Allyson Batte, MBA

I joined The Sunshine House in 2024 as a Float Teacher. Within eighteen months I’d moved through Mentor Teacher, Director-in-Training, and into the Center Director role I hold now.

As Center Director I lead a team of [X] teachers and assistants across [Y] classrooms, with full responsibility for licensing compliance, enrollment, family relationships, and staff development. I rebuilt the intake and ratio-tracking workflows in my first ninety days.

From late 2016 to mid 2017 I was deployed to Ali Al Salem, Kuwait, as HR Manager / Forward Commander for U.S. forces operating across the Middle East. The job was personnel accountability and readiness for a forward command.

I redesigned the standard operating procedures for personnel transitions during a period of large-scale deployment cycles. Reporting errors dropped, and the headquarters could give the next echelon a number it actually trusted.

I led the Combined Federal Campaign for U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command — a voluntary giving program that runs across the entire federal workforce. At SMDC it meant coordinating outreach, volunteer captains, and fundraising across multiple geographically scattered units.

I built the campaign structure from the unit level up, kept a calendar that respected everyone else’s primary mission, and grew participation across the command. None of it was anyone’s day job, including mine.

For most of the COVID era I worked as an Emergency 911 Telecommunicator for the Gainesville Police Department, dispatching police, fire, and EMS while triaging simultaneous incidents and keeping callers calm.

The hard days were the ones where everything happened at once: a domestic, a medical, a fire, and an officer needing backup stacked up on the same shift. The skill is producing a clean, court-admissible record of every call while it’s still happening.