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• Represents Swift Current Energy in a public-facing manner including managing outreach withmunicipal, county, and state entities, community organizations, stakeholders and business groups.• Serves as a central point of contact to establish and maintain excellent relationships with relevantstakeholders.• Participates in relevant meetings with stakeholder groups to disseminate project information andcultivate relationships, launching community education campaigns, programs, and tactics to informlocal residents and officials about projects.• Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to identify, evaluate, and anticipate publicengagement-related risks and opportunities, implementing tactics to mitigate concerns and generatesolutions in collaboration with the Development team.

Sikeston, Missouri

At Truman Strategies, our mission is to ignite innovation and foster sustainable growth for businesses and communities alike. Through dynamic strategies, personalized service, and unwavering loyalty, we empower our clients to realize their full potential. With creativity as our compass and collaboration as our cornerstone, we strive to be catalysts for positive change, driving prosperity and progress at every turn. Together, we shape brighter futures and build stronger foundations for success.

New Madrid, Missouri, United States

• Collaboratively developed strategic goals for sales, human resources, accounting, public relations and government relations• Fostered positive relationships with industry partners, leveraging connections to attract four Fortune 100 potential equity partners and eight Fortune 100 potential customers• Took decisive operational action in high stake situations• Generated branding and marketing• Demonstrated high visibility, consistently interacting with key stakeholders to inform, advise and challenge

New Madrid

• Oversaw more than 55 staff members, directing daily work, implementing policy and optimizing workflows• Attracted high-wage economic development leads of innovative industries• Revitalized and maintained excellent public/private relationships between City, other area organizations and private business/industry• Managed multiple commissioned studies on growth, economic development and engineering issues• Facilitated and improved all media communications• Coordinated financial or budget activities to fund operations and maximize investments

Sikeston, Mo

• Liaised with team to define project scope, timelines, resources and requirements• Evaluated data and conducted ROI analyses to measure success of program and projects• Reviewed and approved or denied outside contractor agreements, expenses and invoicing

Poplar Bluff, Mo

• Analyzed training needs to develop new training programs or modify and improve existing programs• Increased number of business and industry consortium members • Optimized training strategies and controlled costs with help of business/industry advisory groups, meetings and surveys• Aligned business and industry needs with short- and long-term course/program offerings• Increased number of grants and total dollars of grants by more than 80 percent as lead writer

Office Of The President

Poplar Bluff, Mo

Sikeston, Missouri, United States

• Consistently met or exceeded local, state and federal achievement goals through leadership of 30 full-time staff members• Aligned business and industry needs with course/program offerings• Increased part-time enrollment for workforce-designed courses by more than 65 percent through leadership of 25-30 part-time staff• Increased number of grants and total dollars of grants by more than 50 percent as lead writer• Served as political liaison with local, state and federal officials

Sikeston, Missouri, United States

Assisted students in obtaining funding for completing educaitional goals as financial aid director. Achieved 100 percent compliance on state and federal financial aid rules and regulations. • Assist postsecondary students in obtaining financial aid• Prepare reports for federal and state agencies• Assist the director with administrative responsibilities of the secondary programs• Responsible for distributing over $400,000 in state and federal financial aid annually• Ensure compliance with state and federal regulations related to Title IV funding

Co-taught TV productions course (2008-present); taught multimedia class (2009-10 year); co-teaching multimedia class (2010-11 year).Students worked in Avid, Premiere, Photoshop, Flash, GarageBand, Dreamweaver. Assisted students in all live sports broadcasts.

Sikeston, Missouri, United States

As part of my Master’s program, I served as an intern with the City of Sikeston, MO, with the main objective to assist in the creation and development of wards for the city of Sikeston as outlined with its new charter form of government. Selected Results: • Researched and investigated federal, state and municipal guidelines on redistricting • Assisted in the creation and development of wards• Prepared outreach/media campaign regarding development of ward system

Jefferson City, Missouri, United States

My main duties as compliance officer, the position in which I served for the second half of my employment with the department, were to assist schools and lenders in meeting requirements for financial aid compliance.As communications intern, in which I served for the first half of my employment, I prepared and wrote news releases, designed publications including the annual report, disseminated information to the press, and wrote stories for the statewide higher education newsletter.

Ed.S., Career And Occupational Administration - Workforce Development

Education Specialist Degree

M.S., Public Administration

As part of my degree program, I interned with the City of Sikeston, MO, coordinating the development of wards. Completed an intern paper.

B.S., Mass Communications

Received the 1995 Professional Development Award from the Department of Mass Communications for my work as music director and general.