Brent J. Edwards

Thornton CO, *****

720-***-****

ad30ua@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS REVIEW

Dedicated Supervisor and Servant

Leader

Organizational Bridge Builder

Change Management

Multi-departmental Assistant Director

Outreach, Community Building and

Grass-Roots marketing

Project, Program, and Operations

Management Knowledge: traditional,

agile, and hybrid

MS Project, Monday.com, Salesforce,

Banner and PeopleSoft

Regulatory Compliance in

Administration

DEI Best Practices Facilitation

Contracts and Procurement

Risk Monitoring and Controlling

Retention Analyst and Specialist

College Business and Project

Management Instructor

Colorado State University Global, Greenwood Village, CO: Master of Science in Project Management With a Specialization in Digital Marketing (GPA 3.9) (MS) PMI, Project Management Professional Certification (PMP) PMI, Certified Associate Project Manager (CAPM)

Monday.com, Certified Monday.com Builder (PM Software) University of Colorado, Boulder, CO: Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (BA) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mi Casa Resource Center, Denver, CO May 2022 – Present Assistant Director of Education, Outreach and Operations March 2023 – Present Education Attainment Manager May 2022 -March 2023

Leads execution and replication of stackable credential model projects in which students on Mi Casa’s career and business training can gain the knowledge to earn college credits to launch their ability to obtain certificates to associate's to bachelor’s degrees at partner colleges in Colorado.

Supervises Educational Attainment team of student services advisors who assist students as a backbone from workforce training to college and employment.

Holds partners accountable for achieving milestones, institutionalizing processes outlined in the work plan and submit data for reporting.

Manages project documents, including schedule, budget, risk register, charter, and communications plan.

Monitor and Control both iterative (agile) and predictive (waterfall) projects using MS Project and Monday.com

Facilitate procurements in multi-year grant initiative projects to include creating partnerships, writing, reviewing, and accepting requests for proposals (RFPs) and MOUs

Develops and streamlines processes to move students to and through credentials at each partner. colleges, including MSU, CCA, ACC, FRCC, WGU, and CCD.

Provides structure, documentation, and continuity for the pathway partnership. Organizes monthly.

meetings, keep stakeholders informed of progress, deadlines, etc.

Manage communication/reporting processes for grants associated with Educational Attainment outcomes.

Leads efforts to document learnings (in partnership with Bell Policy Center and others), develop communication tools for recruitment and replication and proactively seek opportunities to share learnings to spur image among partners, other local entities, and national networks.

Create a feedback loop to help information surface in evaluation efforts to inform program design.

Manages team of outreach, operations, and enrollment coordinators, ESL class coordinator, Colfax Small Business Coordinator, as well as Student Success Coordinators.

Oversees enrollment and outreach efforts and Salesforce activities in which all student data is located.

Creates new outreach campaigns and processes.

Selects, schedules, and oversees all Mi Casa event outreach efforts.

Hold weekly one-on-one and team meetings with staff to check in, share activities, progress, and roadblocks, and enrich team culture, morale, and professional development.

Strategically coordinates outreach and operations efforts to meet and exceed enrollment goals in Mi Casa programs.

B2B with other organizations, recruiters, industry and government, and community organizing.

Driving the outreach efforts and marketing of Mi Casa programs.

Ensuring accurate collection of participant data and reporting needs. Front Range Community College, Westminster, CO November 2014 – April 2022 Scholarship Coordinator 2016 – 2022

Building a solid relationship with community organizations that help students succeed in college with generous contributions, including private organizations, high schools, and community events.

Accurately accounting and documenting funds coming from many different sources with many other procedures of processing funds.

Served as an elected state-wide board of directors member for the Colorado Association of Financial Aid Administrators, representing 2-year public colleges.

Chair of the Wellness Committee, managing employee wellness activities and writing and acquiring wellness- related grants for the college.

Financial Aid Advisor, Front Range Community College 2014 - 2016 Senior Career Advisor, Westwood College 2011 - 2014 Academic Advisor, Westwood College 2008 – 2011

SUPPLEMENTAL EXPERIENCE

Business Instructor- Front Range Community College 2023- Present

Design curriculum and instructor for hybrid business courses, in including

Classes:

o Project Management for Organizations (3) MAN2041 (Fall 2023, Spring 2024) o Project Management in Action (3) MAN2043(Fall 2023) o Business Communications (3) BUS2017 (Fall 2023)

o Principles of Marketing (3) MKT2019 (Spring 2024) Indra Intelligence Digital Advertising Account Manager 2019-2021

Run weekly dashboard reports for clients through Google Data Studio for digital marketing metrics through Facebook, Instagram, Google Ads, private websites, and blogs.

Host weekly client update meetings. Clients range from $ 1,000 to 25,000 per month spent on advertising. https://www.indraintelligence.com/

Entrepreneur, Lotus Love Apothecary Ltd 2019- Present

Maintain Shopify storefront for an online and market apothecary retail business SEO and Ads manager.

Maintain website with in-house and drop ship inventory.

Financial management. www.lotusloveapothecary.com IT Project Manager- Temporary, FRCC January 2019 – April 2019

Assisting the IT Project Manager throughout the project life cycle, developing project artifacts according to FRCC PM Methodologies.

Projects include upgrading to a system-wide employee directory over 14 colleges, implementing new contract management software, and developing a unique IT-specific FRCC PM Methodology.

Attending project kick-off, milestone, and closure meetings.

Accompanying in developing the PMO maturity, implementing new college and IT department-specific methodologies using Waterfall PM methods.

Administering Sharepoint as the college's go-to project tracking system and dashboard.

Managing projects using MS Project.

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