Bret Nelson Email & Phone Number

Kansas, United States

Leads and directs team of economists responsible for the collection and data analysis of the Occupational Requirements Survey (ORS). Hire, train, and manage ORS Economists in Kansas City, Denver, and St. Louis regional offices.

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

1 of 6 national technical experts that supports the collection and quality of the Employment Cost Index survey. Develop and improve survey collection procedures and response techniques. Apply statistical procedures to analyze and validate survey data. Specialize in the development and training of junior economists. Perform quality assurance data review of regional economists' data collection and coding. Develop and host regional training workshops and provide on the job training to field staff. Additionally, act as a regional advisor and expert on collection and coding of the Occupational Requirements Survey.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Certified expertise in data acquisition, collection, and analysis.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Collect data on behalf of National Compensation Survey program. Conducting Initiations, inputting data, and maintaining participation of companies into Employment Cost Index. Captured wage and benefits date from interviewing and interacting with company officials. Collected the physical and mental requirements of occupations for the Occupational Requirements Survey on behalf of the Social Security Administration. Refined data on sample units using environmental scanning techniques to verify our data was current and accurate. Conduct phone calls for the purpose of information collection. Conduct personal visits, interviews, and drop-ins to collect data from respondents. Track down information on small companies and out of business companies using different database searches. Put together custom marketing materials, that includes custom graphs, charts, and statistics for different companies using BLS tools. Persuaded company contacts to participate and contribute to BLS surveys. Participate in and help facilitate meetings to advance BLS goals and priorities.

Westwood, Kansas

Food Server.

Kansas City, Missouri Area, Crossroads

Operate manual mill, manual lathe, metal presses and sheers, sand blasting machine, drill press, cnc plasma table, cold saw and horizontal band saw, assorted grinders and air tools. Reading prints, building on ideas, taking raw materials (metals, wood, plastic,) and turning them into finished products.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Cash management, managing partners, inventory management, prioritizing goals, keeping a clean work space, managing customer relations, building customer rapport, developing and training partners.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Managing software compliance, conducting internals audits, managing license agreements, placing purchase orders, managing team projects. Worked extensively with windows office, especially excel.

Technical Certificate, Machine Tool Technology/Machinist

7 hour, 5 day a week intensive program. Extensive work with manual lathe and mill. CNC mill programing and set-up.

Ba, Economics