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Grapevine, TX, US

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Provide a full range of career services to a 4200+ student population
• Develop and execute strategic goals of the Center, markets the Center’s services to Fortune 500 companies and other DFW regional employers
• Building face-to-face corporate parnterships with 100+ local companies to implement internship/externship linkages
• Facilitate group, classroom, and organization educational programs to enhance the skills and competencies of professional development to all Univeristy Colleges and Athletic teams
• Implemented the Dallas Baptist University Flash Mentoring Program connecting current DBU students to a global network of 25K+ Alumni who represent numerous industries and markets

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Responsible for supporting student success by providing mentorship in advising, instruction, planning, and supervision to grow student professional development, recruited faculty members to personally adopt students on.
• Yielded a 1600% increase in student participation by improving the department’s strategic communications, leveraging new text message software technologies to communicate effectively with the college student demographic
• Created and presented at orientation workshops for incoming freshman with 800+ in attendance to market the mentorship program to the new student population
• Responsible for directing the operation of the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) with a team of 3 direct reports and a $25K program budget, developing annual strategic action plans to focus on continuous improvement and.
• Credited with developing a mentor training workshop with 120 faculty and staff members trained on how to lead as a mentor, leading to the university to be recognized as one of the largest mentoring universities
• Successfully established a 600% increase in Faculty/Staff participation through leveraging bonded relationships and carrying out a personal grassroots approach to recruitment

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Responsible for brokering mutual corporate partnerships within the DFW metroplex, offering degree programs onsite for corporate partners in exchange for intellectual capital and leadership development investment.
• Successfully held a region of 10+ chambers of commerce, developed relationships with 15 Fortune 500 companies maintaining consistent contact with executives to uphold university partnership
• Collaborated with McKesson to broker a $200K annual deal for 30+ of their corporate employees to join the university undergraduate program
• Effectively performed student demographic research to identify potential student markets and built strategic partnerships with corporations including General Motors & Boeing to offer post-graduate career positions
• Expertly drafted proposals to 100+ company executive management teams to offer scholarships via reductions in tuition upwards of 20% to sustain partnerships and development opportunities
• Spearheaded the Leadership Empowerment Lecture Series by hosting leadership luncheons for 50+ community leaders such as educators, local attorneys, and HR experts to discuss relevant, informative topics

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Implemented a millennial ministry strategy that yielded convening power in partnership with 540 churches and 2200 Millennial Leaders, growing an initial meeting of 12 local pastors to 120+ young adult pastors.
• Successfully established strategic partnerships with organizations including The New York City Leadership Center, Movement Day Greater Manhattan, and Harvest America to assist in growing a National platform, speaking.
• Served as the Executive Development manager to support an annual budget of $350K, successfully fundraised approximately $1M within 3 years tenure

Coppell, Texas

• Founded a volunteer leadership team comprised of 28 citizens, instituted strategic partnerships with 64 churches and 9 cities spanning across 4 counties within Texas following the mission and vision to serve the.
• Designed and implemented training for 2K attendees, instructing churches how to mobilize, serve their neighbors, and build relationships with their local municipality and educational systems, providing resources and.

• Managed a team of 14 direct reports for the Boeing Aerospace and Reckitt Benckiser accounts, acting as a supply chain manager to liaison between shipment planning and execution, I.T., engineering, suppliers, warehouse.
• Maximized training and development by writing individual development plans to ensure growth and advancement within the team, as well as cultivating professional etiquette/client communications training for 150+.

• Managed the “outbound execution team” of 12 responsible for eight large scale clients, supervised the carrier base to include carrier on-time performance and acceptance rate, additionally redesigned the format of our.
• Greatly improved the carrier acceptance rate for the Philips Consumer Electronics team by 20%, implemented automation to immediately reject carriers who did not accept jobs within a designated time frame, generating.

• Shipment Management Coordinator (1/2006 – 2/2007)
• Dispatched and brokered one hundred inbound/outbound loads daily across multiple Client accounts
• Avoided $500,000 in resource cost by designing application that automates executing Client orders
• Lead training presentations and operational testing on TM system migration project

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Marketing

Bba, Management