Patrick B. Allen

Patrick B. Allen
Senior Associate
Pendleton Resources, Inc.
phone: 303.832.8100

cell: 303-905-6544

email: pallen@pendres.com

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly, I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.

Lance Armstrong

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

~ Winston Churchill

Professional Background:

Patrick Allen is a results-oriented talent acquisition executive who is well regarded for his strong client-service, determination, and extensive network of long-term private and public sector business relationships. He is an experience professional with solid leadership qualities, partnership-building and an engaging interpersonal style with an established record of strategic talent acquisition successes in competitive labor markets, which includes international development professionals. He has a TS SCI Clearance.

Prior to executive recruiting, Patrick spent several years in senior human resources management positions with URS Corporation, Lockheed Martin, and Coors Brewing Company. He possesses a wealth of business and executive search experience, together with an intimate knowledge of the marketplace. He is highly regarded for his leadership, determination, and extensive network of long-term business relationships.

Patrick is a U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve and recently returned from a one year tour of duty in Afghanistan. From June 2009 to June 2010, he was assigned as a senior military liaison officer to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul Afghanistan. He was successful with establishing key inter-agency relationships to advance U.S. military Special Operations Forces (SOF) programs and integrated strategic SOF operations into the U.S. Government and interagency civilian/military (CIV-MIL) stabilization plan. Patrick established a working relationship with USAID and was instrumental with having USAID senior development professionals attached to SOF command. This partnership enhanced the Local Defense Initiative with community development projects in remote areas of Afghanistan.

From 2003 to 2005, he served at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and was assigned in the Secretary of the Army’s Office as the Chief of Army Congressional Activities. In this position he worked closely with the US Army Corps of Engineers and was privileged to work with the severely wounded soldiers recuperating at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Education:

· Executive MBA, University of Colorado

· Bachelor of Science, Regis University

· Certified Zenger-Miller Frontline Leadership Seminar Trainer

· Graduate, U.S. Army’s Command and General Staff College (Fort Leavenworth, KS)

Memberships:

· Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

· American Association of Drilling Engineers (AADE)

· Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists (RMAG)

· Society of American Military Engineers (SAME)

· The Human Resources Planning Society (HRPS)

. Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM)

·Rocky Mountain Bonsai Society (RMBS) - 2012 President

· Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) - Chapter Secretary