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Christopher Brubaker

Dallas

Summary

Culture driven public official with extensive experience in training development and program evaluation. Strong leadership and analytical skills have led to successful collaborations, ensuring compliance with state regulations and enhancing staff capabilities through tailored training initiatives for other agencies as well as his own.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Program Analyst 1

Oregon Government Ethics Commission
Salem
11.2023 - Current

- Provide customer service and encourage effective and productive working relationships.

- Deliver training presentations to elected and appointed public officials of state, county and local governments.

- Create, review and update training materials and resources, including manuals, handouts, lesson plans, audio-visual presentations and web-based training aids.

- Review materials for plain language and accessibility and make recommendations for improvements to the Curriculum & Training Coordinator.

- Coordinate the agency's communications schedule.

- Draft targeted written educational material.

- Distribute educational material along with training manuals, handouts and additional resources through the agency's newsletter, email, social media and website.

- Facilitate virtual access to the Commission meetings.

- Evaluate program activities and program outcomes and prepare written reports of monthly training program accomplishments.

- Make oral presentations on training program to commission members and other agency staff.

- Facilitate virtual access to other agency meetings including stakeholder meetings and rules advisory meetings.

- Answer telephones and assist customers.

- Respond verbally and in writing to requests for information received by OGEC relating to training materials, laws, rules and processes and procedures.

- Draft advice and advisory opinions concerning the application of state law to actual or hypothetical situations.

- Assist public officials, lobbyists and client/employers with their statutory filing requirements and navigating databases.

- Develop and implement community outreach plan.

- Promote OGEC services by arranging attendance at conferences and distributing educational materials.

- Monitor, maintain and update training offerings in Learning Management Systems.

- Maintain training program data. Track, record and compile records of training program activities, results and feedback.

- Evaluate training program results and outcomes against program expectations.

- Report the data and make recommendations for changes to the Curriculum and Training Coordinator.

Quality Manager & Proctor Certifier

Connections365
Salem
03.2019 - 11.2023

Quality Manager:

- Subject matter expert on the Oregon Administrative Rules and Oregon Revised Statutes that applied to our organization to provide advice and guidance on policies and procedures that were impacted.

- Collaborated with state agencies to make sure we were compliant with their expectations.

- Created training plans for each department that identified how to meet the expectations of our state government's and stakeholders' requirements.

- Created specific trainings to cover all of the topics the staff needed covered based on the Oregon Revised Statutes and the Oregon Administrative Rules.

- Presented trainings to our staff based on the needs and requirements given to us by the state and federal government.

- Researched and led the organization through a case management software change that impacted how each employee does their work.

- Supervise our Office Manager, Receptionist and two Maintenance workers.

- Created and executed our plan to work towards becoming accredited as an organization.

- Collaborated in the creation of our organization's Diversity, Equality and Inclusion plan (DEI).

- Created multiple data streams from nothing so that data could be utilized to make informed decisions.

- Incorporated a systems based thinking model into tackling organization issues.

- Collaborated with our director to create a Quality Assurance Committee to provide oversight and organizational transparency.

- Collaborated with 11 other organizations to impact change within our state legislation around foster care.

- Worked with multiple other organizations on collaborative recruitment and quality of service efforts.

Proctor Certifier:

- Subject matter expert in all of the topics that our proctor parents and proctor staff were required to be trained in by the state to provide advice and guidance on said topics when the need arose.

- Developed annual training plans for all proctor parents and proctor staff to comply with the state requirements found in the Oregon Administrative Rules and Oregon Revised Statutes.

- Created specific trainings to cover all of the topics the staff needed covered based on the Oregon Revised Statutes and the Oregon Administrative Rules.

- Presented trainings to our proctor parents and proctor staff to comply with the state requirements found in the Oregon Administrative Rules and Oregon Revised Statutes.

- Maintained the certifications of our current proctor parents.

- Certified new proctor parents.

- Worked with the management and administrative teams on various projects to promote the growth and health of our organization.

Case Manager

Connections365
Salem
04.2015 - 03.2019

- Fostered positive relationships with DHS and OYA in order to maintain current contracts, as well as open the door for future contracts.

- Collaborated with DHS and OYA in obtaining approval for outside resources for their youth while in our custody.

- Collaborated with Probation Officers and Caseworkers to create treatment plans and goals for youth.

- Sought out and obtained outside resources for the youth in our programs (e.g. Education resources, Vocational resources, Mental Health resources).

- Screened potential youth to decide if they are appropriate for our program.

- Provided support and services to the foster parents of the youth.

- Helped the youth understand behavioral expectations and how to make the necessary changes in their lives to meet those expectations.

- Documented my time spent with the youth in a way that shows the services that are being provided.

- Subject matter expert on Behavioral Rehabilitative Services Documentation to provide advice and guidance on documenting Behavioral Rehabilitative Services Activities.

- Trained foster parents on how to do their documentation and held them accountable for the time they were assigned to spend providing treatment.

- Filled out and filed reports.

- Checked reports for accuracy.

- Maintained multiple schedules along with my own, and re-prioritized tasks on a regular basis due to a work environment that is in constant flux.

- Played a supportive role on a team that actively helped each other and collaborated on a regular basis.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Psychology

University of Phoenix
Tempe, AZ
06-2014

Skills

  • Training design and curriculum development
  • Compliance review and analysis
  • Data evaluation techniques
  • Quality assurance processes
  • Management of programs and projects
  • Case management
  • Corporate training
  • Employee training documentation
  • Effective presentation skills
  • Community engagement initiatives
  • Dispute resolution strategies
  • Customer communication
  • Problem-solving techniques
  • Collaborative teamwork
  • Time management
  • Behavior training
  • Writing for administration purposes
  • Team leadership

Timeline

Program Analyst 1

Oregon Government Ethics Commission
11.2023 - Current

Quality Manager & Proctor Certifier

Connections365
03.2019 - 11.2023

Case Manager

Connections365
04.2015 - 03.2019

Bachelor of Science - Psychology

University of Phoenix
Christopher Brubaker