Jeffrey Carpenter

Current

Co-Founder / Vice President at Vantage Point Consulting, Inc.

Past

Senior Associate at Point B
Assembly and Integration Test Lead at The Regence Group
Senior Consultant / Project Manager at IBM Global Business Services

Project Manager/Process Design Specialist at PwC Consulting

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Education

Georgetown University - The McDonough School of Business
Georgetown Public Policy Institute
University of California, Berkeley

University of California at Berkeley

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Industry

Education Management

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Jeffrey Carpenter’s Summary

Jeffrey Carpenter specializes in aiding higher education institutions in all phases of marketing communications. He has successfully facilitated projects to include process evaluation, marketing materials make-over, website redesign and redirection, as well as defining a clear marketing message and strategy.

Mr. Carpenter is also highly involved with higher education retention and mentoring, as well as providing client colleges with access to military students via Vantage Point's military marketing programs.

Using his Project Management skills, Mr. Carpenter is able to lead large and small team projects from inception to delivery, setting up interim goals and benchmarks, and meeting stated deadlines.

Jeffrey Carpenter’s Specialties:

Higher Education Rentention, Higher Education Enrollments, Military Education, Corporate Training Strategy, Skill-Soft LMS and Course Content Reseller, Customer Service, Process and Quality Improvement, Change Management

Jeffrey Carpenter’s Experience

Co-Founder / Vice President

Vantage Point Consulting, Inc.

(E-Learning industry)

September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)

Vantage Point is in the business of human capital development.
Our services include:

Higher Education Consulting: Outsourced Marketing Programs, Student Retention, Corporate Education Programs, Military Education

Corporate Education/E-Learning: On Demand Skill Soft Courses to individuals and/or small and medium sized businesses

HR Consulting: Training strategy/Implementation, HR Shared Service Centers
Senior Associate

Point B

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Management Consulting industry)

2006 — 2007 (1 year)

Worked as a project leader for Les Schwab tire company assisting with development of an HR Development Strategy reporting directly to the CEO of the company and the VP of HR.
Assembly and Integration Test Lead

The Regence Group

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2006 — 2007 (1 year)

Led 50+ person test team for large system implementation. In charge of use case, test case/test script development using the Rational Test Methodology and Tools.
Senior Consultant / Project Manager

IBM Global Business Services

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2003 — 2006 (3 years)

Operations manager and solution design architect for GoArmyEd, the United States Army's Continuing Education System educaiton portal. Managed education partnerships with over 140 colleges and universities, 24/7 global call center, marketing, and student retention programs.
Project Manager/Process Design Specialist

PwC Consulting

(Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; PwC; Management Consulting industry)

June 1999 — October 2003 (4 years 5 months)

Led higher education IT strategy, distance learning strategy, and student service operations improvement projects for: Stanford University, the University of North Carolina State System, and University of California at San Francisco.

Jeffrey Carpenter’s Education

Georgetown University - The McDonough School of Business

MBA/MPP , Business and Public Policy , 1997 — 2000
Georgetown Public Policy Institute

MPP , Public Policy , August 1997 — May 2000
University of California, Berkeley

BS , Political Economics , 1992 — 1996
University of California at Berkeley

Political Science/Economics , Spanish, Economics, Political Science, Sociology , August 1992 — May 1996

Additional Information

Jeffrey Carpenter’s Websites:

Jeffrey Carpenter’s Interests:

Project management, higher education retention and mentoring, military education marketing.

Jeffrey Carpenter’s Groups:

Project Management Institute (PMI)

Georgetown University McDonough MBA IEMBA Alumni
The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
Georgetown Public Policy Institute (GPPI)
California Alumni Association - UC Berkeley
NWEN - Northwest Entrepreneur Network
NW Education Cluster
Portland Chapter - Project Management Institute
North America Big 4, Big 5, Big 6 Consultants (1000+ members)