Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute a comprehensive strategic plan for the organization, aligning with the company's mission, vision, and goals. Lead the implementation of strategies to achieve operational excellence and drive growth across the seven skilled nursing facilities.Operational Management: Oversee all aspects of the facilities' operations, including finance, human resources, compliance, quality assurance, and risk management. Ensure efficient resource allocation, effective budgeting, and financial sustainability.Quality of Care: Foster a culture of excellence in resident care, safety, and satisfaction. Implement best practices, policies, and procedures to maintain and enhance the highest standards of care across all facilities.Staff Leadership and Development: Recruit, train, and develop a high-performing team of facility administrators and department heads. Provide guidance, support, and mentorship to promote professional growth and create a positive work environment.Regulatory Compliance: Ensure compliance with all federal, state, and local regulations, as well as industry standards and best practices. Stay updated on changes in healthcare regulations and implement necessary adjustments to maintain compliance.Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with residents, families, staff, board members, and external partners. Serve as the primary representative and spokesperson for the organization.Financial Performance: Drive revenue growth, cost management, and profitability. Monitor financial metrics, prepare regular reports, and implement strategies to improve financial performance and efficiency.Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for process improvement and innovation to enhance operational efficiency, resident care, and employee satisfaction. Lead and support organizational change initiatives.

Responsible for 5 skilled nursing facilities and a continuing care retirement community in the Greater Phoenix area. Through a comprehensive understanding of the skilled nursing industry, I focused on effectively navigating the complex regulatory landscape while ensuring compliance with all applicable standards and regulations.By implementing innovative operational strategies, streamlining processes, and leveraging technology advancements, we consistently improved patient care outcomes and enhanced overall facility performance. This position directly reported to ownership and key stakeholders.With a deep understanding of the unique challenges facing skilled nursing facilities, I excelled at building and nurturing high-performing teams. By fostering a collaborative and empowering work environment that cultivated a culture of excellence, encouraged professional development, and inspired team members to exceed expectations.

Focused on delivering high quality clinical care to 17 skilled nursing facilities and 2 assisted living facilities across Ohio. Through exceptional leadership style, I emphasized fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment, inspiring teams to achieve their full potential and uphold the highest standards of quality care. By implementing innovative strategies and leveraging cutting-edge technologies, we successfully enhanced patient outcomes, elevated employee satisfaction, and bolstered the overall reputation of the skilled nursing facilities within the portfolio. This position reported directly with ownership and investor group.

Implemented strategic organizational change to increase productivity and employee satisfaction. Attracted and screened candidates for fit in order to maximize job performance and team cohesion. Collaborate with on- and off-site professionals to ensure compliance with state specific regulations. Lastly, managed employee benefit offerings for mid-size level company.

Delivered outpatient psychotherapy services to patients with wide-ranging psychological needs. Provided integrative therapeutic approach to clinical sessions in order to individualize goals, objectives, and benchmarks as set by patients.

Completed APA internship training requirement for licensure. Provided battery of psychological assessments at community clinic in Canton, Ohio. Integrated reports were based on quantitative and qualitative scores measuring neuro-cognitive abilities, executive functioning, adaptive functioning, social developmental, and social emotional functioning.

Delivered seminar regarding family and community medicine to first-year medical students. Throughout academic year, students receive guidance, feedback and individualized support in order to increase clinical skills and attend to appropriate direction of patient care. Targeted goals from coursework include: conducting medical interview, delivering case presentation, applying evidence based treatment in clinical setting, demonstrate competency for medical information and direct interpersonal relationship skills.

Provided detailed research assignments on career readiness and work maturity models implementation as documented through the annals of academic literature. Focus of research is aimed at supporting and enhancing current theories through the dissemination of findings via scholarly contributions - presentations, symposium, publications, journal reviews, etc.All work under the guidance and direction of Dr Graham B. Stead, PhD along with additional faculty members in the Counseling Psychology department at Cleveland State University.

Structured therapeutic goals for troubled and troubling youth ages 3 through 18 aimed at restoring family harmony, increasing academic engagement, and coping with mental illness. These youth and their families, whose needs vary from experiencing myriad mental health challenges, dual diagnoses, substance abuse, as well as basic living needs, are receive clinical care through EBT techniques along with linkages to additional service providers that seek restoration of basic living needs. As youths are involved with multiple county systems, or are at risk of deeper system involvement, clinician is responsible for interdisciplinary team approach that includes out-of-home and community based respite services, county probation along with children and family services, substance abuse treatment, psychiatric care and medication compliance, hospitalizations, as well as alternative behavioral and emotionally disturbed classroom settings.Typical goals were achieved via: In-home family and individual psychotherapy sessions, consulting families through the juvenile justice and board of education systems, strategically connecting families with artificial/community and natural support systems, along with other tailor-specific methods to encourage youth to thrive in their environment.

Provided battery of psychological assessments to children and adolescents at community clinic in Northeast Ohio. Integrated reports were based on quantitative and qualitative scores measuring cognitive abilities, executive functioning, adaptive functioning, social developmental, and social emotional functioning. Reports were provided with feedback and recommendations for client, caregivers, psychiatrists, as well as academic and job related environments.Additional responsibility at this site included providing in-home family therapy contracts through the Department for Children and Family Services (CCDCFS). In this role, I engaged families through intensive programming and structure in order to deliver rehabilitation of targeted needs within contracted timeframe.

Provided clinical psychological services at community mental health agency for clients across the lifespan. Through individual psychotherapy and group counseling, implementing DBT, CBT, and SFBT modalities, encouraged clients to increase engagement and participation in their mental health goals for services.

Monitored and addressed end-user technology concerns of staff and faculty from the Athletics, Physics, Biology and Chemistry departments at Boston College, as a Graduate Assistant.

Residential Community Based Acute Therapy treatment facility: responsible for creating and implementing weekly therapeutic group sessions for children ages four to fourteen; delivered 1:1 direct therapeutic care for several short-term patients. Primary d/o included, but were not limited to: ADHD, Mood, Anxiety, Depression, PDD, BPD, psychosis, and PTSD.

• Restructured image of the company to be a destination in a niche market• Generated and creatively executed strategies for marketing and sales• Surpassed quarterly quotas and exceeded previous annual quota by nearly 25 percentCompany Profile: Paz Co., located in Boston, is one of the leading high-end collectible locations in the region. At Paz, we specialize in the field of numismatics and philately for both the private collector as well as the motivated investor.

• Reviewed, commented and corrected grammar of article submissions prior to distribution • Worked closely with the senior editor and layout professionalCompany Profile: The Jewish Advocate has been the voice of the Jewish community in New England. Readers of all backgrounds and faiths have relied on the paper for more than one hundred years to stay up-to-date and informed about Jewish life in New England and to learn about and debate issues of concern to the Jewish Community in Boston, the US, Israel and around the world.

• Organized and directed marketing campaigns throughout the New England region • Inspired volunteers and co-workers to surpass recruitment and fundraising goals• Expanded program’s reach and tripled the enrollment in two yearsCompany Profile: Orthodox Union is the premier organization dedicated to connect, inspire and empower Jewish teens and encourage passionate Judaism through Torah and Tradition.

• Selected as one of 12 from 130 candidates to provide one-on-one mentoring to religious-seeking, former Soviet Union, Jewish immigrants • Presented public lectures to the student body and general public • Provided resources for immigrants’ further study and practice of JudaismCompany Profile: Selected as one of 12 from 150 candidates to provide one-on-one mentoring as well as public discourses to religious-seeking former Soviet Russian Jewry.The Ronald S. Lauder Foundation is committed to rebuilding Jewish life in Europe where the destruction of the Holocaust was followed by the oppression of Communist rule.

• Chosen as one of 60 interns from over 300 applicants• Interned for the office of Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney and for the Senate Democratic Caucus • Represented Senator Looney at senate hearings, where I collected and maintained diligent notes of the minutes• Co-authored instructional manual for Connecticut General Assembly legislative committee clerks