David Romero Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

United States

Are you a College or University looking to expand your marketing reach and increase your visibility to attract qualified high school students in Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Arkansas, Nevada, or Louisiana? Let's connect to discuss how NEXTGRAD can be a valuable partner in achieving your enrollment goals! At NEXTGRAD we are:Building Strong Relationships: We excel at fostering long-term relationships with college admissions and Marketing teams.Strategic Partners: We have a proven track record of creating and implementing successful partnership programs that align with college goals and NEXTGRAD's mission for student success.Data-Driven: We leverage data insights to identify high-potential opportunities, tailor outreach strategies, and measure the impact of our partnerships on student success.Higher Ed experts: Our team has a deep understanding of the higher education landscape, admissions trends, and student needs.Come Partner with us and make an impact on the lives of students by helping them find the right college fit.

Austin, Texas, United States

A member of the recruitment organization for go-to-market roles specializing in customer engineers, business operations, and data centers. Role involved the recruitment, interviewing, evaluation, and caseload management of potential candidates.ROLE ANALYSIS: Deep analysis of technical aspects of roles for the purpose of recruitment and identification of candidates with technical skills for roles. Roles covered included customer engineering (application modernization, machine learning, information security, infrastructure modernization, data analytics, and database), Data Center roles (Facilities Technicians and Data Center Technicians), Business Operations (Business Operations manager)SOURCING: Identifying candidates who meet the specific criteria for the roles and thinking creatively about where to find those candidates. Deliberate identification of talent.CANDIDATE ASSESSMENT: Established contact and initiated conversations with candidates to assess their potential fit for technical roles with Google CloudCANDIDATE MANAGEMENT: Providing a “Google Caliber” candidate experience. Providing clear and constant communication throughout the process.EVALUATION: Constantly analyzing data to assess recruitment benchmarks for each stage of the process.COMPLIANCE: Followed proper HR policies throughout the hiring process at Google. NETWORK: Established strong working relationships with hiring managers, recruiters, and other sourcers for the benefit of candidate advocacy.

Austin, Texas, United States

ROLE ANALYSIS: Overseeing active candidates applying for Data Center roles with Google Data Centers. The positioned required a deep understanding of Data Center technical terms associated with positions for the purpose of identifying candidates with experiences who met minimum and preferred qualifications.CANDIDATE MANAGEMENT AND ADVOCACY: Management of initial communication with candidate referrals at Google. Providing candidate advocacy through the applicant's hiring cycle. Maintaining a “Candidate top of mind” experience in each interaction.NETWORKING: Establishing and maintaining strong partnerships within the people operations recruitment organization across Google (hiring managers, recruiters, sourcers, and leads).

Austin, Texas Area

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT: Lead program manager supporting the design and development of professional educational curriculum for doctors, nurses, and dentist learning aesthetic procedures. Participated in all aspects of course design for online and in-person programs aimed at medical professional audiences, including but not limited to the development of course content, supporting materials and documents. Ability to understand learning objectives and create programs and supporting materials to achieve stated objectives. Build and maintain course content. Ensure that content is being effectively presented for the audience (professionals) and goals (skills acquisition).CUSTOMER SUCCESS MANAGER: Build strong relationships with medical professional customers and gain a deep understanding of their industry and business strategy. Served as advocate and the voice of customers within the organization by always providing advice on strategies and solutions to help our customers reach their goals.RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT: Experience in nurturing strong client relationships. Thoughtful communicator with clear and concise verbal and written skills. Analytical mindset. Positive, self-motivated, and comfortable wearing multiple hats. Deep passion for analyzing and creating exceptional customer experiences.

Austin, Texas Area

Representing Iowa State University as the principal southwest admissions recruiter. My territory covered states like California, Texas, Florida, and the territory of Puerto Rico. The objective of the role is to serve as a full admissions counselor to students; brand ambassador to organizations, schools, and internal and external partners. Finally the role involved great attention to caseload management to help students and families progress through our admissions funnel.ORGANIZATIONAL PROGRAM MANAGEMENT SKILLS: Experience with planning and execution of 80+ admissions engagement events in assigned territories and 15+ targeted engagement events (career fairs, academic departments, targeted campus events, alumni chapters, student organization, and faculty outreach).BRAND AMBASSADOR: Tasked with maintaining and enhancing Iowa State’s presence with university partners, student organizations, community-based organizations, and campus programs.NETWORK: Partnered closely with directors of student services for Iowa State’s five colleges (engineering, animal science, human sciences, business, and liberal arts & sciences) to discuss recruitment strategies, determine scholarship opportunities, and ensure a strong candidate pipeline.CANDIDATE AND TERRITORY MANAGEMENT: Managed a candidate caseload of prospective and active students applying to Iowa State University. Approached responsibility from a consultative perspective providing candidates with the best possible information to assist them and their families in making the best decision for their respective circumstance.CREATIVITY: Created and carried out strategic recruitment events for Iowa State in Puerto Rico to increase the presence and recruitment of qualified students to Iowa State University. Established strong relationships with charter schools in Texas by creating college admissions bootcamps and opportunities for students in Texas to interact directly with different college representatives.

Served as the main point of contact for ULN’s 2nd year cohort. The focus of the program is to assist students at UT Austin by providing exceptional academic and professional advice.EARLY CAREER CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY:Designed learning points, outlines, knowledge checks, and exercises for an early career class and mentoring program for The University Leadership Network program at UT Austin.PROGRAM DESIGN AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT:Use project management skills and best practices to manage and scale mentoring programs for the University Leadership Network at UT Austin. Maintained clear communication with program stakeholders to deliver programs on time and within scope.STUDENT ADVOCACY: Received recognition as a top academic advisor within the College of Natural Sciences at UT Austin. Served as mentor and advisor to a caseload of 480 first generation college students at UT Austin participating in the University Leadership Network. Assisted students in the successful planning of their academic journeys at UT Austin and provided a safe and encouraging environment to foster academic success.

Ames, Ia

Master Of Science (M.S.), Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies: Higher Education, Business Administration, Public Administration

Project Management Certificate Program, Project Management

Successfully completing 48 educational hours of Project Management Education.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Biology, General