COREY HUMPHRIES
Heath Springs,SC
Summary
Education and Operations Administrator experienced in higher education leadership and collaboration with K-12 schools, colleges, and community organizations. Achieved significant financial reductions in Facilities Management and dining services while maintaining quality, and led multiple successful construction and renovation projects. Focused on fostering youth development, enhancing student support services, and building strong partnerships within the community.
Overview
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years of professional experience
Work History
Founder and Owner
Forged Team Solutions
Heath Springs, South Carolina
10.2022 - Current
- Designed and led team-development and consulting initiatives to enhance trust, communication, accountability, decision-making, conflict resolution, staff development, and execution.
- Work with schools, colleges, businesses, nonprofits, and leadership teams to assess needs, clarify roles, improve processes, and move plans from discussion to execution.
- Coach leaders to ask good questions, listen before making assumptions, set clear expectations, remove barriers, and give team members room to use their strengths.
- Provided implementation support for career education, skills development, character education, staffing, policy, assessment, and organizational follow-through to ensure effective outcomes.
Southeast Regional Sales Manager / Sales Director - Consulting Assignment through Forged Team Solutions
Busmax Rent-A-Bus
Southeast Region
01.2025 - Current
- Consult with K-12 schools, colleges, athletics departments, camps, churches, transportation operators, and organizational leaders on transportation strategy, fleet needs, service continuity, and budget pressure.
- Coordinate fleet availability, proposals, delivery planning, documentation, customer setup, implementation, and internal follow-through from first conversation through mobilization.
- Work through daily, weekly, monthly, school-term, and longer-term vehicle needs while balancing timing, cost, vehicle availability, and operating requirements.
- Maintained regular contact with school administrators, athletic leaders, transportation contacts, facilities teams, operations leaders, and other decision-makers across Southeast to ensure alignment on transportation strategies.
- Assisted customers in planning for fleet downtime, seasonal demand, schedule conflicts, special events, and rapid changes to facilitate timely transportation decisions.
Vice President of Operations (Integrator) - Consulting Assignment through Forged Team Solutions
SECO of GA, LLC
Covington, Georgia
01.2023 - Current
- Lead operations across field and administrative teams, including recruiting, selection, onboarding, coaching, retention, scheduling, vendor coordination, project logistics, documentation, and accountability.
- Managed competing priorities across active projects and field teams, enhancing communication between office and field operations.
- Developed repeatable workflows and remote progress-tracking practices that increased visibility, clarified next steps, and strengthened follow-through.
- Coordinated vendors, equipment, project schedules, and field mobilization, resolving issues in active construction and service environments.
- Expanded electrical training opportunities for youth and apprentice-level participants, connecting emerging workers with skills development and entry points into the trades.
District Director / Director of Multicultural Markets
Boy Scouts of America - Palmetto Council
Spartanburg, South Carolina
01.2018 - 01.2022
- Led youth-serving programs, fundraising, volunteer leadership, community partnerships, events, and program administration across multiple counties and 14 school districts.
- Recruited, selected, trained, and developed adult volunteers and community leaders, enhancing youth programs and ensuring safe program delivery.
- Collaborated with schools, churches, civic organizations, employers, donors, families, and community leaders to broaden access to youth-development programs.
- Achieved 5.9% membership growth in one calendar year, exceeding the national 4% Growth Challenge benchmark.
- Oversaw compliance, fundraising, stakeholder communication, volunteer performance, event planning, and program follow-through, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Worked with schools, churches, civic organizations, employers, donors, families, and community leaders to expand access to youth-development programs.
- Supported Career Exploring partnerships that connected young people with mentors, workplace exposure, and career pathways through regional employers and schools, including Freightliner Custom Chassis, Gaffney High School, Milliken, and others.
Vice President, Student Affairs, Facilities Management and Athletics
Shorter University
Rome, Georgia
01.2012 - 01.2017
- Held executive responsibility for Student Affairs, Facilities Management, Auxiliary Services, Athletics, campus safety coordination, and related campus operations; represented these areas to the President, senior leadership, and Board of Trustees.
- Directed student-support and campus-life leaders, advised Student Government, partnered with Enrollment and Student Success, and used student feedback to improve services and support retention.
- Chaired the Campus Safety Committee and served on the Emergency Response Team; led crisis planning and training and coordinated with local law enforcement.
- Chaired the Campus Safety Committee and served on the Emergency Response Team; led crisis planning and training and coordinated with local law enforcement when needed.
- Monitored inclement weather and made decisions related to campus schedules, service adjustments, operating changes, and communication with the campus community.
- Worked with students and families on discipline, emergencies, hospital response, academic concerns, support needs, and plans for moving forward.
- Established a standard process for accompanying students who required hospitalization while maintaining FERPA requirements and communication with families.
- Restructured Residence Life from a housing function toward a residential learning model, expanded staffing, and added low-cost amenities and service improvements.
- Helped develop staff through cross-training, clearer procedures, performance expectations, coaching, and shared responsibility for student service and crisis response.
- Cultivated donor and community relationships that secured $161,000 for wellness center transformation, facilitated low-cost vehicle upgrades for campus safety, and enabled campus projects through donated labor.
- Coordinated cross-divisional planning for facilities, academic-space needs, campus appearance, renovations, and enrollment support, enhancing alignment with fundraising initiatives.
- Oversaw a 100-bed residence hall project, a 3,300-square-foot student wellness center renovation, and a $347,000 nursing facility renovation.
- Restructured residence life to shift focus from housing to a residential learning model, expanded staffing, and introduced amenities and service improvements to enrich student experience.
- Represented the university in Georgia Independent College Association meetings and served on retention, capital campaign, safety, conduct, and emergency-response work.
Assistant Dean of Campus Life; Director of Residence Life; Catalyst Coordinator; Residence Life Coordinator
Charleston Southern University
Charleston, South Carolina
01.2005 - 01.2012
- As Assistant Dean of Campus Life, supervised the directors of security, campus activities, and campus recreation while continuing leadership of residence life and student-facing operations.
- Progressed through roles with responsibility for residence life, housing, campus security coordination, recreation, activities, community service, student development, and residential learning.
- Monitored inclement weather and adjusted campus-life schedules, residence-hall operations, and student programming.
- Administered campus-life budgets across four departments and a residence-life budget of approximately $350,000, ensuring accurate reporting and effective management of housing, occupancy, and facility information.
- Directed on-campus housing operations, including student placement, residence-hall preparation, facilities coordination, maintenance planning, occupancy analysis, programming standards, and assessment.
- Directed on-campus housing operations, enhancing student experiences through efficient student placement, residence-hall preparation, and coordinated maintenance planning and occupancy analysis.
- Worked with students and parents when discipline, academic progress, behavioral concerns, emergencies, expectations, support, and next steps needed to be addressed together.
- Developed the Catalyst community-service program, engaging over 300 student participants and establishing partnerships with more than 20 local nonprofit organizations.
- Monitored inclement weather and made decisions related to campus-life schedules, residence-hall operations, student programming, and needed adjustments during weather events.
Education
M.S. - Criminal Justice
Charleston Southern University
CharlestonB.S. - Psychology
Charleston Southern University
CharlestonSkills
- Crisis management
- Fleet management
- Student Conduct & Discipline
- Staff training
- Inclement Weather Decisions
- Family engagement
- Auxiliary operations
- Policy & Compliance
- Regulatory compliance
- Recruiting & Onboarding
- Process Improvement
- Workflow optimization
- Operations management
- Business administration
- Business development
- Microsoft Office proficiency
- Data management
- Board reporting
- Process improvement
- Progress tracking
- Spreadsheets and data management
- Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams
- Process improvement
- Team management
- Strategic planning
- Visionary guidance
- Client retention
- Strategic thinking
- Startup operations
- Customer focus
- Project coordination
- Team leadership
- Staff management
- Financial management
- Workflow optimization
- Personnel management
- Strategic planning
- Organizational consulting
- Operational oversight
- Strategic partnerships
- Mentoring & Academic Support
- Agreement negotiation
- Stakeholder communication
- Leadership collaboration
- Process improvement
- Community outreach
- Organizational culture
- Leadership and people development
Accomplishments
Two-Gether We Organize Growth Award
Boy Scouts of America •
COM Top Five Award
Boy Scouts of America •
Staff Member of the Year
Charleston Southern University •
Outstanding Graduate in Criminal Justice Award
Charleston Southern University •
South Carolina Superior Scholar's Diploma
Affiliations
Association for Christians in Student Development.
Certification
Title IX and Sexual Assault Training for Coordinators and Investigators | Title IX Institutional Obligations and Enforcement | Sexual Assault Response Training | Jenzabar Manager Training | Association for Christians in Student Development.
EDUCATION, TRAINING & SERVICE
Title IX and Sexual Assault Training for Coordinators and Investigators | Title IX Institutional Obligations and Enforcement | Sexual Assault Response Training | Jenzabar Manager Training
SELECTED CAREER IMPACT
Received the Two-Gether We Organize Growth Award and COM Top Five Award in 2019.
Personal Information
Title: ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF SAFETY & TRANSPORTATION | DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Southeast Regional Sales Manager / Sales Director - Consulting Assignment through Forged Team Solutions
Busmax Rent-A-Bus
01.2025 - Current
Vice President of Operations (Integrator) - Consulting Assignment through Forged Team Solutions
SECO of GA, LLC
01.2023 - Current
Founder and Owner
Forged Team Solutions
10.2022 - Current
District Director / Director of Multicultural Markets
Boy Scouts of America - Palmetto Council
01.2018 - 01.2022
Vice President, Student Affairs, Facilities Management and Athletics
Shorter University
01.2012 - 01.2017
Assistant Dean of Campus Life; Director of Residence Life; Catalyst Coordinator; Residence Life Coordinator
Charleston Southern University
01.2005 - 01.2012
B.S. - Psychology
Charleston Southern University
M.S. - Criminal Justice
Charleston Southern University