MARK CORKERY

mce5f580@westpost.net
5318 East 2nd Street Long Beach CA 90803
(949) 500-6792

CAREER OBJECTIVE: Mid to upper level management position in an education or cor

porate environment to:
*Contribute my talents in organizational development, team building to an organi
zation looking to grow
*Utilize proven skills in management, marketing research, sales, customer relati
ons in a dynamic business culture

EXPERIENCE
President, National Institute for Educational Planning (NIEP) Inc. 1986 - 2010
College Focus Division
*Grew college counseling program from in home client meetings to 5 professional
offices in Southern California
*Built client base from 10 families to an ethnically diverse 500+ annually
*Administered annual budget which grew from $800k to $2million in 3 years while
holding down costs
*Hired, trained, supervised 8-14 academic/career/college counselors with a 100%
admission record
*Conducted 19 annual college planning seminars with an annual budget of $35,000
each
offering free college admission advice to over 500 families in 40 locations in L
os Angeles,
Orange, Riverside and San Diego Counties
*Initiated College Focus International, serving clients across the United States
and worldwide via new technologies with annual growth of 50% each year over 4 y
ears
College Preview Tours Division
*Founded the first ever national college tour program to introduce high school c
ounselors and students to colleges and the admission process via bus tours and "
Rolling Seminars" and workshops
*Cultivated new business opportunities with middle and high schools, districts,
summer college prep camps, gifted and talented/AP programs, minority college pre
p initiatives and State Departments of Foster Youth, increasing tours from 10 to
60+ annually
*Oversaw marketing, sales, and public relations of the program to over 35,000 co
unselors
*Recruited up to 15 experienced counselors to serve as tour guides, chaperones,
and seminar presenters
*Responsible for all flight, hotel, college, tourist bookings for over 2,000 stu
dents annually
Academic and Admission Counselor, Retention Specialist Boston University, Boston
MA 1981 - 1986
*Initiated and implemented student retention master plan for College of Communic
ation
*Recognized by the University President as the model retention program at BU,
 implementing the COM retention/advising plan campus wide
*Provided academic, personal, and career counseling to 2,800 students annually
*Developed and organized summer/fall orientation for 800 first year and transfer
students
*Trained & consulted 70 COM and over 200 BU faculty on academic advising
*Initiated, supervised 275 students in 4 peer advising programs for 1st and 2nd
year students and 50 double-degree candidates in 13 colleges at Boston Universit
y
*Alumni Career Program of 40 alums and over 800 third and fourth year students f
acilitated fund raising while providing network opportunities for current studen
ts
*Undergraduate Admission Office liaison reading applications for COM
EDUCATION CONSULTANCIES
College Admission Consultant, Education Unlimited Summer Program 2008, 09
*Designed curriculum for 2 week intensive summer program on college admission
*Workshops, seminars, work groups on college admission implemented by NIEP staff
*40 students attended annually from US and International high schools
Glendale High School, Glendale, CA, Costa Mesa High School, Costa Mesa, CA 2005
- 2008
*Headed team of 8 counselors to provide college admission consulting to 4,000 (G
HS) and
2,500 (CMHS) students, 250 parents, 30 counselors, 4 principals, and superintend
ent offices
*Made assembly presentations to over 3,000 parents and students
*Provided in-service admission counseling training to 30 counselors
*Presented to 100 faculty, staff and over 3000 families on high school college b
ound culture
*Organized, supervised, evaluated college application parties for 300 students
College Admission, Consultant, The Ivy Academy, Vancouver, Alberta, Canada 2006
*Initiated 4 day intensive on college selection, planning, applications, financi
al aid
*Served as consultant to 10 families helping them get into choice college with a
90% success rate to their top choices
Korea Daily Newspapers of Los Angeles, US, and International Editions 2005-200
8
College Fair Co-Sponsored with NIEP College Focus
*Keynote Speaker @ Los Angeles and New York City Korean college fairs
*Supervised budget of $65,000 for annual college fair attracting over 8000 famil
ies and 30 vendors each year
*Recruited over 300 colleges to send admissions representatives to fair, supervi
sing reps during the event
*Coordinated NIEP internal budget of $38,000 for this community service event
Weekly Columnist and Education Consultant
*Wrote over 100 weekly columns on American college admission, providing case stu
dy column on how to pick colleges, gain admission to American schools
*Distribution in Southern California, Vancouver, Canada, London, England, New Y
ork, NY, Washington, DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles
*Served as consultant to Korea Daily Education Editor to enhance the quality of
reporting on American higher education and college admission in the United State
s

School Sponsored College Selection and Admission Seminars 1987 - 2010

*Spoke to school administrators, counselors, teachers, parents and students at o
ver 300 middle and high schools regarding the myths, realities, and trends of se
eking the best and most economical college education each year
*Provided academic motivational presentations in the community to parents and st
udents regarding developing a plan for college
EDUCATION
Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA 1980
Master of Education, 1980. in Organizational Development/Counseling in Higher E
ducation
Pitzer College, Claremont, CA.
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, 1976. Concentration in Social Psychology, Ethni
c Relations
Political, Economic and Social Psychological research at the University of Hawai
i Fall 1975