BRANDON D. PAYNE
Chandler,USA
Summary
Energetic professional in entertainment and recreation management, known for high productivity and efficient task completion. Possess specialized skills in event coordination, team leadership, and customer experience enhancement. Excel at using communication, adaptability, and problem-solving to achieve outstanding results in fast-paced environments. Dedicated and adaptable professional with a proactive attitude and the ability to learn quickly. Strong work ethic and effective communication skills. Eager to contribute to a dynamic team and support organizational goals.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Athletic Director/HFC
Sequioa Pathway Academy
04.2024 - Current
- Managing budgets: Preparing budgets and allocating funds for equipment, travel, staff salaries, and facility upkeep
- Hiring and training staff: Hiring, supervising, and terminating coaches and other athletic staff
- Scheduling: Creating schedules for training and sports matches, and scheduling games and competitions
- Ensuring compliance: Ensuring the school complies with athletic rules and regulations
- Providing leadership: Setting goals, developing strategic plans, and establishing policies and procedures
- Working with coaches: Working with coaches to plan travel and mediating disputes between coaches and athletes
- Fundraising: Participating in fundraising and securing sponsors for events, programs, and facilities
- Marketing: Marketing events and building community connections
- Facility maintenance: Overseeing facilities maintenance
- Reporting: Filing reports on the status of each of the athletics teams
- Canceling and rescheduling games: Canceling games to protect participants and district resources, and rescheduling when necessary
- HFC Responsibilities - Manage and supervise athletic activities, contests, and practice sessions, to promote individual growth in athletic skills, teamwork, discipline, respect, and good sportsmanship
- Use a variety of instructional techniques and media to meet the needs and improve the abilities of student athletes in football
- Coordinate the development and promotion of the Football Program
- Work with other members in the AIA to plan and put in place instructional goals and objectives to ensure the overall educational development of student athletes
- Ensure all football coaches work together toward a common goal within the football program and provide unity within the youth community programs
- Establish performance criteria for competition and evaluate students’ athletic abilities initially and on a regular basis
- Develop a regular practice schedule and organize practice time to provide both individual and team development
- Assess players’ skills and assign team positions
- Determine game strategy based on the team’s capabilities
- Apply and enforce student discipline during athletic contests, practice sessions on and off the field
- Encourage sportsmanlike conduct in all phases of athletic participation at all times
- Take all necessary precautions to protect student-athletes, equipment, and facilities, including protecting students from hazing/bullying
- Maintain and secure all football equipment and uniforms
- Oversee process of cleaning, repairing, and storing all athletic equipment
- Most important duty is to help students succeed academically, graduate, and move to 4 year institutions.
Assistant Coach Cornerbacks
Hampton University FCS
04.2023 - 04.2024
- (DB’s)
- Assist and participates in practices and intercollegiate competitions
- Teach necessary skills from the basic fundamentals to the techniques and strategies of team play.
- Promote and maintain an environment where the physical, mental, social and academic well-being of all student-athletes are a priority.
- Assist with evaluating, recruiting and selecting qualified prospects who have the ability to compete in the classroom and athletically
- Actively seek out and encourage a diverse group of prospects and assist them through the application process
- Work collaboratively with the staff of the Compliance, Student Affairs, and Academics Offices to qualify and process prospects in a timely and efficient manner
- Make recurring contacts by telephone, written correspondence, off-campus visits and evaluations, and coordination of campus visits as assigned by the Head Coach.
- Assist with overseeing the academic progress and success of student-athletes including promoting and maintaining an environment that encourages academic achievement as measured by academic eligibility, retention, and graduation.
Head Football Coach
Arete Preperatory Academy
Gilbert, AZ
05.2022 - 04.2023
- Facilitated communication between players, coaching staff, and sports management.
- Collaborated with assistant coaches to develop and implement training drills.
- Educated athletes in rules, strategies, sportsmanship and performance principles.
- Led motivational sessions to boost team morale and confidence ahead of competitions.
- Monitored student athlete academic performance through grade checking and boosted results with study hall and techniques.
- Supervised assistant coaches during practices and games, providing feedback on performance as needed.
- Provided guidance and mentorship to players both on-field and off-field.
- Gave presentations on sports program to school administrators, for player families and at community events.
- Suggested exercise modifications to individual athletes to avoid strain and injury.
- Evaluated player talent and physical skills to determine correct team assignments.
- Collaborated with strength coaches on conditioning programs designed to improve player fitness levels.
- Oversaw the distribution and maintenance of team equipment and uniforms.
- Coordinated team travel arrangements for away games and tournaments.
- Analyzed game footage to identify areas for team improvement and individual player development.
- Organized and led practice sessions focusing on skills improvement, strategy, and teamwork.
- Engaged with fans and the community to build support and foster team spirit.
Assistant Recruiting Coordinator, •Job Coordinator/Community Service Coordinator
12.2019 - 01.2022
- 3 Season, 6 all Conference Players, (1) Co-Defensive Player of the Year
- 1 Defense in the conference, #1 Rushing offense in the conference
- 2021 Season; 8-2 season, HJCAC Conference Champions, 2021 (8) All Conference Players
- (8) Next level players graduated & moved on NCAA/NAIA
- 2022 – 8-2 record Manage and supervise athletic activities, contests, and practice sessions, to promote individual growth in athletic skills, teamwork, discipline, respect, and good sportsmanship
- Use a variety of instructional techniques and media to meet the needs and improve the abilities of student athletes in football
- Coordinate the development and promotion of the Football Program
- Work with other members in the HJCAC f to plan and put in place instructional goals and objectives to ensure the overall educational development of student athletes
- Ensure all football coaches work together toward a common goal within the football program and provide unity within the youth community programs
- Establish performance criteria for competition and evaluate students’ athletic abilities initially and on a regular basis
- Develop a regular practice schedule and organize practice time to provide both individual and team development
- Assess players’ skills and assign team positions
- Determine game strategy based on the team’s capabilities
- Apply and enforce student discipline during athletic contests, practice sessions on and off the field
- Encourage sportsmanlike conduct in all phases of athletic participation at all times
- Take all necessary precautions to protect student-athletes, equipment, and facilities, including protecting students from hazing/bullying
- Maintain and secure all football equipment and uniforms
- Oversee process of cleaning, repairing, and storing all athletic equipment
- Most important duty is to help students succeed academically, graduate, and move to 4 year institutions., for Players
- Coordinated meetings for Defensive Backs
- Prepared paperwork for student recruitment
- Coordinates to help with players to transfer to D1,D2, D3, & NAIA
- Mentored 3 1st Team All HJCAC players; Defensive Backs-Trayvon Williams-FS (Led conference in Interceptions), Jalon Harbour-CB(Led conference in PBU’s) & 1st and 2nd Team All HJCAC Punter/Kicker Michael Williams.
Backs/Special Teams Coordinator, Assistant Recruiting Coordinator
Maricopa Mustangs Junior College, HJCAC
Glendale, AZ
06.2019 - 11.2019
- Coached Defensive backs with fundamentals
- Supervised and coordinated all special team phases with game planning, depth charts, and schemes
- Recruiting Areas: Phoenix, Texas, Nevada, and New Mexico & Nation wide
- Game planned special teams on opponent and film break down while also putting together the depth chart
- Instructed, motivated, and encouraged college level student athletes
- Assigned workout requirements
- Tracked and monitored class attendance of all student athletes
- Monitored and tracked student grade checks
- Analyzed and breakdown game & practice film for opponents of 2018
- Coached defensive backs with fundamentals of position
- Evaluated film of players
- Assist young athletes with academics/graduation/eligibility.
Assistant Football Coach/Enrollment Advisor/Cornerbacks/Secondary Coach/Job Coordinator
Ottawa University Arizona
Surprise, AZ
02.2017 - 05.2019
- Hired as the 2nd assistant football coach to help start up a brand new football program with signing 125 prospects from high school and junior college’s in the Fall of 2017
- Recruiting Areas: Phoenix, Texas, Nevada, and New Mexico & Nation wide
- Instructed, motivated, and encouraged college level student athletes
- Assigned workout requirements
- Tracked and monitored class attendance of all student athletes
- Monitored and tracked student grade checks
- Analyzed and breakdown game & practice film for opponents of 2018
- Coached cornerbacks with fundamentals of position
- Evaluated film of players
- Assist young athletes with academics/graduation/eligibility.
Assistant Recruiting Coordinator, •Job Coordinator/Community Service Coordinator
01.2004 - 01.2018
- For Players
- Coordinated meetings for Cornerbacks
- Prepared paperwork for student recruitment, Record for inaugural season
- Mentored all 2nd Team All Conference SAC safety Amare Burks, Honorable mentions; S- Dashawn Holcomb’s, CB-Jevon Hogan, & CB-David Jones Jr
- Leading the conference #1 Pass Defense & #1 Pass Defense Efficiency
- 2 Total Defense(SAC), 1st season of the NAIA of getting a bowl bid for the NCCAA Victory Bowl
- Mentored Punt/Kick Returner 1st Team SAC All Conference Shamar Moreland, a freshman from Phoenix, took home Special Teams Player of the Year honors while being named first team all-conference at both punt returner and kick returner
- Moreland averages 21.4 yards per punt return with three touchdowns and gets 28.2 yards per kick return with one touchdown
- He lead the NAIA by averaging 227.1 all-purpose yards per game
- Also Moreland was awarded NCCAA All American Honorable mention team in 2018 as Punt/Kick Returner.
Assistant Football Coach- Cornerbacks/Secondary Coach
New Mexico Military Institute
Roswell, NM
07.2016 - 12.2016
- Experience with 4-2-5/3-3-5 defense
- Instructed, motivated, and encouraged college level student athletes
- Assigned workout requirements
- Tracked and monitored class attendance of all student athletes
- Monitored study hall
- Enforced curfew during game days
- Analyzed film after every game for later review
- Coached cornerbacks with fundamentals of position
- Issue out scouting reports
- Breakdown film of opponents
- Monitor student grades
- Assist young athletes with graduation or transfers to Division 1, 2, or 3 Universities
- 16 Ranked overall team in the NJCAA September 12,2016 after being 3-0 for the season
- Ranked the #8 overall team in NJCAA football after week 4 of being 4-0 for the season on September 19,2016
- Ranked the # 6 team overall in NJCAA football on September 26,2016
- Was ranked in the top 20 of NJCAA as the #6,#8, #11, #14, for 5 weeks
- Mentored All Conference 1st Team SWJCFC Diontez Champion (Division 2) who led the team in Interceptions, Started 9 games, Captain of the team, and 4th on the team with tackles, and he’s continuing his football career playing at Missouri Southern State University
- Mentored Theo Hyppolite another all conference 2nd Team SWJCFC Defensive back player who was 3rd on the team with 6 PBU’s and also the leading tackler on the NMMI defense with 58 total tackles
- Mentored Defensive Back Shemar Busby(Division 1), who lead the NJCAA league in PBU’s with 17 and he will be continuing his college football career at the next level.
Director/Head Trainer
Speedburners
Houston, TX
09.2014 - 07.2016
- Director of a nationally recognized speed development program
- Responsible for administration and coordination of scheduled activities of a dozen teams speed development programs
- Responsible for development of individual athletes objectives from all levels of sport to include pro athletes
- Lead the development and remodel of an in house facility to administer the program
- Administer and oversee various camps and activities for both small and large groups of athletes on all levels of development
- Trained over 200 athletes from Youth, Middle school, high school, college and professional athletes.
Defensive Coordinator/Defensive Backs Coach
KIPP Houston High School
Houston, TX
08.2014 - 01.2015
- Oversaw the Defensive Back and the Defense unit for the Varsity Football Team
- Developed customized workout programs for each student athlete to maximize their potential in their respective roles on the team
- Along with this tracked their developmental progress devising improvement plans as needed along the way
- Also designed a defense to compete against opponents
- Film breakdown of opponents
- Evaluated defense from game performance
- Scouting Report
Education
Bachelor of Science - Exercise And Health
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM05-2011
Associate of Science - Kinesiology
Blinn College
Brenham, TX12-2002
Skills
- Student-athlete welfare
- Injury prevention
- Scheduling coordination
- Recruitment strategies
- Eligibility requirements
- Motivational skills
- Academic support
- Fundraising expertise
- Strength training
- Coordination of facilities
- Event management
- Compliance monitoring
- Performance analysis
- Student transcript reviews
- Athlete orientations
- Facility management
- Effective customer communication
- Media relations
- Verbal and written communication
- Sports marketing
- Student safety programs
- Collaborative approach
- Creative vision
- Staff recruiting
- Coach orientation
Accomplishments
● Walter Camp 2nd Team All-American Selection 2004 Football, University of New Mexico.
● 3rd Lobo since 1979 to intercept 6 passes in a season.
● 2nd UNM defensive back to capture All-American honors, Joining Brian Urlacher in 1998 and 1999.
● Semi-Finalist, Jim Thorpe Award 2004Football, University of New Mexico
● NCAA Football Pass Breakup Champion
● Set School record for Pass Breakups 2004 Football, University of New Mexico
● Sports Illustrated Honorable Mention Team
● 3rd team All American SI 2004 Football, University of New Mexico
● First Team, All-MWC 2004 Football, University of New Mexico
● Most Improved Player, University of New Mexico 2004 Football, University of New Mexico
● Certified Speed & Conditioning Coach 2014
● Honorable Mention, All-Conference 2002 Football, Blinn College
● Dayton High School, 1Team All-District, All State honorable Mention, MVP-Defensive Back
● Selected to coach in the LONE STAR ALL STARS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL GAME (2014)
● Milwaukee Iron- Honorable Mention Player of the week 2009 Defensive Back
● February 3rd 2017 One of the Top 5 Finalists for Los Lunos Head Football Coaching Candidate
● Dayton High School Bronco Youth Charity Football Camps
Timeline
Athletic Director/HFC
Sequioa Pathway Academy
04.2024 - Current
Assistant Coach Cornerbacks
Hampton University FCS
04.2023 - 04.2024
Head Football Coach
Arete Preperatory Academy
05.2022 - 04.2023
Assistant Recruiting Coordinator, •Job Coordinator/Community Service Coordinator
12.2019 - 01.2022
Backs/Special Teams Coordinator, Assistant Recruiting Coordinator
Maricopa Mustangs Junior College, HJCAC
06.2019 - 11.2019
Assistant Football Coach/Enrollment Advisor/Cornerbacks/Secondary Coach/Job Coordinator
Ottawa University Arizona
02.2017 - 05.2019
Assistant Football Coach- Cornerbacks/Secondary Coach
New Mexico Military Institute
07.2016 - 12.2016
Director/Head Trainer
Speedburners
09.2014 - 07.2016
Defensive Coordinator/Defensive Backs Coach
KIPP Houston High School
08.2014 - 01.2015
Assistant Recruiting Coordinator, •Job Coordinator/Community Service Coordinator
01.2004 - 01.2018
Bachelor of Science - Exercise And Health
University of New Mexico
Associate of Science - Kinesiology
Blinn College