Daniel Torres Email & Phone Number

Guaynabo, Puerto Rico

Project Manager, Project and Program Management Office • Strategic Planning: Aids conceptual development of key performance indexes and advantageous partnerships.• Quarterly Progress Reports (QPR) Program Manager: In charge of the principal tool used by FEMA and COR3 to inform the public and gather data about recovery projects’ progress and challenges.o Development of enhancements, pre-launch testing, communications campaign, survey execution, data quality management and information analysis.o Maintain the quarterly reporting cycle moving forward. • Contractor liaison: Oversee tasks and communications between a major contractor and COR3, to maximize productivity, leadership visibility and cost effectiveness.o Foster awareness of work status and pending items with contractor in weekly meetings.o Monitor significant meetings and communications to raise flags and communicate challenges.• Proposal evaluation: Evaluated service providers’ proposal documents. • FEMA liaison: Supported communications and planning between Federal partners and COR3.

Guaynabo, Puerto Rico

o Achieve Puerto Rico's full recovery, in a way that builds resiliency to future disasters, by supporting FEMA's Community Planning and Capacity Building (CPCB) team and its Field Coordinator. o Actively represent the team in meetings and activities.o Influence team’s direction and scope by helping draft its Mission, Vision and Guiding Principles, as well as its work-plan.o Maintain the team’s work quality by continuously supervising staff and work products and suggesting improvements to the project tracking system.o Concisely edit and consolidate various reports to maintain leadership’s awareness of achievements and significant actions.o Facilitate disaster recovery by editing a Recovery Opportunities Bulletin and suggesting new improvements to its content and outreach.o Proactively research and share operational and Agency-related guidance to keep team on track.o Promote and nurture two-way communication with partners; within the Agency and other Federal, State, municipal, private and non-profit entities; to address key issues and support recovery coordination.

Guaynabo, Pr

Community Planning and Capacity Building Lead for the San Juan Metropolitan Area. This area covers the municipalities of Dorado, Toa Baja, Catano, Bayamon, Guaynabo, San Juan, Carolina and Trujillo Alto and is called "Branch Five" in FEMA's Puerto Rico operation.Mission entails supporting recovery and resiliency building efforts with Federal, State and Municipal governments as well as private entities.

Caguas, Pr

o Point of contact for the CPCB team in FEMA PR Branch III; the biggest and most complex in the Nation at that time, covering 28 municipalities on the Eastern and Central parts of Puerto Rico.o Supported recovery and resiliency efforts carried out by Federal, State and Municipal governments, as well as private entities, by coordinating the alignment of needs with the resources to quench them.o Coordinated projects between a 5-member team and served as a liaison between them and Branch Command, FEMA programs, sections, and CPCB leadership.o Monitored, promoted and reported team's progress.

Caguas, Pr

Part of Branch III Community Planning and Capacity Building's (CPCB) team in FEMA's DR-4339-PR Branch III. This Branch covered 28 municipalities on the Eastern and Central parts of the Island and was DR-4339-PR most encompassing and complex.Mission consisted of supporting recovery and resiliency efforts carried out by Federal, State and Municipal governments, as well as private entities.

Caguas, Puerto Rico

o In charge of FEMA PR’s Branch III Planning Group, assisting the largest and most complex response effort in FEMA, up to that date. o Managed Branch III's Planning Unit personnel, products and requirements. o Coordinated with Branch Command, other Branch Leadership and disaster-wide Planning Section leadership. o Responsible for Branch-wide “All Hands” messages. o Facilitated the Incident Action Planning (IAP) process and disaster recovery meetings (Branch Synchronization Meetings, All Hands meetings, etc.). o Managed overall Incident Action Plan and Disaster Recovery Processes. o Addressed problems and issues related to planning. o Directed staff’s work and products. Performed personnel performance evaluations. Evaluated system and access needs. Evaluated and certified Planning Unit personnel timecards.

Puerto Rico

San Juan, Pr

Planning, programming and implementing of social impact initiatives in low income communities.• Boosted local socio-economic development and agriculture by co-programming the very successful Caimito Agricultural Market. This government-community project involves dozens of local vendors, generates thousands of dollars in sales and is coordinated in agreement with local leaders and stakeholders.• Increased citizen empowerment by co-managing an AmeriCorps team that worked with urban agriculture, technology education and community organization. • Key facilitator in underprivileged communities. Responsible for planning, community mobilizing and networking. • Saved more than $35,500 in imperiled Municipal funds by amending AmeriCorps reimbursement reports. • Increased citizen involvement by facilitating the San Juan Participatory Budget project, an inclusive process where residents propose and elect ideas on how government should invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in their community.• Enhanced community organization and infrastructure by designing appropriate work strategies and putting them into action. • Designed office work plans and tools.

San Juan

• Heightened environmental awareness by programming all tasks related to a volunteer-led, events driven, highly visible, urban revitalization and gardening project. * Garnered support and opportunities by achieving productive liaisons with relevant community stakeholders and organizations. • Actively represented Program in management plan meetings for the Condado Lagoon Estuarine Marine Reserve. * Quantified, evaluated and documented project success.

San Juan

Facilitated outreach between Antrocket and clients.Advised in matters related to content, crowdsourcing and crowd wisdom.Idea jammer!

San Juan

• A National Science Foundation, USDA and Forest Service research network• Expanded project data collection by administrating the San Juan ULTRA Survey to relevant social and environmental agents in the Río Piedras watershed area.• Increased Principal Researcher's field knowledge by attending relevant community events, including meetings, symposiums, manifestations, conferences, and others and summarized them in writing for her review.• Incremented project's relevancy by monitoring all forms of media to acquire and summarize all current information pertaining to it.

Master, Urban Planning

Activities and Societies: Student Council •Master’s thesis based on the concepts of crowdsourcing, participatory sensing and civic.

Bachellor, Geography

Activities and Societies: Vicepresident: Students' Geography Association Pico Duarte Expedition 2008 Association of American Geographers’.