profile: lynn dobmeier pullano

Leadership and oversight of collaborative early childhood, education and community-based initiatives supported by government organizations as well as private and philanthropic institutions. Among these: 

• Help Me Grow National Center Implementation Expert
• U.S. Health & Human Services/New York State Council on Children & Families’ Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (ECCS) Project, Erie/Niagara
• U.S. Department of Education Community Schools program, City of Buffalo
• USDA Child & Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), Child Care Resource Network
• U. S. Health & Human Services Refugee Microenterprise Child Care Development program, Buffalo
• U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration STEM Initiative, Western New York schools
• Rural prenatal/early childhood Screening, Assessment, Referral, & Treatment (SART) initiative
• Help Me Grow New York State expansion:  Long Island, Onondaga County, Monroe County
• Help Me Grow Western New York implementation & expansion (8 counties)
• Erie/Niagara Birth to 8 Coalition
• Children’s Center for Success Dyadic Therapy Program for childcare and prekindergarten
• Neighborhood revitalization/equity projects

• Implementation Strategies 
• Strategic Visioning and Planning
• Project and Initiative Leadership
• Research and Assessment 
• Cross-sector Systems Design and Development
• Collective Impact Leadership
• Branding, Marketing and Communications
• Resource Development and Sustainability Planning 
• Advocacy
• Service Program Design 
• Organizational Leadership and Staff Development
• Education and Early Childhood

Business

Seventeen (17) years of experience in strategic planning, marketing, communications and market research. Included positions with Levy, King & White Advertising/Quantum Analysis, Empire of America Federal Savings Bank, Media Pros of WNY, National Fuel and my independent consulting practice. Notable clients included The Buffalo Sabres, Dunlop Tire, Fisher-Price/Mattel, Mentholatum-Rohto Pharmaceutical Company and Rich Products Corporation. 

Child Development & Education

Doctoral fellowship in Educational Assessment that included extensive qualitative research around assessment and educational reform. Eight (8) years of teaching experience in Buffalo-area private and public schools. 

Nonprofit/Social Value

Sixteen (16) years of leadership in roles that included Help Me Grow National Center Implementation Expert, New York State Lead for Help Me Grow, Director of Help Me Grow Western New York, CEO of Child Care Resource Network (Buffalo), Assistant Vice President and Education Director for United Way of Buffalo & Erie County,  Marketing/Development Director for Western New York's Skating Athletes Bold at Heart (SABAH).  Currently a contracted Implementation Expert for Help Me Grow National Center.

B.S., Marketing/Management/Statistics, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY

Ed.M., Elementary Education  SUNY University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Doctoral Fellowship, Educational Assessment SUNY University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Permanent New York State Teaching Certification, Grades Prekindergarten through 6

Alumnus, Health Leadership Fellows Program, Health Foundation for Western & Central New York

Implementation Science, University of California-San Francisco

Professional Journal Publications 

• Theory and Research in Social Education
• The Journal of Curriculum and Supervision
• International Social Studies Forum