Malcolm Jones Email & Phone Number

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

Product Owner for Farmers.gov customer portal. Primarily responsible for maximizing the value delivered by the team by ensuring the NRCS and Common (FSA & NRCS) backlog is aligned with customers and stakeholders. Provides support for the development of the NRCS conservation delivery streamlining action plans pertaining to natural resource conservation planning and financial assistance.Provides leadership and/or coordination to assigned NRCS Area streamlining projects included in the action plans pertaining to natural resource conservation planning and financial assistance.Works with natural resources or financial assistance business process to identify and describe problems and inefficiencies for assigned natural resources or financial assistance streamlining projects and develops individual project action plans.Assembles natural resources or financial assistance national ad-hoc project teams with members from the national, regional, state, and field level to provide business process knowledge and expertise.Elicits, analyzes, compiles and maintains natural resources or financial assistance business requirements from natural resource specialists.

Perry, Oklahoma

Serves as staff specialist on conservation planning issues, including support and management of conservation planning certification that result from the implementation of NRCS programs and activities in the state. Works closely with other discipline specialists.Maintains NRCS handbooks and manuals specific to conservation planning, including the National Planning Procedures Handbook and related parts of the Conservation Programs Manual and NRCS General Manual. Develops policy and procedures for the states, conditions, and incorporates these into appropriate handbooks and manuals.Analyzes training needs and develops training programs specific to conservation planning. Mentors, provides guidance, leadership and training to area and field headquartered staff, district conservationists, technical service providers, and others engaged in resource conservation assistance and planning on all land uses.Conducts Quality Assurance Reviews for NRCS activities, including reviews for the adequacy of conservation planning, compliance with NRCS policy, and compliance with NRCS program requirements. Inspects and evaluates resource conservation planning and practice application performed by field personnel and others, and provides technical guidance to soil conservationists and others engaged in resource conservation planning on all land uses.Utilizes computer systems and associated software including MS Office, Customer Service Toolkit, ArcGIS, CSG Database, eFOTG, Protracts, PRS, database management systems, web systems, and analysis and planning models and tools in order to access, enter, interpret, summarize and exchange natural resource data and other technical information in order to provide technical assistance to field employees. Provides leadership in the development and use of computer and web-based planning tools.

Ottawa, Kansas

Provide oversight on Natural Resource Conservation Programs within Paola Marginal Unit in order to ensure activities are conducted in cooperation with Soil Water Conservation Districts (SWCDs) partner organizations. Provide program administration within managerial unit. Provide technical guidance to the District Commissioners. Fostered a work environment for Franklin County employees while providing leadership and guidance to staff.Assisted with PMU 2017 EQIP workload (29 applications) resulting in $480,111.00.Administers the delivery of technical assistance and farm bill programs.Train and oversee Farm Bill program policy implementation for field office.Interpreted and explained rules and regulations to contract applicants, participants and interested producers for Farm-Bill Programs.Conduct meetings with producers to determine resource concernsServe as the Chair for the Service Center Implementation Team from 2015 to 2016.Rank, prepare, design, administer, and manage the Farm Bill program application/contracts for EQIP, CSP, CRP, and WRP.Attend required and necessary meetings within the management unit while providing oral/verbal reports when needed.Work with local partners to provide outreach in Franklin County to promote NRCS.Assisted with Area 3 peer reviews for CSP, EQIP, and RCPP.

Emporia, Kansas

Provided oral and verbal technical and farm-bill program guidance to 23 counties in Area 3.Severed on 2017 Quality Assurance Resource team and developed final report.Responsible for advising Assistant State Conservationist on technical and program issues.Assisted with reviewing and providing guidance over 200 EQIP pre-obligation checklist for Fiscal Year (FY) 17.Assisted with 16 2017 Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) peer reviews and pre-obligation checklist reviews for FY 17.Coordinated and lead Resource Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) peer reviews.Responsible for being the liaison between the field offices and State office staff for programs and ecological sciences.Responsible for reviewing contract cancellation, terminations, and modification.Utilized Microsoft Office to develop correspondence and spreadsheets for management and to send to field offices.Assisted with completed 155 ROOT Audits for Area 3.Develop/present reports at staff, District Conservationist, and Supervisory District Conservationist meetings. Assisted Area 3 with solving ArcGIS 9 issues.

Winfield, Ks

Provide daily management and leadership to Winfield Management Unit.Administer and delivery of technical assistance, farm bill programs and contracting management in Winfield Field Office.Communicate regularly with federal, state, local partners, and attend necessary/mandatory meetings.Trained and overseen the Farm Bill program policy implementation of local staff.Interpreted and explained rules and regulations to contract applicants and interested producers.Responsible for meeting with producers to determine resource concerns by utilizing a nine-step planning process, soil maps, economic cost list, and ArcGIS 9.Perform and explain resource inventory evaluation assessments for Conservation Technical Assistance and program applicants on various land use including cropland, pastureland, and rangeland. Input accurate data information on various forms to provide a deliverable product to customers. Complete checkouts and certification on conservation practices performed in contracts.

Cordell, Ok; Wilburton, Ok

Contacts landowners and operators to review with them soil and water conservation problems on their units of land to obtain physical data such as crop history, field arrangement, problem areas, and related information about the farm enterprise, suggest feasible alternative solutions to problems and assists the landowners to develop a conservation plan which is geared to the land capabilities.Determines the extent of conservation problems in connection with planning operations and the need for additional technical assistance.Prepares local news stories of conservation accomplishments, events, progress, or special projects.Attend and participates in meetings of various rural and urban groups to explain the resource conservation programs.Works with engineers, soil scientists, agronomist, etc., for review of projecs.

Muskogee, Oklahoma; Duncan, Oklahoma

Worked with farmers and other landowners to develop conventional conservation plans addressing resource concerns. Implement various Farm Bill ProgramsPromote NRCS objectives and programs and assist the District Conservationist and other staff with office and field work.

Mcalester Oklahoma Service Center

Directs field office operations; analyzes workloads; and establishes and accomplishes goals in line with needs, available staff and other resources. Directs a program that provides technical guidance and assistance to the conservation district in carrying out a coordinated natural resource conservation program.Manages NRCS conservation programs, administrative duties and public information outreach activities in the field office. Provides conservation planning, implementation and follow-up assistance on natural resources conservation measures to individuals and groups. Provides supervision to federal employees within Management Unit.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Leadership, Public Adminstration

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Agribusiness

Activities and Societies: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Beta Kappa Chaper; MANRRS; NAACP;

Associate'S Degree, Undecided

9-12

Activities and Societies: Basketball