Selected to expand advising and programming capacity for graduate students across all colleges serving. Function in intrapreneurial organizational environment with individual contributor-strategic partner culture. Report to Associate Director for Graduate Student Career Services. Liaise internally with Employment Relations team, Assistant Director of Operations, and Assistant Director of Marketing. ✔Performance reviewed 4 months after hire (rather than next annual review cycle) due to rapid impact✔Promoted to Senior Career Coordinator position 1 year ahead of schedule for taking on more responsibility✔Chosen as office Employee of the Semester (out of 50+ candidates) in fall, 2022➤ Provide in-person and virtual 1-on-1 advising to masters and doctoral students, expanding team-wide advising student contact by 112% over ~3 years—delivering appointments on career exploration, resumes, cover letters, CVs, research statements, interviewing, and negotiation➤ Design and deliver career development programming through in-person, virtual, and hybrid modalities, growing team events by 43% over ~3 years, delivering 167 new and legacy workshops, presentations, classes, and seminars to 7k+ students and post-doctoral scholars➤ Innovate team’s first-ever summer programming of sequential seminars on CV-to-resume, job searching, negotiation, and LinkedIn—taking workshop student contact from 0 to ~450 per summer➤ Support 24 Career Center university- and department-wide events including career fairs, resume and mock interview days, and undergraduate summer badge bootcamp➤ Take ownership of flipped classroom model originally developed between Career Center, Graduate & Professional School, Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, and Center for Teaching Excellence—driving completion of 40 learners➤ Restructure instructional design elements and learning activities in Canvas learning management system (LMS) leading to average of 91% full success across 13 measured learning outcomes

Selected through peer review (6 of 50+ applicants) with colleague Marilyn Yeager for submitting graduate and post-doctoral IDP-driven flipped classroom career development model conceived at TAMU to disseminate to selected implementation sites for cross-site assessment, scholarly publications, and open-source access to models. First cohort of implementation sites scheduled to end February 2024 with second cohort beginning shortly after.➤ Transpose original TAMU-based model for dissemination:➤ Develop two-tier instructional design resources (learner and implementor)➤ Collaborate on writing 150-page instructional design plan providing foundation, video scripts, LMS construction, learning objectives, resources, and lesson plans—finishing final product within 2 weeks➤ Identify accessible career development resources to replace proprietary or contracted resources from original model to facilitate universality of model➤Partner with external consultants to integrate identity-related components into original and disseminated model to build development pathways for learners to contextualize lived experience➤ Construct logic model and theory of change to provide visualization and understandable conceptualization to audiences➤ Shape train-the-trainer activities and learning experiences to introduce model and initiate building efficacy with implementation➤ Facilitate Community of Practice for 3 implementation sites (2 R1 institutions, 1 professional society)➤ Lead discussion for 5 – 7 faculty and program managers to understand, modify, and contextualize model for site graduate students and post-doctoral scholars

Selected to lead office turnaround, taking ownership of student-facing, employer relations, and operational functions. Elevated to director-equivalent with direct-line reporting to Associate VP of Enrollment Management. Led up to 3 direct reports of graduate assistants, student workers, and interns—assuming pre-existing team, hiring and training new members, and designing new internship position. Managed restricted and unrestricted $82k budget. ➤ Forged full office strategic, branding, and operations transformation, realizing 80% of strategic plan goals within 1 ½ years after leading and writing document by synthesizing on-campus stakeholders’ vision for career services➤ Authored new mission, vision, and values statements by creating coalition of 15 academic affairs, student affairs, enrollment management, and students to actualize office direction➤ Devised assessments, program evaluations, and focus groups to measure student satisfaction, learning outcomes, office visibility, and employer needs and satisfaction ➤ Collected and exceeding within 2 academic years all accreditation goals and metrics set by Institutional Research and Effectiveness ➤ Developed career advising protocols increasing appointments by 37% over 1½ years ➤ Oversaw Handshake implementation and generated 2000+ employer connections in <1 year➤ Increased office social media engagement by average of 50% over 1 year➤ Led successful career fair with second largest-to-date employer participation directly after Hurricanes Laura and Delta➤ Coordinated end-to-end 7 career fairs (3 campus-wide fairs, 2 teachers fairs, and 2 internship fairs) with P&L responsibility (~$5k - $10k budget) leading to average 15% revenue increase➤ Obtained $1k University of Louisiana grant to construct and facilitate online career training for system-wide staff and faculty

Networked into role. Collaborated across sub-units within college to support operations transformation and collect and report data on college-level initiatives, crafting data succession plans, and streamlining file retrieval systems.➤ Analyzed quantitative and qualitative mentorship program data for 100+ mentor-mentee dyads and constructed holistic 360-degree report on outcomes delivered to 2k+ university stakeholders➤ Pioneered and owned creation of inaugural graduate and professional school destination report exclusively for Schreyer undergraduate alum, leveraging data sourced from National Student Clearinghouse➤Optimized data management in Honors College databases for ~15 staff for easy retrieval and generated succession plans for future data collection, analysis, and career personnel positions

Provided office administration and operations transformation with direct reporting to Associate Dean and support 2 Academic Advisors for College with 845 students. Met with undergraduate students to process major and minor changes. Data-mined transcripts to identify at-risk students for intrusive advising efforts.➤ Identified need from faculty and developed predictive GPA calculator over 3 months in Excel using game theory to determine grades for college admittance ➤ Saved Academic Advisors 10+ minutes of processing time by automating curricula sheets in Excel for all college majors➤ Took lead in gathering and examining data on college intra-university transfers, pinpointing primary source colleges for influx of new students➤ Evaluated sample of uAchieve degree audit data to discover and report significant issues with platform

Recruited from campus-wide applicant pool to first-line career and experiential learning advisement placement for 3100+ undergraduate and graduate student portfolio in support of Ohio Department of Education grant for STEM internships, co-op, REU, and job placement. Fostered relationships with Ohio state representatives through state-level NAICS data reporting. Reported to Director, collaborated with 7-person team of professionals and student workers, and established relationships with all college department chairs and coordinators. ➤ Delivered first-line career advising and programming to STEM undergraduate and graduate students, facilitating 300+ appointments focused on experiential job searching, resumes, cover letters, graduate school applications, mock interviews, interviewing strategy and negotiation➤ Envisioned, planned, and presented 18+ workshops reaching 500+ students to develop student interview skills and recruit into experiential learning, supporting office credit generation➤ Partnered with International Programs Office to facilitate career development and work authorization seminar for international students, delivering to 100+ students over 2 semesters ➤ Co-lead regional college assessment symposium, including program development, facility booking, budget assistance, and marketing—delivering multi-state impact to 6+ institutions ➤ Generated 3-year destination data of STEM alumni through online sourcing to bolster programmatic accreditation metrics and leading to 90%+ knowledge rate➤ Benchmarked office with career services offices at Top 10 schools on core organizational factors and presented to Director to evaluate programming needs ➤ Trained Coordinator and Graduate Assistant leading to new hires independently leading advising appointments and fully executing duties in less than 1 month➤ Served on search committees for Graduate Assistant and student workers

Networked into role. Elevated into Career Specialist function mid-semester to cover departing staff member. Advocated by Director to be converted to permanent role at end of tenure (unsuccessful due to unit restructuring).➤ Advised students over 100+ contact hours implementing counseling microskills➤ Created and led office's first professional school group mock interview programming for 20+ emerging professional school applicants➤ Researched and reported internship, co-op, and research experience for undergraduates (REU) opportunities and vetted employer access to Handshake through researching key credibility factors

Recruited back to agency after previous internship. Reported directly to Supervisory Attorney with dotted line reporting to Assistant to Regional Director. Conducted unfair labor practice investigations, negotiated, coordinated, and officiated elections for representation. Consistently climbed GS schedule through performance. ➤ Mentored (official duty appointment) and oversaw day-to-day work of 2 law school externs, developing each from relative unfamiliarity with labor law to independently conducting their own investigations over 1 summer➤ Investigated and processed 150+ unfair labor practice cases, meeting 99% of time processing targets➤ Carried office's 2nd highest monthly caseload, receiving highest possible overall performance review

Returned to position to continue facilitating massive and historic cross-campus movement program to support professional development and job searching capabilities. Evaluated students based upon rubric and maintained grades on Microsoft Access to become part of course grades. Additionally, supported local workforce development by making program of course grades accessible to become part of course grades in late-stage interviewing and job searching strategies.➤ Interviewed and advised 360+ students in total, carrying highest appointment load of any previous advisor in mock interview program history. ➤ Assessed cover letters and resumes to improve student marketing of knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics (KSAOs) to potential employers➤ Advised students on determining most effective job search and long-term career development strategies.

Recruited from on-campus interviewing at agency target school to carry all responsibilities of a permanent career-appointed Field Examiner. Investigated and resolved unfair labor practices, drafted investigative reports, and conducted elections for representation.➤ Obtained $2k in backpay and reinstatement for discharged employee in dual charged party case➤ Took lead, analyzed testimony and evidence, and wrote with > 24-hours notice key dispositional report for 3-office unfair labor practice investigation ➤ Negotiated election contract and successfully supervised complex and contentious 100+ employee election for representation

Contributed to a significant historic mock interview program for various undergraduate career development courses at R2 institution, delivering comprehensive graded mock interviews and resume reviews.➤ Conducted simulated Assessed students' ability to communicate knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics (KSAOs) to potential employers ➤ Advised students on determining most effective job search and long-term career development strategies