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Austin, Texas Area

• SMALL BUSINESS CONSULTING
• Coaching and advising entrepreneurs and small business owners to move their careers and businesses forward by identifying big objectives and unique challenges and creating targeted strategies to achieve desired results.
• Improving client’s personal, team, and operational efficiency, productivity, and service delivery; ultimately improving customer satisfaction and engagement, reducing operating expenses, and increasing organizational.
• Conducting bi-monthly one-hour remote coaching sessions with clients across the USA, tracking client progress, measuring progress against goals, and taking corrective action, as needed, to ensure continuous improvement.
• Consulting, coaching, and assisting clients with a variety of career services including creation of targeted resumes & cover letters, job search strategy and techniques, career transitioning strategy & skills.
• Connecting employers with qualified employees and providing full-service direct-hire employment placement services BUSINESS OPERATIONS

Austin, Texas Area

• Consulting with small business owners to successfully grow their business and reach their personal and professional objectives
• Conducting client needs assessments and working with clients to co-create long-term career objectives, strategies and action plans to achieve long-term objectives
• Measuring client progress, holding clients accountable to goals, and adjusting action, as needed to ensure successful achievement of their objectives
• Collaborating with team members, vendors, and partners to deliver outstanding services to clients both in person and remotely / virtually

Honolulu, Hawaii

• Coaching private clients to successfully enter into the workforce or transition from one role to a different role, from the military to the civilian workforce, or from one industry to another industry
• Conducting client needs assessments and working with clients to co-create long-term career objectives, strategies and action plans to achieve long-term objectives
• Measuring client progress and adjusting action, as needed to ensure success
• Co-creating resumes and cover letters and coaching clients to conduct a job search, prepare and practice networking, interviewing and negotiating skills, and successfully navigate the hiring and on-boarding process
• Collaborating with team members, vendors, and partners to deliver outstanding services to clients both in person and remotely / virtually

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Consulting with private clients to successfully enter or transition into the workforce, create resumes and cover letters, conduct a job search, prepare and practice networking, interviewing and negotiating skills, and.
• Collaborating with team members, vendors, and partners to deliver outstanding services to clients both in person and remotely / virtually

Austin, Texas Area

• CHARFEN (formerly The Charfen Institute) is a world-class coaching and consulting organization transforming the lives of entrepreneurs and empowering clients to live better lives and change the world around them by.
• Coached C-level executives, small business owners, and real estate agents and their teams to achieve both personal and professional long-term goals and objectives
• Empowered entrepreneurs to reach their full potential through best business practices, personalized coaching, and training
• Inspired, assisted, and taught small business teams how to start, grow, and run a successful business
• Conducted one-on one bi-weekly coaching calls with up to 40 coaching clients per month / averaging 20 client calls per week
• Facilitated the client's progress, established positive beliefs, and utilized Charfen content to build the client's business

Austin, Texas Area

• ITT was a private, for-profit, technical institute with 130 campuses in 38 states across the United States offering associates and bachelors degrees in the fields of technology, criminal justice, and business.
• Managed the daily operations of the Career Services Department and staff of Career Advisors and student workers to achieve an 80% Graduate Employment Rate and rank #8 on the Top 10 List of 130 campuses nationwide
• Promoted to the role of Director after two years working as the Chair, School of Business and Project Management
• Solicited employers for job opportunities, sourced, screened, and matched students & alumni to jobs and made job placements
• Taught job search, interviewing, negotiating, networking, resume & cover letter writing, professional branding, portfolio-making, and other employment-related skills to students and alumni
• Developed and implemented marketing strategic plans to exceed graduate employment goals for the campus and department

Austin, Texas Area

• Managed the School of Business associate’s and bachelor’s degree programs for Business Management and Project Management
• Effectively managed programs and 15 faculty / instructional staff within the associate degree program in Business Management and the bachelor’s degree program in Project Management - Construction
• Hired, trained, and managed all adjunct faculty instructors for the School of Business and managed the students in the programs
• Ensured proper instruction and delivery of curricula in the appropriate learning environment for all Business and PM courses
• Supported student needs, monitored student attendance and grades to ensure accuracy and compliance with organizational policies and procedures, and provided academic advising to students to promote successful.
• Promoted student enrollment growth and implemented retention initiatives to maintain existing student population

Austin, Texas Area

• Repeatedly taught multiple sections of hybrid classroom courses for the School of Business, including General Business and Career-related courses for the associate’s and bachelor’s degree programs in Business and.
• BU318 “Human Resources Management Accounting”
• BU121 “Introduction to Business in a Global Society”
• BU271 “Professional Communications”
• BU241 “Principles of Marketing”
• TB332 “Professional Procedures for Portfolio Creation”

Honolulu, Hawaii

• Hawaiʻi Pacific University, commonly referred to as HPU, is a private, and nonsectarian university in Honolulu and Kaneohe, Hawaiʻi. HPU is the largest private university in the central Pacific, most noted for its.
• Repeatedly taught multiple sections of hybrid classroom and online courses for the College of Business to active duty military, Department of Defense contractors, and military dependents on various military bases.
• Taught multiple sections of MGMT 1000 “Understanding Business”
• Taught multiple sections of MGMT 3100 “Business & Society”
• Taught multiple sections of MGMT 3441 “Improving Organizational Performance”
• Taught multiple sections of MGMT 3500 “Strategic Planning”

Laie, Hawaii

• Brigham Young University–Hawaii is a private university located in Laie, Hawaii, United States. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. BYU-Hawaii was founded in 1955 and offers.
• Repeatedly taught multiple sections of hybrid classroom and online courses for the Business Management Department consisting of 10 – 40 students per section utilizing a variety of pedagogy including print and digital.
• Taught two class sections per semester of BUSM 310 “Leadership Principles and Management”
• Taught one classroom section per semester of PSYCH 321 “Organizational Behavior” for the Psychology Department
• Developed digital and print materials, resources, activities and teaching tools to supplement the course text and online resources
• Consistently received the highest teacher evaluation scores of any faculty member in the department including full-time Professors

Marina Del Rey, California

• Loyola Marymount University is a private Jesuit and Marymount university in Los Angeles, California. The university is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and one of.
• Repeatedly taught two sections per semester of MGMT 335 “Human Resources Management” to classes consisting of 20 – 30 students per section utilizing a variety of pedagogy including print and digital formats to achieve.
• Developed digital and print materials, resources, activities and teaching tools to supplement the course text and online resources
• Presented “Incorporating the Employment Services Sector into the Human Resources Management Curriculum” at the Western Business & Management Teaching Conference February 2002 at LMU campus, Los Angeles, California
• Nominated to act as a Faculty Judge for the LMU International Business Ethics Competition, April 2002
• Active member 2000 - 2003: The Organizational Behavior Teaching Society

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business Management

The Texas BBA major is ranked #6 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. Graduates of the McCombs' BBA Management program have skills.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), International Business Management

An MBA with a concentration in International Business teaches advanced knowledge in international finance and economics, global marketing.

High School Diploma, Business / General Education, 12

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