John H. Davis is a retired U.S. Army sergeant major with over fifty years of combined military and other federal government service and thirty-five years of planning and management experience. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy, Department of Defense Security Academy, currently Defense Security Service Academy, and all major military combating terrorism and security management courses. As an army engineer noncommissioned officer, Mr. Davis has lived and worked with American soldiers of diverse regional and cultural backgrounds in the capacity as leader, supervisor, trainer, peer, and subordinate. He has traveled throughout the United States and lived in urban, suburban, and rural communities, where he interacted with citizens in all walks of life. He has traveled and lived in Southeast Asia and Europe, worked with their military personnel, and interfaced with the local populaces. As a Department of Defense civilian, he worked and interfaced with military and civilian employees in all branches of the military, representatives for federal, state, and local governments, and private industry sector. He participated in national and local security conferences, workshops, and planning conferences. Mr. Davis performed concurrent duties as the installation combating terrorism officer and operations security officer in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, for thirteen years and assistant installation security officer for over seven years. In these positions, he developed, monitored, and evaluated the execution of specific security programs for forty thousand military, civilian, and contractor personnel. As assistant security and information security program manager, Mr. Davis monitored and evaluated the execution of Department of Defense Information Security Program. He advised supported organizations on security requirements, evaluated program execution, and reported noted security violations. John Davis was born on July 3, 1940, in the rural area of Halifax County, North Carolina. He was the fourth child of ten siblings of Millie Davis, homemaker and farmer, and O'Bern Davis Sr., farmer and automobile mechanic. Upon graduating from high school in 1958, he migrated to Virginia and enlisted in the U.S. Army as an engineer. He rose to the grade of sergeant major and retired in 1988 with thirty years of meritorious service. Upon retiring from the military in 1988, Mr. Davis worked as new car preparation manager for Rosenthal Honda Automotive Dealership at Tysons Corner, Virginia, for approximately one year. In this capacity, he worked under the oversight of the service manager and supervised the staff in the new car preparation department. Primary duties were ensuring all new vehicles were clean and ready for delivery to customers and installing selected exterior and interior accessories and special services requested by customers, such as pinstripes, spoilers, luggage racks; installing additional electronic equipment; and applying paint protection and undercoating. This service was professionally organized, proactive, deadline-driven, and focused on customer satisfaction. Customer satisfaction was determined by a survey completed by customers pertaining to the quality of service they received during the delivery of their new vehicle. Upon assuming this job, Mr. Davis attained a customer satisfaction of 100 percent for the first three consecutive months and an average 98 percent thereafter. He also maintained a good working relationship with the Rosenthal Honda Automotive Dealership team of professionals. In 1989, Mr. Davis returned to work for the United States Army in his new career as a federal civil servant until his retirement in 2010, with twenty years of distinguished services. Mr. Davis received numerous awards of recognitions for meritorious performance in both the military and civil service. Mr. Davis's hobbies are do-it-yourself home improvement and van customizing. He began his new hobby, book writing, in March 2013. He has published two books, United States of America: Right Now, Distortion of the Dream and Perpetuation of the United States of America: 360 Degrees Synchronization, Zero Defects. Mr. Davis accredited all his success, talent, and ability to live in harmony with mankind and nature to his mother, Millie B. Davis.
