Professional Highlights

 

 







BUSINESS PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

MARCELLUS JACKSON, JURIS DOCTORATE, LAW 

 

SPECIAL PROJECTS DIRECTOR: QUALIFICATION HIGHLIGHTS

  • Business oriented; ability to understand and execute broad institutional policy
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Licensed Attorney with twenty years experience
  • Keen analytic, innovative problem solving and presentation skills
  • Dedicated to professionalism, highly motivated toward goal achievement
  • Extensive experience in coordinating multiple projects involving people and activities
  • Conscientious, strongly self-motivated, enthusiastic, profit oriented, willing to assume responsibility
  • Exceptional success in establishing rapport with clients, extensive contacts, and a working knowledge of the economic development industry.
  • Adept at proposal and grant writing and solid success in fund raising activities.
  • Demonstrated leadership and ability to forge links between diverse community groups.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

5/96 - PRESENT
PYRAMID COMMUNICATIONS AND TRAINING SYSTEMS, INC.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA

FOUNDER AND CEO of a diversified training and consulting organization which provides business development services to small businesses, major corporations and governmental units.  Major service offerings include:

  • Conduct entrepreneurship training seminars
  • Provide strategic business planning consulting services
  • Design and implement training workshops
  • Conduct organizational effectiveness analysis
  • Provide technical assistance to small businesses
  • Design small business incubation systems
  • Conduct market research and focus groups
  • Design and facilitate mentor-protégé projects

8/07 – 10/07
ALBANY STATE UNIVERSITY, ALBANY, GEORGIA

INTERIM DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND CONTINUING EDUCATION.  This short-term engagement encompassed the design of a new Center for Entrepreneurship.  The major responsibilities were to identify potential funding sources and to develop a strategic plan.  Additionally, the position entailed the assessment and management of existing Continuing Education programs.           

8/97 – 8/06

CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
DIRECTOR OF THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER with a University that operated an entrepreneurship training program and provided technical assistance to small businesses.  Responsibilities included:

  • Develop training curriculum
  • Conduct seminars, workshops, and entrepreneurial classes
  • Design marketing materials and implement strategies
  • Research best practices in the entrepreneurial training industry
  • Develop corporate partnerships and sponsorships
  • Write funding proposals and provide assistance to neighborhood organizations
  • Manage day to day operations.

5/95 - 6/96
CITY OF ATLANTA HOUSING AUTHORITY, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
MANAGER OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT for a large urban housing authority.  Duties included:

  • Counsel residents interested in starting or expanding small businesses
  • Development of small business strategies to launch resident-owned businesses
  • Recruit mentors and joint-venture partners to team with resident entrepreneurs
  • Research potential market opportunities
  • Design and structure entrepreneurial training programs
  • Identify business assistance resources and negotiate agreements to access services
  • Develop assessment tools for residents
  • Community team-building and leadership training for residents

10/85 - 08/94
PYRAMID COMMUNICATIONS, INC., DENVER, COLORADO
PRESIDENT of a telecommunications company targeting the marketing of telecommunications
products and services.  Services offered include:

  • Developing marketing plans for telecommunication equipment and services
  • Designing marketing materials and manuals
  • Training staff in sale of long distance telephone services
  • Marketing channel development
  • Structuring joint ventures and teaming agreements
  • Developing relationships with major corporations
  • Research and develop market opportunities
  • Business and strategic planning
  • Financial and cash management
  • Human resource management
  • Supplier relationship management
  • Negotiating contracts.

10/79 - 03/93
MINORITY BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY, INC.
DENVER, COLORADO
PRESIDENT of a diversified publishing and small business consulting organization.
Services offered included:

  • Publishing an annual directory of minority small businesses and major corporations
  • Business and strategic planning
  • Developing marketing plans and programs
  • Conceptualize, design and implement management assessment and training programs
  • Conducting disparity studies for city agencies examining the availability and utilization of minority and women-owned businesses
  • Providing legal advice to small businesses regarding organizational matters
  • Proposal writing and market research
  • Conducting seminars on entrepreneurship covering such topics as business start-ups, acquisitions, joint ventures and franchising
  • Developed a training program to retrain displaced workers for jobs in the host industry
  • Drafting and lobbying for proposed legislation
  • Organizing conferences, seminars, workshops and trade fairs.

10/78 - 10/79
STATE OF COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL OFFICE
DENVER, COLORADO
Served as ASSISTANT STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL.  Duties consisted of:

  • Advising the State Parole Board and the Department of Corrections on legal matters
  • Drafting and approving state contracts for the acquisition of goods and services
  • Researching and writing legal opinions
  • Representing the state in civil lawsuits in federal court
  • Managing and directing the work of law clerks and paralegals

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