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Brian Allen

Chattanooga,TN

Summary

Dedicated professional with diverse skills and a proven track record of success. Excels in applying hands-on experience to achieve results that exceed expectations. Seeking to contribute value and make a meaningful impact in a dynamic, collaborative work environment. Open to challenges for continued growth and development.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Police Officer (2020-1 Class President)

Chattanooga Police Department
03.2020 - Current
  • Enforces all city and state codes, ordinances, laws, and regulations in order to protect life and property and to prevent crime and promote security.
  • Maintains visibility by patrolling assigned area, city streets, parks, neighborhoods, and businesses to ensure security; makes observations for prowlers, vagrants, suspicious persons, and other violators.
  • Performs surveillance of various locations and of criminal suspects; collects and reviews data; develops trends and/or patterns pertaining to locations/suspects; files intelligence reports.
  • Responds to calls for service; investigates reported crimes; interviews and obtains statements from victims, witnesses, suspects, and confidential informants; processes crime scenes; gathers, prepares, and submits evidence to crime lab. Obtains warrants; performs various search operations; locates missing persons.
  • Determines probable cause to search and/or reasonable suspicion to detain suspects; pursues fleeing and subdues resisting suspects; effects arrests; processes and transports prisoners.
  • Assists fellow officers as requested/necessary on domestic and theft calls, executing warrants, serving subpoenas, and making traffic stops.
  • Performs functions at accidents, emergencies, fires, and disasters to include directing traffic, administering emergency medical aid, and managing dangerous situations; interacts with EMS teams.
  • Administers field sobriety tests; identifies wanted persons/vehicles; impounds vehicles; assists stranded motorists; ensures roadways are clear of obstacles and hazards.
  • Stops vehicles for traffic violations; issues traffic citations and warnings.
  • Identifies illegal drugs and hazardous materials; maintains knowledge of the most commonly abused prescription drugs.
  • Enters/retrieves data to/from computer system including stolen property, arrest and wanted persons information, investigation data, and criminal/driving records checks; reviews crime statistics.
  • Identifies, documents, and processes various components of crime scene; collects evidence; photographs/videotapes crime scene; processes scene for fingerprints; inspects records and documents to confirm identity of individual.
  • Responds to questions, complaints, and requests for information by telephone or in person from merchants, community/civic organizations, the general public, employees, superiors, and other individuals.
  • Exchanges information with dispatchers, attorneys, court personnel, medical examiner, fire and EMS personnel, medical professionals, and other departments and agencies; communicates effectively on law enforcement radio.
  • Maintains current field and code manuals, policies and procedures, employee handbooks, various maps, and related material for reference and/or review.
  • Attends shift meetings, seminars, and specialized/update training sessions as required to maintain knowledge of departmental and city operations, to promote improved job performance, and to maintain knowledge of changing policies, procedures, codes, and laws.
  • Completes and prepares a variety of forms, logs, requests, records, reports, correspondence, and various other documents associated with daily responsibilities of this position; maintains administrative records and files.
  • Cooperates with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies and their officers or representatives when activities are related to investigations within city jurisdiction.
  • Maintains cleanliness of vehicle; refuels, checks fluids and tires, and requests service and/or repairs as needed; maintains weapons and equipment in functional and presentable condition.
  • Performing traffic control and enforcing motor vehicle and criminal laws.
  • Investigating traffic accidents to determine causes and criminal activity.


Community Marketing Specialist

Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise
04.2019 - 03.2020
  • Engage and build lasting relationships/strategic partnerships with any organization, nonprofit, company, entity, or individual considered to be an influencer in our community of families and individuals.
  • Generate opportunity/leads for sales and education. Turn the opportunity generated from community engagement, relationship building, and partnerships into realized market share growth.
  • Contact, gather and maintain a log of all contacts and activity, client-related information and provide input on key opportunities.
  • Data management and reporting to include creating, updating and maintaining daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, internal and external reports.
  • Chelsea Smith 423-756-6256

Community Development/Consultant

Hope for the Inner- City
01.2019 - 04.2019
  • Assist Community Development Director with managing and facilitating Spring Urban Ministry Teams
  • Research, report and present written report on the needs of community youth
  • Provide written recommendations for youth focused programs and partnerships. Assist with completing and packaging 2019 Junior Workforce initiative package.
  • Quentin Lawrence 423-698-3178

Delivery Route Driver/ Merchandiser

Keurig Dr. Pepper
09.2018 - 12.2018
  • Deliver, fill, merchandise, and rotate products at customer accounts.
  • Ensure the "look of success" appearance of all Keurig/Dr. Pepper equipment and products.
  • Foster relationships with store management and personnel and provide superior customer service.
  • Ensure proper inventory of product, handling of cash and assets daily.
  • David Mungler 423-634-2443

President/ CEO/OPERATOR

Royal Transportation
07.2016 - 12.2018
  • Oversee all staff within the organization.
  • Oversee the budget of the organization
  • Direct the organization financial goals, objectives, and budgets.
  • Encourage business investment.
  • Promote economic development within communities.
  • Hire, train, and terminate employees
  • Provide visionary and strategic leadership for the organization.
  • Direct staff, including organizational structure, professional development, motivation, performance evaluation, discipline, compensation, personnel policies and procedures.
  • Brian Allen 423-401-0480

Delivery Route Driver/ Merchandiser

Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
04.2018 - 09.2018
  • Deliver, fill, merchandise, and rotate products at customer accounts.
  • Ensure the "look of success" appearance of all Coke equipment and products.
  • Foster relationships with store management and personnel and provide superior customer service.
  • Ensure proper inventory of product, handling of cash and assets daily.
  • Johnothan Perkins 615-793-8880

Director of Youth & Family/ Volunteer Coordinator

Bethlehem Community Center
04.2013 - 07.2017
  • Planned, organized, and directed the leadership boot camp for fifty middle and high school students.
  • Presented to a wide range of organizations, businesses, and, churches to bring awareness to the Bethlehem Center, and the work the organization does in the community it serves.
  • Raised funds and broaden the donor base for the organization to help better serve the community.
  • Assisted in helping bringing more partnerships to the Bethlehem Center that can benefit the organization and community.
  • Co-Created & Overseen the Bethlehem Center V-Team (victory) & B.L.U. (Bethlehem Leadership Unit) leadership programs.
  • Revise the V-Team curriculum, plan and organize all activities for the V-Team and BLU leadership. These programs catered to middle, high school, and a small percentage of college students.
  • Mentored, taught career and leadership skills, entrepreneur skills, and more to area middle and high school students in the City of Chattanooga at the local high schools. This included mission trips/service projects, college tours, business campus tours, internships etc.
  • Monitor the intern's performance and evaluated the students at the end of the programs. All programs took place throughout the whole calendar year.
  • Worked with students and families on educational, social, spiritual, and economic needs in a community of 300+ residents by partnering with different agencies, businesses, and nonprofits that brought resources to the area.
  • Provided leadership to the Bethlehem Center, After-School and Summer Academy.
  • Managed and overseen all sports and recreational programs throughout the year including the after-school and summer academy that serves 1st -8th graders. Other programs included 9th grade- adults. Sports and activities include basketball, baseball, soccer, football (partnership), ballet, acting, dance, and camping.
  • Recruited and retained volunteers for the Bethlehem Center, its programs, and events that are planned through the organization. As needed I opened and closed the facility for different events that took place at the facility.
  • Coached youth and young adults in various sports such as soccer, basketball, football, baseball, etc.
  • Created & organized different events that benefited the community the Bethlehem Center serves.
  • Reginald Smith 423-266-1384

Operator/Assembler

Columbus McKinnon Corp.
04.2011 - 04.2013
  • Operated forklifts to rust veto parts, proof test parts, and stock parts.
  • Operated six different machines to proof test different size hammerlocks.
  • Operated magnaflux machine to check parts for cracks and defects.
  • Operated a bagger machine to seal and pack different size parts.
  • Kevin Viars 423-698-2213

Lead Person/ Cook

Standard Candy-Functional Food Co.
10.2009 - 03.2011
  • Ensured all employees within my department stayed on task by doing their job in a good, safe, and productive manner.
  • Created a batch sheet using precise measurements, materials, and ingredients to achieve goal set, employees cooked and mixed the syrups for the different bars of products including health bars the company produced.
  • Operated forklifts to pull ingredients from staging area to be used for the day scheduled production run.
  • Thomas Walker 615-889-6360

Forklift Operator/Environmental

Chattanooga Bakery, Farley's and Sathers
04.2009 - 09.2009
  • Cleaned and sanitized machines and production areas.
  • Packed and palletized different candy products.
  • Operated a forklift and stocked the warehouse with materials using RF scan gun.
  • Various Supervisors 423-893-5275

Warehouse/ Yard

Siskin Steel & Supply
02.2008 - 02.2008
  • Loaded steel plates, pipes (black), channels, and beams onto trailers to be shipped to customers.
  • Completed work orders outside on the steel yard to be placed inside of the warehouse with orders ready to be shipped.
  • Cleaned and grinded parts with grinder tools for production.
  • John Hall 423-756-3671

Coordinator-Supervisor/ Q.A.

Consolidated Biscuit Co.
07.2005 - 09.2006
  • Supervised 20-30 employees on a production line. Coordinated two lines and made certain that production goals was meet and that each line was cleaned at the end of each shift. I then entered production data in the computer system using excel at the end of each shift.
  • Quality assurance (Q.A.) I was assigned to check the quality of the product, date on the package, and the weight of the product. Soon after I was promoted to line supervisor/coordinator.
  • Operated a forklift for 3-4mths. Loaded and unloaded freight trucks and put up stock and kept the different production lines stocked up.
  • Operated cherry picker, reach trucks, forklifts (standup, sit-down, double and slip sheeter).
  • Tony Potter 423-209-2920

Education

Criminal Justice

Strayer University

Biblical Studies

Interdenominational Theological Center

High School Studies

Howard School of Academics & Technology

Skills

  • Urban youth programming
  • Effective public speaking
  • Coordinating events
  • Effective fundraising initiatives
  • Team leadership training
  • Program Development
  • Volunteer coordination
  • Instructional expertise
  • Recreation Planning
  • Staff Development
  • Mentoring
  • Life Coaching
  • Supervisory experience

Community Service

Board Member of Y.F.C. Chattanooga (Youth For Christ), Board Treasurer for I.Y.A (Lakeside Youth Association), Former VP of Diversity & Inclusion Education for the Southside Council of the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce, Mentor & Life Coach for at-risk youth & young adults, Director of M.I.M.E. Leadership (volunteer organization), LAUNCH Business Facilitator (High School)

Timeline

Police Officer (2020-1 Class President)

Chattanooga Police Department
03.2020 - Current

Community Marketing Specialist

Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise
04.2019 - 03.2020

Community Development/Consultant

Hope for the Inner- City
01.2019 - 04.2019

Delivery Route Driver/ Merchandiser

Keurig Dr. Pepper
09.2018 - 12.2018

Delivery Route Driver/ Merchandiser

Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
04.2018 - 09.2018

President/ CEO/OPERATOR

Royal Transportation
07.2016 - 12.2018

Director of Youth & Family/ Volunteer Coordinator

Bethlehem Community Center
04.2013 - 07.2017

Operator/Assembler

Columbus McKinnon Corp.
04.2011 - 04.2013

Lead Person/ Cook

Standard Candy-Functional Food Co.
10.2009 - 03.2011

Forklift Operator/Environmental

Chattanooga Bakery, Farley's and Sathers
04.2009 - 09.2009

Warehouse/ Yard

Siskin Steel & Supply
02.2008 - 02.2008

Coordinator-Supervisor/ Q.A.

Consolidated Biscuit Co.
07.2005 - 09.2006

Criminal Justice

Strayer University

Biblical Studies

Interdenominational Theological Center

High School Studies

Howard School of Academics & Technology

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