David Jackson Email & Phone Number

Fort Collins, Co, Us

Responsible for developing, managing and executing our university relations, university recruiting, veteran recruiting, and high school apprenticeship programs. Provide strategic direction, leading change, and working through a network of internal stakeholders to enable the organization to hire a diverse cohort of early career talent. • Develop and execute the company's university relations/recruiting and veteran recruiting strategy, including identifying target schools, building relationships with key stakeholders, and managing campus and recruiting events.• Oversee the high school apprenticeship program, including identifying target schools, developing program curriculum, managing program logistics, and coordinating with school personnel.• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) for university relations best practices, strategies, processes, quality benchmarks and standards for recruiting.• Strategic design of intern and early career programs• Lead change management throughout the organization focused on forecasting talent needs, hiring for potential, intern conversions, and designing engaging internship experiences.• Provide insights, recommendations, and strategic direction to our Leadership Team on campus environment, digital innovations and best practices across Early Careers (EC) to ensure best in class talent results and increase our attractiveness to the next generation of leaders. • Establish a network of internal stakeholders to create and grow relationships with various associations and schools to grow Woodward’s presence at these institutions and organizations. • Review and reporting of ROI on program, key performance metrics and status reporting. Monitor program metrics to ensure the effectiveness of the early career programs, and make necessary adjustments to improve outcomes• Partner with Talent Acquisition and Human Resources to ensure identification of diverse talent is central to the sourcing and recruitment strategy.

• Dedicated, passionate & open-minded actor/model who is looking to challenge himself, in order to learn and grow personally and professionally. • Collaborate with creative and visionary leaders, within the entertainment industry to produce quality entertaining content.

• Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB).• Leadership and team building training that guarantees a more effective and productive workforce.• Provide expertise on understanding how to interpret the skills Veterans gained through their military service and how they can be an asset for your organization. • Assist employers in finding qualified Veterans to fill positions within their organization. • Provide counseling for Veterans both professionally and personally on goal setting in order to meet their academic and life goals. • Develop an Employment Action Plan (EAP), support in preparing for upcoming interviews and recruitment, connecting to employers and interview opportunities, finding current job leads and provide 1:1 career coaching through to employment. • Assist Veterans in identifying and obtaining the resources/support provided to them through the VA, state, county, city and various non-profits.

San Diego, Ca, Us

TA Manager - Workforce Development, strategic member of the management team in the TA Center of Excellence with responsibility for providing leadership & guidance on military, university, high school, sourcing & social media programs & initiatives.• Collaborates with business leaders to design, develop, communicate & implement an effective WFD/TA strategy, processes & policy.• Assess core working processes for continuous improvement, identify & fill gaps, & share best practices throughout team.• Understands business objectives & ongoing workforce plan/resource needs by developing collaborative relationships & becoming a trusted advisor to key TA stakeholders including hiring managers, business leaders & HR management.• Measures & monitors existing and develop new WFD/TA metrics, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Delivers WFD/TA services according to defined service level expectations (SLAs).• Manage company’s sourcing accounts: LinkedIn, Indeed/Glassdoor, Handshake, & Direct Employers. • Provide direction to the University Relations team which is responsible for university outreach at over 50 universities & a summer internship program of over 280 students. • Guide the High School Relations team which is responsible for High School outreach to schools in the San Diego & Poway Unified School District & a summer internship program of over 20 students. • Manage a team of Sourcers skilled in sourcing hard to fill roles. • Responsible for partnering with Veteran Non-profit organizations to create awareness of employment opportunities & leverage resources as in DoD Skillbridge Program & the Army’s Career Skill Program.• Responsible for a Talent Acquisition budget in excess of $250,000.• Approved requisitions & offers through BrassRing.• Utilized Avature CRM for event management.• Influences & persuades stakeholders through effective and efficient interpersonal communication skills including 1-on-1, small groups, & powerful presentations.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Lead meetings with client groups to include internal movement discussions and consult in job scoping discussions as needed.• Own the preparation and delivery of search status reports, leading status reviews on active searches and calibration discussions.• Use data to confidently identify roadblocks and solutions in the recruiting process as well as influence key stakeholders around important decisions.• Prepare and negotiate offer packages, helping Amazon attract and secure top industry talent.• Contribute to and/or lead monthly/quarterly business reviews to evaluate best practices, success metrics and defects to improve candidate and hiring manager experience.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Supported the hiring process for our Disability and Leave Services (DLS) department.• Worked closely with several staffing agencies and numerous hiring managers.• Managed high volume temporary hiring of Case Assistants, Case Managers, Accommodation Consultants and Fraud Specialists to support DLS operations in the United States, Costa Rica, India and Canada.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Manage a team of up to 20 to 30 DLS Case Managers.• Initiate and respond to inquiries about leave and disability events, benefits, and options available to employees.• Serve as a point of contact for assigned employees (150 – 200 employee cases) to provide holistic case management services, including reviewing medical documentation to adjudicate leaves in compliance with the corresponding leave plans, federal and state laws and benefit plans as defined by Amazon. • Leverage duration guidelines, best practice tools and Amazon resources to support oversight of a leave event as appropriate.• Critically assess and adjust the case management plan to an employee’s changing needs.• Address and respond to sensitive situations.• Troubleshoot issues and seek to remove barriers before, during, or after a leave event. • Respond to employee impacting issues that may arise during the leave event and ensure the right communication occurs. • Identify and solve problems that may arise, sometimes with limited information. • Facilitate a smooth return to work and ramp-back plan for employees returning to the workplace. • Educate managers and business partners on employee concerns and needs prior to being off or returning to work. • Communicate regular updates to employees and stakeholders both verbally and in writing.• Ensure compliance with a standard work, federal/state regulations, and company policy. • Maintain system records to ensure accurate and timely information/documentation. • Consult coordinate and partner with our third-party administrator, HR, Safety, Legal, Payroll, Benefits, team members and other departments/systems as appropriate.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Review the work forecasts and determine productivity requirements to produce during the day to meet the overall building objectives.• Partner with other managers to balance labor ensuring operations with a balanced and efficient shift while meeting all goals.• Support all safety programs and OSHA compliance to ensure a safe work environment for all associates.• Manage the safety, quality, and productivity of approximately 70 associates in pick, pack and outbound dock.• Protect customer experience through live quality feedback on packaging methods and product verification.• Partner with USPS on effectively meeting multiple package deadlines on the outbound dock.• Monitor individual and group productivity to achieve hourly, daily, and weekly forecast goals.• Proactively identify and lead process improvement initiatives across multiple shifts, as well as multiple buildings

Santa Clarita, Ca, Us

• Coordinate directly with employers both locally and regionally to identify employment opportunities for our Veterans at College of the Canyons. • Prepare them with job ready skills needed to effectively secure employment.• Counseling Veterans both professionally and personally on goal setting.• Review and recommend changes to academic plans to ensure COC Veteran students are maximizing their VA educational benefits and pursuing an academic plan that meets their academic and life goals.• Developing an Employment Action Plan (EAP).• Support in preparing for upcoming interviews and recruitment.• Connecting to employers and interview opportunities.• Finding current job leads in your field of study.• 1:1 Career Coaching through to employment.

Santa Clarita, Ca, Us

• Assisted with the recruitment, screening and selection process as assigned by the Director.• Provided information, referral, and support to employees with regards to their disabilities. • Maintained district's applicant tracking system and provides period reports as requested.• Coordinated applicant interviews and facilitated their onboarding.• Worked with hiring managers to ensure position descriptions reflected their department needs. • Worked with the accommodation specialist to ensure employees and their supervisors understood their restrictions and limitations.• Updated faculty and staff on their legal rights and the rights of their employees through 1:1 sessions and the posting of Federal and State official guidelines throughout departments on campus. • Managed employee files for over 5,000 current and former employees.• Arranged the movement and use of a 60 foot Conex container in order relocate archived employee files and documents closer to the HR department.

Madison, Nj, Us

• Provides guidance and assisting sellers and buyers in marketing and purchasing property for the right price under the best terms. • Determine client needs and financials abilities to propose solutions that suit them. • Perform comparative market analysis to estimate a property value.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• Reported directly to the CEO.• Planned and coordinated over 12 off-campus community outreach events and financial literacy programs throughout the city of Los Angeles that benefited the underserved population.• Increased community membership by 13% in a six month period compared to 6% for the previous year’s comparable six month period.• Planned and developed a business plan for Fiscal Year 2017/2018 that provides a detailed strategic plan for growing our members through providing credit union services to the employees of Trojan Owned businesses located in Los Angeles City and Orange County. • Served as the credit union’s ambassador by establishing lasting and enduring relationships through local neighborhood council committees, non-profits, Reality Associations in Los Angeles and Orange County and through the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.• Represented the credit union in Washington D.C. and met with U.S. Senators on two occasions to address national policy issues which have an operational impact on credit unions.• Developed and identified numerous volunteer opportunities for the credit union’s 105 employees and 70,000 members that allowed them to serve our community through cancer walks and reading programs.• Drafted several community and business centric marketing and educational materials.• Quickly established several critical relationships with people of influence within the university and the community in which we serve.• Updated the credit union’s Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram promoting community initiatives.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

• Second in command of one of the largest Army Recruiting Battalions which consisted of 6 companies and 31 centers located over 52,000 square miles. • Responsible for all administrative and logistics with combined military and civilian staff of 37 individuals. • Counseled key leaders within the organization on methods in dealing with diverse and complex challenges through one on one coaching and mentoring. • Taught monthly classes to leaders on the importance of counseling and ensured all 300 employees received monthly counselings which shaped their annual performance evaluations • Expertise sought out by the director to solve challenging HR issues producing new or adjusted organizational policies resulting in current relevance of organizational compliance.• Synchronized and managed 6 staff directorates supporting 300 employees across California through skilled organization and management.• Logistical and administrative support for 300 employees ensured maximum operability of over 10 million dollars in required equipment.• Executed a combined marketing and operating budget over $650,000 resulting in 100% of fiscal required expenditures.• Provided cross-functional project management on 4-6 initiatives annually that resulted in talent and succession planning, leader development, contract responsibility, and meeting organizational initiatives.• Worked closely with the Department of Public Works (DPW) and the Corps of Engineers in the relocation of the battalion headquarters from downtown Fresno to Naval Air Station Lemoore.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

• Synchronized the planning and execution with various agencies (both non and governmental) and military organizations throughout Asia, Europe, Australia and the United States participations in four major annual exercises held on the Korean Peninsula.• Lead deliberate and crisis action planning efforts for real-world crisis, exercises, rotations, and wartime operations plans, contingency operations plans, operations orders, and fragmentary orders in the Korean Theater of Operations.• Integrated current and emerging doctrinal concepts for the United States to support the Republic of Korea in armistice and wartime.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

• Responsible for the training and management of 150 cadets with the Army’s Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) at the University of Southern California (USC), University of California Irvine (UCI), California State University Long Beach (CSULB), and California State University Dominguez (CSUDH). • Managed a 1.8-million-dollar annual scholarship program supporting four major universities which required the interviewing and processing of hundreds of potential scholarship recipients. • Crafted and conducted detailed data collecting, processing and dissemination of relevant statistics and information that ensured the ability to effectively and efficiently market the benefits of being an Army Officer.• Collaborated with multiple agencies and university administrators to execute regulatory compliance of recruiting procedures.• Addressed personnel plans and human resource interest programs, to include personnel records management, sexual harassment prevention, benefits, and equal opportunity.• Managed a marketing budget of over $500,000, resulting in 100% accuracy of fiscal required expenditures.• Managed cadets (current & future) through computer operating systems and database management.• Worked closely with program director on employee relations and change management expectations.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

• Responsible for the management of 36 personnel with various skillsets while executing the duties of the chief military advisor to an Iraqi General and his organization which comprised of over 5,000 personnel. • Coordinated the use of US assets like Apaches, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Drones and Predators aircrafts) and Special Operations units to support Iraqi units in combat missions, especially those that involved High-value Targets (HVTs). • Oversaw the maintenance and accountability of equipment valued in excess of 2.5 million dollars.• Improved organizational readiness through personnel management and requirements consistent with published regulations and directives.• Prepared and briefed weekly support plans detailing all aspects of support operations, administrative and manpower projections.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

• Commander of an organization consisting of over 500 personnel and overall responsible for the professional development, supervision, training and their health and welfare• Responsible for the continuous readiness, maintenance and accountability of equipment valued in excess of $140 million dollars• Planned and constructed world class training facilities which were completed under budget and within the allotted time • Prepared and collected quarterly senior briefings for senior executives in preparation for executive level briefings and assessments each quarter• Managed an organization operating budget in excess of 1 million dollars • Assigned all high risk training events because of proven leadership, attention to detail and ability to mitigate risk while maintaining realistic training

Arlington, Virginia, Us

• Aide-de-Camp to the Commanding General, United States Army Air Defense Artillery Center and Fort Bliss, Texas; an installation with over 25,000 soldiers and civilians and a budget in excess of $750 million per year. • Provide any support required by the Commanding General to assist them in performing their duties. • Maintain flow of communications between the staff and the commander's office to ensure accuracy and efficiency of operations. • Ensure the commander's schedule is maintained to ensure maximum use of time. • Provide supervision, guidance and professionally develop the commander's executive support team. • Facilitate coordination between staff sections, installation agencies, major subordinate commands, and the Commanding General's office. • Coordinated travel for the Commanding General to visit units and attend meetings throughout the United States and also trips to Germany, Iraq, and Kuwait. • Managed the Commanding General's travel and operational budget. • Ensured compliance with all policies and regulations governing the roles, responsibilities and duties of a Commanding General and their office.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

• The air defense artillery officer leads the air defense artillery branch, who protects U.S. forces from aerial attack, missile attack and enemy surveillance.• Coordinate the Air Defense target engagement process in joint and multinational operations. • Worked with the FIM-92 Stinger and MIM-104 Patriot missile systems.• Employment of Air Defense Artillery Soldiers at all levels of command.• Served as a Platoon Leader, Rear Detachment Commander, Battery Executive Officer and Assistant S3 Operations Officer at the Brigade and Battalion level.

Plano, Texas, Us

• Promoted from Housing Consultant to Sales Manager in 9 months because of exceeding monthly sale projections by 25% and being ranked in the top 5% nationally for customer satisfaction ratings.• Effectively lead a 5 person sales team that consistently ranked in the top 10% of the company nationally.• Dealt with lenders, contractors, and local government officials pertaining to building permits. • Handled all customer and employee issues utilizing effective interpersonal skills developed through various leadership positions held in athletics and the military. • Trained over 20 employees on the Palm Harbor Homes system of selling. • Recognized by corporate as one of the top five housing sale consultants out of approximately 750 nationwide housing sale consultants for sales volume and customer satisfaction. • Offered a second promotion to General Manager but turned down promotion in order to return to the Army to attend Officer Candidate School and continue serving our nation as a Commissioned Officer.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

• Lead and supervise Military Police squads and sections in support of battlefield operations, to include area security and force protection patrol operations.• Perform duties as Military Police Patrol Supervisor.• Provide technical and tactical guidance to subordinate personnel.• Responsible for the health, welfare, morale and training of nine Solders, and over $1,000,000 worth of vehicles and equipment. • Deployments to Desert Shield/Storm (90-91), Rwanda/Zaire (94), Haiti (95) and Honduras (99)• Duty assignments while on active duty to Germany and Fort Bragg, NC (AIRBORNE), Florida (Army Reserves) and Arizona (Army National Guard).

Executive Masters Of Leadership, Organizational Leadership

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Justice Studies (Pre-Law)

Military And Strategic Leadership

Certificate Of Achievement (Pursuing), Human Resources Management