Brett Melvin, Mpa

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Executive Director at Bridging America’s Gap @ Bridging America's Gap
alexandria, virginia, united states
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Bringing together different stakeholders and aligning them to a shared vision is my way of developing solutions to challenges. Brett moves easily between innovation and execution, seeing the big picture AND being detail-oriented enough to chart the most direct path to resolving challenges.Over the last several years the Skills Gap challenge has come to the forefront of America's workforce challenge. Even though the number of persons out of the workforce is very high, there is a great need for skilled individuals. Since his first workforce development program, Lift & Move USA, Brett has been dedicated to helping industry employers find qualified workers for their entry level skilled positions. Under his guidance in its first 3 years, Lift & Move championed 9 nationwide Career Skills Events for the crane, rigging & specialized carrier industry. They were attended by over 5,000 students, parents, veterans & counselors and reached an additional 100,000 individuals through social media. Bridging America's Gap expands on the lessons learned and successes to build similar yet customized programs for other industries. Bretts' resume is diverse, with experience in Business, Non-Profits and Public Service. Along the way he has honed his Leadership, Strategic Planning, Advocacy and Execution Skills. He identifies whatever it takes to make something work better or minimize the damage and excels when put in the role of Change Agent, and specialize in situations with multiple stakeholders – some call it herding cats, others refer to it as getting everyone to speak the same language.Core Competencies: Strategic Planning, Leadership of Diverse Teams, Project Planning, Management & Execution, Business Startups,Meeting Planning, Revenue Generation, Expense Reduction.

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Bridging America's Gap

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Executive Director at Bridging America’s Gap
alexandria, virginia, united states
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Brett Melvin, Mpa Work Experience Details
  • Bridging America'S Gap
    Executive Director
    Bridging America'S Gap Dec 2017 - Present
    Alexandria, Va
    Bridging America's Gap is phase 2 of a project begun in 2015 with the creation of our first workforce development approach to the skills gap. In the 1st phase, the Lift & Move USA program focused exclusively on the crane, rigging & specialized transportation industry. Phase 2 will build on the ongoing success of that program and begin to expand it to other industries that are experiencing the same labor challenges that are a result of the national skills gap challenge.
  • Lift & Move Usa
    Executive Director
    Lift & Move Usa Jan 2015 - Dec 2017
    Alexandria, Va
    Lift & Move USA is a Workforce Development program designed for the crane, rigging and specialized transportation industries as one approach to the Skills Gap challenge facing this industry. Targeting young people and veterans interested in a high paying industry, Lift & Move USA organizes one-day events around the country by SC&RA members. Students from local schools and colleges spend the day at a facility and hear direct testimony from people in the industry about how they got into the sector, their personal achievements, and the enormous rewards. Students also get to see equipment up close, and can try out their operating skills using simulators.
  • Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association
    Consultant
    Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association Sep 2014 - Dec 2016
    Driving execution of a cross-industry project called Lift & Move USA that showcases career opportunities in the crane, rigging, and specialized transport industry and targeting students, high-school teachers, parents, and military veterans. This initiative addresses a critical need within these industries to replace an aging workforce with an average age of 50+, and represents the first time any industry has taken this approach to narrowing the skills-gap challenge facing America.Responsible for developing and implementing the strategic plan and bringing together stakeholders (including manufacturers, trade magazines, unions, certification entities, educational institutions, and corporate executives), identifying and securing sponsors, marketing to prospective attendees, and directing event, meeting planning and logistics.Piloted the two-day program in June 2015 in Chicago with 140 participants and followed that up in January 2016 with a refined one-day program in Houston, TX, with more than 700 participants. Will offer at least two more 2016 programs in North Carolina and Long Beach, CA, with potential international expansion.
  • The Melvin Group, Llc
    President
    The Melvin Group, Llc 2009 - Dec 2016
    Washington D.C. Metro Area
    The Melvin Group (TMG) helps organizations that are facing current and future marketplace and operational challenges that threaten to hamstring their ability to grow – or survive. I do more than deliver recommendations that gather dust on a shelf. I create step-by-step blueprints that can be implemented with my help or after I leave. My experience and success with for-profit, not-for-profit, and political organizations has been particularly valuable for clients in the Washington, D.C area where I live and work. Key Accomplishments:►Driving creation and execution of the Lift and Move USA project described above. Represents a significant portion of my current consulting projects.►Organized and led international study tours for U.K. and Danish clients to educate European convenience and petroleum retailers on the U.S. retail market.►Helped political-campaign and support-organization clients share information and best practices to enable them to optimize donor contributions and strategic-plan execution.►Worked directly with political-campaign clients to drive grassroots engagement and get-out-the-vote efforts in the late stages of three presidential primaries and two congressional campaigns between 2003 and 2012.
  • Category One
    Principal
    Category One "E-Procurement Solutions" Feb 2009 - Aug 2013
    Washington D.C. Metro Area
    Category One provided e-Procurement solutions in the B2B arena, helping clients improve profitability by identifying cost reductions that would not sacrifice product or service quality. Target industries for our services included Convenience Stores, Grocery Stores, Restaurants, and Wholesale Distributors (and the manufacturing vendors that served them). Leveraged learnings from previous role as founder and CEO of Share and Compare LLC.Accomplished these goals by using a proprietary software program to create a reverse-auction platform where clients provided inventory specifications and distributors would bid anonymously on a public platform that drove lower prices. Key Accomplishments:►Helped more than 20 clients save more than $5 million and reduce their year-over-year costs by an average of 20%. ►Enabled a regional convenience store operator reduce its cold-cup costs by 45% through a combination of cup redesign, inventory consolidation, and price reductions.►Helped a regional convenience store operator reduce its annual coffee costs by $1MM through a bid process where they negotiated a one-year distribution contract with a seller.►Managed a project on behalf of a wholesale/distributor group to aggregate its members’ e-Procurement activities, driving significant savings based on each partners’ use of the software.Sold the company after an unsolicited offer in August 2013 from a Chinese auction company.
  • U.S. Department Of Labor
    Senior Advisor -- Osec
    U.S. Department Of Labor Mar 2008 - Jan 2009
    Washington D.C. Metro Area
    Presidential appointee for driving execution of key end-of-term projects initiated by Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and senior managers within the DOL’s 26 agencies, and to identify successes during President George W. Bush’s two terms.Key Accomplishments:►Led interagency task force that highlighted the most effective programs, policies, and initiatives through a combination of outcome analysis and measurement and used that data to identify the impact on small- and mid-sized businesses.►Improved the DOL’s online communications program and brand by simplifying and updating its website, enabling the Bush Administration to document the Labor Department’s accomplishments before the new Obama Administration introduced a new website focused on its activities.►Worked closely with the DOL’s economics and congressional team and congressional offices to counter positions taken by members of the opposition party in the area of labor issues and the potential effect of proposed legislation on small- to medium-sized workforces.
  • Share & Compare, Llc
    Co-Founder
    Share & Compare, Llc Jan 2001 - Dec 2007
    Alexandria, Va
    Provided operational- and sales-data benchmarking and identification of best practices within the Convenience Store, Petroleum Retail, and Wholesale Distribution industries. Grew to have nearly 60 clients representing the top retail and wholesale companies in the Convenience channel.Key Accomplishments:►Created five segmented client groups across geography and size that exchanged monthly operational/sales data and organized twice-a-year C-Suite executive meetings to discuss best practices, efficiency opportunities, and industry challenges. Participant evaluations routinely identified these meetings as extremely valuable and the primary contributor to improving bottom-line results.►Helped 10 clients achieve cost savings for specific targeted areas in excess of 25%.►Developed, planned and oversaw the execution of meeting tracks for Chief Executive and C-Suite Financial, Marketing, Human Resources, Information Technology and Operations executives.Sold company in 2007 after receiving an unsolicited offer.
  • National Association Of Convenience Stores (Nacs)
    Vice President, Member/Industry Relations
    National Association Of Convenience Stores (Nacs) 1986 - 2001
    Washington D.C. Metro Area
    Time frame include two stints from 1986-1994 and 1998-2001, with a break to explore other interesting opportunities.Responsible for increasing membership across different segments, increasing association revenue, reducing costs, and leading conference planning efforts.Key Accomplishments:►Increased retail membership by 80%+ (to 2,000+ members); doubled supplier membership to more than 1,200 members; tripled the membership to more than 500 members while increasing annual dues by 50% to $15,000; and developed an enhanced membership level for retailers with fewer than 25 stores that converted 300 companies in first two years.►Reduced printing costs by 40% through development of a centralized print buying program.►Converted the association’s external publications to an electronic format that sharply reduced costs and publication turnaround times.►Developed a customized revenue-sharing program with 70 state and regional convenience/petroleum associations to sell NACS education products, including creation of computer-based training and publication of print and online catalogs.►Presented regularly on the State of the Convenience Store industry and related best practices to various state and regional trade associations, with an additional focus on programs for Human Resources professionals and smaller convenience-store companies.
  • American Wholesale Manufacturers Association
    Vice President, Member/Industry Relations
    American Wholesale Manufacturers Association 1996 - 1998
    Washington Dc Metro Area
    Primary liaison between the association, wholesale distributor members, and the manufacturer/supplier community within the convenience store channel.Key Accomplishments:►Developed and implemented membership-marketing program that stabilized decreases in retention rates.►Created the infrastructure to transform one of two annual AWMA tradeshows to become a networking business development program between retailers and wholesale distributors. After my departure, the meeting quickly replaced the income from the second show and became a go-to meeting for the industry.

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