💻 LEROY GARDNER III

EXPERIENCE

University of the Ozarks

Assistant Director of Athletics, Director of Men’s and Women’s WrestlingJune 2016 - Current

  • Assist with operational, compliance, recruiting, training, game-day operations, Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and recruiting for the all varsity athletic teams.

  • Lead partnership with head coaches on recruiting strategy, execution, technology integration and coordination with Admissions for eighteen varsity programs to meet department recruiting goals.

  • Created and lead coaches culture professional development program for department including planning/vision process, and implementation.

  • Salesforce administration lead for department including data validation, organization, and custom application development.

  • Lead and oversight of department operations including training programs, Student-Athlete Advisor Committee, and serve as AD Inclusion Diversity designee delivering year-round DEI training/programming.

TopSpot Internet Marketing

Web DeveloperAugust 2015 - Dec 2015

  • Successfully developed and delivered client sites from design files for deployment in MODx CMS.

  • Used HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JQuery.

Stackwave

Software Engineer Apprentice April 2015 - August 2015

  • Completed a three month curriculum across Windows technology stack, learning Computer Science principles.

  • Successfully delivered production quality, tested code to three different software products, utilizing Mercurial, Jenkins CI and Visual Studio for development environment/tools.

  • Completed twenty-two kanban tickets in Jira, through three different Agile development Sprints.

  • Languages worked with included PostgreSQL,C#, Javascript, Knockout.js, Jquery, UnderscoreJS, RequireJS and HTML/CSS.

The Iron Yard Academy Jan 2015 - March 2015

Student | Houston TX

  • Completed a 12 week intensive programming bootcamp designed to teach comprehensive understanding of back-end engineering and web development.

United States Navy Reserve Nov 2009 - Current

Human Resource Officer (Commander / O5) | San Diego, CA

  • Senior Officer leader with Commanding Officer experience and functional capabilities including recruiting, joint manpower and personnel planning/strategy, unit level operations, performance management, training, foreign military advisory and multiple operational support roles in a forward deployed environment (Operation Enduring Freedom Veteran)

  • Sexual Assault Prevention Response Training (SAPR) Lead – Managed contract development, solicitation, curriculum development, piloted and update of congressionally mandated Navy-wide SAPR General Military Training; delivered to ~400,000 Active Duty and Reserve Sailors annually.

ConocoPhillips Company Jan 2010 - Feb 2013

Real-Time Power Trader / Gas Scheduler / Scheduling Analyst / West Analyst / New Hire Development Program | Houston TX

  • Managed hourly base load call options, traded discretionary real time physical power in MISO, NYISO, PJM and ERCOT markets.

  • Traded financial swaps and options in PJM, MISO | ERCOT regions on ICE.

  • Marketed and managed power plants in SE, ERCOT and CAISO.

  • Optimized asset generation by trading around physical knowledge of power grid.

  • Scheduled Natural Gas daily in the Mid-Continent Region, included management of ~2BCF storage position.

  • Successfully and accurately nominated 100% of deals by cycle deadlines. Improved scheduling process, realizing time savings and higher accuracy.

  • Analyzed West Region to reconcile, volumetric, prompt index, basis and forward positions daily.

United States Navy 2006 - 2010

Naval Officer, Head Wrestling Coach, Naval Academy Preparatory School | Newport RI

  • Developed first full-time comprehensive wrestling development program in Navy Prep history with The United States Naval Academy Athletic Staff

  • Coached 4 National Collegiate Wrestling Association National Champions, 11 All-Americans and multiple top 5 team finishes.

  • Provided Basic Military Instruction to 300 Midshipmen Candidates monthly across Character, Leadership and Ethics.

Task Force Innovations, International 2005 - 2006

Country Manger, Uzbekistan | Tashkent UZB

  • Managed a group of ~ 300 multi-national, cross-functional employees in Production, Purchas ing/Procurement, Logistics, Strategy and Business Development.

  • Traveled quarterly to provide managerial support to regional offices including Central Asian republics of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan.

  • Communicated business results and strategy regionally to executive leadership. Responsible for regional project managers with up to $1M total contract value. Interacted with clients, governmental and strategic business partners including but not limited to vendors and subcon- tractors.

Target Corporation 2003 - 2005

Group Leader | Cedar Falls IA

  • Directly responsible for hiring, evaluating, coaching and managing the performance of up to 50 hourly warehouse workers. Member of Departmental and Building Operations Team contrib- uting toward savings of $400K and $1M to and annual operational budgets respectively through productivity improvements.

EDUCATION

University of Rhode Island

MBA, Finance Concentration | Kingston RI

Wartburg College

BA Psychology | Waverly IA

SKILLS

Programming

Python, Ruby, Rails, HTML5/CSS, JavaScript, React

Development

JenkinsCI, CLI, Bootstrap, Responsive development, Heroku, Postgres, Git Workflow, Wordpress, MODx

Non-tech

Salesforce Adminstration, Vector Graphics, Digital Photo Editing, Russian Language, Public Speaking, Copy Writing, Financial Modeling, Technical Analysis

CERTIFICATIONS/SEMINARS

Vets In Tech Front End Web Development Certificate 2021 | The Iron Yard Ruby on Rails Bootcamp | Professional in Human Resources (PHR), HRCI | Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace, Unversity of South Florida | Return on Inclusion Certificate | 2019 NCAA Institute for Administrative Advancement

HONORS

Athletics

2x National Champion, 3x All-American, 8th World Championship (Fila Jr.), 6th Ranking US World/Olympic Team Ladder, 2x Team Captain (NCAA record-setting/National Championship Team), NCAA Div. 3 Hall of Fame Inductee, Wartburg College Athletics Hall Of Fame Class of 2013

Military

Joint Service Commendation Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, and NATO Service Medal and Navy-Marine Corps Commendation Medal

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