Daniel Houser

Daniel Houser

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Strategic thinker creative collaborator
Colorado, United States

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    Manager
    Colorado Education Initiative
    Jul 2020 - Current (4 years 5 months)
  • Denver Public Schools
    Project Specialist
    Denver Public Schools
    Dec 2016 - Jul 2020 (3 years 8 months)
    Schools Division/Office of Family and Community Engagement • Supports strategic planning and program management for the DPS Schools Division. • Streamline systems and information to support and set up Regional Instructional Superintendents for success. • Lead the process to gather, streamline, synthesize and vet the content of weekly newsletters distributed to Instructional Superintendents to keep them abreast of headlines, hot topics, priority areas that need to be addressed. • Led the citizen oversight committee, District Accountability Committee (DAC) facilitating information between the district and committee to make informed recommendations to the Board of Education. Led the district-wide recruitment campaign for the
  • Denver Public Schools
    Project Coordinator
    Denver Public Schools
    Oct 2014 - Dec 2016 (2 years 3 months)
    Office of Family and Community Engagement • Worked with families and staff to identify needs, priorities, gaps and vulnerabilities and organized school committees to address challenges and to ensure compliance with district standards. • Served on the Community Engagement Policy Revision Committee, participating in review, decision-making and recommendation for improved family engagement policy. • Coordinated, facilitated and evaluated professional development trainings for Denver Public School family and staff.
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    Medical Interpreter
    DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER
    Jul 2014 - Oct 2014 (4 months)
    Spanish English interpreter for Denver Health. Medical interpreting for all departments and clinics of Denver Health.
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    Evaluation associate
    JVA Consulting
    Mar 2014 - Jun 2014 (4 months)
    • Facilitated and coordinated logistics for focus groups throughout the state of Colorado. • Co-facilitated focus groups and trainings in Spanish.
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    Legal and Medical Interpreter
    Oct 2013 - Jun 2014 (9 months)
    Spanish English interpreter for local interpreting companies. Legal and medical interpreting in the greater Denver Area.
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    Marketing Consultant
    Cikla
    Jul 2011 - Jan 2013 (1 year 7 months)
    Assisted in three-year strategic growth plan for one of Latin America's prime cycling distributors. Served as consultant for marketing plan in regard to growth strategy resulting in 50% increase of imports and sales in 2011/2012.
  • Tatoo Adventure Gear
    Marketing Specialist
    Tatoo Adventure Gear
    Jul 2010 - Jun 2011 (1 year)
    2 • Developed growth strategies for the expansion of outdoor retailer for the Ecuadorian, Colombian, Peruvian, Bolivian, and Chilean markets.
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    Program Director- Natural Resource Conservation
    United States Peace Corps
    Nov 2008 - May 2010 (1 year 7 months)
    Developed natural resource conservation project plan in accordance with Ecuadorian needs, priorities and Peace Corps guidelines, incorporating host- country and private voluntary organization agency representatives and project beneficiaries in project development. • Prepared, monitored, and modified the program budget, and ensured that resources were used in an effective manner. • Established working relationships with various collaborating agencies and negotiated agreements with governmental and non-governmental organizations. • Participated in strategic planning and yearly integrated planning and budget processes of a 3.5 million USD budget. • Coached, mentored and provided guidance and leadership for 45 Peace Corps volunt
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    Program and Training Specialist-Sustainable Agriculture
    United States Peace Corps
    Jul 2008 - Nov 2008 (5 months)
    Redesigned Sustainable Agriculture 6-year project plan with specific, accurate, realistic and time bound objectives and outcome indicators. • Designed user-friendly pre-and post-test agricultural rubrics targeting low-literate farmers. • Developed monitoring and evaluation tools for the Peace Corps volunteers to use in order to better track and monitor progress against post's project plan. • Served as counterpart agency liaison, monitoring the Volunteer's work, training designs, resource allocation, project evaluations, status reports, site visit reports and project site selection. • Assessed Peace Corps volunteer's performance, documented outcomes, best practices and lessons learned every four months in order to help them m
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    Certificate
    Claremont Graduate University
    Jan 2013 - Dec 2013 (1 year)
  • Bowdoin College
    Bachelor of Arts Anthropology
    Bowdoin College