Independent Education and Workforce Skills Development Consultant
Resume:
DAVID LORENZO TEMPLE, JR.
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EDUCATION, DIVERSE WORKFORCE AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT, SENIOR EXECUTIVE PARTNERSHIPS AND LEADERSHIP
DIVERSE STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics careers) STRATEGIES
Federal, Local & State Level Organizational Experience
Visionary executive leader of national, state, and local programs/initiatives focused on developments and collaborative improvements in K-16 education, human and workforce services and strategies. National diverse STEM educational recruitment/mentoring and continuum for minorities, women and individuals with disabilities. Impressive track record of notable government collaborations, helping to overcome challenges by leveraging cost-effective, innovative solutions. Assertive, focused on achieving game-changing and replicable solutions by creating and recognizing progressive successes, especially for youths, adult learners and diverse K-16 learning communities.
Core Areas of Expertise and Practice Include
Federal, state and local public policy development and management- Senior Executive, Director and Project Management –K-16 Collaborations-Diversity-Advocacy-Recruiting –Public Speaking-Written Communications -Workforce Skills Training– Strategic Planning-Non Profit Boards Leadership-Microsoft WORD-PowerPoint-
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, DIVERSITY, WORKFORCE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
2011-present, Education and Workforce Skills Development Consultant-STEM Workforce Preparation
Provide guidance and consultation to individuals and groups in developing and promoting relevant workforce skills and programming that respond to emerging workforce demands, STEM needs in particular. Create, advise, and/or envision key public-private partnerships and collaborations. Advise local, state and national non-profit organizations on diversity, access, advocacy and program promotion.
2010-2011 Alexandria (VA) City Public Schools (ACPS), Alexandria, VA-- Executive Director
Office of Strategic Initiatives, Communications and Community Outreach
Recruited by the superintendent. Reorganized and managed communications department, recruiting new director, bringing new school-community partnerships and parent engagements. Recruited and supervised grants management director for new office of institutional advancement; provided effective executive team leadership. Represented and advised the superintendent. Policy development and advisor. Budget development and oversight for all portfolio programs, supervision of four managers/administrative staff. Set in motion the creation of STEM programs, including collaborative new partnership with American Association of Advancement in Science with ACPS science curriculum program staff and administration.
2009-2010 Office of Governor Tim Kaine, Virginia Liaison Office, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.
During final year of his administration, appointed by Governor Kaine to lead and successfully conclude the VA Liaison Office education and workforce policy desk. Represented administration on these and other policy areas with National Governors’ Association and other national and state “Hill” offices. Managed relevant constituent customer needs. Aided transition to new administration.
2003- 2008 National Science Foundation (NSF), Arlington, VA
Program Director, Human Resources Development Division (HRD), and Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE). Education and Human Resources Development Directorate (EHR)
Directed Model Institutions for Excellence (MIE), an 11-year NSF-NASA national STEM workforce diversity initiative featuring six minority-serving post-secondary institutions (HBCUs, Hispanic-Serving, Tribal Colleges). Key “model” component elements include recruitment, student retention and significant campus infrastructure improvements. Accomplishments:
Brought first ever evaluation and data gathering of outcomes; provided for new national dissemination grants to replicate lessons learned at other Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, and Tribal Colleges and Universities . Invited by American Educational Research Association to present successful MIE program results with white papers in Montreal (2005).
Program Director, the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM), through a nationally selected panel process, identify for White House consideration, STEM-mentor scientists, faculty and others who mentor under-represented minorities (K-20) to graduate and continue into the professoriate or into U.S. industry workforce. Accomplishments: Conceived and led development of unprecedented presidential mentors’ post-award white paper: Mentoring for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Workforce Development and Lifelong Productivity: Success across the K through Grey Continuum.
Led National Science and Technology Council’s (NSTC) STEM working group on Minority Serving Institutions of the Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee (agency members-Defense, Agriculture, NASA, Energy and NSF).
2000-2002 U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC New Jobs in distressed American communities.
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Program Operations (DAS/PO), Economic Development Administration (EDA)
Sworn to the Federal Senior Executive Service in December 2000. Appointed by the Executive Resources Board to fill the vacant SES position at EDA. Accomplishments: managed five Program Directors, their staffs and oversaw $350M+ in economic development grant funds annually to hundreds of economically and environmentally distressed communities across 6 regions nationally. Effected successful transition from one party leadership to another following long-unresolved presidential election. Acting EDA Assistant Secretary prior to incumbent’s U.S. Senate confirmation. Represented EDA at new Secretary’s executive staff meetings.
1998-2000 U.S. Department of Commerce, Secretary’s Welfare to Work Initiative,
Senior Management Advisor, Adult Workforce Skills Development and Recruitment
Appointed to manage and promote the Secretary’s agency-wide Welfare To Work (WtW) executive national plan to hire a minimum of 4,180 TANF (welfare) recipients into his department by the conclusion of year 2000, fulfilling commitment to Clinton administration and the nation’s jobs skills development stakeholders. Accomplishments: By fall 2000, and in coordinated partnership with the Census Bureau, more than 38,000 former TANF recipients had been hired for the Decennial, exceeding similar efforts by any other executive Federal agency by several thousands.
Conceived, developed and implemented a departmental partnership plan with the Department of Labor (DOL), Census Bureau, Goodwill Industries International-to refer, train and place in private or public sector jobs as many as 10,000 former recipients nationally following their temporary Census 2000 enumeration duties. Represented Secretary in ex-officio role on DOL’s Federal Committee on Registered Apprenticeships.
Awarded the Department’s Silver Medal Award by the Secretary; Awarded the Vice President's "Hammer" Award for Excellence in Government Reinvention.
Successfully competed agency-wide to the SES Candidate Development Program.
1991-1995 Office of the Mayor, Office of Grants Management and Development, Washington, DC, Executive Director and, Office of Youth Initiatives, Executive Director. Youth and Community Skills Development
Opened and managed new youth initiatives and grants management cabinet offices for Mayor Sharon Pratt [Kelly]. Youth Initiatives: to attack and reduce youth crime and violence, teen pregnancies, infant morbidities, sexually transmitted diseases, youth truancy, school dropouts, gang engagement, adult illiteracy, workforce training, parole violations. Strategy: to develop a youth and family services coordinating council, chaired by my position, bringing together the mayor’s cabinet officers for employment services and training, social services, health, recreation, human services, corrections, parole, police and the city’s separately appointed school superintendent. Accomplishments: unprecedented assemblage for agencies coordination and recommendations.
Within six months, opened community learning centers at middle school locations, post-school day hours (3pm.-8.pm.) in economically distressed communities in 4 wards, and containing services for family and community mentoring, youth and family counseling, family health screenings, parole meetings, adult literacy, homework support, work skills development etc. Centers replicated city-wide.
1990-1991 Virginia Center for Innovative Technology (CIT), Herndon, VA
Executive Director, A Partnership for Excellence, Virginia Workforce 2000
Conceived concept and contracted by the VA Center for Innovative Technology, a state-funded private corporation, to direct the development of operational “blueprint for Virginia’s Year 2000 workforce” preparedness and initiatives. Accomplishments: Final document drafted by the Northern VA Community College. Engaged the governor’s “Blue Ribbon” commission partners of business, corporate, nonprofit, and public communities in the education, training and workforce study and planning for the state’s youth and adults in anticipation of compelling new educational and workforce skills needs of the coming “new millennium."
1986-1990 Cabinet of Governor Gerald Baliles, Richmond, VA Deputy Secretary of Education,
Appointed by governor as cabinet level advisor, with executive managerial oversight in the program policy areas of elementary and secondary instruction, special education and workforce preparedness education, dropout prevention, and a major adult literacy statewide initiative. Represented governor and secretary state-nationwide. Served as Virginia team leader to the National Governors’ Association (NGA) state policy education academies. Accomplishments: helped to pass governor’s Family Life Education statewide initiative.
Envisioned and designed statewide regional adult literacy and workforce skills delivery system. Complementing the First Lady’s literacy foundation initiative, this resulted in new and unprecedented millions of dollars to support thousands of adults with inadequate reading, computational and overall workforce and workplace skills.
Developed state interagency middle-schools dropout prevention symposia bringing together five regional school divisions, 300 middle school students, seven state felons on work-release and, the Governor, the Cabinet Secretaries for Education, Public Safety, and Health and Human Services, all in dialogue together.
Career Education, Diverse Workforce Preparedness and Instructional and Administrative Leadership
Education Policy Fellow, Institute for Educational Leadership, National Assoc. of State Boards of Education
Principal and Teacher, Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), Fairfax, VA
Principal
S. John Davis Career Development School for Children w/ Disabilities, county-wide high-school population
Dunn Loring Center School, Emotional Disorders, middle-school population
EDUCATION & TRAINING
B.A. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (Psychology)
M.Ed. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. (Special Education, Emotional Disturbance)
Ed.D. Candidate, University of Maryland, Teaching and Learning Policy, (inc.-21 credits completed )
ADDITONAL COURSEWORK AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The Virginia Executive Institute, Commonwealth of Virginia
The Washington Executive Seminar, U.S. Department of Agriculture Graduate School
Career Federal Senior Executive Service (SES) Laboratory
The Brookings Institution, Inside Congress, Seminar on the Hill
PREVIOUS HONORS OR RECOGNITIONS
Big Pi Award recipient, presented by Pi Lambda Phi International Fraternity to alumni Brothers for lifetime achievement
Life Saver Award, Office of Human Resources Management, US Department of Commerce (for saving a
colleague’s life applying the “Heimlich Maneuver”)
District of Columbia Mayor Distinguished Public Service Award, Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly
Washington D.C. Leadership Exchange to Japan. Two week study tour, with six other metro leaders.
E.L. Patterson Education Award, Northern Virginia Urban League. State educational leadership
Friend of Mental Health Award, Northern Virginia Mental Health Association
Outstanding Alumnus Award, African American Alumni, UVA,Walter Ridley Scholarship Board
Commerce Department Silver Medal (Workforce Development); Hammer Award for Excellence in Government Reinvention (WtW workforce innovation, with public-private sector partnerships)
PROFESSIONAL, CIVIC and VOLUNTARY
Business and Industry STEM Education Council (BISEC)-corporate and educator collaborations.
Fairfax County Advisory Group on Reapportionment. Appointed by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors to advise and recommend the Board on new proposed boundaries based on data from the 2010 Decennial Census.
Center for the Study of the Presidency and the Congress. Nonpartisan STEM Issues Team, STEM education policy recommendations. And nonpartisan Education and Competitiveness Issue Team, Strengthening America’s Future Initiative, education policy recommendations
Governor’s P-16 Education Council. Coordination-P-16: community colleges, and postsecondary policies, programs and strategies.
Fairfax County Human Rights Commission, 5 years, Vice Chair, protections against due to race, color, gender, religion, national origin, marital status, age or disability.
Nominee, Fairfax County, primary elections. VA House of Delegates
Museum Of Science Fiction, Washington, DC, volunteer to help develop and launch initiative
SELECTED STATE COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTEER SERVICE
Northern Virginia Urban League; Education Committee, Chair,
Voices for Virginia’s Children, Vice Chair and charter Board
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Alexandria City
Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity International Education Foundation, Inc., Trustee
Virginia State Board for Juvenile Justice, Vice Chair
Virginia State Board of Corrections
Board of the Mental Health Association of Northern Virginia, 4 years
Board of Hartwood Foundation, Inc. (Group homes for disabled citizens),
Virginia Literacy Foundation Board
Board of the University of Virginia Club of Washington,; president-elect,
Board of the Walter N. Ridley Scholarship Fund, of the University of Virginia Alumni Association, and its Jefferson Scholars Scholarship Committees Program
Minority Student Advisory and Oversight Committee, Fairfax County Public Schools,
Trinity Choir, Alexandria’s 213-year old Alfred Street Baptist Church (ASBC) Choir Vice Chair and Baritone Section Leader; ASBC Education Foundation; Drama Ministry..
Aria Club of Washington, DC, baritone, The Magic Flute; "Of Thee We Sing," The Marian Anderson 75th Anniversary Celebration, DAR Constitution Hall, among 300 metro DC diverse choral performers.
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