Asante Cain Email & Phone Number

Grand Rapids, Michigan

• Supports the City and Deputy City Manager in the form of executive level project work, anticipation of requirements, sounding board, and additional set of eyes and ears in consideration of political and organizational circumstances.• Updates and communicates progress of organizational operation plan, the Transformation Plan.• Assists City Manager through periods of crisis communication.• Staff liaison for the City Manager’s Arts Advisory Committee • Staff liaison for City Commission sponsored SAFE (Anti-Violence) Taskforce.• Develops and oversees the Executive Office budget.• Helps develop, revise and facilitate City Commission resolutions and City Manager administrative policies. • Develops presentations to assist City Commission in determining capital and budget priorities.• Assists with the development of the City’s fiscal plan.• Represents the City Manager at meetings, community initiatives, and public events.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

• Coordinated the inclusion of the library's strategic and organizational plans at the Reference, Information, Local History and Youth Services Desks at Main and all Branch libraries.• Set direction in the Adult and Youth Services Programming and Local History Supervisors.• Facilitated award winning school and library to provide increased print and digital library access to 17,000 Grand Rapids Public School students.• Conceived and garnered support for eventual plan to restructure key elements of library when faced with difficult decisions.• Set library procedures and recommends policies to be approved by the Library Board of Commissioners.• Initiated and sponsored “GRPL R.O.C.K.S”, a customer service philosophy, into the culture of the Grand Rapids Public Library.• Prepared confidential yearly performance appraisals and resolves personnel matters.• Enhanced work and library by using computer applications in novel ways: Skype for meetings, screencasts for training and blogs for dissemination of information.• Taught various computer classes. Highly praised by co-workers and patrons on ability to teach in a clear and succinct manner.• LEAN manufacturing concepts trainer for the Grand Rapids Public Library. Liaison between City Manager and the Grand Rapids Public Library concerning LEAN Initiatives.• Managed and trained contract security guards at Main building and Branches.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

• Managed the Seymour Public Library in addition to supervision of Branch managers at two additional libraries.• Directly and indirectly supervised 17 staff persons.• Ordered Non-Fiction for all branch libraries.• Helped plan new strategic plan for library.• Developed and administered new library programs and initiatives. These initiatives included teen video games, self hold shelves, and established original social media presence of GRPL on Twitter in 2008.

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

• Responsible for creation, organization, update and maintenance of web pages.• Answered reference questions at Reference Desk.• Responsible for collection development and weeding of circulating and reference business collections.• Responsible for training of Pages who were upgraded to Clerical Aides.• Prioritized and delegated work to Clerical Aides and Office Assistant.

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

• Taught library instruction to students. Topics include bibliographic and database instruction. Highly praised by professors and students in ability to introduce new ideas in an understandable way to students of various abilities.• Answered questions at the Reference desk.• Taught CLS 100, First Year College Experience. Successfully educated 23 students to learn ideas to help them do well in school. Intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation, note taking, memorization, and engagement in class, and advocating for yourself were all topics that were explored and imparted to students.

Lansing, Michigan Area

• Responsible for creation, organization, update and maintenance of web site. Created CADL’s first web presence.• Reference and collection development librarian.

Mlis, Information Studies

Ba, Computer Science