Troy Manigault is the Senior Advisor & Departmental Essential Records Manager for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). He has more than 20 years of records management (RM) experience that includes serving as the essential records manager for two agencies where he developed their enterprise essential records programs and served as the primary contact for all matters pertaining to essential records. His current role focuses on the oversight and authority of the enterprise essential records program at DOE, leading the DOE Essential Records Community, and developing and promoting program activities, efforts, and initiatives to enhance essential records management accountability and compliance. Troy has served in various leadership positions during his more than 33 years of Federal service where he has led agency-level policy, forms, and RM and essential records programs, and multi-disciplined human resources programs. He is the architect and administrator of the DOE enterprise tool known as the Portal for Essential Records Management (PERM). Troy has supported continuity readiness, response, and recovery in Federal agencies, as well as in the military as a U.S. Army Military Intelligence professional while serving in the continental U.S. and in overseas assignments to support military movements and mobilizations. He holds the Certificate of Federal Records Management Training from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) with additional essential records training, and he led an agency RM program that received the NARA Archivist Achievement Award. His federal training includes certificates of completion from the Eastern Management Development Center and the Federal Executive Institute. Troy is an honor graduate of the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School at Fort Huachuca, the Warrant Officer Candidate School at Fort Rucker, as well as other courses. Troy earned his bachelor’s from Howard University and his master’s from the University of Maryland University College.