Experience

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  Self-employed

  Dec 1998 - Dec 2004

  Workforce development consultant

  Designed training systems for Manufacturing and metalworking using NIMS certification.• Designed pilot manufacturing program for Paul Simon Chicago Job Corps Center and helped to establish it at four other Job Corps centers. • Manufacturing Workforce Development Project which produced the document: “Creating a Manufacturing Career Path System in Cook County,” by the Chicago Federation of Labor and Center for Labor and Community Research, December 2001. Designed metalworking curriculum and skill clusters and job pathways (http://www.clcr.org/publications/pdf/final%20MWDP%20report030802.pdf).• Created math curriculum for manufacturing bridge program run by Instituto Progreso Latino and implemented at Arturo Velasquez Institute. Show less

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  Chicago public schools

  Nov 2003 - Nov 2005

  Program manager for manufacturing and transportation

  Responsible for 39 programs in 23 high schools. Modernized and advanced manufacturing training programs with NIMS credentialing in machining, IPC certification in electronics, and expanded industry partnerships. Refocused curricula and equipment on new technology. Served on design team for Austin Polytechnical Academy. Created first high school program cluster in Logistics in Illinois. Negotiated articulation agreements with Chicago City Colleges (Wright, Daley, Kennedy-King), Oakton Community College and Paul Simon Chicago Job Corps Center. Show less

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  Jane addams resource corporation

  Nov 2005 - Dec 2009

  Executive director

  Doubled the size of the organization in funding and staff, and more than quadrupled the number of clients served. Expanded impact of manufacturing training and social service programs and positioned JARC as a leader in workforce partnerships and the Center for Working Families models. Blended training and support services for greater impact and leveraged funding. Expanded industrial retention work city-wide and provided marketing support to local metalworking companies. Expanded Adult Basic Ed program in to include “bridge” to skills training and jobs, combining workforce outcomes with educational ones. Show less

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  Richard j. daley college

  Aug 2010 - Nov 2015

  Rapidly growing the enrollment and deepening the content of advanced manufacturing programs at Daley College. Established 6 new certificate programs as stackable credentials leading to the AAS degree. Achieved NIMS accreditation of Daley machine shop. Daley College is also on the "M-List" of the Manufacturing Institute. Expanded the college's role as an MSSC test center and established industry credentials as student learning outcomes in credit and continuing education programs, and in the adult education "bridge" to manufacturing. Responsible for the college's work in the Illinois Network for Advanced Manufacturing (iNAM) grant and the Calumet Green Manufacturing Partnership. Daley College has 2 fully-equipped machine shops, a welding shop with new equipment for GMAW, GTAW, SWAW, plasma cutting, and with VRTEX simulator and Robotic welding cell. Factory automation training includes PLC's and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing. Classes are held at both 7500 S. Pulaski Road and 2800 South Western Ave. Show less

  • Dean, College to Careers in Advanced Manufacturing

    Aug 2013 - Nov 2015

  • Director, Manufacturing Technology programs

    Aug 2010 - Aug 2013
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  U.s. dept. of agriculture food & nutrition service

  Nov 2015 - Jan 2022

  Retired - employment & training analyst

  Workforce development expert assisting seven midwestern states (MN, WI, IA, IL, IN, MI, OH) to build job-driven training programs for SNAP recipients that will help them obtain "middle skill" jobs with family-supporting wages and benefits. This is done by using braided funding (including 50% reimbursement from USDA) and by establishing broad partnerships with a variety of training and service providers that can deliver not only technical skills training, but also case managment, soft skills training and the range of support services (such as transportation and childcare) needed to move SNAP recipients out of poverty and into self-sufficiency. Specialties: Workforce Development, Training Program Design, Program Administration, Manufacturing, Post-Secondary Career and Technical Education. Show less