Ep. 4, 1.23.26: Meet the Host – 20 Years Optimizing Local Public Sector Orgs | The Local Edge
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Introduction
Hey everyone, welcome back to The Local Edge, the podcast where we cut through the chaos of public sector operations to uncover practical ways to reduce costs, boost impact and improve services. I'm your host, Mark Grabow, and I've been doing project management in the public sector for the last 20 years. I've had a couple of private sector roles. And that's actually what this podcast episode is about. I'm going to introduce myself and I decided to come out here to the beautiful woods of Southern Oregon. For those just listening, I'm standing on a trail, walking down with a slow pan onto my face and the Applegate River is in the background. I thought, why not. We do it a little bit differently here at Local Efficiency Solutions. So, thought I'd do this episode a little bit differently.
Public Sector Experience
I’ve held project manager roles or lead analyst roles on executive level operations efficiency improvement projects for the cities of Portland, Gresham, Eugene, as well as I've done community engagement and operations performance projects for community colleges and nonprofits both in the state of Oregon and in Nevada.
Private Sector Roles
I've also had a couple of private sector roles that were pretty influential and my ability to do my job as an efficiency improvement project manager and those were I was a producer at CMD Agency, the largest creative digital marketing agency in Portland. And then I was a project manager at a fast-paced emergency disaster response company in Southern Oregon. The majority of my career outside of that has been doing project management or operations management in the public sector.
Founding Local Efficiency Solutions
When I created Local Efficiency Solutions, it was because we're in this new normal where there's folks that are having a harder time finding folks to meet their needs and fill the gaps. That's where we come into play to increase your impact. And if that's a large scale operation for you, you know a full performance management framework which is going to be my next podcast or if it's just I need somebody to do 5 hours a week, but we can't hire somebody that has the managerial experience to be able to hit that need for the short amount of hours as we are able to offer. That's where we want to partner with you. We want to be your solution at the local level to optimize your efficiency.
Services and Upcoming Topics
So I do and this is the next episode. I do things like performance management frameworks and the previous episodes have created and talk about creating standard operating procedures, how you can do a quick efficiency audits and then we've got this one big coming up right now, WCAG, the web content Accessibility guidelines. For any folks that haven't updated your website that's rapidly approaching. If you're 50,000 and above local government, then the deadline is end of April.
Call to Action
So if you haven't seen any of these, I encourage you to go on our website, check out some of the free tools and check out the services page. See if what we offer is right for you. Please feel free to reach out. Shoot me an email, shoot me a text. I'm happy to have a conversation on how we might be able to find opportunities to improve services for your local public sector organization.
Wrap-Up
That's it for today's episode. A little intro on myself and what I do at Local Efficiency Solutions. And why I've got this podcast. I'm gonna be dropping the next episode, the Performance Management Framework in the next few days here. Let me know what you think of that when it comes out. Reach out to me if you see this and you have any questions or would like to chat with somebody about performance management or operations improvement at your local level organization, I'd be happy to chat.
Take care.
