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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT REPS

Our business development representatives are committed to connecting clients and prospective clients with solutions to their performance- and process-related challenges.

Beth Bauer

Beth Bauer is a business development representative for MCC Business & Learning Solutions, a division of Metropolitan Community College that provides a wide variety of training, development and consulting services to business and industry in and around metropolitan Kansas City.

Beth joined Metropolitan Community College in 2000 as an academic advisor MCC-Blue River, then moved to MCC-Longview as a recruiter, a role that she held until joining the Business & Learning Solutions team in 2008. Prior to MCC, she had various roles in the health and nutrition fields, including coordinator of school nutrition program at Visitation Elementary School, HIV/AIDS coordinator for the Kansas City, Missouri Health Department, and Director of the Optifast Maintenance Program at Smith-Glynn-Callaway Clinic. She also worked in client service for American Century Investors

Beth earned a bachelor of science in wellness from Southwest Missouri State University. She has served as co-chair of the Southland Multicultural Festival and as MCC District Staff Council president, and was honored with the Top Student Advocate award in 2005.

Stan Fields

Stan Fields is director of business development for MCC Business & Learning Solutions, a division of Metropolitan Community College that provides a wide variety of training, development and consulting services to business and industry in and around metropolitan Kansas City.

Stan has been with Metropolitan Community College since 1992, when he began as a lab technician and acting coordinator of the Technical & Skilled Trades department at the Maple Woods campus. In 1995, he moved to the Business & Technology campus as a program manager and team leader responsible for business development, and was promoted to his current role with Business & Learning Solutions in 2007. Prior to joining MCC, Stan was owner and sales manager of Sunny Cal Alegre Distributors. He also toured for 15 years with ButlerFields, a rock-n-roll band that he co-founded and that opened for the likes of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Bo Diddley.

Stan started his college education at MCC-Maple Woods before transferring to Park University, where he graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of science in management and communications. He then went on to earn a master’s degree from Central Missouri State University (now University of Central Missouri).

Andrew Filla

Andrew Filla is program director, state funding programs, for MCC Business & Learning Solutions, a division of Metropolitan Community College that provides a wide variety of training, development and consulting services to business and industry in and around metropolitan Kansas City.

Andrew has been with Metropolitan Community College since 1993, when he worked at MCC’s Longview campus. He began his career in community development in 1976 when he worked for the City of St. Louis Community Development Agency. He also served as project manager with the St. Louis Planned Industrial Expansion Authority and as account executive with the St. Louis Office of Business Development, before moving to the Kansas City area, where he became the founding executive director of the Lee's Summit Economic Development Council.

Andrew is a graduate of the University of Missouri at Columbia. He studied at the University College of Washington University in St. Louis and did additional postgraduate work in vocational education at the University of Missouri. He has completed National Development Council programs in Economic Development Financing, Business Credit Analysis, and Real Estate Financing.

Andrew is a past president of the Missouri Association for Customized Training and has served on the Boards of Directors for the South Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, the Missouri Economic Development Council (three terms), the Kansas City Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Parks, and the Private Industry Council of Eastern Jackson County. He also served on the Missouri Department of Economic Development's Community Development Block Grant Program Advisory Council.

Andrew enjoys spending time with his wife Debra and their two daughters, Alison and Emily.

Linda Napton

Linda Napton is business development representative for MCC Business & Learning Solutions, a division of Metropolitan Community College that provides a wide variety of training, development and consulting services to business and industry in and around metropolitan Kansas City.

Linda came to Metropolitan Community College in 2007 after careers in a variety of industries. She began her professional associations in 1992 working for Hoescht Marion Roussel, where she received three prestigious awards for leadership and excellence in her work with new product launches. She then went on to start her own business, Spunky Senior Tours, a day-trip adventure tour service for seniors. After five successful years, she sold the tour bus and the business and joined the sales team of a title insurance company, putting to use the real estate license she had earned years earlier. After four years at the title company, she moved on to her current position as business development representative for MCC Business & Learning Solutions.

Linda holds a bachelor of science in business administration from Ottawa University and a master of business management from Baker University.

Linda is active in the community and currently serves on the Lee’s Summit Senior Advisory Board, the American Business Women’s Association, and others. She has served as an adult education instructor for the Raytown School District and as a volunteer instructor at the Lee’s Summit Senior Center. When she isn’t working, she loves being with her family and being active outdoors. She continues to enjoy a good adventure and feeling “spunky”.

Jim Tyler

Jim Tyler is a business development representative with MCC Business & Learning Solutions, a division of Metropolitan Community College that provides a wide variety of training, development and consulting services to business and industry in and around metropolitan Kansas City.

Jim joined Metropolitan Community College as business development representative in 2007 after working for six years as sales manager at Guier Company. Prior to Guier, Jim worked for 12 years at Unitog Company as area sales manager/national account manager, and before that, spent 23 years at Massey Ferguson, including 17 years as district sales manager.

Jim holds a bachelor of science in business administration from Park University, and has completed training in sales administration/business management, consultative selling skills, and the Pathway to Professionalism program. He served two years in the United States Army, and was honorably discharged as specialist E-5.