Provide economic development services to cities, counties, and economic development organizations.Offer expertise on a range of federal and state grant programs.Provide technical assistance in understanding needs, requirements, and terminology of grant programs.Assure continuous engagement and end-to-end client support.Ensure timely and thorough applications on clients’ behalf.

Led cross-functional teams across three governmental bodies and six agencies in strategic planning endeavors related to tourist development, economic development, asset-based planning, internal resource planning, and retail development planning with implementation horizons up to 20 years and lifetime budgets into nine figures.Developed, negotiated, and implemented a package of tax incentives for industrial users between three local legislative bodies over eight months for use by a fourth governmental body.Developed, negotiated, and implemented tax increment financing (TIF) incentive package for $12.5MM retail brownfield redevelopment.Assisted with community development plans, including implementations of existing plans.Rescued troubled plant through carefully negotiated purchase program and drove foreign direct investment (FDI) of over $7MM and the creation of 115 full-time equivalent (FTE) positions.Served as an intermediary between industrial or retail end-user and municipal and/or county governments.Secured and managed over $750,000 in grant funding for local governments and agencies within 12 months of hire.Designed and gave presentations for delivery to stakeholders at local, regional, state, and federal levels, often tied to funding opportunities.Deepened relationships with state economic development department (TNECD) and local government.Featured clinician on downtown redevelopment at Appalachian Regional Commission Annual Convention, Pittsburgh, 2017.Featured panelist on rural industrial site redevelopment at Tennessee Governor's Conference on Economic and Community Development, Nashville, 2018.Featured panelist on downtown redevelopment at Southern Economic Development Roundtable, Watercolor, Fla., 2020.Featured clinician on interagency co-operation at Tennessee Valley Authority Economic Developers’ Forum, Nashville, 2020.

Publicly elected from city district of nearly 6,000 constituents; develop eight-figure, balanced annual budget through complex funding mechanism (Tennessee Basic Education Plan 1.0/BEP 1.5/BEP 2.0/Minimum Match formulae) for annual presentation to county legislature; oversee design and implementation of employee health plans, differentiated compensation, pension benefits, and other post-employment benefits (OPEB) for 400+ School Department employees (both certificated and supporting classes); maintain up-to-date understanding of labor relations and negotiation regulations for 200+ unionized education professionals (TEA/NEA); regularly train in professional development sessions related to changes in law related to employment, healthcare, and operation; handle sensitive, confidential employment and school operation matters regularly; preside over meetings, maintaining parliamentary order; serve as public voice and communication arm of Department when media contact is required; liaise with Superintendent for continued best-practices operation of School System of more than 2,700 boys and girls; oversee capital improvement programs for nine physical plant locations; Youngest serving chairman in state of Tennessee;Led capital campaign valued at nearly $6MM without any new public funding (no new levy/capital note/bonds) to reroof all county schools, renovate antiquated primary school, and replace HVAC at three primary schools;Led Board (alongside Superintendent and Cabinet) to found public virtual academy – one of the first of its kind in Upper East Tennessee – to stem flagging enrollment;Developed fair, balanced compensation packages for interim Superintendent and current Superintendent;Led Independent Superintendent Search Committee to hire new district Superintendent

Managed a skilled team across a variety of job positions. Was able to monetize job processes across fields while setting up corporate structure and creating new endeavors for The Company. Wrote, in association with other key persons at MGI, our 5 year operation plan--Operation: 2015. Oversaw creation and implementation of new apparel brands and rejuvenation of aging brand identities.

Answered multi-line switchboard; gave prospective student tours; served as a CSR for The College; memorized many facts about The College and its history; worked as file clerk on days without scheduled tours.

Updated 2,500-entry MSDS master file for $50M manufacturing company and created new MSDS file books for each manufacturing location in addition to scanning each file to the company server to allow all information to be accessed on-line; assisted HR Generalist in filing and other duties; operated multi-line switchboard with over 400 extensions across five locations