COLONEL Cris V. Mandry joined Wynn Solutions Group as Vice President of Operations in 2017.  With more than 40 years of corporate, military, and law enforcement experience combined, COL Mandry oversees the development and implementation of organizational strategic goals.  

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COL Mandry is a New Orleans native who is a New Orleans Police Officer, Board Certified Emergency Physician, and Special Forces, soldier.  He has traveled extensively with various units and agencies over the last twenty-five years in support of America’s interests abroad. COL Mandry has multiple deployments with his current unit, 2nd Battalion, 20th Special Forces Group-Airborne, which include multiple deployments to Afghanistan (2003, 2006, 2009) and most recently to the Arabian Peninsula and Iraq.

 

COL Mandry attended the University of New Orleans and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and Chemistry in 1979. He then attended the University of New Mexico and received a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1983. COL Mandry’s medical residency training has been through the LSU School of Medicine where he completed residencies in Emergency Medicine at Charity Hospital in New Orleans in 1986 and Internal Medicine at Earl K. Long Medical Center in Baton Rouge in 1988.  He is a Full Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine and was the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Earl K. Long Medical Center from 1989 until the hospital closure in 2013. COL Mandry is also the founding Residency Program Director for the LSU Emergency Medicine Residency Program in Baton Rouge.

 

During Hurricane Katrina, as a police lieutenant with the Special Operations Division of the New Orleans Police Department, he was responsible for rescuing hundreds of stranded victims from rooftops and floodwaters. COL Mandry has been a commissioned member of the New Orleans Police Department since 1974 and has been assigned to the Special Operations Division (SWAT team) since 1989.

 

COL Mandry has received multiple awards during his dual careers which include multiple Commendations from the New Orleans Police Department as well as numerous military awards including the Combat Action Badge, Combat Medic Badge, Airborne Badge, Scuba Badge, Flight Surgeon Badge, Dive Medical Officer Badge, Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster, Meritorious Service Medal with Two Oak Leaf Clusters, ARMY Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster.

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