Thursday 22 December 2016

Randall Shelton Is a Multi-Faceted Administrative Professional

Randall Shelton is an Atlanta based administrative professional with many awards to his credit. He has more than thirty-five years of experience in auxiliary operations and business development as well as in private sector business ownership. In the year 1978, he did his B.S. in Accounting with concentrations in Business Law and Management from Oklahoma State University, Stillwater. Later, he completed M.S. degree in Institutional Management from the same University.

Randall Shelton is a Certified Facilitator and Corporate Trainer, Performance Training Institute, Destiny Seminars International, Toronto, Ontario. He started his career in the year 1981 as the Senior Food Coordinator at Oklahoma State University. He advanced progressively to a senior level management position over 5 operational units and took up the charge as a Purchasing Specialist in the same year and same University. Thereafter, he was promoted to the Manager of Food Services.

Next, Randall Shelton served as the Director of Dining Services at The Wichita State University, Kansas for almost six years. In the year 1993, he joined Georgetown College in Kentucky as the Director of Dining Services where he supervised all the food service and auxiliary services. After working with the college for over five years, Randall joined as the Director of Housing and Food Services at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. There, he managed all housing, food services, and auxiliary operations at a public 20,000-student institution in Southeastern Ohio. From 2009 to 2012, he served as the Director of Auxiliary Services at Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK. He successfully handled the operational areas of Housing and Residential Life, Maintenance, Custodial, Grounds and landscape, Bookstore, Food service, Fitness Center, Motor Pool, Student Union, vending and more.

Later, Randall Shelton served Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA as the Assistant Vice President of Auxiliary Operations for four years. He was responsible for all auxiliary operations at a major state university with two campuses and a student population of 33,000. He managed all major areas of Culinary Services, Franchise operations, Bookstore Operations, Parking Transportation, campus wide printer and copier fleet, access control, vending and more.

Thursday 8 December 2016

Randall Shelton Contributed in the Success of Kennesaw’s Administrative Department

Randall Shelton is an Atlanta based administrative professional with many years of experience. He worked with Kennesaw State University where he led the culinary team to the number one foodservice program in the nation as recognized by the National restaurant Association, winning the Operator Innovator of the Year Award for 2013. He played a major part in increasing the revenue by reducing the costs to students for online textbooks, and study materials with an overall gain of 20% for the division. Apart from that, he has successfully re-organized both transportation and parking system which significantly reduced the cost and increased the revenue.

He has been a consultant to various food sector services and developed a successful company of approximately 45 food service franchisees within three years serving various clients and independent retailers. He has contributed in the development of RFP for a campus housing master planning for renovation and replacement. Also, he developed a campus wide printer and copier management program in partnership with a major national printing and copier company.  He was responsible for the redesigning of a post office and a full-service motor pool.

Randall Shelton is a senior member at Ohio University who is responsible for the development of University study center his task also included designing of food services, auxiliary operational areas, and retail. Implementation and development of both dining and housing services and merging with the facility management to achieve 4 million as savings by eliminating duplicated functions, played a major role in implementing operational budget efficiencies up to 4% per year for a period of 5 years thereby creating an auxiliary reserve up to 8% for capital projects.