Heather Wheeler Email & Phone Number

Waco, Texas, United States

Waco, Texas, United States

• Liaise with TEA on behalf of regional school districts in regards to Title IV, A funding• Applied for, secure, and implement the Stop School Violence grant with STOPit’s Anonymous Reporting platform• Develop and foster cutting edge thinking in relation to safe and healthy schools• Determine baseline of school safety needs for school districts across the region and develop a plan to serve those needs• Provide professional development and expert assistance for the school districts across the region• Collaborate across the Service Center, around the community, and across the state to offer programming such as the Counselor Appreciation, Texas School Safety Center programming, etc• Serve on the Crisis Response Team and develop training materials for the team and participating school districts• Created Safe and Healthy Schools website by collaborating across 4 content areas• Conducted Asset Mapping project in collaboration with the Governor’s Office Child Sex Trafficking Team by interviewing approximately 30 schools to identify accessed tools, needed tools, and facilitated relationships available

Killeen/Temple, Texas Area

• Relationship creation and building with employers, community members, faculty, staff, and students• Develop and implement unit tracking mechanisms to appropriately track student, faculty, staff, and employer interactions to report measures of success and needed improvements• Design and execute workshops, employer networking, presentations, career fairs, and professional development workshops for all constituencies• Strategize and oversee execution of all aspects for unit including marketing and staff oversight• Analyze necessary resources to create and adopt needed tools• Create and oversee unit budget, including sponsorship programs• Constructed and manage the Career Closet, initiated by the Century Council’s gift to TAMUS schools• Administer HireWarriors (TAMUCT specific job-board) including migration from CSO to GradLeaders powered platform• Lead unit’s continuous improvement assessment by reviewing mission and goals, identifying target performance, analyzing target accomplishments, re-evaluating goals, and creating action plans based on findings• Oversaw the creation of Warriors in Policy, an internship program with state legislators• Solidify graduation survey data collection and distribution plan resulting in 90% response rate• Coordinate the baseline collection of marketable skills as part of 60x30TX• Chaired campus search committee for the Director of Access and Inclusion and Student Affairs Marketing Work Group

Waco, Texas Area

• Serve as point of contact for campus and employer partners specific to internships• Assemble and chair Internship Coordination Committee to develop and implement campus internship policies to further grow internships• Create and run the On-Campus Internship Program• Develop standards for employers posting internships on HireABear (Baylor specific job board) and vet internships posted there• Recruit new employers• Support students looking for internships and resume/cover letter reviews• Represent the department at various function• Supported website redesign by writing content• Research various best practices• Network with career services and internship professionals• Develop training to prepare students embarking on internships• Create and implement credit-bearing internship tracking mechanisms• Serve as advisor in the creation of Baylor Policy Internship Program and AU Internship partnership• Develop and coordinate campus-wide unpaid internship scholarship program

• Coordinate two policy internship programs and liaise with respective overseeing departments – the Public Policy Internship Program (PPIP) and the Agricultural and Natural Resources Policy (ANRP) Internship Program • Develop and operate budget• Plan and execute placement office visits during semester D.C. visit as well as with potential host offices• Identify student goals and spearhead PPIP students internship placement• Hire, supervise and train staff consisting of residential advisor, graduate assistant, student worker, and assistant director as well as other human resource functions• Serve as contact person for university functions related to internships• Develop and maintain donor relations• Recruit, interview, select, place, train and support students during internships in DC, Austin, Paris, London, Berlin/Nice/Brussels, and Rome• Manage emergency situations and liabilities related to programs• Identified strategic growth opportunities and implemented select components as approved by immediate supervisors including international placements• Researched and traveled independently to further develop international placements

• Assisted director recruit, interview, select, place, train and support studentsduring internships in Washington, D.C., Austin, and Paris, France as they represent themselves, the programs, and Texas A&M University• Maintained and developed internet websites using Dreamweaver and Wordpress software • Assisted in the planning of events• Resolved emergencies as main point of contact for interns and residential advisor• Maintained apartment conditions for intern living• Supervised and coordinated residential advisor located on site in D.C. • Coordinated award presentation for approximately 45 students annually at College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Award Convocation annually• Edited student’s internship application materials• Accepted, reviewed, verified information provided, copy, collate, bind and distribute applications to interview panel prior to interviews• Travel to D.C. yearly to assist with intern site visits, see apartments and facilitate relationship with management• Assist director in donor relationship endeavors including visits and distribution of materials

• Developed lesson plans based on Texas educational requirements• Supervised area qualifying Leadership Development Events and state qualifying Career Development Events, county winning livestock Supervised Agricultural Experiences and major livestock show placing livestock• Supported Area IV Vice President student, area winning Proficiencies, and Area IV Star Lone Star Farmers qualifiers• Assisted officers in the planning and implementation of FFA week activities• Served as Baylor County Stock Show advisor• Coordinated and supervised officer team for volunteer work at “the Little Hands on the Farm” booth at the State Fair of Texas• Coordinated operations in conjunction with teaching partner of the school greenhouse• Provided leadership to the officer team in the establishment of a chapter newsletter• Provided support in the online record book management process• Supervised students in star applications, Lone Star degree applications, and proficiency applications• Chaperoned/Coordinated State FFA Convention

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Agricultural Science

Masters Of Education, Higher Education/Higher Education Administration