Justin Brown

About Justin Brown

As a Research Administrator / Project Manager at the State Employment Relations Board…

Experience

1. Research Administrator Project Manager

   State Employment Relations Board

   Dec 2011 — Present · Columbus, OH, US

   Advocate and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. • Promote agency mission and promote a healthy, strong agency culture.• Cultivate a robust and healthy culture by leading by example and effectively communicating and listening. • Interview, hire, train and develop employees, including planning and assigning work.• Conduct performance reviews, reward and coach employees, address complaints, and resolve problems.• Recruit, mentor, motivate and inspire a team of four employees in the Research and Training department.• Develop internal and external training documents, including onboarding, job aides, and job descriptions. • Serve as agency floor warden to ensure all staff safely evacuate during an emergency (CPR Certified)• Advise executive director and Agency Board in developing business plans and initiatives. • Design, develop and recommend strategic plans for the organization that is both cost and time-efficient.• Manage conference budget and spending, including leading the planning and execution of four annual offsite conferences with a yearly attendance of 600+ individuals.• Author and promote IT Request for Proposals, including scoring and selecting the vendor. • Define project scope, timeline, and change control processes for agency projects.• Oversee project resources, progress, completion timeframes, and budget, exceeding performance targets.• Organize and lead multiple agency and software development projects through the project lifecycle.• Compose project quality control standards, evaluate deliverables, identify, manage, and mitigate risks• Research and interpret State labor and employment laws, regulations, policies, and directives.• Perform desktop support and technical advisor activities to SERB staff, customers, and the public.• Collect, analyze, and author SERB’s annual Cost of Health Insurance in Ohio’s Public Sector Report.

Education

• Rhodes State College

  Associate

  2005 — 2007

• Bluffton University

  Bachelor

  2009 — 2011

• Western Governors University

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

  2021 — 2022