Michael Lawson Email & Phone Number

Parker, Co, Us

Parker, Colorado, United States

Lakewood, Colorado

Course curriculum creator and instructor for Master's of Public Administration program. Created and teach public budgeting and finance curriculum.

Woodland Park, Colorado, United States

Woodland Park, Colorado, United States

Woodland Park, Colorado, United States

Aurora, Colorado

• Manage high-profile, cross-departmental projects on behalf of City Manager. Serve on the city’s executive leadership and management teams.• Project manager for city’s negotiated acquisition of 21,000 street lights from local investor-owned utility. Goal is to save significantly on energy costs and prepare for deployment of pole-mounted smart city technology. • Member of city’s smart city executive steering committee.• Leading creation of citywide comprehensive public engagement framework.• Co-creator of nationally-recognized ‘SHIFT’ suite of employee attraction and retention programs.• Created and currently manage the city’s electric vehicle program.• Collaborate on citywide projects with department directors, primarily those in Information Technology, Finance, Human Resources, Communications and Marketing, and Public Works.• Supervised ICMA Local Government Management Fellowship program.• Trainer for city’s Core 4 Values new employee onboarding program.

Aurora, Colorado

• Led City Clerk’s Office of seven FTE while carrying out Manager of Special Projects duties.• Directed agenda process, interfaced with City Manager, Council Members, and public and conducted statutory duties at Council meetings, and managed revisions to city code.• Supervised 2018 mid-term election process and Council ward redistricting process.• Completed job study and reclassification process for City Clerk staff.

Aurora, Colorado

• Project coordinator for City and County of Aurora initiative, a City Council priority project.• Represent Finance Department in collective bargaining with city’s police and fire employee unions.• Project manager for the purchase of city’s street lights from energy utility company. Coordinate intergovernmental collaboration efforts with other Denver metro cities.• Co-created and manage city’s ARISE employee leadership development program.• Supervise two senior management analysts in Budget Office; one ARISE interdepartmental intern.• Lead city’s annual budget document development process.• Created and manage city’s SmartFleet Initiative, a multi-strategy fleet sustainability plan. Secured grant funding to implement initiative.• Budget coordinator for Mayor and City Council and Internal Services Departments. Total of all budgets managed (2015): $25.5 million. Formerly coordinator for three other departments.• Trainer for city’s Core 4 Values Program. Have trained over 500 city employees on providing great customer service to internal and external customers. Continue to train new hires.

Aurora, Colorado

• Carried out special projects under direct supervision of City Manager or Deputy City Manager.• Project manager for fleet downsizing/rightsizing study.• Developed models for civilian police oversight authority based on best practices research.• Co-authored study revising city’s qualifications-based selection procurement process.• City’s donation coordinator following July 20, 2012 Century 16 Theatre shooting. Represented city on community advisory and healing committees.• Assumed role of Intergovernmental Relations Coordinator on a three-month interim basis.• Filled newly created policy/fiscal analyst position in the Mayor and City Council Office on a three-month pilot basis. Reported directly to City Manager.• Awarded career progression three times during tenure in position.

• Project citywide revenues, specializing in transient occupancy tax and motor vehicle license fees; assist in projecting sales, property, and other taxes; analyze regional economic indicators;• Act as budget liaison for five city departments, including mayor’s office and the Financial Management Department; process budget change requests and create quarterly budget monitoring status reports for liaison departments;• Monitor the California State Budget and advise management on the impact of the State’s actions on City revenues; interact with City’s sales tax consultant to request data for budgetary analysis;• Responsible for the creation and coordination of comprehensive citywide fee schedule document used to determine policy on cost-recovery fee updates;• Initiated the creation of a revenue training manual to be used to instruct employees how to project and monitor citywide revenues;• Serve as undergraduate internship coordinator; direct and supervise two interns.

Greater San Diego Area

• Compiled and interpreted stock/bond market information for “Daily Digest” articles.• Prepared in-depth profiles of publicly-traded and private San Diego-based companies for a variety of publications owned by the Daily Transcript.

Greater San Diego Area

Web developer for XM Works; Web developer and online sales manager for TVTopTen.com and TVOverstocks.com.

Greater San Diego Area

Riverside, California

• Compiled data and conduct analysis of total value of contracts initiated by Global Trade Center to determine effectiveness of individual outreach efforts.• Drafted GTCIE’s 2002-2003 Annual Report.

Masters, Public Administration

Named Outstanding MPA Student, December 2012

Politics, Law

Activities and Societies: Education Abroad Program through University of California

Bachelor Of Arts, Political Science