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Professional with substantial expertise in long-term disaster recovery deployments in Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Louisiana, Wyoming, and Oklahoma, as well as community development finance, economic development, small business lending, and workforce development engagements across the United States. Communicates effectively with stakeholders to generate, discuss, and implement effective solutions. These skills and experiences are accompanied by a complete understanding of recovery and economic incentive programs, grant administration, and recovery resource mobilization. • Coordinated community engagements, which led to a significant increase in the number of local businesses working to rebuild their communities by improving access to funding and building capacity.• Educated local stakeholders on various grant and incentive programs and related compliance matters• Developed recovery courses of action and the "Transformation and Innovation in the Wake of Devastation" recovery plan in close collaboration with RAND Corporation.• Developed Blue Economy recovery initiatives, resulting in the formation of BlueTide Puerto Rico, Inc.• Compiled a Tableau-based application to monitor recovery expenditures and allocation to hundreds of action plans defined in the recovery plan.• Assisted in managing nearly $100 million of federal awards for disaster recovery and resilience • Worked with clients to start five Community Development Financial Institutions• Compiled recovery and resilience plans • Gathered, analyzed, and presented economic data to measure the economic impacts of disasters and the devise recovery strategies • Grant writing and management for capital expansion and resilience, resulting in nearly $500 million of grants and allocations of tax credits• Assisted clients with originating, closing, and selling (in secondary markets) nearly $800 million of government-guaranteed loans.

Listed skills include Finance, Commercial Lending, Economic Development, Credit Analysis, and 8 others.

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  Louisiana State University

  Business Administration