Shannon Kenney
Aurora
Summary
Proactive, analytical professional with over 3.5 years of state government experience in program regulation, cross-functional collaboration, and results-driven process improvement. Excellent at adapting to changes and shifts in priorities, and maintaining the confidentiality of all confidential, personal, or proprietary information.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Policy Advisor II
Colorado Secretary of State’s Office
Denver
05.2023 - Current
- Serves as the subject matter expert of the state’s Administrative Procedure Act, Open Meetings Law, and the fiscal impact response and rulemaking processes for the agency.
- Co-leads the fiscal impact response process, initiating the review of proposed legislation and communicating flexible and firm internal deadlines for timely submissions to Legislative Council Staff at the General Assembly.
- Identifies and acts on the needs of the fiscal impact response process, streamlining the process with easy-to-access tracking logs, upcoming deadlines, and related documentation with creating a new SharePoint site for cross-functional collaboration.
- Trains agency leadership and other personnel about the rulemaking process, presenting the statutory requirements, deadlines, and internal processes for compliance with the state Administrative Procedure Act.
- Communicates with Attorney General’s Office counsel regarding active litigation and other tasks needed to comply with the state and federal court’s requirements and deadlines.
- Identifies and acts on the agency’s need to house a repository for litigation-specific documentation, deadlines, and tracking log, collaborating with other teams to review filing drafts provided by counsel.
- Tracks other state agencies’ rulemaking proceedings to identify opportunities for the agency’s input, submitting recommendations for the lead policy advisor’s review.
- Researches federal and state accessibility laws and regulations to update the agency’s accessibility statement and policies with the lead policy advisor.
- Maintains discretion with sensitive or confidential information as support for the records custodian, administrative court clerk, and the agency’s executive policy advisor.
- Collaborates with other teams to create updated and accessible documentation, webpages, and training for the agency’s programs to comply with federal and state requirements.
- Participates in an employee-relations program to strengthen community within the agency, serving as a reliable resource for all newly hired employees.
Rulemaking Program Program Assistant II
Colorado Secretary of State’s Office
11.2021 - 04.2023
- Collaborated with program managers, subject matter experts, and legal analysts to update regulations in response to passed federal and state legislation and external stakeholder feedback.
- Organized rulemaking proceedings in accordance with the State Administrative Procedure Act for the following regulations: elections, bingo and raffle games, general policies and administration, campaign and political finance, UCC filing office rules, lobbyist regulation, Colorado Charitable Solicitation Act, notary program, public records requested pursuant to the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA), and conflict of interest.
- Maintained an online repository for rulemaking-specific documentation and deadlines, using a SharePoint site as a medium for cross-functional collaboration between program managers and the executive team.
- Elicited feedback from program managers and reviewed agency rulemaking history to submit the agency’s annual regulatory agenda to the Colorado Register and General Assembly.
- Summarized research of statutory and regulations, stakeholder feedback, and other information in memorandums for the consideration by agency leadership.
- Addressed concerns by an external oversight body, the Office of Legislative Legal Services, regarding statutory and constitutionality of recently adopted rules by the agency.
- Provided excellent customer service for internal and external stakeholders interested in the agency’s rulemaking proceeding process.
- Initiated development of rulemaking-related webpages on the agency’s website.
- Provided expertise and training for non-rulemaking public meetings in compliance with Colorado Open Meetings Law.
- Served as the temporary records custodian before the hiring of a permanent replacement.
Team Lead
Target
Colorado Springs
08.2018 - 10.2021
- Trained teams of various sizes, but up to 60 individuals, on company, store, and department standards.
- Led teams of various sizes through a global pandemic, complying with federal, state, and company policies and procedures that prioritized health and safety.
- Professionally developed individuals interested in leadership through one-on-one conversations.
- Mediated employee-employee conflicts to better team cohesion and productivity.
- De-escalated tense situations with dissatisfied customers that led to customer satisfaction.
- Exceeded prior year departmental expectations in sales, talent retention, and customer and vendor satisfaction.
- Compared daily, weekly, and monthly sales with prior years and other store locations to strategize the increase of sales and team productivity.
- Monitored daily, weekly, and monthly payroll usage to report team needs to department leadership in weekly planning meetings.
- Presented team accomplishments and goals to store leadership at weekly meetings.
- Hired individuals on a temporary and permanent basis on the basis of forecasted team needs.
- Created physical communication boards to effectively communicate targeted product display changes for up to 30 vendors at two separate store locations.
Education
Bachelor's - International Relations, Political Science
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA06.2017
Skills
- Regulatory knowledge
- Attention to detail
- Critical thinking
- Time management
- Productivity
- Process improvement
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Stakeholder engagement
- Emotional intelligence
- Training others
- Effective communication
- M365 and Google Workplace
Accomplishments
SOS Service Award - May 2023
Volunteer Experience
- Women’s Resource Agency, Colorado Springs, CO, 2018-09, 2018-12, Assisted underprivileged women with their applications to the program’s employment-readiness training, basic computer and financial literacy courses, and other services to empower women and foster community., Created the agency’s written policy regarding program participation., Presented to the program’s managers a PowerPoint that encompassed the program’s policies for the mandatory entry course for new applicants.
- Public Interest Research Group, Davis, CA, 2015-09, 2017-06, Ran quarterly fundraising campaigns to fund the local chapter’s on-campus advocacy., Created advocacy campaigns for the local chapter to support for the upcoming quarter., Spearheaded voter registration drives on the university campus for the 2016 general election., Advocated to the student body about the importance of voting, legislative concerns in front of the state legislative body, and upcoming ballot issues.
Timeline
Policy Advisor II
Colorado Secretary of State’s Office
05.2023 - Current
Rulemaking Program Program Assistant II
Colorado Secretary of State’s Office
11.2021 - 04.2023
Team Lead
Target
08.2018 - 10.2021
Bachelor's - International Relations, Political Science
University of California, Davis
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