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Career Positioning & Professional Development Coach: 2009-PresentDr. Dave Peltz, is the President and CEO of Peltz Consulting Services LLC. He is a career positioning, leadership, adult learning, and business generalist subject-matter expert. He is passionate about developing and educating people to create a foundation of knowledge and experience they can build on throughout their careers. He provides coaching services for people in all lines of work and industries, including military and veterans. and provides coaching services for people at all position levels, lines of work and industries. Specializations:Career Positioning DevelopmentProfessional Development Leadership DevelopmentTraining DevelopmentBusiness Industry GeneralistHis industry experience includes defense contracting, government, military, IT, and higher education.Services Provided: Professional Development, Career Development and Planning, Resume Development, Experiential Extraction, Interviewing Techniques, and more. He also provides Group and One-on-One Coaching and Training sessions.www.PeltzConsultingServices.comPeltzCS@outlook.com

Northern Arizona University - Courses Taught: MOL 530: Strategic Planning, Implementation and Evaluation, BBA 330: Supply Chain and Operations ManagementGrand Canyon University - Courses Taught: BUS 660: Quantitative Methods, SYM 506: Applied Business Probability and Statistics, BUS 352: Business StatisticsUniversity of Phoenix - Courses Taught: QNT 561: Applied Business Research and Statistics, LDR 531: Organizational Leadership, QRB 501: Quantitative Reasoning for Business, HCS 465: Health Care Research Utilization, RES 351: Business Research, QNT 351: Quantitative Analysis for Business, LDR 300: Innovative Leadership, QNT 275: Statistics for Decision Making

As the COO of a multi-genre music-based social medial platform tech startup, led and developed the company’s operations management infrastructure, lead all operations planning and project management processes, established company organizational polices; identified logistics and distribution channels; and ensured quality and progress metrics were met. Results: Partnered with legal counsel to establish the corporation structure and infrastructure; conducted industry research and developed several comprehensive pricing and revenue models; created revenue process mapping; developed investor and marketing strategies and pitches; vetted all executives, leadership, and line staff; led biweekly staff meetings and monthly BOD meetings; designed and developed company website.

Facilitated, teach, and instruct military personnel (active, reserve, national guard), transition to civilian professional and vocational occupations.Guided transitioning military service members in identifying goals while also assisting them with recognizing any employment or education gaps.Provided transitioning servicemembers (active, reserve, national guard), family members, and veterans a comprehensive understanding of preparing for civilian employment, job searching, job application processes, networking, technical training opportunities, credentialing, and assistance in preparing for civilian employment and participation in technical programs and schools.Conducted large group instruction and provided career counseling for the job search process.

Managed initial Data Governance and Information Security Program management. Developed scalable internal company group automation coding and naming conventions based on financial cost centers used by several departments including: Information Security, IT, Legal, Human Resources, Finance/Purchasing/Property Management, Technical Communications/Policies/Procedures, Safety/Security. Result: Provided weekly and monthly in-depth data analytics, data reconciliation, and data recommendations for the above departments. Partnered with several international Chinese business partners to address standardization of information security and data governance processes.

Managed, led, planned, organized, and coordinated dual technical and employee workforce development training program consisting of 3 primary programs and 7 sub-programs. Managed 9 direct reports including 7 trainers. Managed 24 interdepartmental customers, serving 7,500 county employees. Responsible for $1M fiscal budget, including $200k discretionary training expense budget, and personnel four vehicles. Responsible for all programmatic training and curriculum design and delivery in wastewater treatment, conveyance/gravity, OSHA based safety, management/leadership, communication, career planning, computer education, staff development, and maintained SkillSoft LMS and Compliance Suite LMS functionality. Result: Analyzed and reported results for county-wide workplace culture survey; coded, analyzed, and reported on county-wide learning focus group. Result: Created high performance team to conduct internal training and reduced discretionary third-party training budget by 23% ($60k) without increasing FTEs; Result: Increased interdepartmental customer base 55%; Result: Created and delivered adult centered learning curriculums that generated $50k-$75k in interdepartmental revenues. Result: Created 50 courses, delivered 350 classes to 1300 students in 18-months. Result: Merged training to Meridian LMS.

Faculty Steering Committee: 10/2016-10/2018: Team member on faculty steering committee to review and improve business course content and faculty effectiveness.Faculty Assessment Liaison Trainer: 06/2017-10/2018: Trained CFALs and faculty on proper programmatic assessment techniques and activities as needed and available.Faculty Assessment Liaison: 01/2016-10/2018: Lead for annual business programmatic course objectives and rubrics assessment alignment, validity, and reliability. Result: Worked with the university to align campus assessment practices to meet the university and Higher Learning Commission standards. Result: Conducted faculty assessment alignment training to align campus faculty with current and forecasted assessment processes. Result: Worked with faculty to improve curriculum and classroom practices to ensure standardized rigor and student success.Academic Tutor/Coach for School of Business: 10/2016-01/2020: Provided tutoring and coaching services in the areas of statistics/applied statistics, research, applied mathematics, academic writing/APA, resume writing/interviewing/career alignment strategies as needed and available.

Managed 5 international business partners in Canada, United Kingdom, and Philippines, 5-10k knowledge articles across 1-6 product lines; responsible improving internal processes and performance based behaviors for article content, quality, and repository maintenance using SalesForce, Oracle, HTML. Result: integrated international knowledge business partners into U.S. knowledge operations, and increased effectiveness of international partner knowledge operations and relationships; Result: reduced unneeded knowledge content quantity by 25%; improved agent search results and resolution efficiency; Result: created and implemented targeted reporting process establishing for the first time in company history linkage between knowledge articles and core company performance metrics; significantly improved article review identification accuracy exponentially, and reduced article review/approval time by 70%.

Leadership RolesLeader of Leadership Community of Practice: 04/2013-02/2014Led and mentored 80+ members of employee resource group for emerging leaders.Leadership and Program Manager Development Coach: 05/2013-10/2013Provided guidance, training, and mentoring to program managers and leaders to increase individual, team, and program performance. Result: actively developed 100+ mid to upper level management and leadership program manager candidates. Result: significantly increased the quality and expectations of program manager certification packages “exponentially” through direct candidate engagement; reduced board decision time for candidate certification by 50%.Leader of Diversity Community of Practice: 06/2006-12/2008Led, developed, and conducted training the first diversity based multilingual/multicultural community of practice within company history. Result: established 350 members across 7 business systems, representing 42 languages, 37 cultures, and produced 34 voluntary written translations within 18 months of inception.TrainingProcess Improvement for Training (Using LEAN and Six Sigma): 08/2011-12/2011Learning Management System Training Coordinator: 06/2008-06/2009Technical Training Support: 05/2008-08/2011Asset/Property ManagementClassified Engineering Lab Manager: 10/2013-01/2015Asset Management – Engineering and Logistics: 12/2011-05/2013Property Analyst (Contractor): 10/2005-12/2005Policies and ProceduresOperations Directives and Procedures Coordinator: 01/2008-08/2011FinanceCost/Labor Estimating: 01/2006-01/2008

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