Experience

American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC)

• United States
• Civil Engineering
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Vice President, Business Resources and Education

  • 2012 - Present

  Create and direct 4 education workshops, 2 conferences, 100 online classes, and 20 annual technical publications for business executive audiences from 20-1000. Lead team of 9 and manage budget of approximately $2 million.  Direct organization's core non-dues revenue programs including all education programming and publications.  Extensive experience in developing/managing budgets that meet board and organizational goals.  Lead strategic planning efforts for Coalition groups including development, and implementation.  Initiated membership recruitment and retention campaign for specialized industry groups resulting in 5% membership growth and 80% retention rate.  Led effort to improve legacy executive leadership programs to include experiential learning and new technologies. Program returned to sell-out status. Created new 6-month leadership program for emerging leaders.  Manage the Registered Continuing Education Program that promotes quality and consistency in engineering and surveying industry by measuring and monitoring industry education providers. Forged partnership with other industry organizations that increased program users 15% to 82,000 and 148 education providers.  Directed evaluation of current programs through surveys, focus groups and participant/instructor interviews to improve member engagement resulting in new programs with blended method techniques such as hands- on learning and small group exercises as well as traditional lecture.  Effectively collaborated with strategic partner to create a 5 module asynchronous online program including outlines, scripts, story boards, and pre-post test modules. Show less



North American Meat Institute

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President, Education and Professional Development

  • 2003 - 2012

  Directed and produced education programming, conferences, association publications and training videos for audiences from 60-25,000. Led team of 4 and manage budget of approximately $1 million.  Led technical staff and volunteer committees to create innovative programming for industry professionals in diverse integrated subject areas. Responded to changing governmental regulations and member needs with new educational briefings increasing face to face educational offerings by 40%.  Created new publications, stand-alone training modules and a web training series for members’ in-plant use and as reference for industry certification tests.  Directed Information Technology Department planning and evaluation process resulting in assessment of members’ IT needs, database reconstruction, and new sales tools. Show less



Construction Specifications Institute

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Professional Development and Membership

  • 1999 - 2003

  Managed continuing education programs, member services, and affinity benefits for a membership society of 18,000. Directed staff of 6; developed and managed annual budget of $4 million.  Managed board and steering committee relations to execute first ever volunteer membership education program. Spearheaded creations and development of new five stage leadership curriculum (CSI University) for Board, Committee, and Task Team orientation and service.  Developed successful first –time professional development web-event regarding emergent technologies in the commercial building industry. Increased program offering to 12 web seminars annually.  Managed the certification program measuring the knowledge of technical construction documents and evaluated exam questions through statistical analysis. Began test conversion to web based process. Show less



APICS-The Association for Operations Management

• Education Manager- SIGs

  • 1997 - 1999

  Coordinated and managed logistics and development of 4 symposia and 10 workshops annually attended by 30-150 participants. In addition, lead and contributed to the quarterly publication of 32 newsletters for 8 specific industry groups.  Implemented new training strategy by developing multimedia educational products including CD-rom training aids, conference proceedings and selected readings series.  Developed new symposium programs that included mini-workshops, educational sessions, and exhibits- doubling the number of educational offerings. Forged strategic alliances with other associations and corporations to increase visibility of educational programs.  Boosted volunteer participation by fostering collaboration to develop and implement of educational programs, educational materials and other printed products. Show less



World Learning, Inc.

• Program Manager

  • 1994 - 1997