01Principal · Colorado Springs, Colorado
Stephen O'Hearn
Combat veteran, screenwriter, and mission-assurance practitioner connecting operational consequence with story and production.
Stephen A. O'Hearn is a U.S. Army combat veteran, former combat medic and military intelligence officer, screenwriter, filmmaker, and technology founder. His career has moved through environments where fragmented information carries real consequences—from battlefield medicine and operational intelligence to complex program work and film production.
At U.S. Space Command, O'Hearn worked in mission analytics and mission-assurance assessment: mapping interconnected systems, dependencies, evidence, risk, and the consequence of loss. That discipline shaped his conviction that a status cannot be trusted when the supporting evidence is missing, stale, or disconnected.
His work in film led him to recognize the same systems problem on a production. A script revision, location loss, weather event, or talent conflict does not stay isolated; it propagates through schedule, budget, crew, safety, vendors, and delivery. At 5th Symphony, he translates mission-level consequence thinking into operational intelligence for both creative and defense environments.
- Service
- U.S. Army combat medic and military intelligence officer
- Operational practice
- Mission analytics and assurance, U.S. Space Command
- Creative practice
- Screenwriting, producing, and production systems



