Gary Thomas Teal
Whitney,TX
Summary
Extensive experience and lifelong involvement in national, state, and local Republican Party politics, campaigns, IT systems, budgeting, reporting, and office administration. Exceptional communication skills and ability to explain technical concepts, to present progress and status reports, and listen to feedback. Over twenty years experience with data analysis; finding and highlighting patterns, anomalies, and invalid data; and summarizing complex data for presentation to executive and non-technical audiences.
Overview
36
36
years of professional experience
Work History
Various positions at other law firms, credit unions, EDS, and Bill Fisher for Congress
01.1978
Owner
GTTx
08.2008 - Current
- Provide political consulting, with a specialty in voter lists and election day operations.
- Acquire voter lists, standardize, enhance, format, and deploy to vendors and volunteers.
Compliance Analyst
Campaign Financial Services
07.2024 - 05.2025
- Using extensive knowledge of campaign finance regulations, and tools such as Excel, Quickbooks, and Xero, as well as compliance software including ISPolitical and Aristotle Campaign Manager, processed contributions and expenses to prepare ad hoc internal reports as well as required filings with the FEC, TEC, and other state authorities.
Executive Assistant
Austin City Council Member Mackenzie Kelly
10.2023 - 06.2024
- Constituent services, tracking routine requests for city services related to utilities, public works, traffic, police and fire department, libraries, animal control, flood control, etc.
- Worked with city legal staff to research and respond to Public Information Requests.
- Briefed and staffed Council Member for various constituent meetings such as Home Owner Associations.
- Helped coordinate CERT training and related programs.
Producer, "The Trailer Park Show"
Austin Public Access Television
06.2019 - 06.2024
Campaign Manager
Grant Moody for Bexar County Commissioner
07.2022 - 11.2022
- Organized and managed all aspects of a winning campaign.
- Prepared and filed campaign finance reports with TEC.
- Recruited and managed volunteers.
Executive Director
Republican Party of Bexar County
09.2021 - 06.2022
- Represented the Committee at club and auxiliary committee meetings.
- Assisted the Chair in his official duties.
- Worked with media organizations to improve coverage of the county party.
Executive Director
Travis County Republican Party
03.2017 - 01.2019
- Managed office, events, volunteers, and meetings of the County Executive Committee.
- Did all reporting compliance with FEC and TEC, and associated banking and treasury work.
Senior Political Analyst
Behavior Matrix
01.2014 - 07.2014
- Used social media sentiment analysis data and statistical tools to present clients with daily summaries, distilling thousands of posts into useful, actionable conclusions.
Campaign Manager
Tim Day for DC
01.2012 - 06.2012
- Recruited and managed over 50 volunteers for this DC Council campaign.
- Conducted voter outreach, community organization, press relations, and social media.
Data Consultant
International Foundation for Electoral Systems
05.2011 - 11.2011
- Worked in Kabul, Afghanistan.
- Designed a system to capture information for all polling centers throughout Afghanistan.
- Reviewed the archiving system for the Independent Election Commission.
- Developed course outline and training materials for Provincial Electoral Officers.
Full time volunteer data analyst
McCain for President
07.2008 - 11.2008
- Created a database for absentee ballot tracking for Virginia at national headquarters.
- Conducted Twitter-based election day operation to monitor reports from voting locations.
Director of Operations and Product Manager
Aristotle International
03.2004 - 07.2008
- Managed growth of in-house lists from 190 million voters to 1.5 billion international current and historical names and addresses from many sources.
- Hired and managed staff of 10 programmers and database analysts.
- Budgeted for and implemented hardware migration from small workstations to redundant servers running SQL 2000, and upgraded to SQL 2005.
Consultant
Winning Connections, Inc.
04.1998 - 05.2003
- Designed, wrote, and implemented operations and project management systems.
- Prepared daily reports for clients showing the results of voter contact programs.
Technology Strategy Consultant
LEXIS-NEXIS
12.1996 - 03.1998
- Created and conducted technology roadmap presentations for internal audiences and large law firms throughout the Eastern and Central time zones.
- Collected competitive intelligence, and served as the liaison between large law firm customers, field support personnel, marketing, and development teams.
Manager of Information Systems
Hagler Bailly Consulting
08.1995 - 12.1996
- Unified the staff into a five city Information Systems group, wrote budgets.
- Served as Project Manager for a USAID training contract with the African Development Bank Operations Evaluation Department for a document catalog and retrieval system.
Manager of Information Systems
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
10.1989 - 09.1995
- Managed IS for the Washington office of one of the largest law firms in the country.
- Directed staff of 12, coordinating data analysis, implementation of new software and hardware, training, and network administration.
- Wrote and managed a seven-figure annual budget for all DC IS expenditures.
Education
B.A. - Computer Science, Minor in Accounting
Texas Christian University
Skills
I am proficient in most aspects of campaign finance compliance and reporting, party committee management, campaign management, voter contact, and volunteer coordination
Affiliations
- District of Columbia Republican Party Precinct Chair (1992-2000), Ward Chair (2000-2006), Nominations Committee Chair (2010-2012), and Vice Chairman for Political Affairs (2013-2016)
- DC Delegation - 2000 and 2016 Republican National Conventions, attended 2008 and 2012
- RNC Campaign Manager College, June 2013
- Travis Co. Precinct Chair (2017-2018), Treasurer (2017-2019), Executive Director (see above)
- Hill County Central Count Presiding Judge, March 2020, November 2020
Timeline
Compliance Analyst
Campaign Financial Services
07.2024 - 05.2025
Executive Assistant
Austin City Council Member Mackenzie Kelly
10.2023 - 06.2024
Campaign Manager
Grant Moody for Bexar County Commissioner
07.2022 - 11.2022
Executive Director
Republican Party of Bexar County
09.2021 - 06.2022
Producer, "The Trailer Park Show"
Austin Public Access Television
06.2019 - 06.2024
Executive Director
Travis County Republican Party
03.2017 - 01.2019
Senior Political Analyst
Behavior Matrix
01.2014 - 07.2014
Campaign Manager
Tim Day for DC
01.2012 - 06.2012
Data Consultant
International Foundation for Electoral Systems
05.2011 - 11.2011
Owner
GTTx
08.2008 - Current
Full time volunteer data analyst
McCain for President
07.2008 - 11.2008
Director of Operations and Product Manager
Aristotle International
03.2004 - 07.2008
Consultant
Winning Connections, Inc.
04.1998 - 05.2003
Technology Strategy Consultant
LEXIS-NEXIS
12.1996 - 03.1998
Manager of Information Systems
Hagler Bailly Consulting
08.1995 - 12.1996
Manager of Information Systems
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
10.1989 - 09.1995
Various positions at other law firms, credit unions, EDS, and Bill Fisher for Congress
01.1978
B.A. - Computer Science, Minor in Accounting
Texas Christian University
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