• Free Agent scouting coverage of North Texas, Oklahoma, and North Louisiana Regions. Identify the talent and attributes of top performers to develop an understanding of each key component and its future implications to the organization• Cultivate and maintain strong working relationships with prospects and other various actors in the decision-making process (families, coaches, agents, etc.) to create a partnership that yields success, credibility, and predictable results• Support organizational goals by developing and maintaining a network of contacts to help identify and source qualified prospects; review for potential and organizational fit• Drive improvements in the productivity and efficiency of recruitment, and opportunity evaluation processes• Prescreen all candidates and research candidate backgrounds as appropriate for the position• Develop and maintain spreadsheets and documents to assess program, campaign, and/or performance success

• Evaluation and coverage of Major League and Extended Spring Training, the American League, Florida State League, Gulf Coast League, Florida Instructional League, and other assigned by the Director of Player Personnel• Contributions to strategic planning and personnel discussions

• Area Supervisor for the greater Los Angeles, California, and Hawaii territory including San Luis Obispo and Bakersfield, CA as well as summer national showcase and tournament coverage

• Various Area Supervisor responsibilities throughout the Central U.S. including the entire state of Texas. Also served as local Area Supervisor for home Kansas City area• Hired and developed professional skills of part-time and associate staff, opening full-time advancement opportunities with competing organizations• Area Supervisor for second and first overall selections respectively in the 2005 and 2006 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Drafts. Both selections signed to franchise record bonuses• Scouting contributions to award winners of 2003 Kansas City Royals Minor-League Player of the Year, and the 2006 Baseball America Player of the Year

• Balanced administrative and recruiting responsibilities throughout the Central U.S. supplementing the efforts of the Scouting staff as directed by the Senior Director of Scouting (Recruitment). Managed and facilitated daily communication and administrative operations of the recruitment process• Participated in the candidate interview and hiring processes• Created a system of information management for the Senior Director prior to the full-organizational integration of computer scouting software and reporting procedures• Managed initial contact and entry for South Africa recruitment trip • Appointed as a 2-year member of the organization’s Diversity committee and as a 1-year member of the Special Awards and Recognitions committee• “Rookie of the Year” for outstanding achievement, 1998

• Scouting throughout the Midwest region• Covered NCAA College World Series, National Baseball Congress (NBC) World Series and American Legion World Series