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Chicago, Illinois

--Inaugural employee in newly created role designed to bring operational focus and efficiencies to all activities of large urban church and its 503c non-profit, Chicago Lights.--Responsible for HR, facilities, IT, security and special events--Staff liaison to congregational leadership boards. Provide monthly reports and participate in committee work to lead church activities. Serve as liaison between staff and congregational leaders.--Responsible for creating and managing 56% of annual organizational budget.

Park Forest, Il

--Part-time pastor for theologically progressive Presbyterian Church(USA) congregation in the south suburbs. --Plan and lead engaging and creative weekly worship.--Work alongside a team volunteers to manage budget, building maintenance and administrative processes. --Help congregation discern how to best engage the surrounding community in order to bring about peace, wholeness and justice.

Bedford Park, Illinois

--Member of the cross-functional leadership team responsible for curating the trend-based collectible trading card and novelty toy space in 8,200 retail stores.--Directly responsible for developing and managing $12 million budget to execute retail operations.--Lead all aspects of retails operations including vendor relationships, contract coordination, program execution, large scale test protocol, metric development and measurement and value optimization and effective and efficient business practices.

Chicago, Illinois

--Managed business operations including: human resources, finance, accounting, legal, technology and market research field operations.--Collaborated with company's founder on business development and strategy, marketing, customer satisfaction and employee compensation and retention.

Orland Park, Il

--Developed testing protocol and executed consumer research projects for food and consumer packaged goods.--Managed the operations of three departments: project management, consumer recruiting and building maintenance as well as directing the workflow between all departments within the company.--Developed and administered training programs to ensure quality departmental performance.

Oak Brook, Il

--Led cross functional team in developing comprehensive new product business cases. --Developed operational procedures and wrote implementation plans for new and improved products across the McDonald's franchise footprint.--Led the Fry Improvement project to ensure McDonald's fries remained best in class.--Project Leader for Worldwide Operator Convention: delivered 96,000 products in four days for McDonald's operators to sample.

Oak Brook, Il

--Developed and executed food science based testing for new and improved products.--Worked with suppliers to develop new products and refine existing products.

Master Of Divinity

B.S., Business