Shannon Salyer

Successful Executive with over 13 years of demonstrated ability in delivering mission-critical results. Offering outstanding communication and cross-cultural team management skills. Entrepreneurial attitude for optimal alignment of strategic initiatives. Ambitious team leader adept at creating strategic alliances with organizational leaders and external stakeholders while effectively aligning with and supporting key mission initiatives.

2018-present University of Tennessee Psychology Board

2018-present International Military Testing Association

2017-present National Career Development Association

2014-present Association of Career and Tech Education

2014-present American School Counselor Association

2014-present National Career Pathways Network

2005-present Association for Psychological Science

2005-present American Psychological Association

1999-present Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychologists

• Consistently recognized as a top performer, out of sequence step increases, coins of excellence, on-the-spot monetary cash awards.
• Modernized the ASVAB CEP from a paper-based program to a fully integrated web-based suite of applications. Established social media marketing, a robust national training and accountability program, and was instrumental in policy and processes revisions impacted by modernization efforts.
• Increased use of the ASVAB CEP by 43%. 2.7 million students have participated in the ASVAB CEP since 2014. 713,777 students in the 2018 school year; 786,807 students in the 2019 school year. The most students tested annually since program inception in and the most military accessions using student scores. No military service would have met recruiting goals without this program.
• 18% of individuals who enlist, used their scores from this program (up from 8%-10% previously). Additional Congressionally funded projects based on ROI.
• 2017-2018, Established the military to civilian occupational crosswalk working group comprised of representatives from the Under Secretary of Defense, Personnel and Readiness Office, Accession Policy, ONET, Transition Veterans Affairs Program, Department of Labor, and Medical Expenses and Performance Reposting System (MEPRS) to increase awareness of research initiatives, data integrity, and utilization of findings.
• Fiscal management of $11-20 million in contracts annually (2010-2014)
• Planned, managed, and successfully executed the largest DOD Enterprise Mobile device deployment, which included over 12000 IPads/MacBooks used by staff, faculty, students, linguists, and military units.
• Successfully migrated 7 schoolhouses, continuing education, testing, and other organizations within DLIFLC from NIPR to the .edu network shared with NPS. Managed the migration of the legacy student database simultaneously improving efficiency and streamlining multi-organizational processes.

• Directs and conducts functional analyses of organizational structures, personnel, and resources. Serves on various hiring committees for internal and external hiring committees, and several DoD reorganization committees.
• Certified Contracting Officer's Representative, responsible for procurement, budgeting, and surveillance of research and IT contracts
• Interagency Collaboration, Implementation & Evaluation of programs, projects and initiatives, DoD thought leader and subject matter expert on organizational strategy, assessment, and career exploration.
• Directs, supervises, and conducts Organizational Outcome Studies (defining metrics and collection methods tied to meaningful outcomes) and Quality Assessment. Uses outcome data to drive discussions and decisions for advancement.
• Supervises and conducts Applied Research (Qualitative and Quantitative)
• Data Analysis using quantitative and qualitative software: SAS, SPSS, AMOS, Atlas-ti, Python
• Utilizes IT program/project management approaches and methodologies including software development lifecycle, waterfall techniques, agile/scrum, sprints.
• Supervises website designs and development, database development, data security/compliance, application development, IT needs analysis, UX studies, and stakeholder training on new IT applications.