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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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