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San Francisco Bay Area

Focused on planning, organization, and direction of financial ops, information systems, compliance, and fiscal management for Jewish Family and Children's Services of SF, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties in Northern California. Responsible for divisions of Seniors at Home, including services funded by our grant from The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) to support Holocaust Survivors, and Rhoda Goldman Plaza, our Premier Assisted Living Community.

San Francisco Bay Area

- Providing interim CFO Support to Oakland Promise, a $17M organization working to uplift Oakland children and families by providing cradle-to-college and career preparation to youth of all ages- Managing the development of the 3-year Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) for Navigator Schools, a network of Bay Area charter schools

Emeryville, Ca

Co-managed team of 10 who work with 40+ California charter schools ($325M total in annual budgets), supporting schools' multi-year budgeting, forecasting, expense allocations, cash flow projections, and grant tracking. Regularly present and lead panels at education conferences in California and nationally on school financial health

Emeryville, Ca

Manage a portfolio of school clients (K-12, single and multi-site charter schools), helping them design and implement their annual budget and financial plan and understand their current financial health and sustainability. Speak regularly at conferences and meetings about charter school finance and operations. Manage 3 junior team members. Support development of new tools and practices within company.

Emeryville, Ca

Emeryville, Ca

Chicago

• Created integration plan for procurement and transportation departments during merger of two large school districts; conducted school utilization analysis to inform school closures• Developed an 18-month implementation roadmap for centralizing high school admissions in large urban school district, which was successfully implemented the following year• Designed total quality improvement program for a $3B produce manufacturer• Developed 10-year vision and growth strategy for governing agency of large healthcare cluster

Greater Chicago Area

• Created a best-practices playbook for Violence Prevention Initiative based on study of the program’s pilot year to facilitate roll out of the program to additional schools • Analyzed root causes of chronic and excessive tardiness for one of Chicago’s highest-risk high schools and recommended operational changes to improve on-time rate

Greater Boston Area

• Managed team of seven recruiters across five cities that successfully hired 1,500 teachers and college students annually for national after-school and summer programs• Co-chaired a cross-functional expansion team that opened programs in two new cities• Led development of proprietary candidate tracking system, resulting in greater departmental scalability

Greater Boston Area

• Designed a new, national recruitment process that increased hiring by 300% and realized $10M in new contracts during high-growth 3-month period• Managed organization-wide school supply budget ($500K), and developed first-ever in-house inventory management system, increasing distribution capacity by 100%

Greater Boston Area

Mba, Economics And Strategy

• Graduated with honors • Co-chair of Class Gift campaign, raising $57K for Booth Annual Fund from more than 550 individual gifts

Ab, Magna Cum Laude, Psychology

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