David Townes Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis

• Oversee and direct organizational development for a multi-specialty group practice.• Provide clinical leadership and consultation to practice members.• Manage and coordinate administrative services.• Develop and maintain EMR and content management system software responsible for running the business back-end.

Bloomington, Minnesota

• Successfully led a new financial trading business from concept generation through the initial start-up and development phase.• Traded high volumes of shares over a period of 3 months, starting near the peak of the US debt crisis, and consistently beat the market but failed to secure enough profit to sustain the enterprise.

• Developed a working prototype for a new cardiovascular medical device, full patent application, and business development plan. • Synthesized data from professional medical research literature to project cash flows for the project through clinical trials and 10 years after market launch.

• Moderated a focus group regarding the possibility of starting a system-wide database for the Greater Twin Cities food network.• Constructed and administered a web-based market survey, conducted statistical analysis, interpreted results, and presented findings to business client.

• Subcontracted with Psych Recovery Inc. to provide individual, relationship, and marriage counseling services in their clinic and individual counseling in residential facilities for seniors.• Diagnosed and treated a variety of mental health disorders, including major depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, agorophobia, obsessive compulsive disorder, social phobia, posttraumatic stress disorder, dementia, personality changes due to a general medical condition, somatoform disorders, sleep disorders, and eating disorders.

• Provided individual and group counseling in a day treatment setting.• Diagnosed and treated a variety of mental health disorders, including substance abuse disorders, impulse control disorders, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, antisocial personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, bordeline personality disorder, paranoid personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, pedophilia, sadism, masochism, exhibitionism, and fetishism.

• Provided individual, group, and in-home family counseling in a day treatment setting.• Diagnosed and treated a variety of mental health disorders, including learning disorders, pervasive developmental disorders (asperger's and autism), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, bipolar disorder, social phobia, separation anxiety disorder, and reactive attachment disorder.

• Maintained and repaired client relationships damaged by a wide variety of mental health problems in an under-severed, high-poverty area of East Brooklyn.• Consulted on multidisciplinary family empowerment team, pioneered innovative ways to assist high-needs families.

• Supervised staff of 7 head counselors; created and directed programming for group of 50 campers; facilitated course challenge initiatives and group development activities.• Guided children on 3-5 day wilderness expeditions up mountains, over alpine passes, down white-water rapids, and through desert canyons.

• Partnered with pilot-project Linking Lives program to provide crisis, short, and long term individual and group therapy to struggling students. • Advocated on behalf of students with special educational needs; mediated disputes between parents, students, teachers, and school staff.

• Researched, wrote policy articles, press releases, and editorials for Latin American policy think-tank, published weekly newsletter. • Upgraded internal agency operations by redesigning newsletter layout, reconfiguring IT structure to facilitate more efficient publication process.

M.B.A., Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Medical Industry Leadership Institute, Ventures Plus Emphasis: Marketing and Finance

Master Of Social Work - Msw, Advanced Clinical Studies

B.A., Philosophy, Government

Activities and Societies: Acapella group - Saxatones Cum Laude; Double Major in Government, Philosophy; Minor in Psychology