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New Brunswick, NJ, US

New York City Metropolitan Area

Oversee day-to-day operations of full-service learning solutions, corporate training, and facilitation consulting agency.Serve as Principal Consultant alongside a diverse team of L&D professionals and industry experts offering clients a holistic, multi-disciplinary approach to learning that is geared towards expanding your employees points of.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Responsible for the strategy, creation and execution of learning and leadership development programs for the company including three corporate offices, over 100 hotel/resort locations and over 5000 associates. Deliverables include multi-day programs for high-performing associates, an annual leadership conference, offerings for new joiners including a.

New Brunswick, NJ

• Responsible for curation of fan experience events for football and basketball games including entertainment coordination, event/facility logistics, security and VIP experience support.
• Served as primary contact for execution of all weekly corporate sponsor activations.

Greater Seattle Area

• Build, design, implement, and evaluate learning experiences across Amazon’s physical retail operations including all on-boarding activities for the Eastern division of stores including the New York City, Washington.
• Designed, facilitated, and managed new network-wide workshops on coaching & feedback, facilitation skills, leadership development, and consultative sales.
• Constructed and launched a new network-wide train-the-trainer (TTT) program to utilize existing leaders in the on-boarding process through a system of certified trainers and training locations to reduce costs, increase.
• Selected as 1 of 11 employees (out of 60,000) to deliver Seattle’s company-wide Customer Obsession (CO 101) training workshop for new hires at orientation and recognized as the highest rated facilitator for 2018.
• Part of the team that opened the first brick-and-mortar Amazon bookstore. Opened 13 stores in 2017 and 3 so far in 2018.

Greater Seattle Area

• Built, designed, and implemented our recruitment strategy for 1600+ annual college-level Software Development Engineers (SDE) for Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Responsible for on-boarding management included talent assessment and selection across multiple AWS business units and management styles at Amazon.
• Built, facilitated, and managed new organization wide workshops on interview strategy, communication techniques, and recruitment principles.

Piscataway, NJ

• Oversight of 40 comprehensive one or two day orientation, open house and academic planning programs serving over 6500 new students and 2500 family members annually.
• Serve as a member of the enrollment management & first-year student experience task forces responsible for implementing measures to increase recruitment, yield and retention rates for the University.
• Responsible for year-long communication plan, programming/events, Association meetings, fundraising and support for parents and family members.
• Manage $1.4 million dollar budget and oversee five professional and 65 paid student staff.
• Key Accomplishments: Instituted new communication plan for students and parents leading to 15 percent attendance increase; introduced new curricular elements including financial literacy, social justice & digital.

New Brunswick, NJ

• Curriculum development and instruction for over 10 courses includingnIntroduction to American Studies, American Cities, Pop Culture, Technology & Culture in America, Stereotypes in Popular Culture & Public Speaking.
• Created abridged hybrid course curriculum for summer international students.

New Brunswick, NJ

• Created new department responsible for multi-year leadership development initiatives including retreats, conferences, workshops and courses designed to engage student population of over 35,000.
• Developed effective and unified training curriculum for over 600 student employees and 60 full-time staff.
• Managed $300,000 annual budget, leadership related facilities/equipment and staff team of four professional or graduate staff and 12 paid interns.
• Key Accomplishments: Engaged over 2000 students in first year and 4500 in second year of department creation; Launched new programmatic initiatives including regional MARK leadershipconference, Leadership Week, Digital.

New Brunswick, NJ

• Responsible for the planning, budget management and execution of several large scale events on campus including New Student Formal Convocation Ceremony & Carnival, Homecoming Week events, Senior Week events, Guinness.
• Advised & assisted ten student organizations with the planning and execution of over 150 events and 10 main stage theatrical productions annually on campus. Organizations include the University program board, campus.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Production Coordinator/Producer of content across multiple platforms including commercials, music videos, documentaries and new media content for a variety of clients, most notably Nike, Nordstrom, Samsung USA, Inc..
• Responsibilities include pre-production coordination, script writing, casting, line producing, and on site production coordination.

• Responsible for the safety, security, and welfare of 300 - 500 first year students each year.
• Served as primary mediator/resource for student mental health issues, disciplinary action & student conflict.
• Significant experience handling medical emergencies, building crisis, domestic violence and sexual assault.

Mcrp, City And Regional Planning

Activities and Societies: Concentration: Community Development Cranford, NJ Arts Development Project (2007) Newark-Essex County.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), American Studies

Activities and Societies: Certificate: Historic Preservation