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United States

Floyd County, Virginia, United States

Serve as County Administrator in the lovely, mountainous, and artistic county of Floyd. Floyd County is a rural mountain community known for its music, its natural beauty, arts, local food, and the creative, independent spirit of its residents. Located atop the Blue Ridge Plateau in southwest Virginia, Floyd is a haven for those who love nature, the arts.

Fredericksburg, VA

The George Washington Regional Commission is one of 23 planning districts in Virginia, covering the City of Fredericksburg, as well as the Counties of Caroline, King George, Spotsylvania, and Stafford, all near the I-95 corridor between Washington, DC, and Richmond, VA. The Commission is charged with coordinating, planning, and implementation of efforts to.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

At the Encouraging Place, we are all about empowering women and families and racial healing. Our Mission: To create environments of support and encouragement for women in every stage of life so that they may grow as individuals as they experience the Love of Christ.Our goal is to form small groups to work toward racial healing and unity –something God has.

School Of Government - Online

Serve as a core course instructor in the On-line MPA program at the University of North Carolina. Currently teaching PUBA709, Institutions and Values for Public Administration.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Provide guidance and leadership for the newly created North Carolina Center for County Research, the principal repository and source of data analysis for county-based information. Under the auspicious of the Association of County Commissioners, the Center collects and publishes primary survey data from North Carolina county governments, compiles county.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

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Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Served as Executive Director of a statewide, independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to the goals of a better-informed public and a more effective, accountable, and responsive government. The Center identifies public policy issues facing North Carolina and enriches the dialogue among citizens, the media, and policymakers. Based on its.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Served as COO for a family owned series of companies and LLCs that specialize in development, investment, construction and property management. The organization is particularly good at working with or near the mission driven sectors in general, and the tax credit affordable housing industry in particular. As COO I focused on organizational issues.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Oversee 1450 employees, a $118 million budget and collections of $26.9 billion. Serve as the primary driver for agency direction, policy development, and accomplishment. Engage in numerous successful negotiations and.
• Drove tax enforcement performance to record levels, including a more than 100% increase ($1.1 billion) in both assessments and collections in an 18 month period of economic malaise.
• Increased agency productivity despite a 17% reduction in staffing.
• Spearhead $127 million public private partnership IT project, with record setting benefits streams, paying the vendor through benefits 18 months ahead of forecast.
• Successfully created and implemented new account write-off and compromise policy to reflect our focus on three tenants – easy to do business with, firm but fair, compassionate when called for.
• Created first in the nation recovery programs that focus on collections and economic recovery, resulting in more than $40 million in collections and 2,709 saved small businesses.

• Supervised 500+ employees and the operations of six divisions of the Department, including Corporate, Excise and Insurance Tax; Personal Taxes; Property Tax; Sales and Use Tax; Policy Analysis and Statistics; and.
• Creation of a new online business registration system that is exceeding expectations.
• Initiation of a new external communications effort, including a pro-active communications strategy with key players.
• Development of a new partnership with the community college system to offer tax education courses (free of charge) statewide.
• Develop legislative tax agenda for the agency and the administration.
• Develop new internal partnerships and performance metrics to improve taxpayer service.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Teach a graduate level (300) course in state and local budgeting. Received student ratings of 4.75 on a 5.0 scale. Also serve as guest lecturer for international development courses on taxation, public management, and tax administration. Recently lectured in Istanbul, Turkey.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Staffed the House and Senate Finance Committees. Provided policy, legal, and fiscal analysis of potential and proposed tax and fee legislation. Forecast sales tax revenues and contributed to the overall forecast..
• State and local estimates for sales tax options including associated “hold harmless” provisions and tax swaps.
• Revised taxation of telecommunications.
• Streamlined sales tax.
• Remote sales tax collection.
• Revised taxation of piped natural gas.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Primary business contact for environmental education efforts. Managed a statewide educational campaign reaching more than 15,000 students annually. Created a 501(c) 3 organization to support state-sponsored efforts. Oversaw a network of more than 100 environmental education centers. Created, implemented, and funded a statewide fertilizer use education.

Hickory/Lenoir, North Carolina Area

• Served as Executive Director of a 400-member business association. Responsibilities included oversight of the Chamber of Commerce, the Visitor Information Center, and the county’s occupancy tax fund. Was personally.
• Introduction of a computer and fax messaging systems that increased efficiency and participation, and reduced organization expenses.
• Introduction of a new staff evaluation system that allowed for employee input, personal goal identification, and individual professional development plans.
• Creation of a Caldwell County Tourism Development Alliance to market the community.
• Strengthening of relationships with all sectors of the business community.
• Establishing the Chamber as the source for critical business location and expansion information.

Morgantown, WV

• Served as Executive Director and Founder of West Virginia REAL Enterprises - a statewide entrepreneurship-training program for high school, college, and community college students. Responsibilities included: program.
• A legislative mandate that all community colleges offer REAL.
• Inclusion in the federally funded West Virginia School-to-Work Transition strategy.
• Five-year funding from the Appalachian Regional Commission.
• Selection by the national organization to provide all evidence development for REAL.
• Creation of accelerated courses for displaced workers.

Morgantown, WV

• Served as an Extension Specialist for public issues education and community economic development programming. Responsibilities included: developing a regularly published public issues newsletter for extension agents.
• Being elected chair of the West Virginia Rural Development Council.
• Being selected by the Governor’s office to be one of ten community liaisons for the Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community Program.
• Organizing the West Virginia displaced worker initiative.
• Publishing periodic public documents on controversial state issues for citizen education.
• Facilitating more than 50 development related community meetings across the state.

Charleston, West Virginia Area

• Primary responsibility was to research and develop new rural economic development opportunities and programs for the state of West Virginia. Specific tasks included: providing technical assistance to rural non-profit.
• Creation of a rural policy working group of federal, state, local, non-profit, and for-profit leaders. This group later became the West Virginia Rural Development Council.
• Development of an artisan-based cottage industry strategy.
• Completion of a detailed analysis of the policy implications of a state enterprise zone strategy.
• Creation of Demonstration Partnership self-sufficiency project through Community Action Agencies.

Greater Boston Area

Analyzed alternative development plans for a small business incubator/development center for a distressed minority community in the Boston area. This project included the creation of a strategic plan for the incubator’s development and focus, a feasibility study of various alternatives, as well as an implementation plan for financing, marketing, and.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Organized regional conferences of state cabinet level officials on development issues. Analyzed and tracked legislation of interest to community developers. Acted as a liaison to state level organizations. Drafted a compendium of articles on economic development programming for distressed individuals and communities, analyzed poverty data, and participated.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Analyzed agriculture, environment, and transportation legislation for the Congressman. Provided background research on the “Save the Family Farm” legislation, met with industry lobbyists and interest group representatives, collected interest group ratings, and handled all agriculture casework. Oversaw several interns working on key research projects, and.

Doctorate, Policy Analysis And Political Science

Dissertation: Agenda Setting and Denial in the States: Nonprofit Hospital Tax Exemptions, a North Carolina Case Study. State and Local.

Masters, Public Policy

Activities and Societies: Published articles in "The Rostrum"

Bachelor Of Science, Political Science, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: University Honors with Distinction, Departmental Honors, Arthur S Fleming Award for Excellence in Public Service