About Thomas

Recently, Thomas served as Regional Business Development and Program Manager for the Health Career Connection Summer Internship Program for the North Carolina, Tennessee and Washington, DC regions and was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dental Public Health, Special Assistant to the Dean and Chair of the Admissions Committee of the Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry. He has held significant positions in student development within a unique variety of institutions of higher learning. He has recently served as an Assistant Clinical Professor and Director of Student Affairs at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Dentistry. Also, he has served as the Director of Career Development and Placement Services at Michigan State, Hampton, and North Carolina Central Universities. He has been the Vice President of Student Development for Wayne Community College in North Carolina. He has also served as the Director of Staff Development for the State of Michigan’s Department of Mental Health. Thomas has also had numerous consulting assignments and they have included: • Spearheading a recruitment initiative to increase the candidate pool for the Xavier University School of Medicine in Aruba. • Implementing a recruitment strategy to identify experienced pharmaceutical sales professionals for Novo Nordisk, Astellas Pharma, and Genentech/Roche. • Designing a corporate college recruitment campaign for Henry Schein, Inc. • Developing college relations and college recruitment programs for GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceutical corporation. • Serving as MBA, pre-law, and graduate school advisor/ admissions consultant for Kaplan Educational Services, advising more than 30 clients annually. • Advising clients such as the FBI, CIA, IBM, UNISYS, NORTEL, PepsiCo, Deloitte, The PGA TOUR, Baxter, The Southwestern Company, Cingular Wireless and small businesses such as Job Link, and EarthTouch Organics on various issues such as human resource management and coordinating effective college relations programs and career coaching.