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Training Management

Location:
Kingwood, TX, 77345
Posted:
August 11, 2011

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Resume:

Karl Broman, M.S., M.Ed.

(H) 281-***-**** * ? (C) 281-***-**** ? *******@***.***

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Executive Profile

Learning / Development and Organizational Performance Professional

20+ years of experience in developing and managing people and projects.

Highlights of Qualifications:

> Learning and organizational development professional with extensive

experience assessing needs, program design, coaching, managing, and

motivating employees to offer their own unique skills and talents to

improve performance and align performance with company goals.

> Competency modeling, performance and productivity program design.

> Analyzed, designed, developed, and implemented effectiveness and

performance programs for a various industries, both globally and

domestically.

> Organize information to achieve human performance with business goals,

ensuring compliance with regulatory and company policies and procedures.

> M.S. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology

> M.Ed. in Clinical/Counseling Psychology

Instructional Systems Design including Implementation (roll-out) and

Evaluation ~ Blended Learning Approach Curriculum Development ~

Organizational Effectiveness/Performance Management ~ Project Management

Workforce Planning Strategies ~ Technical Writing ~ Excellent

Written/Verbal/Presentation Skills ~ Advanced Computer Skills ~ Coaching

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Selected Achievements:

> Created customized and comprehensive competency-based training programs.

Brought multiple process industries into compliance with governmental

regulatory agencies, e.g., OSHA, GMP, DOT, USAF, by designing and

implementing comprehensive, competency-based training programs with

verifiable knowledge and performance measures (refineries, chemical

companies, food companies, and upstream facilities).

> Instituted management and professional skills training, with standards

and benchmarks, for Athens, TN city executives, as well as many of my own

colleagues and staff. Managed many projects and people. Reported skills

were acquired and functioning improved.

> Increased communication between management and workers using safety

culture inventory results and my recommendations. Improved the safety

culture of a refinery with safety concerns, near misses, and disgruntled

worker attitudes, damaged equipment, down time, etc. Work groups felt

empowered which improved the moral and productivity. Resolved union and

management conflicts through logical interventions

> Designed comprehensive selection, training, and performance programs for

DuPont, in Spain. This was for a new plant with a new process which had

never been commercialized, experiencing some engineering opposition, in

Castilian Spanish. Trained, coached, led team building, and supervised

the Spanish training organization CFNT that assisted in material

development and translation, and promoted cohesion between the CFNT staff

and the engineers resulting in mutual respect and ownership.

Karl Broman, M.S., M.Ed.

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Professional Experience:

Broman & Sowards Consulting and Services, Houston, TX, and Riverton, WY

2004 - Present

Consultant, Principal

Client duties include conducting job and task analyses, training program

design, development, and implementation, competency modeling, writing

proposals, team building, staffing, safety culture analysis with

recommended interventions, e.g., return on investment (ROI)

recommendations. Business duties include marketing, presentations (from C-

suite and down the line), trade shows, writing proposals and contracts,

project management, program analysis and design, staffing, and employee

development.

Clients and Services Included:

> DYNO Nobel, Louisiana, MO (Job task analysis and curriculum development

for capital project).

> ABS Consulting - consultant

> Frontier Refining, Wyoming (Program management, staff supervision,

comprehensive training program design, development, and implementation,

talent management, safety culture analysis, findings and program

recommendations, management of change) 2005-present

> PDVSA Venezuela (Developed competencies and curricula for upstream

engineers [reservoir, drilling, chemical, corrosion, geologist, etc.)

2003 - 2004

> Brazosport Technical College: Lake Jackson, TX (Curricula development for

plant science program) 2004

> Texas Petro Chemicals: Pasadena, TX (Training needs analysis and

suggested curricula) 2004

> Cytec: New Orleans, LA (Operations procedures) 2004

NUS Training/Williams Learning Network/TPC Performance Solutions, Houston

TX 1992 - 2003

Senior Consultant

Responsible for training consultants, leading workshops, managing client

projects, and business development duties including sales presentations.

Clients Included:

> Chevron Phillips: Houston, TX (Training needs analysis and change

management with unions) 2003

> TotalFina-Elf: McAllen, TX (Pipeline Operator Qualification program

[DOT]) 2002

> Borden's Foods: Chicago, IL (Competencies and pay for skills program)

2002 - 2003

> Tyson Foods: Arkansas. (five areas) (Maintenance training needs analysis)

2002

> Bayer Corporation: (Train the Trainer workshop) 2002

> BP, Houston: (training needs analysis for platforms, competencies for

north slope, procedure writers workshop) 2002

> Sverdrup Technologies, Cape Canaveral, FL, cross skills training program

design, Change management with unions 2001 - 2002

> Louis Rich, SC (CBT development) 2002

> AMPCO: Equatorial Guinea, West Africa (Selection program development)

2001

> Tennessee Gas: Nashville, TN, Houma, LA (PeopleSoft training, training

needs analysis) 2001

> Frontier Refining: El Dorado, KS (Mechanical Integrity training needs

analysis) 2000

> Mitsubishi Polysilicon: Mobile, AL (Curricula design) 1999

> TOSCO Refinery: Martinez, CA (Operations training manuals) 1996-1999

> SWAT Engineering: Richmond, CA (technical writing training) 1998

> Dyno Nobel: Donora, PA (Mechanical Integrity program) and Louisiana, MO

(Training/operations manuals) 1996

> DuPont: Gijon, Spain (Comprehensive training program analysis, design,

development, and staffing requirements for plant under design and

construction - all developed from P&IDs and interviewing engineers) 1994

1995

> NALCO Chemicals: Sugarland, TX (ISO procedures) 1993

> CITGO: Lake Charles, LA (Procedures and manuals) 1994

> Olin Chemicals: Lake Charles (ISO procedures, process manuals) and

Shreveport, LA (PSM procedures [ops and maintenance]) 1992 -1994

Karl Broman, M.S., M.Ed.

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Technical Resources Group, Nashville, TN

1990 - 1992

Trainer

Responsible for writing training manuals for clients and assisting with

projects.

Clients Included:

> Alcoa Aluminum: Alcoa, TN (Training manuals) 1990 - 1992

> Dow Chemical: Midland, MI (Maintenance procedures) 1992

Education:

Master of Science (M.S.), Industrial / Organizational Psychology,

University of Tennessee

Master of Education (M.Ed.), Clinical / Counseling Psychology, University

of Tennessee

Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, Covenant College



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