Maxwell Taylor Email & Phone Number

San Mateo, California, United States

Founder and Executive Director of Peer Voices Network (PVN). PVN works to increase peer lived experience input into and co-creation of health services design and health research. Our three main focus areas include...1) Training and Education (Content Built or Co-Built By Peer Advocates) 2) Advocacy (Promoting Greater Peer Inclusivity)3) Thought Leadership (Redefining Harmful / Prejudiced Concepts in Health)

Corvallis, Oregon Area

-- Consulting Philosophy --I work at the nexus between technical specialists and end users. I promote data-driven infrastructure, management, and analysis solutions that result in practical, actionable information for my clients. I have experience with a broad range of sectors includes business management, higher education administration, ecological research, and conservation planning. My skill set includes: -- Skills -- • Data Analytics• Project Management• Business Process Workflow Design• Data Management Services• Performance and Monitoring Schema• Data Visualization• G.I.S.-- Example Projects -- • Conducted research study cataloging local use and non-use of continuing education BIPOC and LGBT+ DEI trainings delivered from lived experience perspectives. Partnership with the Mid Willamette Trans Support Network.• Consulted on development of a five-year strategic plan for a local grocery food co-op. Facilitated collaborative, team-led mission statement redesign. Used that statement to guide development of discrete, trackable action goals with set deadlines.• Analyzed student retention, persistence, and graduation rates to help identify points of concern in the online student lifecycle for Oregon State University (OSU) online degree programs.

-- Example Projects --• Developed social media marketing from Wrangell Mountains Center. Campaign resulted in a 52% increase in web traffic to the Facebook site and doubled early course enrollment as compared to prior year• Organized and mobilized a statewide campaign successfully calling on Oregon Health Department to correct improper and potentially illegal exclusion of disabled populations from being listed as a group considered “marginalized” and ineligible for priority funding consideration. Funds were for a $3.3 million grant program supporting the behavioral health peer workforce.

-- Outreach Job Duties --• Co-developed content research for introductory level evolutionary biology videos• Ran most of the social media account management• Developed strategic partnerships• Ran outreach and community engagement programs with science education content viewers and stakeholders-- Business Development Job Duties --• Developed the company's three-year marketing plan (released internally July 2020)• Performed market research studies in the science education content sector • Secured over $15,000 in grant-based fundraising

Mccarthy, Alaska

Assisted with all aspects of operating an experiential learning art and science education center located in remote southeast Alaska. Like many small nonprofits, I wore "many hats" and job duties included...• Fundraising• Community Outreach• Supervising the Kitchen and Garden Manager• Recruiting and Supervising Volunteers and Interns• Writing and Editing a Monthly Newsletter• Directing Maintenance of the Base of Operations: a 116-year-old Former Hardware Store• Cooking and Cleaning - everyone chips in!

Reno, Nevada

GBLCC's mission is regional level conservation science support. I served as lead science data specialist, working internally on GBLCC-funded projects and externally coordinating with partners involved with data availability, stakeholder coordination, and science communication.-- Project Highlights --• Team lead of a task force that designed compatibility solutions between LCC project tracking databases and the Data.gov national data portal. Mapped out JSON / XML metadata crosswalks and created integration pathways into Data.gov for the five main tracking systems used by LCC offices. Team included representatives from fourteen regional LCC offices and four federal agencies.• Lead data analyst for Northwest Basin and Range Synthesis, a desert ecology conservation planning project. Designed overview maps of project area for stakeholder meetings and assisted with initial stakeholder outreach. Conducted meta-analysis of existing state, federal, and non-profit strategic plans and reported on policy overlaps and gaps.

Corvallis, Oregon

• Developed techniques for cost-effective, accurate soil sampling in production forestry, built off novel geostatistical approaches. Developed custom database structure for storing soil sample data.

Menlo Park, Ca

• Conducted meta-analysis of carbon sequestration studies in the Great Plains. Wrote technical brief for legislators concluding that small, short-term gains are feasible but estimates of soil as a potential carbon sink are overstated.• Co-authored journal article forecasting potential native species loss in California utilizing a unique bioclimatic approach. Paper cited 11 times since 2013.

Master Of Science - Ms, Sustainable Forest Management

Activities and Societies: Representative - CoF Dean's Executive Council President - Graduate Student Council Secretary - Forestry Club.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Geological And Earth Sciences/Geosciences

Associate Of Science - As, Geography