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Edmonton, Ab, Ca

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Collaborate with business units to develop the ministry annual report. Ensure the report communicates the results achieved by the department, meets Annual Report Standards issued by Treasury Board and Finance, and fulfills recommendations issued by the Office of the Auditor General of Alberta.Collect and analyze performance-measures data and maintain logic models for the ministry and for its contribution to the Government of Alberta (GoA) Strategic Plan.Compile briefing materials for the Standing Committee on Public Accounts and the Resource Stewardship Committee (“Committee of Supply”).Collaborate with business units to maintain Process Analysis and Resumption Plans (business-continuity documents).Support enterprise risk-management planning.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Collaborated with IT and audit teams to analyze and map audit business processes (using UML and IDEF0) and build electronic forms repository (UX, UED). Conducted research on data modelling business-process mapping best practices. Built data models of audit processes, audit recommendations, publications workflows, and stakeholder communications workflows. Guided stakeholders in comprehensively articulating complicated business processes. Compiled asset libraries for document design and layout. • Reshaped the office’s existing performance management approach, processes, and tools: ⁃ Created an interactive PDF fillable form that aligned the office’s performance planning and review tools with the office’s new performance management approach and process. ⁃ Redesigned the performance planning and review tools for student auditors by creating a series of interactive, connected PDF fillable forms that aligned the tools with student learning outcomes and CPA Canada and office behavioural and audit competencies. • Analyzed and modelled audit processes (financial statement and performance audits) to identify the current organization and structure of audit information, then realign its management to industry best practices and to prepare the office for transitioning to the Microsoft 365 cloud platform. ⁃ Identified 35,780 information points for data mining and for integrating audit processes with seven corporate audit-support processes (human resources, procurement, etc.). ⁃ Identified 760 data-flow dependencies to improve information retention and disposition policies that govern how the office captures and shares audit information.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Provided developmental, structural, and copy-edit support to provincial-government auditors. Guided audit teams regarding best use of graphics in audit reports and documentation structure, style, and tone. Collaborated with my public-engagement team members to enhance the public’s access to and appreciation for our audit reports. Conducted research on stakeholder communications processes best practices. • Enhanced the public's understanding of OAG products by editing 20 reports to the Provincial Accounts Committee and by creating a tabular summary of recommendations for the annual Report of the Auditor General.

Alberta Health

Edited ministerial correspondence, briefings, cabinet reports, web content, medical bulletins, and other information products supporting publicly funded health care in Alberta. Guide to business units regarding best use of documentation structure, style, and tone. Conducted research on medical topics of interest to the Minister's Office. Conducted research on communications-processes and communications-KPIs best practices. Created infographics to communicate complicated information to stakeholders. Collaborated with Service Alberta to design (using LiveCycle Designer ES4) and publish fillable PDF forms for the Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan, including the Alberta Personal Health Card. Mentored three junior writers. • Collaborated with Communications to redesign Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan web content, which received almost 18K views per week (about 38% of the total views for Alberta Health at the time). • Built data models in Excel and Access; populated them with data from 987 action requests (ARs: correspondence received from Albertans or requests for information from the minister’s office). ⁃ Analyzed the data to improve environmental scanning and identify trends. ⁃ Created work-performance-measures processes and tools; used them to diagnose and assess AR workflow bottlenecks and to develop workflow-management tools. ⁃ Based data gathering, research, and analysis on communications-industry best practices.

Alberta Emergency Management Agency

Drafted and edited ministerial correspondence and briefings. Managed writing workflows within the business unit and across other government departments. Guide to business units regarding best use of documentation structure, style, and tone. Conducted research on factors that mediate disaster recovery in marginalized populations. Mentored three junior writers. Supervised Disaster Recovery Program Call Centre staff. • Researched, analyzed, synthesized—and coordinated with a cross-functional team—responses to complex, emotionally charged, politically sensitive issues regarding government-managed disaster preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery programs. ⁃ Conducted year-end review of 449 action requests to identify trends and analyze work performance measures. ⁃ Developed style sheets for Executive Assistants assigned proofreading duties. ⁃ Compiled and edited five Order in Council packages. • Initiated dialogue and collaborated with the Alberta Office of Statistics and Information and with Statistics Canada to mine the Disaster Recovery Program database and identify work-performance and social-factors trends to revitalize disaster-information resources and tools for the program. ⁃ Collaborated with Alberta Health and Alberta Community and Social Services to discuss and implement an “Alberta disaster social-vulnerability index” based on research and best practices. ⁃ Collaborated with Alberta Environment and Parks to combine mapping (GIS) and statistics data to develop and implement trends identification, analysis, and reporting processes and tools.

Agriculture, Forestry And Rural Economic Development

Drafted and edited ministerial correspondence and briefings. Coordinated writing workflows within the ministry and across other government agencies. Guided business units in the best use of documentation structure, style, and tone. • Implemented year-end review of 1,215 (gleaned from 4,265) action requests to identify and assess stakeholder trends and share them with the Deputy Minister and Assistant Deputy Ministers. • Collaborated with the Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C., to coordinate messaging targeting key U.S. elected officials to secure their support to repeal mandatory–country-of-origin labelling of Canadian beef exports.

Service Alberta

Draft and edit correspondence, speeches, briefings, PowerPoint presentations, reports, and business-continuity binders. Draft and edit correspondence for the Minister and Deputy Minister. Collaborate with line areas to develop and coordinate research and provide recommendations to decision makers for further action. Initiate research to support the ministry’s operational requirements. Liaise with the Deputy Minister’s Office, Minister’s Office, and program areas to ensure all inquiries and emerging issues are addressed within ministry policies, guidelines, and best practices.

Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

⁃ Coordinated child-serving-program delivery with school officials, volunteers, client families, and community stakeholders over a large geographic region: School District No. 73, Kamloops–Thompson. ⁃ Recruited, trained, placed, and coached 72 volunteers in mentor assignments with 70 elementary-school children. ⁃ Interviewed volunteers, clients, and stakeholders. ⁃ Implemented ongoing best-practices discussions with U.S.-based agencies that had received U.S. Department of Education funding to develop and implement benchmark teen mentor programs. ⁃ Researched, assessed, and applied relevant mentor-program-service-delivery theory, relationship-development and self-development theory, and social-factors data to ISTMP delivery, processes, and tools. ⁃ Coordinated delivery of special programs to elementary school client children and provided references for eligible high school volunteers: Tim Horton Children’s Foundation Camp, CIBC Youthvision Scholarship, TD Canada Trust Scholarship for Community Leadership. • Implemented program in rural and remote schools in Barriere and Chase, British Columbia. • Implemented program in Merritt, British Columbia (School District No. 58, Nicola–Similkameen). • Collaborated with principals, First Nations Support Workers (FNSWs), and other stakeholders to develop, implement, and assess a pilot First Nations mentor program at Westsyde Secondary School. ⁃ Held monthly meetings with the volunteers, principals, and FNSWs to discuss the volunteers’ experiences and to offer feedback and guidance. • Initiated dialogue with School District No. 73 officials to re-establish the Aboriginal Mentoring component of the Teen Mentor program. • Initiated dialogue with L’école Collines d’or and South Kamloops Secondary School to implement a French language teen mentor program. • Engaged in dialogue with the Kamloops Forest District to develop and implement a district-wide teen mentor communications and non-directive coaching training program.

Paris, France

Provided overall operational, financial, administrative, and logistical support to the Defense Attache Office (DAO). Provided day-to-day office management. Supervised assigned NCOs, U.S. civilian employees, and locally employed staff. Program manager for the DAO budget and the disbursement of funds. Drafted, implemented, and enforced policy. Primary action officer to the embassy and Defense Intelligence Agency mission support offices. Program manager for counter-intelligence, personnel-, information-, and physical-security programs. Managed housing, motor pool, and property book programs. Assisted in planning and execution of special functions, support of U.S. Navy port calls, and VIP visits. Assisted with coordination of U.S. military or civilian diplomatic aircraft landing and overflight clearances and ground support. Supported the Office of Security Cooperation, as required.• Supervised 14 U.S. Government and host-nation employees.• Served as a certified facilitator under the auspices of the Franklin Covey-U.S. Department of State License Agreement. Delivered workshops to the 30-member Budget & Finance Office (BFO). ⁃ 7 Habits of Highly Effective People® Signature Course ⁃ 7 Habits of Highly Effective People® Maximizer (90-day followup workshop) ⁃ Leadership: Great Leaders, Great Teams, Great Results™ ⁃ Implemented BFO workforce survey (Execution Quotient™, or xQ) to assess work-goals accomplishment against six effectiveness criteria; debriefed results to BFO leaders. ⁃ Coached two employees to facilitate these workshops.• Served as project lead for a multi-year-space-reallocation project. ⁃ Wrote, coordinated, and secured approval for a USD 70K proposal to relocate and expand a special conference facility and computer server room.• Chaired the Post Inter-agency Housing Board, which implemented the post housing program for 36 government agencies across three diplomatic missions. Size of housing pool was 400 units.

Mexico City, Mexico

Provided overall operational, financial, administrative, and logistical support to the Defense Attache Office (DAO). Provided day-to-day office management. Supervised assigned NCOs, U.S. civilian employees, and locally employed staff. Program manager for the DAO budget and the disbursement of funds. Drafted, implemented, and enforced policy. Primary action officer to the embassy and Defense Intelligence Agency mission support offices. Program manager for counter-intelligence, personnel-, information-, and physical-security programs. Managed housing, motor pool, and property book programs. Assisted in planning and execution of special functions, support of U.S. Navy port calls, and VIP visits. Assisted with coordination of U.S. military or civilian diplomatic aircraft landing and overflight clearances and ground support. Supported the Office of Security Cooperation, as required. • Supervised 10 U.S. Government and host-nation employees. • Transitioned DAO personnel from private leased housing to government leased and owned housing, greatly relieving them of a personal-finance and rent-management burden. Value of services rendered exceeded USD 150K. • Implemented a three-phase, regional force protection/anti-terrorism personal defensive measures workshop, in which 30 people from 23 offices in the Western Hemisphere Region participated.

Cairo, Egypt

Provided overall operational, financial, administrative, and logistical support to the Defense Attache Office (DAO). Provided day-to-day office management. Supervised assigned NCOs, U.S. civilian employees, and locally employed staff. Program manager for the DAO budget and the disbursement of funds. Drafted, implemented, and enforced policy. Primary action officer to the embassy and Defense Intelligence Agency mission support offices. Program manager for counter-intelligence, personnel-, information-, and physical-security programs. Managed housing, motor pool, and property book programs. Assisted in planning and execution of special functions, support of U.S. Navy port calls, and VIP visits. Assisted with coordination of U.S. military or civilian diplomatic aircraft landing and overflight clearances and ground support. Supported the Office of Security Cooperation, as required. • Supervised 12 U.S. Government and host-nation employees. • Budgeted, coordinated, and managed USD 80K radio communications system upgrade project. • Managed the delivery of one Improved Light Armoured Vehicle valued at USD 250K. • Secured a congressional waiver for issuance of one Heavy Armoured Vehicle valued at USD 600K. • Obtained a USD 12K budget increase to deliver an office renovation project. • Co-chaired the ICASS Working Group; provided program oversight and evaluation supporting 36 government agencies and a USD 126M budget. ⁃ Conducted special review of workload statistics and counts program-wide to evaluate and improve service-delivery effectiveness.

Yaounde, Cameroon

Provided overall operational, financial, administrative, and logistical support to the Defense Attache Office (DAO). Provided day-to-day office management. Supervised assigned NCOs, U.S. civilian employees, and locally employed staff. Program manager for the DAO budget and the disbursement of funds. Drafted, implemented, and enforced policy. Primary action officer to the embassy and Defense Intelligence Agency mission support offices. Program manager for counter-intelligence, personnel-, information-, and physical-security programs. Managed housing, motor pool, and property book programs. Assisted in planning and execution of special functions, support of U.S. Navy port calls, and VIP visits. Assisted with coordination of U.S. military or civilian diplomatic aircraft landing and overflight clearances and ground support. Supported the Office of Security Cooperation, as required. • Supervised 2 U.S. Government and host-nation employees. • Managed logistical support of and accompanied a John Hopkins University HIV researcher into remote regions of the South and East provinces to research the possible origins of the zoonotic transmission of HIV. • Collaborated with U.S. and Cameroon government officials to develop, execute, and evaluate two two-year strategic country engagement plans. • Served as project manager for the visit of the Commander, U.S. Navy Atlantic Fleet, and the fleet’s 36-member band to and band performances in Yaoundé and Douala. • Engineered, on my own initiative, emergency delivery of medical supplies from Europe to Yaoundé, Cameroon, following a rail fuel car collision and explosion, to assist local medical authorities in treating 120 burn victims. ⁃ Conducted needs assessment with hospital officials. ⁃ Coordinated an overnight, six-pallet shipment of burn treatment supplies from the U.S. European Command to the hospital in Yaoundé.

Ft. Huachuca, Arizona, United States Of America

Student at intelligence officer training

Ft. Rucker, Alabama, United States Of America

Warrant Officer candidate

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Supervised soldiers on temporary assignment to the office. Provided administrative support to five service attaches. Provided logistics support to and accompanied service attaches on travel throughout Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Qatar. Served as acting Operations Coordinator at the Defense Attache Office in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Master Of Science - Ms, Business Analytics

Program Objectives: Construct descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytical models. Use text mining, data mining, sampling.

Certificate, Full-Stack Software Engineering, Pass

Code bootcamp (pass/fail). Teaches front-end and backend software development.

Master Of Arts, Humanities

Humanities; history-historiography, literature, and philosophy; interdisciplinary research in dialogic ethics.

Bachelor Of Specialized Studies, Management

humanities-management dual degree; technical writing; ancient history; human resources management; philosophy; literature