201 1399

SKILLS AND PHILOSOPHY

My experience with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over the past 30 years in four Service
program areas across seven Regions provides me with perspectives and skill sets of value to
Service Project Leaders as we reflect upon where the Service has been, where we are today, and
where we can be in the future. I believe in landscape-level, cooperative approaches to
conservation and in the importance of an enduring Service legacy of conservation through
recruitment efforts and mentoring employees.

Although the bureaucracy significantly restraints government employees in applying private

sector business approaches, I have, throughout my career attempted to do so to the maximum
extent possible. My philosophy is simple: The missions of Department of the Interior agencies
are more relevant to the American public when they strive to create innovative,
government/private partnerships to arrive at mutually-acceptable solutions to conservation issues.
This can only be accomplished by creating an atmosphere of trust and mutual respect through
listening and seeking a deep understand of the perspectives of those citizens that make their living
from the land. Whether it be hunters and anglers, cattlemen, watermen, civic leaders or local
politicians, until one has gained their perspective by walking a mile in their boots, one cannot
begin to seek balanced solutions to natural resource issues.

The depth and diversity of my Service experience and training as described below is serving me
well. The past 2 years as Project Leader of Chincoteague NWR Complex have been absolutely
amazing. It has been a tremendous and rewarding challenge to arrive in the midst of divisive
controversy and then regain trust and achieve success through working with our local and
congressional partners to improve relationships and identify and focus on commonalities rather
than differences. Im eternally grateful to my staff for the support they have shown and to the
Regional NWRS leadership for the freedom to do what I thought was best without question.

WORK EXPERIENCE

(Present) Project Leader, GS-408-14, Chincoteague NWR Complex, 8231 Beach Road,
Chincoteague Island, VA 23336, Dates Employed: 10/14-Present Supervisor: Anne Sittauer
(403) 253-8553

Deputy Refuge Manager, GS-485-13/7, Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge, 8588 Route
148 Marion, IL 62959, Dates Employed: 06/11 to 10/14 Supervisor: Kathleen Burchett
(772) 562-3909

Acting Refuge Manager, GS-485-13, Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge, 8588 Route
148 Marion, IL 62959, Dates Employed: 10/12 to 3/13
Supervisor: Matt Sprenger (701) 662 8611 x 328; Tom Worthington: (612) 713 5444

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Advanced Leadership Development Program - Detail Assignments (60 days total)

Acting Deputy Project Leader, Idaho State Fish and Wildlife Office, Region 1
Supervisor: Project Leader, Brian Kelly, 208 378 5443 (retired)

Acting Branch Chief, Partners for Fish and Wildlife & Coastal Program, Region 8
Supervisor: ARD PFW & MB, Tom McCabe (retired)

Fish Biologist/Grants Specialist (Fish Research and Utah State Lead), GS-482-13, Division
of Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration (WSFR), Mountain-Prairie Regional Office, 134
Union Blvd, Denver, CO 80228-1807, Dates Employed: 05/05 to 06/11
Supervisor: David McGillivary (303) 236-4411 (retired)

Fish and Wildlife Biologist, GS-401-12, Mississippi Ecological Services Field Office
6578 Dogwood View Parkway, Jackson, MS 39213, Dates Employed: 11/2000 to 05/2005
Supervisor: Ray Aycock, retired (601) 906-1429

National Wildlife Refuge Manager, GS-485-11, Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge

P.O. Box 510 Alamo, NV 89001, Dates Employed: 04/1998-11/2000
Supervisor: Ted Stans (retired); Linda L. Miller (760) 326-3853 X 22 (Havasu NWR)

Fish and Wildlife Biologist, GS-401-11, Nevada Ecological Services Sub Office
1510 N Decatur Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89108, Dates Employed: 04/1997-04/1998
Supervisor: Al Pfister (retired)

Fish and Wildlife Biologist, GS-401-11, Western Washington Ecological Services Field
Office; 510 Desmond Dr. SE, Suite 102, Lacey, WA 98503, Dates Employed: 08/1995-
04/1997. Supervisor: Tim Bodurtha (406) 758-6882

Supervisory Fishery Biologist, Assistant Project Leader, GS-482-11, Hotchkiss National

Fish Hatchery, 807-3150 Lane, Hotchkiss, CO 81419, Dates Employed: 04/1994-07/1995
Supervisor: Adam Mendoza (970) 872-3170

Supervisory Fishery Biologist, Primary Production Assistant, GS-482-11, Dworshak

National Fish Hatchery, P.O. Box 18, Ahsahka, ID 83520, Dates Employed: 10/1992-04/1994
Supervisor: Jon Streufert (retired) (703) 358-2454

Supervisory Fishery Biologist, Williams Creek Asst. Unit Leader and Unit Leader, GS-482-
7/9, Alchesay / Williams Creek National Fish Hatchery, P.O. Box 398, Whiteriver, AZ
85941, Dates Employed: 12/1989-10/1992 Supervisor: Bob David (retired) (928) 338-
4901

Fishery Biologist, GS-482-5/7, Greer's Ferry National Fish Hatchery, Rt 3 Box 71, Heber
Springs, AR 72543, Dates Employed: 06/1987-12/1989, Supervisor: Jon Streufert: (retired)
(703) 358-2454

Wildlife Biologist-Research, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Fur and

Refuge Division , P.O. Box 15570, Baton Rouge, LA 70895, Dates Employed: 05/1982-
06/1987, Supervisors: David Taylor (retired), Noel Kinler: (318) 369-3807

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EDUCATION

B.S., 1982, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA 71270, Major: Wildlife Conservation/Biology

JOB-RELATED TRAINING

2012 Advanced Refuge Management Academy

Law Enforcement for Supervisors; FLETC and NCTC Phases (April-May /2012)
2011 Advanced Leadership Development Program, Cohort X (7/2011)
Coaching For Supervisors
2009 Dakota Flood Served as an All-Hazard Trainee in the role of Situation Group Leader in
the Planning Section
The Leadership Challenge Workshop
2008 Grants Certification Training
Combination Helicopter/Aircraft Safety
Negotiation Training for Natural Resource Professionals
Incident Command Training (online Certification FEMA ICS 100, 200, 700)
Incident Command Training (Wildland Fire and Incident Management Academy,
Gunnison, CO, ICS Intermediate 300 and Advanced 400)
2007 Grants Certification Training
2006 Grants Management, FWS
2004 Introduction to ArcGIS, ESRI
2003 Stepping Up to Leadership, FWS
2002 Black Bear Trapping and Immobilization, FWS
1996 Washington State Watershed Analysis, WDNR
GIS for Field Biologists, FWS
ESA, Section 10 Habitat Conservation Planning, FWS (cont.)
1995 ESA, Section 7 Consultation, FWS
Techniques for Watershed Restoration, NPS
Forest and Rangeland Management of Salmonids and their Habitats, USFS
An Approach to Ecosystem Conservation, FWS
Physical Aspects of Watershed Analysis, USFS
1994 Advanced Supervisory Training, FWS
1993 Water Treatment for Hatcheries, FWS
Introduction to Supervision, FWS
1988 90 Fish Health, FWS
Introduction to Fisheries, Leetown Fisheries Academy, FWS
Fisheries Operations, Leetown Fisheries Academy, FWS
1987 Coldwater Fish Culture, Leetown Academy, FWS

JOB-RELATED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, HONORS, AWARDS, MEMBERSHIPS

2017 30 Year Certificate and Pin, FWS

2016/17 Coach for Stepping Up To Leadership Program
2015/16 Refuge Management Academy Instructor (On-site Chincoteague Case Study)
2015 Coach for Lead Your Life
2012/13 Coach for Stepping Up To Leadership Program
2011 Graduated Advanced Leadership Development Program, NCTC

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2009 Dakota Flood Response, Situational Group Leader, Certificate of Appreciation and
Statuette
Letter of Commendation from SE Region for efforts on the Yazoo Pumps Project
Time-Off Award, WSFR, Mt-Prairie Regional Office, Denver, CO
Incentive Award, Mt-Prairie Regional Office, Denver, CO
2008 Special Act Award, External Affairs, Mt-Prairie Regional Office, Denver, CO
Spot Award, WSFR, Mt-Prairie Regional Office, Denver, CO
Star Award, WSFR, Mt-Prairie Regional Office, Denver, CO
Time-Off Award, WSFR, Mt-Prairie Regional Office, Denver, CO
Grants Management Certificate (7 multi-day courses with exams)
2007 20 Year Certificate and Pin, FWS
Special Achievement Award
2005 Hurricane Katrina Team Leader and County Lead (Oct & Nov-MS Gulf Coast) Two
Certificates of Achievement and Two Certificates of Appreciation from US Army Corps
of Engineers and Service; Hurricane Katrina Volunteer Appreciation Statuette from
Dept. of Interior.
2003 Stepping Up To Leadership Development Program, NCTC
Sustained Exceptional Performance Pay Increase, MS Ecological Services
1990 Special Achievement Award, Greer's Ferry NFH
1989 Graduation Certificate - Leetown Fisheries Academy, FWS

PUBLICATIONS

Tucker, A. D. and Sloan, K. N. 1998. Growth and reproductive estimates from

alligator snapping turtles Macroclemys temminckii taken by commercial harvest in Louisiana.
Chelonian Conservation and Biology 2 (4): 587-592.

Sloan, K. N., Buhlmann, K. A. and Lovich, L. E. 1996. Stomach contents of

commercially harvested adult alligator snapping turtles, Macroclemys temminckii. Chelonian
Conservation and Biology 2 (1):96-99.

Sloan, K. N. 1996. Alternative to expensive, commercially produced egg hatching jars

for salmonids. American Fisheries Society, The Progressive Fish Culturist 58: 52-54.

Sloan, K. N. and Lovich, L. E. 1995. Exploitation of the alligator snapping turtle,

Macroclemys temminckii, in Louisiana: a case study. Chelonian Conservation and Biology
1(3):221-222.

Sloan, K. N. and D. Taylor. 1987. Habitats and movements of alligator snapping turtles
in northeast Louisiana. Proc. Annu. Conf. Southeast Assoc. Fish and Wild. Agencies 41:343-348

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REFERENCES

Doug Brewer 757 301 7329, Wildlife Refuge Manager, Back Bay NWR, VA, R5, USFWS

Deborah Darden 410 629 6080, Superintendent, Assateague Island National Seashore, MD,
NPS

Geoffrey Haskett 505 401 5298, President, National Wildlife Refuge Association

Jen Jones 304 870 4614, Chief, Leadership and Employee Development, R5, USFWS

Arthur Leonard 757 894 2971, Mayor, Town of Chincoteague, VA

Joseph McCauley 804 514 5136, NE Region Representative, National Wildlife Refuge
Association, VA (retired)

Billy Joe Tarr 757 336 2940, County Board of Supervisors, Accomack County, VA

Tom Worthington 612 713 5444, Deputy Regional Chief, Refuges, R3, USFWS