Jason Payne

Current

• Advisory position at Solargen Energy

Past

• MBA Intern at Sun Microsystems
• General Staffing at Contractor
• Senior Consultant at ActiveComm

• Supervisor at STAR FFA
• Coordinator at Starlight

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Education

• Keller Graduate School
• University of Nevada-Reno
• University of the Pacific

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Connections

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Industry

Renewables & Environment

Jason Payne’s Summary

A second year MBA student seeking an internship in the solar industry

Jason Payne’s Specialties:

-Advising company management regarding Ca State regulatory policies
-Develop and growing partner relationships
- Streamlined operations and increased employee productivity.
- Designed and instructed training seminars on the mechanics of rapport building.

Jason Payne’s Experience

• Advisory position

  Solargen Energy

  (Renewables & Environment industry)

  March 2009 — Present (5 months)

  Solargen Energy develops, owns and operates large-scale solar farms as a Solar Independent Power Producer (SIPP). Technical innovations, government incentives and long-term off-take agreements mandated by governments are the key drivers which create a "Rate Parity" opportunity to SIPPs, where the price of solar power is sold at prices equal to or less than the available utility market rate.

• MBA Intern

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2008 — September 2008 (3 months)

  Sun Microsystems – MBA Internship
  Organizational Consulting, Menlo Park, Ca
  • Change Management Projects – helped developed strategies to manage employee resistance and to help Sun move through the change process.
  • Executive Alignment Projects – consulted on several executive level team leadership projects.
  • Compiled large survey results and presented them to senior management.

• General Staffing

  Contractor

  (Human Resources industry)

  2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

  Contractor 2007
  Contracted as Human Resources professional for various businesses including:
  • Accretive Solutions – Marketing
  • Packeteer- Implementing IT solutions.
  • Flextronics - M&A

• Senior Consultant

  ActiveComm

  (Consumer Services industry)

  2006 — 2006 (less than a year)

  A software startup company that creates software used to behaviorally "profile" company positions, in order to optimize hiring efforts and job satisfaction.
  • Advised management regarding Ca. State regulations for training vendors.
  • Designed and instructed training seminars on the mechanics of rapport building.
  • Authored training scenario workbook.
  
  - Designed additional products based on the scientific method of Behavioral Observation.

• Supervisor

  STAR FFA

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  2005 — 2006 (1 year)

  Recruited to grow business, customers and revenues in new and existing accounts for STAR FFA by recruiting staff, re-structuring office policy and procedures, and stabilizing caseloads.
  - Responsible for the integrity of constituent contracts.
  - Hiring manager – used formal education and knowledge of personality types to create highly motivated and committed teams.
  - Resume Sourcing and hiring manager.
  - Analyzed office processes and implemented procedural changes to support increased volume.
  - Developed and grew partner relationships and contributed to revenue growth from $600,000 to $1.6 in 5 months. During my service, STAR FFA attained highest number of clients in 30 years.

• Coordinator

  Starlight

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Individual & Family Services industry)

  2004 — 2005 (1 year)

  Coordinator
  Starlight CTF San Jose, CA 2004-2005
  Recruited to coordinate the movement of clients from county agencies, health care agencies, and government placement agencies.
  · Developed contracts and proposals.
  · Initiated and tracked status of contracts internally and with referring partners
  · Followed-up to ensure the return of signed contracts.
  · Built and maintained positive and professional relationships with both internal and external constituents.
  · Coordinated the incoming/outgoing client reports in partnership with key stakeholders.
  · Tracked internal contracts from multiple departments.
  · Coordinated the movement of clients from health care agencies and government placement agencies to Starlight.
  · Functioned well in a high stress, multi-tasking environment.

Jason Payne’s Education

• Keller Graduate School

  MBA , Marketing , 2008 — 2009

  Currently an MBA candidate at Keller - due to graduate in 2009

• University of Nevada-Reno

  M.A. , Educational Psychology , 1997 — 2002

• University of the Pacific

  1989 — 1992

Additional Information

Jason Payne’s Groups:

SCA

•    WednesdayNetwork of Silicon Valley
•    Gridwise
•    Solar Energy Professionals - PV & Thermal
•    Renewables Job Market

Jason Payne’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch