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Renee Rainey, MPP
<br />Senior Manager, Project Management
<br />Renee Rainey has over 23 years of experience in social science research,
<br />organizational assessment, evaluation, and project management. Her areas of
<br />expertise include data collection and analysis, workforce development, training
<br />and technical assistance, performance data and indicators, and evaluation
<br />design. Ms. Rainey brings a range of qualitative assessment, quantitative
<br />analysis, and leadership skills to her client engagements with a focus on
<br />improving human services and reevaluating systems to better serve people,
<br />especially those who have historically been underrepresented and
<br />disenfranchised.
<br />Years of Experience
<br />Professional start date: 04/2005
<br />In partnership with the California and Nevada International Brotherhood of ICF start date: 12/2012
<br />Electrical Workers (IBEW)/National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) Education
<br />Labor -Management Cooperation Trust (LMCC), Ms. Rainey led a High Roads MPP, University of California,
<br />Training Partnership California Workforce Development Board (CWDB) grant to Berkeley, 2006
<br />expand energy savings and microgrid training and certification (EESAMTAC) BS, Economics and English,
<br />and quality jobs in California. She also recently completed a project with the cum Iaude, James Madison
<br />California State Transportation Agency (CaISTA), the California Transportation University, 1999
<br />Commission (CTC), and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans),
<br />conducting a series of equity listening sessions across the state. She was previously the lead technical liaison,
<br />developing and implementing the Online CalWORKs Appraisal Tool (OCAT), a work readiness assessment used by
<br />all 58 California counties. Prior to her work at ICF, Ms. Rainey was an economic consultant at National Economic
<br />Research Associates (NERA) responsible for large-scale data collections and economic analysis of mergers and
<br />acquisitions for Fortune 500 companies. Ms. Rainey was also previously a public sector management consultant at
<br />Booz Allen Hamilton, where she worked with high-level executives within the federal government to define
<br />organizational problems, identify and prioritize solutions, and create roadmaps for organizational change.
<br />PROJECT EXPERIENCE
<br />Low Carbon Economy High Roads Training Partnership EESAMTAC—CWDB, Los Angeles, CA, 6/2021
<br />3/2023.
<br />Project Manager. Ms. Rainey was the project manager for the EESAMTAC led by ICF and the California and
<br />Nevada IBEW/NECA LMCC to expand training and certification to prepare electricians, electrical apprentices, and
<br />electrical contractors for the safe and effective assembly, testing, commissioning, maintenance, repair, retrofitting,
<br />and decommissioning of energy storage and microgrid systems. The project will expand training from 6 to 21
<br />electrical joint apprenticeship training centers over a 2-year period.
<br />Clearinghouse for Labor and Evaluation Research (CLEAR)—DOL, Los Angeles, CA, 8/2016—Present.
<br />Senior Evaluator. Ms. Rainey serves as a senior evaluator for CLEAR, DOL's flagship research and evaluation
<br />clearinghouse, the central repository for labor and workforce research and evaluation studies, targeting researchers,
<br />practitioner, policy makers, and the general public. The clearinghouse includes impact studies, outcome analyses,
<br />process evaluations, and descriptive statistics reports in a range of labor -focused topic areas. Ms. Rainey leverages
<br />her significant research, evaluation, and methodological expertise to review individual studies for the clearinghouse,
<br />assessing the quality of the evidence through a rigorous process and ultimately summarizing each study's key
<br />findings, approach, and quality in a succinct profile to post to CLEAR. Study topic areas have included child labor,
<br />mine safety, literacy, and community colleges. In addition, Ms. Rainey provides expertise in developing topic area
<br />protocols and reviewing and evolving CLEAR policies and procedures.
<br />OCAT—California Department of Social Services, Los Angeles, CA, 12/2015-6/2021.
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