Joshua Barron Email & Phone Number

Lubbock, TX, US

Lubbock, Texas, United States

Lubbock, Texas, United States

With the title of Technical Project Manager, I function first and foremost as a Scrum Master serving the Integrations Developer Team.

Lubbock, TX, United States

• Managed relationships, contracts, project management, budgets, configurations, and ongoing support for all 283 campus stakeholder groups through implementations of all four student success management systems (SSMS/CRM).
• Contributed to widespread institutional changes by introducing a capabilities maturity model approach to help discuss and guide strategic, tactical, and cultural transformation of success and retention interventions.
• Prompted adoption of data governance for better business outcomes and improved cross-silo collaboration.
• Designed, proposed, and implemented comprehensive data-driven innovations aimed at expanding/complementing reactive interventions toward proactive success programming via predictive analytics, systems integrations.
• Created institution’s first real-time analytics dashboards related to semester-on-semester reenrollment, student feedback from exit interviews, intervention responses, faculty alerts, available student signals, modeled.
• Consulted with unit representatives on opportunities to develop action plans from data analysis insights.

Lubbock, Texas Area

Facilitated Provost’s Student Success & Retention Initiative as coordinator of Provost’s Task Force on Student Success & Retention, whose efforts led widespread institutional change to better serve students, particularly through analytics standardization, new systems selection and implementation, direct program consulting, advisor professional development.

Lubbock, Texas Area

• Developed and oversaw day-to-day management of department’s desired student learning outcomes, especially their contribution to/fulfillment of institutional strategic planning, via real-time assessment.
• Led professional and student workforce to measurably accomplish stated strategic goals and objectives. Celebrated victories, endured and overcame challenges, and grieved losses in professional work and personal lives.
• Implemented consistent branding, marketing, and presentation of advising programs and services from end-user perspective to better engage potential student users, including web content and public presentations.
• Employed regular and systematic analysis of performance to initiate process changes based on substantiated needs with measurable improvements in customer service and corporate culture. Affected organization policies.

Lubbock, Texas Area

• Managed staffing, performance management, resource allocation, future projections for ATLC lab facilities
• Defined rapid response solutions to minimize risk related to potential crisis situations regarding facilities safety, hardware/software, logistics, and personnel.
• Developed capital replacement plan for 3-year fiscal cycle, maintained inventory of lab hardware and software, managed facility signage and branding design, and analyzed real-time facility use.

Lubbock, Texas Area

• Built meaningful and long-lasting relationships with students, families, partners, and community members.
• Evaluated each student regarding adolescent development, theology, relational and environmental factors.
• Implemented departmental Management By Objectives (MBO) to manage weekly activities of six relationally-driven college interns.
• Utilized evaluations, training program, and personal mentoring to promote maturity and effectiveness.
• Wrote and delivered audience-appropriate curriculum to weekly audience of 10-40 members and visitors.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Built meaningful and long-lasting relationships with students, families, partners, and community members.
• Instituted Student Leadership Development Program, engaging high schoolers to serve junior high students.
• Managed college interns, including development of Staff Summer Orientation training curriculum.
• Recruited and organized volunteer team to equip adults via annual program planning and execution.
• Reinvented fundraising to increase giving from $6,000 to $15,000; 2005-2006 effort raised $52,000.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Client: Texas Motor Speedway
• Interviewed NASCAR fans, business executives, sponsors, drivers, and teams to write user stories, requirements, and project plans.
• Created a redesigned web presence to achieve business objectives.Client: Inspire Insurance
• Analyzed business processes and internal technology systems.
• Developed improvement channels and change management plan.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Navigated organizational structure and evaluated Financial Advisory Services (FAS) processes through requirements gathering, process design, software development, IT strategic planning, and change management deployment of global team-building and knowledge management tool.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Used Service Level Rationalization™ methodology to assess organizational effectiveness and develop healthier, more profitable environments for Division of Marketing and Division of Internal Communications.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Dual Concentration: Management Information Systems & Organizational Behavior

Activities and Societies: Student Senator

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Management

Activities and Societies: University Chorale, Beta Theta Pi, LateNite

Ph.D In-Progress, Technical Communication & Rhetoric

In process of developing reading list, committee, and dissertation proposal. Anticipated graduation?