Brandon Owens, Mpa Email & Phone Number

Lake Ozark, MO, US

• Developed relationships with corporate partners while building an understanding of shared goals and identifying mission alignment. Crafted unique proposals and service agreements for products and corporate giving all.
• Collaborated with internal and external partners to identify potential employment partners whose recruiting needs and goals aligned with Hire Heroes USA's job-seeking clients’ career interests and preferences.
• Engaged with employers interested in building partnerships with Hire Heroes USA; educated the employers on the different partnership opportunities within Employment Partnerships & Opportunities
• Conducted initial assessment of partnered employers to understand their hiring needs and processes; ensured the information was properly annotated in Salesforce

• Led a team of 10 Transition Specialists (TS) who provided career and transition services to military members, veterans, and their spouses.
• Provided guidance, support, and professional development to ensure each team member was prepared and able to assist their clients
• Conducted new hire training and onboarding, and provided mentorship for new Transition Specialists
• Performed general administrative and management functions; conducted semi-annual and annual performance reviews, coordinated and approved time-off requests, and monitored team workload performance metrics

• Led a team of six Volunteer Coordinators to achieve regular and clear communication, program priorities and goals, progress toward program goals, and a positive workplace culture.
• Managed and coordinated requests for volunteer support, which included mentoring requests, event support requests, and outreach requests
• Maintained the integrity of Salesforce data, ensuring the accuracy of data and assisting with reporting and setting annual goals
• Identified areas for growth and improvement, and developed new programs, new volunteer opportunities, improved efficiencies through recruitment of new volunteers, researching other volunteer programs, increasing.
• Managed relationships with volunteers, clients, staff, and external stakeholders including conducting group orientation/training sessions
• Monitored client surveys after volunteer engagement and shared appropriate content with volunteers and other internal stakeholders

Colorado Springs, CO

• Managed a complex portfolio of 418 clients actively seeking employment to offer strategic support to successfully navigate career progression through certification resources, resume products, job sourcing, career.
• Identified as the number 2 of 65 Veteran Transition Specialists in the organization for 2016 based on a number of efficiency and effectiveness metrics including assisting more than 170 veterans in finding employment.
• Reviewed, revised, annotated, and disseminated over 400 professional resumes in a year, averaging 8 resumes per week; translated client competencies and accolades and tailored resumes to meet the needs of prospective.
• Achieved a product turnaround time of 2.3 days, two – days ahead of corporate standards and department directives while completing 350+ initial assessments despite taking 10 clients each week and conducting 3 workshop.

• Instructed five iterations of Legal and Ethical Issues in Security Management to over 30 graduate students. Class is an overview of important legal and ethical issues with which business and organizational security.
• Instructed three iterations of Planning and Evaluation to over 50 graduate students. Class introduces students to the basic methods of inquiry utilized in organizational planning and evaluation and the application of.
• Instructed one iteration of Behavioral Issues class to 7 graduate students. This course focuses on historical and contemporary perspectives of human behavior as it relates to criminology. Theories of behavior in the.
• Provides a variety of instructive methods to teach criminal justice related concepts to graduate students. Utilizes a culturally diverse approach in the classroom environment to foster a positive learning experience.

Fort Carson, CO

• Hand selected to be Commander/Special Agent-in-Charge of one of the largest CID detachments in the world with an area of responsibility of Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Utah.
• Supervised, trained and completed evaluations for 7 supervisory Special Agents, 30 Special Agents, 13 Military Police Investigators, a criminal intelligence analyst and intelligence operations assistant.
• Managed, directed and supervised complex law enforcement felony-level criminal investigative and intelligence functions in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and Title 18, U.S.C. offenses.
• Planned, supervised and conducted over 3,000 felony criminal investigations, including rape, sexual assaults, robbery, homicide, suicide, arson, serial offenders, fraud, and narcotic and illegal drug trafficking.
• Provided regular briefings to a wide variety of audiences to include commanders, criminal justice entities, victims, and next of kin, pertaining to the status of sensitive investigations, crime trends, criminal.
• Managed all aspects of professional development and training for assigned personnel. Managed all aspects of human resource processes for 50 assigned personnel.

Fort Leonard Wood, MO

• Developed over 100 lesson plans and course plans of instruction for the Military Police Warrant Officer Advanced Course and Warrant Officer Basic Course. These lesson plans were used to prepare CID Warrant Officers for.
• Created new course content and allocated resources for the Warrant Officer Basic and Warrant Officer Advanced Courses.
• Developed, wrote, and taught doctrine to students who would assume duties as Special Agents in Charge and Operations Officers within the Army’s Criminal Investigation Command (CID) worldwide.
• Instruction included educating students on investigative management, organizational behavior, organizational leadership and management, legal aspects and considerations of managing felony investigative organizations.
• Specific instruction was provided to students on professionalism and an ethical decision processing model, which certifies the students as Army Professional Ethics Trainers upon completion. Ethical problem solving was.

Mosul, Iraq

• Special Agent in Charge of a CID Office in Mosul, Iraq before moving to an Assistant Operations Officer position in Camp Arifjan, Kuwait in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
• Supervised felony criminal investigations in northern Iraq and reviewed hundreds of criminal investigations conducted over the entire Iraqi theater.
• Reviewed closed cases spanning the entire war to ensure thoroughness, investigative sufficiency, proper evidence disposition and adjudication.
• Ensured proper collection, safeguarding and preservation of chain of custody of all evidence collected in connection with a criminal investigation in a combat zone.
• Supervised and conducted over 50 death and felony criminal investigations in a combat zone.

Monterey, CA And Fort Leavenworth, KS

• Special Agent in Charge of CID offices responsible for all felony investigations with an Army interest for the northern halves of California and Nevada and large portion of Missouri and Kansas.
• Supervised the conduct of all investigative efforts and personnel, and served as a member of the installation’s key leadership community.
• Conducted daily coordination, liaison and joint investigations with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies and prosecutorial authorities.
• Conducted and supervised over 1,000 criminal investigations, including rape, sexual assaults, robbery, homicide, suicide, arson, serial offenders, fraud, and narcotic and illegal drug trafficking offenses.
• Provided regular briefings to a wide variety of audiences to include commanders, criminal justice entities, victims, and next of kin, pertaining to the status of sensitive investigations, crime trends, criminal.
• Managed budget, manpower and resources.

Camp Humphreys, Korea

• Supervised and conducted extensive proactive fraud investigations, which resulted in the recovery of over $250,000.00 in U.S. Government funds.
• Supervised and conducted felony criminal investigations at ten widely dispersed Army installations within a 12,000 square mile area in South Korea.
• Conducted coordination, liaison and joint investigations with host nation law enforcement and prosecutorial authorities.
• Ensured proper collection, safeguarding and preservation of chain of custody of all evidence collected in connection with a criminal investigation.
• Supervised and trained 9 Special Agents in the processing of crime scenes, employment of forensic equipment, processing of physical evidence, conduct of interviews and interrogations, preparation of affidavits from.

Fort Leonard Wood, MO

• Conducted over 200 felony criminal investigations with an Army interest on Fort Leonard Wood, MO and the surrounding areas to include most of Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas.
• Testified in court as a witness to events or to explain basic or routine administrative procedures and investigative facts.
• Supervised and trained subordinates in the processing of crime scenes, employment of forensic equipment, processing of physical evidence, conduct of interviews and interrogations, preparation of affidavits from.
• Conducted a wide variety of criminal investigations, including rape, sexual assaults, robbery, homicide, suicide, arson, serial offenders, fraud, and narcotic and illegal drug trafficking offenses.
• Ensured proper collection, safeguarding and preservation of chain of custody of all evidence collected in connection with a criminal investigation.
• Supervised and conducted semi-covert operations to detect and identify illegal drug distribution sources and worked with federal, state and local law enforcement entities to prosecute those involved in the distribution.

Master Of Public Administration (M.P.A.), Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Criminal Justice