Rosie Robinson

Director, Human Resources

Rosie Robinson holds a master’s degree in education from Tuskegee University and a bachelor’s degree from the same institution. Throughout her career, Ms. Robinson has worked with leaders in the public and private sectors. Her clients have included such names as NASA, Hewlett-Packard, and the U.S. Department of Labor. She began her career at the Northern Virginia Community College as manager of the “Developmental Studies” curriculum. In this role, she used assessments and career planning tools to advise adult students and prospective students regarding career and educational choices. She created the first Women’s Resource Center for the campus to support women returning to an academic environment, interpreted and evaluated college transcripts from other institutions and assigned credits for transferring students.

Ms. Robinson has also worked at Hewlett-Packard as a human resources generalist and specialist. She served as a strategic business partner, curriculum and training manager, and workforce development specialist for HP’s Accelerated Leadership Program. At HP she also focused on development and succession planning, performance management and executive coaching.

She has also served as Knowledge Sharing Program Manager for NASA’S Academy of Program/Project and Engineering Leadership/ASRC. Ms. Robinson was tasked with planning and implementing bi-annually highly interactive learning forums designed to share knowledge and best practices related to specific project management competencies for 60-80 selected members of the NASA project management community. Additionally, she provided leadership to a team of 5 to produce quarterly, the Academy’s distinguished ASK Magazine which featured engineering best practices and project management lessons learned in a storytelling format.

Ms. Robinson recently served as the Training and Development Program Manager at the U.S. Department of Labor. She worked closely with the COTR to provide program management expertise for a training and development contract with the Department of Labor. She partnered with DOL Regional Training Coordinators across the US to assess needs and performance gaps, create/publish annual training schedule, update course catalog, and deliver training courses. She managed staff and oversaw the development of new courses and conversion of existing courses to computer-based.