Andi Ray is a multicultural professional with over 4 years’ experience in emergency management in the non-profit, private, and public sectors. They currently work with IEM International in their State and Local Response and Recovery (SLRR) Division to assist clients with Public Assistance and project management needs. While on project with VDEM, Andi designed, created, and implemented the IEM Detailed Review Tracker – a project management tool used to assist projects in efficient, standardized, and organized project-status communication. Along with building this tool, they trained all project staff on how to utilize the tool and trained all Center of Excellence staff on how to build and deploy the tracking tool across a multitude of projects and divisions, at the request of various IEM leadership.While working in the SLRR Division’s Center of Excellence (COE), they helped develop and manage the launch of a new, automated onboarding program, project planned and assisted in the overall management of a task tracker Power App project for task/time reconciliation and federal funding reimbursement, as well as managed and executed the entire revamp of the Center of Excellence’s Microsoft SharePoint database which provided personnel with an updated, modern, and concentrated focus on tools, templates, resources, and procedures.Andi Ray is known as a team player, a problem-solver, an approachable leader, a continuous learner, and an expert communicator in the State and Local Response and Recovery Division. During their time in the SLRR, they have led numerous division-wide trainings for 200+ personnel. Their pursuit of efficiency in logistical resource tracking assisted in the success and expansion of the Center of Excellence across various divisions in the International Homeland Security Sector at IEM.Prior to IEM, they worked in the non-profit sector. From 2016 - 2017, Andi Ray gained international, emergency management experience while working in Indonesia. During that time, they received preparedness training in government and non-government, high-stress, emergency management, and security scenarios. They were also trained on methodical strategies to adapt to different cultures and utilize culture-specific information and practices in projects. As a result of that training, along with over 10 years of tangible Southeast Asian cultural expertise, they are cultural-specific, collaborative, and open to different ways of problem-solving.