Bash Kamara
5.0
(11)
Studied at Johns Hopkins University
Works at Fulton County Schools
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Work Experience
Operations, Coordinator (Superintendent Office)
Fulton County Schools
October 2022 - Present
At Fulton County Schools, the fourth largest school system in Georgia, I've driven the success of the Operations Division by providing program management oversight and directing continuous improvement initiatives across five core departments: Nutrition, Transportation, Capital Programs, Operational Planning, and Facilities and Maintenance. Reporting directly to the Chief of Operations in the Office of the Superintendent, my achievements and responsibilities include: -Strategic Leadership: Collaborated closely with department heads on strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with overall school and district goals. -Program Management: Led key cross-functional strategic initiatives, ensuring they are executed with precision and aligned with both the Chief Operations Officer and district-wide visions. -Continuous Improvement: Championed departmental process improvements by working with leaders to map, assess, and refine key processes, ensuring customer-centric outcomes. -Benchmarking & Analysis: Regularly benchmarked the Operations Division's progress against industry best practices and managed the Operations' balanced scorecard, ensuring it aligns with the district’s strategic objectives. -Stakeholder Collaboration: Engaged with external stakeholders, representing the Operations Executive Leadership in various meetings to foster strong customer relationships and address systemic issues. -Project Coordination: Demonstrated proficiency in managing multiple concurrent projects, collaborating with diverse internal and external stakeholders to drive impactful outcomes. -Communication: Excelled in both written and verbal communication, facilitating efficient communication strategies and ensuring clarity and alignment across the board. Project Delivery, Presentations and +34 skills
membership Director
City College
January 2021 - Present
Budget Management, Executive-level Communication and +1 skill
Learning & Development Manager, Engineering Leadership Program
DeKalb County School District
January 2019 - October 2022
- Oversaw the learning and development of Transportation Leadership Academy participants, a two-year employee development cohort to enrich bus driver and transportation staff through soft and hard skills training. - Built out program syllabus, steered technology implementation strategy, partnered with external organizations to offer certification programs, developed policy & curriculum, and launched the initial class in 2018 that completed the program in 2022. - 30% of cohort participants have already secured promotions above their initial role at the time of beginning the program. Customer Service, Instructional Design and +39 skills
Human Resources Coordinator
DeKalb County School District
November 2018 - October 2022
DCSD is Georgia’s third largest school district serving ~100K students, 130+ schools and centers, and 15K employees. - Piloted the district's first job fair of 2022 which registered over 1400 participants with record breaking enthusiastic engagement, including 20K visits to the registration page, 1K in-person and virtual attendees resulting in over 130 candidates being recommended for full-time positions. - Employ control and authorization over all aspects of a successful creative-based stakeholder outreach campaign through partnership with Parent & Family Engagement department. - Expanded cross-functional organizational capacity by collaborating across departments on priorities directed towards staffing, technology implementation, training & performance goals. - Partner with executive leadership to coordinate all personnel functions including recruitment, training, hiring, and managing and maintaining the district staffing pools. - Improve staff productivity through digital transformation and automation (Frontline Absence Management system formerly known as AESOP, Crosspointe, Cloud, Office 365's, Power Automate and MUNIS systems) which led to 13% increase in average teacher fill rate in six months. - Improved data across departments by introducing SharePoint pages dedicated to operational excellence via content targeted to substitutes and school principals that provide district-wide news, resources (e.g. orientation presentation material, staff directories, instructional guides, links, etc.) and trained HR systems operators. - Maximized performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members. - Established flexible workflow utilizing multiple Microsoft products for district employees to submit vaccine verification information and receive bonus incentive funding from the Cares Act, resulting in a 70% response rate across 15K staff members - Onboarded new employees with training and new hire documentation. Customer Service, Instructional Design and +46 skills
HRIS Data Analyst
DeKalb County School District
February 2017 - November 2018
- Led ad hoc data support to create reports, initiate change management requests based on data analysis and track trends within the HR department. - Optimized applicant user experience via cross-group collaboration with various internal/external engineering teams and developing user guides to reduce the amount of applicant support email/calls by 53%. - Managed technology implementation of LiveChat customer support software, which increased qualified candidate applications by 60%. - Performed statistical analyses to gather data for operational and forecast team needs. - Cross-trained existing employees to maximize team agility and performance. Customer Service, Project Delivery and +22 skills
Technical Project Manager
Institute of Nuclear Power Operations
July 2016 - December 2016
This was a six-month contract for the INPO nonprofit that is dedicated to nuclear power plant safety and training. - Communicated with end users to identify and resolve issues, documented issues to streamline future user requests, and collaborated with global Nuclear Plant Lead Administrators and Training Coordinators to deliver instructional materials. - Improved end user navigation of the new ServiceNow knowledge base platform and Ticketing systems by developing and implementing administrative Desk aids for first level and Lead staff. - Improved overall productivity by supporting internal INPO and external Nuclear community employees by configuring and troubleshooting PCs, iPads, agency software, and hardware. Customer Service, Instructional Design and +30 skills
Education
Johns Hopkins University
Master's of Arts in Communication, Corporate/Nonprofit Communication & Public/Media Relations
2018 - 2020
Relevant Courses: - Strategic Program Management - Persuasion - Crisis Communication - Media Literacy - Branding & Advertising - Practicum Independent Study Cross-functional Team Leadership, Project Delivery and +2 skills
University of Maryland, College Park
Bachelors of Arts, Communication
2003 - 2007
Activities and societies: -Office of Human Relations Programs -Intergroup Dialogue Multiversity project -Conferences and Visitor Services -Department of Resident Life -Mighty Sound of Maryland Marching Band Project Delivery, Data Analytics and +1 skill
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Overall Rating
5.0
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