Brock Mcintosh Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Greater New York City Area

• Selected to co-teach and facilitate a Managing Public Service Organizations course recitation, advising graduate students on crafting mission statements, logic models, strategic plans, and organizational structures.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Consulted a federal contractor with NYU Capstone team, culminating in a report on the emerging HR federal shared services field that includes a recommended implementation timeline for change leaders and three infographics to facilitate knowledge-sharing between HRSS managers and advocates.• As client liaison, I also managed primary source interviews with 7 federal shared service leaders, resulting in 12 key findings on HR shared services best practices and challenges that informed our recommendations.• Synthesized dozens of literature review findings into a final report outlining business model transformation, communications, and change management success factors for federal HR staff and leaders.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• At end of original term, asked by Congressman to stay on and co-lead nation’s first “veteran town hall” on Veterans Day. Managed planning/logistics; assisted with developing and implementing a communications strategy; and monitored project tasks for event. • Drafted suspension vote recommendations; advised Congressman on cosponsorship opportunity for veteran legislation; and advised on bill related to US forces in Iraq.• Leveraging graduate experience consulting the UN’s Entrepreneurs for Social Change on how to develop a multi-year performance measurement and management (PMM) plan, I recommended PMM considerations to staff member leading the office’s dashboard design, including demonstrating a mock-up dashboard tool.• Wrote literature reviews/memos for Congressman. Tasked as editor for all outgoing constituent letters before final LA approval.

Greater New York City Area

• Researched data sources for a project analyzing blanket primary election systems in California and Washington.• Acquired and cleaned data for nearly 35,000 cells in Excel for use in Strata; used advanced Excel techniques to parse and filter data from California and Washington quantitative sources.• Critically analyzed our own coding schemes and data collection methods and contrasted them with California’s and Washington’s in order to minimize redundancies and synthesize and generalize data from varying sources.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Portfolio included projects related to TANF, subsidized employment, and education grants for needy persons• Edited public and Congressional reports on the Affordable Care Act’s Health Profession Opportunity Grants. • Reviewed and approved 14 federal grants, some worth upwards of $1 million. • Managed a lecture program for ACF and collaborative meetings between three federal departments.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Deployed to Afghanistan for 10 months; mentored/trained Afghan National Security Forces as part of US and NATO efforts to develop host-nation capacity and capability; protected sensitive OPSEC information.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Worked for the Office of Congressman Joseph Courtney• Drafted summary reports of Congressional briefings for staff; wrote constituent letters on behalf of the Congressman regarding a FEMA/EMERCOM partnership and white supremacy in the U.S. military; sorted faxes, email, and postal mail to appropriate staff; responded to casework and constituent calls

Alexandria, Virginia

• Led workshops for high school and middle school students designed to encourage political efficacy and participation in the democratic political process• Used sites and events in Washington, DC as a classroom to inspire students to be politically engaged and critical thinkers

Missoula, Montana Area

• Volunteered to lead the opening of VoteVets offices in Montana with three other directors; identified housing and office spaces for our Missoula location.• Managed human resources. Developed recruitment strategy, surpassing hiring goals by 20 shifts; interviewed, hired, trained, and evaluated performance of employees; in charge of terminating staff for misconduct; managed sensitive payroll/employee records; developed mental health support for our military veteran staff.• Managed other administrative duties. Secured and maintained equipment for new office; filed equipment and travel reimbursement paperwork.• Our office surpassed campaign goals, knocking on over 22,000 doors to educate voters about veteran issues.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Worked primarily on the Veterans Trust Fund campaign, providing research on veterans issues and history for the campaign and director’s speeches; participated in strategy sessions; conducted outreach to veterans • Conducted research on Afghanistan, War on Terror, and more specific military programs; updated website regularly and wrote occasional blogs and email correspondence

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Conducted research and editing for the Speak Truth to Power program, to include biographies of human rights defenders and current states of peace and justice for requested countries• Provided updates for current news regarding RFK Center award recipients, authored occasional blogs; supplied organizing materials for a class design featuring a Speak Truth to Power human rights defender

Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area

• Performed secretarial duties for county clerk, prepared polling equipment,participated as election judge

Master Of Public Administration (M.P.A.), Public And Nonprofit Management And Policy, Gpa 3.7

COURSEWORK | Design Thinking // Strategic Management // Performance Measurement and Management // Statistics // Developing Human Resources.

Ba'S, History And Sociology

• Research titled "The Whole World Is Watching: A Quantitative Content Analysis of Signs and Hostility in the Occupy Movement," 2012.

Ba (Incomplete), History-Social Science Education

• Urban Needs in Teacher Education (Professional Development Chair; Fundraising Chair) • ISU College Democrats (Outreach Coordinator) •.

Training For Social Action Trainers

• Training, workshop facilitation/design, experiential education methods

International Center On Nonviolent Conflict | Advanced Study Of Nonviolent Conflict

• Civil resistance: strategy, communication, international and indigenous roles, mobilization, leadership, coalition-building, power.

Center For Nonviolence And Peace Studies | Level Ii Advanced Certification

• Kingian nonviolence methodology, establishing organizations, mobilization, leadership development • Trainers: Dr. Bernard Lafayette

Workshop Work Week

• Popular education, participatory research, cultural organizing, identity and social movement

Training Of Organizers For Social Change

• Power analysis, organizing models, strategy/campaign development, media utilization, coalition-building

Advanced Action Boot Camp For Eco-Justice

• Direct action arts and communication, campaign narrative analysis, social media coordination • Trainers: Patrick Reinsborough, Nadine.

Center For Nonviolence And Peace Studies | Level I Kingian Nonviolence

• Martin Luther King’s six principles of nonviolence and campaign methodology; Hegelian dialectics

Obama For America Organizing

• Organizing, power analysis, one-on-ones, canvassing, phone banking, outreach • Trainers: Mike Kruglick