Travis Nelson Email & Phone Number

Hayward, California, United States

Hayward, California, United States

The Cal State East Bay Alumni Association facilitates a lifelong connection between the university and alumni. We engage students, our alumni of tomorrow, by building relationships and passing on the culture of service and philanthropy. Together with our campus partners, we keep community stakeholders informed, involved and inspired about the university and our alumni successes.• Developing and implementing organizational goals and objectives• Leading and managing staff, volunteers, and Board of Directors• Overseeing financial management, including investments, budgeting, fundraising, and grant writing• Building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders, including donors, partners, and community leaders• Ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, including tax filings and charitable trust renewal• Representing the organization publicly, including speaking at events and with the media• Collaborating with the board of directors to develop and implement policies and strategic plans• Identifying and pursuing new opportunities for growth and impact• Managing risk and ensuring the organization's financial sustainability• Program development and evaluation• Marketing and communications to members• Community outreach and engagement• Policy analysis and advocacy• Fundraising and development• Strategic planning and implementation

Hayward, California, United States

• Led the Office of Alumni Relations yearly engagement initiatives and development of strategic plan and goals, along with five full-time staff and a team of student assistants.• Developed and created a schedule of 234 alumni events around professional development and social activities engaging a total of 4,482 alumni and 3,652 students since I joined Advancement.• Established, implemented, monitored, and assessed measurable outcomes including comprehensive engagement metrics for both digital and physical engagements on a monthly and yearly basis. Including the implementation of changes in our event tracking data collection methods that allowed advancement to measure engagement of key demographics across the university, including alumni, students, faculty/staff, prospective students, as well as the demographic data of attendees to ensure that our events and services were truly serving the diversity of our alumni.• Created cross-campus relationships by building partnerships with faculty and staff to assist with the development and support of department-led alumni engagement activities, which resulted in collaboration of over 20 events.• Created the CareerBOOST webinar series of events that included professional panels, presentations, workshops, and alumni coaching sessions on professional development topics to assist with post-graduation career success of alumni.• Oversaw volunteer management and data tracking of alumni that resulted in over 2,500 tracked volunteer hours• Worked on developing key donor pipeline development strategies targeting select affinity groups that were primed to increase involvement and financial contributions to the university.• Spearheaded the alumni social media strategies during Giving Tuesday, which contributed to increased annual giving outcomes through increased alumni engagement and targeted messaging to select populations of alumni.

College Of Business And Economics At Csu - East Bay

• Independently launched an active college career center centered around increased employer engagement and student professional development activities and successfully developed and delivered an average of 30 career workshops and employer presentations per year that served over 1,000 students per semester.• Successfully networked with over 400 employers in the first year resulting in over 500 internship and job opportunities for our diverse body of students. Maintained the active employer list along with those supplemented through shared school postings from our implementation of Symplicity and Grad Leaders Career Center (GLCC).• Focused efforts on diversity hiring benefits while working tirelessly to identify additional training needs of first-generation college students and underrepresented minorities while ensuring all of our student body is prepared for the reality of work.• Created the “Dine-with-an-Alum” and “Dine-with-an-Exec” to create interactions between alumni or business executives and students as a solution to drive engagement, networking, and mentorship. Results included multiple student receiving valuable advice, as well as job opportunities.• Actively managed and personally handled the recruiting relationships of key employer stakeholders such as Adobe, Workday, Tesla, Amazon, Oracle, Clorox, Kaiser Permanente, and others resulting in strong partnerships and student hires.• Worked collaboratively with AACE in sharing non-business-related employers and job opportunities for posting in Handshake, including being added as an admin to the Handshake system to assist with employer verifications.• Worked extensively with faculty on bringing career education into the classroom through the coordination of professional development presentations, employer classroom visits, and alumni speakers to meet students where they were at, and integrate career education into their academics.

Hayward, California

• Responsible for 600 students in my personal Alpha, and nearly 3,000 active, inactive, prospective, and returning students.2• Advised students on our academic programs on a daily basis via face-to-face, phone, and chat appointments while maintaining individual student files for declarations of major/minor/option, supplemental applications, evaluations, petitions, VA/EDD/I-20/CIE/Cultural Immersion program major/minor verifications, and graduation checks.• Acted as College liaison for the Educational Opportunity Program, serving first generation college students from low-income and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds (mostly centered around underrepresented minority groups).• Acted as College liaison for the Asian Pacific American Student Service Operation for Success (SSOS) and the Hispanic retention office: Gaining Access ‘N Academic Success (GANAS).• Directly managed a group of three advisors, two administrative support coordinators, and two student assistants.• Lead small and large group presentations for between 50-400 attendees of information sessions, preview day, welcome day, orientations, EOP trainings, and University Recruiter training.• Conducted outreach to local junior colleges to recruit potential students and to clarify our impaction policies.• Developed engagement strategy for coordinating the following Cal State student orgs: American Marketing Association, Delta Sigma Pi, Beta Alpha Psi, Student Society for Human Resource Management, Economics Association• Served on EAB pilot group and President’s independent assessment of academic programs in order to boost retention and graduation rates.• Managed all CBE-related registration duties, such as class creation, cancellation, permission codes, etc. Celebrate the accomplishments of our students by working the graduation ceremonies.

Oceanside, California

• Performed clerical, marketing, and correspondence duties with over 400 clients. • Efficiently maintained all legal files, screened all incoming clients, prepared initial disclosures for active cases, assisted firm lawyers and office manager with trademark and copyright work, and managed daily office needs.• Maintained high levels of professionalism, confidentiality, and organization. • Managed the firm’s website content and Google Adwords campaigns, ran monthly SEO updates, created monthly mail-version newsletters using Microsoft Publisher, created monthly email marketing campaigns using Constant Contact, used graphics design programs to create company logos, and managed all social media marketing for multiple social media platforms while maintaining up-to-date contact information for clients and email listservs, and providing pertinent and current content for marketing campaigns.• Drafted all forms of client correspondence including: A/R letters, client transmittals, notification letters, California Secretary of State applications, response letters, etc.

Design monthly cover art and template for the North County Lawyer Magazine. Meet strict printing deadlines and advertising placement on a monthly basis.

La Jolla, California

Instructed a variety of aquatic related recreation classes.

Greater San Diego Area

• Provided support to seasonal employees in regards to client escalations, questions, and sales while maintaining customer files, confidential records, and client correspondence. • Worked with elite Winback Team to directly contact dissatisfied customers to resolve their issues and “win back” their satisfaction. • Worked with Online Chat Team to provide 24/7 online sales and chat support to clients.

La Jolla

• Supervised successful orientation programming for over 400 incoming undergraduate transfer students while managing interviewing, hiring, and training of 20 Transfer Orientation Leaders. • Organized orientation schedules and coordinated student activities with other departments and administrators while streamlining the communication and scheduling between all involved administrators, departments, and incoming students. Provided academic and student life advising for incoming students.

La Jolla

• Purchased necessary supplies, verified that all facilities and staff adhered to all California safety regulations, assessed needs of the facility, coordinated with other departments/agencies for large scale projects/events, and independently oversaw the daily operation of facilities that served over 2,500 patrons each month. • Hired all necessary lifeguard and clerk staff, responded to emergencies as needed, managed staffing schedules for 55 employees, provided training and monthly in-service meetings to build skills, and conducted quarterly staff reviews. • Managed aquatics department website, all forms of social media, and finding corporate sponsorship for our team building programs in return for advertising opportunities. • Communicated with patrons on a daily basis while actively addressing any concerns/issues/problems, and maintained constant communication with staff using email listservs.

La Jolla, California

Managed the coordination of student programming for the transfer student population resulting in successful management and running of events and services for over 3,000 students. Created and organized communication platforms such as email listservs and social media groups to streamline outreach and communication for event updates. Managed a yearly budget of $3,000 while providing necessary book keeping and responsible accounting. Managed event reviews, program evaluations, fundraising, and weekly meetings. Listened to student input and addressed their needs/concerns.

Sutter Creek, California

Supervised city lifeguards and swim instructors for the City of Sutter Creek Administrators making sure that all pool rules were followed and enforced. Supervised swim lessons, daily operations, and maintenance of City pool. Created operational platform for City Aquatics programs including all necessary forms and certifications. Set pricing, created advertising materials, and handled daily cash flow. Managed the daily communication between patrons and the City Administrators.

Stem Education

B.A., Sociology

Activities and Societies: 2007-2008 Transfer and Re-Entry Student (T.R.E.S.) President; 2007-2008 Transfer Student Council Chair.

A.A., Humanities; Liberal Arts & Sciences

Activities and Societies: Alpha Gamma Sigma Honors Society, San Joaquin Delta College Department of Drama

Education record

Activities and Societies: Band

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Organizational Leadership