Overview
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EXPERIENCE
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Eli Misener

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Co-Founder & Vice-President

Transform Dane
09.2024 - Current
  • Co-founded and lead a registered non-profit organization focused on issues within incarceration systems, with special emphasis on LGBT topics.
  • Connect individuals with resources such as housing, re-entry programs, addiction and recovery support and other needs related to humanizing incarceration.
  • Participate in local and state politics, advocacy and petition for changes to rehabilitation, re-entry and incarceration systems
  • Work with local partners on issues facing incarceration, addiction & recovery and criminal justice. These have included JustDane, Safer Communities and Outreach LGBT Madison.
  • Connect incarcerated individuals in state jails and prisons to resources such as materials, communication with loved ones, addiction recovery planning, housing resources, re-entry resources

Dispatcher

Schmidt's Auto
03.2023 - 01.2024
  • Worked as a dispatcher for light, medium and heavy duty towing.
  • Took calls and service requests from primarily the Madison Police Department and Dane County Sheriff's Office, along with approximately 50 other local police and fire agencies.
  • Utilized radios for communication and worked in computer programs such as Towbook, Microsoft Excel, SFS and Agero
  • Worked impound collecting payment, verifying identity and ownership, releasing vehicles and performing basic vehicle upkeep

Dispatcher

Finish Line Towing
03.2022 - 01.2023
  • Worked as a dispatcher and customer service for a variety of towing and light service requests (tire changes, lockouts, battery service).
  • Took calls and service requests from Wisconsin State Patrol, Dane County Sheriff's Department, private customers, AAA, Geico, All State and more.
  • Assisted with impound lot and basic vehicle upkeep
  • Handled payments for towing, light service and impound.
  • Utilized computer programs such as Towbook, SFS, Samsara, Agero and Verizon.

Police Officer

Madison Police Department
10.2013 - 05.2021
  • Worked the afternoon and night shift in all districts of the city of Madison.
  • Police Officer in patrol services for the entire duration of my career, responding to 911 and non emergency calls.
  • Background Investigator for applicants to MPD.
  • Field Training Officer
  • Officer Advisory Committee to the Chief's Office
  • Mental Health Liaison Officer

Education

Certification - Cyber Security

University of Wisconsin, Madison
Madison, WI
10-2022

Bachelor of Science - Psychology and Spanish

University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
La Crosse, WI
05.2011

High School Diploma -

Verona Area High School
Verona
06-2007

Skills

  • PIT License (2025-2028)
  • Conversationally fluent in Spanish, with immersion in Spain and Puerto Rico

LANGUAGES

English (fluent), Spanish (conversational)

EXPERIENCE

  • Completed two full Ironmans, two half Ironmans and a marathon
  • Coached elementary through high school aged swim team at the YMCA in college
  • Swam competitively through college, achieving NCAA national cuts
  • Seasonal work as an actor in the Haunted Forest at Schuster's Farm

Timeline

Co-Founder & Vice-President

Transform Dane
09.2024 - Current

Dispatcher

Schmidt's Auto
03.2023 - 01.2024

Dispatcher

Finish Line Towing
03.2022 - 01.2023

Police Officer

Madison Police Department
10.2013 - 05.2021

Certification - Cyber Security

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Bachelor of Science - Psychology and Spanish

University of Wisconsin, La Crosse

High School Diploma -

Verona Area High School
Eli Misener