Staci Balcaen, M.A.

Environment, Health and Safety Manager

Microsoft · Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States

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As an Environmental, Health, and Safety Manager, I drive the prevention of incidents and illnesses through the implementation of high-risk-activity management processes, emergency response planning, and safety protocols in datacenter operations. I work to ensure that a safe and healthy working environment is achieved by identifying risks and unsafe practices, implementing controls to mitigate risk, monitoring performance, and compliance with Microsoft standards and applicable regulations. I have a key role in ensuring the safe delivery of core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft, develop my career and achieve my goals as a safety professional, and am a part of a world class Global Environmental, Health, and Safety Team.

Adjunct Instructor

Park University

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I Currently work for Park University as an Adjunct Communications Instructor. Duties and responsibilities include the following: ● Responsible for providing in-person and online quality instruction for Park University’s Public Speaking and Introduction to Human Communication courses. ● Utilize appropriate and memorable visual aids through structured and organized canvas modules to maximize the audience and/or participant engagement. ● Employ communication strategies to improve openness and engagement toward information, ideas, and media. ● Ensure students examine the types of rhetoric and their effects, the structure of effective arguments, and how subtleties of language can be employed to engage in more successful communication modalities.

Operations Coordinator: Training and Safety

JLL · Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States

I Currently work for Jones, Lange, LaSalle (JLL) as a Critical Environment Operations Coordinator:Training & Safety; we're contracted by Microsoft’s datacenters. Duties and responsibilities include the following: ● Led the strategic planning and execution of Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) and Training programs, ensuring performance metrics are met and all reporting aspects are presented. ● Implemented data-driven decision-making processes to streamline operations and improve service delivery. ● Maintain and manage relationships with key stakeholders in the datacenter community, including local county elected officials, vendors, fire/building departments, health inspectors, air quality inspectors, and insurance representatives. ● Evaluate program effectiveness to ensure budget analysis, record keeping, database updates, IT, infrastructure development, and technical training programs successfully meet JLL and Microsoft’s standards. ● Design and implement educational programs focu…

Secondary Teacher

Laramie County School District #1 · Cheyenne, Wyoming Area

I worked as a secondary English and Special Education Teacher. Duties and responsibilities include the following: ● Responsible for lesson planning; developing curriculum; implementing effective classroom management techniques; providing grades that follow standards-based grading; and maintaining positive relationships with students, staff, and parents. ● Case managed students on Individualized Education Plans (IEP’s); scheduled, lead, and wrote IEP’s; Multi-Disciplinary Triennial Reviews (MDT); Behavior Intervention Plans (BIP); and Functional Behavior Assessments (FBA). ● Effectively collaborated with fellow teachers, administration, district leaders, state leaders, related service providers, and support staff to meet student academic/social/emotional goals, district policies, state and federal mandates. ● Actively Participated in Professional Learning Communities, school leadership teams, and finance meetings to discuss public policies, specifically funding, recruitment, evaluation,…

Education Consultant

Wyoming Department of Education · Cheyenne, Wyoming Area

I worked as an education consultant for the Wyoming Department of Education: Individual Learning Division. Duties and responsibilities include the following: ● Planned, developed, and coached Data Based Individualization (DBI) and Multi-tiered System of Support (MTSS) programs with stakeholders, internal management, and interested groups pertaining to best practices, implementation, research-based interventions, training, and goal setting. ● Ensured all 48 districts followed federal fiscal compliance under IDEA and ESSA through Grants Management Systems (GMS). ● Worked alongside fiscal and assessment departments to help track expenses, review budgetary reports, ensure adherence to financial guidelines, understand legislative requirements, and comply with state and federal policies. ● Developed and monitored contracts with professional service providers on an “as needed” basis. ● Disseminated professional trends by presenting information at meetings, workshops, and/or conferences.