David Urias, PhD

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QUALIFICATION HIGHLIGHTS

High-performance leader with background in real estate, health management, education, and strategic development. Proven track record of leading new initiatives, enhancing processes, and program evaluation. Ability to engage team members, steer operational design, and execute strategic partnerships that yield high returns.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Cross-Functional Leadership • Program Development and Implementation • Performance Management

Operational Design and Advancement • Strategic Customer Engagement/Retention • Data Analysis and Evaluation

Diligent Work Ethic • Multiple Priority Management • Effective Decision-Making • Financial Modeling

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

NEMOURS/ALFRED I. DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN Wilmington, DE

Summer Intern June 2015 – August 2015

In the Office of Health Equity Management:

Developed a health equity dashboard across the areas of population health, patient experience, and per capita cost;

Created a cost-benefit analysis of five years of readmission data; and

Generated a diversity dashboard for an enterprise-wide survey assessing employee satisfaction.

REACH FOR TOMORROW, INC. Chantilly, VA

Executive Director August 2011 – August 2014

Designed strategic improvement processes.

Developed budgets to scale-up programs from serving 482 at-risk youths to 25,000.

Analyzed project results to better inform decision-making practices;

Developed quality assurance systems; and

Successfully solicited external sources of funding via grant writing, submission, and fundraising opportunities.

DREXEL UNIVERSITY Philadelphia, PA

Assistant Professor, International Education August 2005 – August 2011

Assistant Professor, Program Evaluation

In addition to undergraduate and graduate level teaching responsibilities:

Publications:

Wrote and published 10 articles in peer reviewed journals, 3 books, 5 book chapters appearing in other published works, and wrote 14 technical reports.

Funded Federal Grants:

Principal Investigator (3 grants)

Co-Principal Investigator (2 grants)

Founding Director, Evaluation Research Network

Led the creation of policies, procedures, forms, and website content to promote local and regional evaluation services (http://goodwin.drexel.edu/ern);

Successfully recruited and supported 11 evaluation researchers; and

Increased income by over 1000% from $17,000 to $210,000 in three years.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (continued)

Founding Director, Master of Science in Global and International Education Program

Created and implemented the first fully online Global and International Education Master’s degree program in the United States;

Developed rapport with faculty and adjunct instructors - recruiting, supervising, and supporting them toward attainment of organizational and educational goals;

Delivered national and international conference presentations to position and market the program; and

Achieved one of the highest retention rates for online programming at 82%.

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY College Station, TX

International Student Services Advisor August 2004 – August 2005

Provided representation as a resource on immigration-related matters involving non-immigrant students.

Delivered consistent communication between the Office of International Student Services (ISS) and campus departments, government agencies, businesses, and community members.

EDUCATION

2016 MBA – Villanova University

M.B.A Fellowship Program, Villanova School of Business

Concentrations: Real Estate • Strategic Management • Healthcare Management: GPA 3.8

2003 PhD – International Educational Policy Studies and Program Evaluation, University of Virginia

Dissertation: Urias, D. (2003). Federal policy regulations and their impact on foreign student enrollment in selected U.S. higher education institutions post 9/11. Dissertation Abstracts International, 64 (10), 3615, (UMI No. AAT 3108785).

1996 Advanced Certificate in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language. Georgetown University - Cambridge University, & The Royal Society of Arts.

1996 MA – Education, Johns Hopkins University

Urias, D. (1996). Moral development of teachers/students: An assessment of correlation (Unpublished master’s thesis). Johns Hopkins University, MD.

1991 BA – Political Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Minors-Ethical Philosophy • Political Philosophy

HONORS, SPECIAL RECOGNITION, & CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Villanova Student Entrepreneurship Competition. 2nd Place, Burke Family Prize in recognition of Structural Insulated Panel System (April, 2016).

Chaudhry, P. E., Chaudhry, S. S., and Urias, D. (February, 2016). Security breaches of enterprise information systems: Literature review and research potential. Presented at the 2nd International Conference on Business Management and Economics, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Phi Delta Kappa, Graduate Honor Society, Johns Hopkins University Chapter (1996).

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