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Street Address Schinkal RoadEMAIL AVAILABLE Cincinnati, OH Street Address PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE OVERVIEWCandidate's Name has cultivated a diverse clientele of communities, business consortia, and educational institutions who are implementing his solutions to change the way employers are connecting with local talent and cultivating a workforce with skills in high demand.REPRESENTATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS Managed the re-engineering of the job candidate screening, hiring, and coaching process at OhioMeansJobs-Allen County to assertively address social barriers (drug use, police record, childcare, transportation, etc.) impacting the employability of dislocated worker candidates for low-skill and entry-level jobs, and place qualified candidates in on-the-job training programs at local employers. In less than a year, solicited 4,200 prospects, screened 364 candidates, placed >160 at manufacturers in Allen County, Ohio To generate new interest in careers in manufacturing and the skilled trades in the students of Lima, Ohio, designed and produced a community-wide three-day career expo calledMakerFest including competitions, educational breakout sessions, workshops, a career fair, a job fair, and high-tech demonstrations. MakerFest 2017 was attended by 1,400 high school students from 30 schools, 100 exhibiting sponsor employers, and 5 colleges, with the MakerFest Job Fair attended by 450 adult job seekers, with significant recognition from elected officials, including the Ohio Secretary of State, senators, congressmen, local commissioners, and the mayor. With the goal to stop the brain drain from Cincinnati, conceived, initiated and founded with P&G and University of Cincinnati, and served for 8 years as executive director of the INTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati, a regional non-profit collaboration of businesses and educators to stop the brain-drain of the areas best-and-brightest young IT talent from the region. Successfully engaged active participation and funding from P&G, Cintas, Chiquita, Toyota, Fifth Third Bank, Citigroup, Microsoft, Cincinnati Bell, more, plus UC, Miami, and Northern Kentucky University. Created award-winning programs, including the INTERalliance IT Careers Camp (deployed on 3 university campuses) and TechOlympics Expo, a nationally recognized 3-day career conference for high school students. By 2013, grew the organization to touch the lives of more than 5,000 students, and include more than Candidate's Name Page 273 high schools and 90+ employers in the collaborative, replicated in Fort Wayne(TechFest and the Northeast Indiana Tech Coalition) and in San Diego (Link San Diego). In Cincinnati, 9% talent retention rate for high school students was improved to more than 60% in less than 7 years Directed and produced a large-scale career expo -- SkillsCon 17 -- for Easter Seals Serving Greater Cincinnati, employing 10 young adults to help renovate and furbish 40,000 square feet of vacant former retail space at a Cincinnati-area mall in order to showcase 50 regional employers to local job seekers. Designed the curricula and lesson plans for Deer Park School District with Deer Park Career Academies, a multi-pathway career education program that offers high school students a 3-tier exposure to career pathways in Entrepreneurship, Project Management, Engineering Design, Sports Medicine. Created a 3-tier career academy for Three Rivers School District for Aviation Mechanics, in partnership with the Aviation Maintenance Department at Cincinnati State & Technical College. Created and launched an introduction to career technical education for middle school/junior students called Career Explorations, a one-semester exposure to eight different career pathways, including construction trades, healthcare careers, information technology, business management & entrepreneurship. Lead author of the RFI response resulting in Atos Origin (now Atos) being selected by General Motors as one of five tier 1 IT suppliers, qualified to participate in $5 billion/year in IT outsourcing Successfully managed the bid and proposal efforts of the Great Lakes region of Atos Origin($30M+/year in bids), with an average net "win" rate of >75% Founded and launched a non-profit organization TweenPlace -- conceived to teach values-based leadership to adolescent youth. Wrote grants and successfully raised operating funds from the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, KnowledgeWorks Foundation, Spaulding Foundation, and the United Way. Managed startup and Year 1 operations for eSymmetrix, a Baltimore-area IT software development firm, delivering 29% in post-tax profits in the first nine months of operations Fifteen-year career with Roy F. Weston, Inc. (now Weston Solutions), leading environmental consulting firm, managing Ohio operations, including contract manager for multi-year, multi-million-dollar federal remedial response contracts ranging from $65M to$250M, program/project managerCandidate's Name Page 3Professional History2021-Present: Transform Foundation, Inc., Vice President Officer of a non-profit formed by Dr. Robin Arthur and me to design, implement, and support programs that cultivate career pathways and mental wellness in youth, particularly those from marginalized communities. 2014-Present: Transform Consulting LLC, Co-Founder & Principal Consultant Lead consultant to municipal and institutional clients, responsible for conceiving, designing and implementing workforce development and educational solutions, including community engagement initiatives, innovative educational curricula, and targeted career pathway programs. 2013: TiER1 Performance Solutions, Director, Community Relations Responsible for launching a workforce development practice and marketing the program offerings to cities around the U.S. and internationally, including Louisville, Lexington, Denver, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Eugene, Belfast, and Brussels.2003-2013: Atos North America, Director, Alliances Group-Business Partners Responsible for creating profitable business relationships with major IT suppliers, including Microsoft, Intel, Citrix, EMC, NetApp, Cisco, others. Responsible for bid and proposal management, contract and operations management for Atos Great Lakes region. 2006-2013: INTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati, Executive Director Collaboration of business educators (P&G, UC, Fifth Third, Xavier, others) designing programs to retain young IT talent in the Greater Cincinnati Region.PublicationsChoudhury, Dr. Vivek; Lopes, Dr. Alex; Arthur, Doug, IT Careers Camp: An Early Intervention Strategy to Increase IS Enrollments, Information Systems Research, 2008. EducationBachelors of Science, Education, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA Graduate Studies, Education, Towson State Universities, Baltimore, MD Graduate Studies, Business Administration, Regis University, Denver, CO |
