Paul D. Mackay

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Paul D. Mackay

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PROFILE

/ Career and technical administrator with multi grade-level experience in:
·  Career and Technical Program planning and development grades 9 - 16
·  Creating extensive business and industry / education partnerships
·  Collaborating with post-secondary institutions and programs
·  Grant writing with more than $1,000,000 awarded over the last three consecutive years
·  Administering, budgeting, and supervising technical programs for high school, post-secondary, adult, and customized delivery
CREDENTIALS / ·  Vocational Director’s Certificate, State of Missouri, 10-year renewable
·  Marketing Education Teaching Certificate State of Missouri, 5-year renewable
·  Life teaching certificate, grades 9 - Adult Marketing Education
·  Master Degree in Secondary Education, University of Missouri at St.Louis
·  Bachelor of Science and Education, Marketing Education, University of Missouri at Columbia
·  Additional coursework in Educational and Vocational Administration from Central Missouri State University
EXPERIENCE /

Missouri Center for Career Education at the University of Central Missouri

2005 to present

Co-Director for Strategic Initiatives

Responsibilities include:

Develop and monitor the centers strategic planning process as it pertains to achieving current and ongoing initiatives.
Coordinating the Career and Technical Administrator mentoring program
Assisting with the development of a leadership academy for career and technical administrators

St.Louis Metropolitan Vocational Technical Cooperative 2000-2005

St. Louis, Missouri
Executive Director
Responsibilities include
·  Administering the policies of the MVTC in carrying out the provisions of the St.Louis Desegregation Settlement Agreement pertaining to vocational education as directed by the MVTC Board
·  Specific duties included working with the region’s stakeholders to develop, improve, and expand technical programs for secondary students in the St.Louis region

Accomplishments

·  Increased participation in CTE programs in St. Louis County with the addition of 14 Engineering Academies and 9 Academies of Information Technology, increasing student participation by adding 1600 students to a previous 1700 student total
·  Developed, published, and distributed St.Louis Careers Illustrated magazine which included a distribution of 50,000 copies per edition
·  Assisted three St.Louis County Technical High Schools in receiving grant funds and implementing the High Schools That Work school reform model
·  Assisted high school technical programs in improving or establishing their advisory committees.
·  Developed program approval processes for Career and Technical Programs.
·  Assisted with the development of the Construction Careers Charter High School served as a charter board member of that charter high school.
·  Collaborated with St.Louis Community College in successfully obtaining a 5year College and Career Transitions Initiative grant totaling over $100,000 in funding for Academy sites.
·  Collected and analyzed data pertaining to students’ perceptions of Career and Technical Education and as a result made program improvement changes
·  Served as a board member of the St.Louis Healthcare Workforce Partners and implemented programs to increase the numbers of students entering health care careers.

East Central College and Washington School District 1994-2000

Union, Missouri
Director of Joint Career and Technical Programs
·  Reported directly to the President of East Central College, the Superintendent of the Washington School District, and to an eight-member board of superintendents from east central Missouri
·  Developed and administered all career and technical programs articulated between East Central College and the Four Rivers Area Vocational Technical School and eight sending high schools
·  Supervised an onsite instructional staff of thirty and a classified staff of five for thirteen onsite programs
·  Supervised five offsite programs with an instructional staff of four
·  Supervised as a school within a school an alternative high school for eight sending high schools
·  Responsible for the school budget and tuition calculation
·  Responsible for writing and administering the Carl D. Perkins grant, Vocational Enhancement grants, and Tech Prep and School To Work Opportunities grants

Accomplishments

·  Increased onsite enrollment from 350 students in 1994 to 650 students in 2000
·  Credentialed all programs that could receive an industry credential, including ASE, AYES, NIMS, AWS, League of Nursing, Print Ed, and NATEF-ICAR
·  1996 to 2000 recognized by MOACTE as a platinum level in Marketing Career and Technical Education
·  Reduced student attrition from 40% in 1994 to 15% by 2000
·  Students in articulated programs could receive thirty college credit hours or onehalf of their Associates degree before leaving high school
·  Developed a precision machining consortium of ten companies to endow a fulltime, yearround teaching and program coordinator position in the occupational area. The position is still funded today.
·  Developed contracts with three school districts to operate their Adult and Community Education programs
·  Implemented a supermarket careers program for handicapped students
·  Developed and implemented Senior Option Programs whereby Senior high school students enrolled through Four Rivers AVTS could begin taking post-secondary programs offered on the East Central College campus in Electronics, Culinary, Horticulture, and Technical Design and receive both high school and college credit as a part of the school’s regular offerings

East Central College

Union, Missouri

Dean of Technical Education 1990-1994

·  Responsible for the development, implementation, and evaluation of all fifteen of the college’s technical degree programs
·  Responsible for Department of Elementary and Secondary Education reporting
·  Supervised an instructional staff of twenty and a classified staff of four

Accomplishments

·  Wrote and received approval as one of the first six Tech Prep sites in Missouri
·  Established two additional degree programs: Culinary and Travel & Tourism
·  Implemented a competency-based instructional system that allowed the Dental Assisting program to become open entry / open exit
·  Articulated all of the college’s programs between the college and the Rolla Technical Center
·  Established a fire and police training academy
·  Established with the American Institute of Banking a regional AIB training Center
·  Operated a Tech Prep Summer Institute for all of the College District's high school math, language arts, and science teachers
·  Assisted with the merger of Four Rivers Area Vocational Technical School with East Central College

Business Administration Instructor 1981-1990

Taught coursework in Marketing, Merchandising, Finance, Business Law, and Management and Supervision

Parkway School District, St.Louis, Missouri 1979-1981

Parkway South Senior High School, Marketing Teacher
Taught and coordinated the Marketing program at Parkway South

Lindbergh School District, St. Louis, Missouri 1978-1979

Lindbergh High School, Marketing Teacher
Taught six sections of Marketing I
AFFLIATIONS / 2000-01 President, Missouri Association for Career and Technical Administrators
Member, Society of Manufacturing Engineers
Member, St.Louis National Tooling and Machining Association
Member, Missouri Association for Career and Technical Education
Member, National Association for Career and Technical Education
1980- 1982 President, Missouri Association for Marketing Education
ADJUNCT FACULTY / University of Central Missouri 2000 to present
Have taught several upper-level courses as follows:
Assessment in Career and Technical Education
Teaching Methods
Organization and Selection of Vocational Technical Education Subject Matter and Principles of Teaching Vocational Subjects
University of Missouri at Columbia, Organization and Selection of Vocational Technical Education Subject Matter
Southwest Baptist University, Administering Vocational Programs