Edward Chien Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Create, scale, and manage economic mobility programs for residents of affordable housing developments nationwide.

Oversee preservation and modernization of public housing properties statewide using $104 million of annual capital funding. (Direct reports: 2. Indirect reports: 6)

Go-to for all things real estate within the realm of public housing. Problem solver for how to preserve an aging portfolio of $20 billion of real assets as quality, affordable housing. Project manager for complex mixed-finance deals. Process owner for forecasting/allocating annual operating subsidy for 231 public housing authorities.

Managed blitz-paced, multithreaded projects with goal to forestall a looming eviction crisis. Led cross-organizational PM teams; managed IT and other vendors; established performance metrics and data architecture; developed and presented program and policy recommendations for Governor and senior state leadership. Recipient of 2022 Manuel Carballo.

Phoenix, AZ

Set vision and managed operations for State Office with mission to combat poverty by creatively leveraging $40 million portfolio of block grants. Oversaw strategic and project planning, data/metrics, IT systems planning, and vendor management. Grantees’ confidence in AZ State Office rose from 72 to 92 during my tenure, against a national average of 75..

Phoenix, AZ

Strove to increase capacity of Community Action Agency grantee network by developing supplemental revenue streams and creating linkages to high-impact initiatives.

Investigated and corrected aberrant behavior in commercial artificial intelligence software. End users included several Fortune 500 companies.

Phoenix, AZ

• Increased supports for new Americans in Arizona in a multi-hat role where I managed programs, finances, and data and hustled across organizational silos to make things happen.
• Mobilized multi-sector coalition around a vision to adapt ESL classes to the unique needs of refugee learners; designed and launched successful demonstration project
• Increased available refugee service funds by 2-3% by managing technical minutiae of cash flow and expensing across eight partially fungible grants
• Managed project to stand up new statewide MIS; managed vendor, designed functional specs and ER model, planned integrations, led UAT

Arizona, Wisconsin, Ecuador, And Thailand

• Served in refugee resettlement, domestic violence, and primary and adult education. Assisted clients and donors in Arabic, Mandarin, Russian, Farsi, Thai, French, and Spanish.
• Designed project to expand accessibility of ESL education for refugees; circulation of project proposal resulted in my recruitment by the State of Arizona

Master Of Public Administration, Public Finance

Bachelor Of Arts With Comprehensive Honors, Russian Literature

Activities and Societies: UW Russian Folk Orchestra, Students for Life of Madison

Education record