Gabriela Sanchez Barrocas Email & Phone Number

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Miami, Florida, United States

- Provide high level support to senior executives of GCPA with a focus on Spanish Speaking Latin America, Canada, and Platforms & Ecosystems. This includes managing calendars across different timezones and countries, communicating with internal and external stakeholders in both English and Spanish, and forward thinking to save my executives time and.

• Organize schedules for the President, Executive Director, and COO, coordinating with donors, internal departments, and legal counsel.
• Reconcile the budgets of multiple departments and multi-million-dollar projects, sending updates to grantors and vendors.
• Proof memo and public document drafts, as well as provide memo support for former Attorney General Eric Holder.
• Take care of items that would be tedious for superiors, saving them time to work on what matters for the organization.
• Keep notes for internal and externals meetings and create an inventory of action items with a follow up system.

Miami, Florida, United States

• Conceptualize and develop project from beginning to end including physical design, modular construction, and maze/exhibit build display at Biscayne National Park.
• Wrote and earned two grants, coordinated volunteers, acquired all materials (including over 1 ton of trash from Biscayne Bay and adjoining coastline), and managed books.

Miami, Florida, United States

• Prepared financial reports: scenario/annual budgets, Statement of Financial Position, and cash flow.
• Ran bookkeeping and assist accountant in completing taxes while maintaining separation of C3/C4 entities.
• Made purchases, maintain supplies, reimburse employees, and track invoices between the C3/C4 entities.
• Managed logistics of organizational events, (board meetings, office moves, trainings, fundraisers)
• Served as HR: on-boarded employees, maintained files, managed timesheets, ran payroll, managed benefits,developed employee handbook, and oversaw employee’s compliance with all documentation.

Miami, Florida, United States

• Investigate and demonstrate resiliency practices to implement in sustainable housing developments, with emphasis on HVAC technology, electric cars and chargers, kitchen appliances, and landscaping.
• Coordinate calendars of Principals, including scheduling travel and meeting with multiple parties.
• Liaison between company and partners such as architecture firms, green builders, and industry innovators.
• Manage administration tasks such as bookkeeping, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and payroll.
• Serve as Human Resource manager recruiting sustainable architecture interns and conducting interviews.
• Oversee budget of $1.5 million and manage tax filings for organization and principals.

Miami, Florida, United States

- Achieved administration tasks: bookkeeping, accounts receivable and payable, and payroll (through ADP).- Oversaw budget of $1.5 million and managed tax filings for organization and principals.- Investigated and demonstrated resilience practices to implement in sustainable housing developments.- Coordinated calendars of Principals, including scheduling.

Miami, Florida, United States

- Upheld CEO and Executive Director’s calendars: scheduled meetings, listed priorities, set up travel.- Maintained books for MSB, delivered payroll through QuickBooks; assisted in managing a $500,000 budget.- Co-produced field trips for 3000+ students, programming for 800 guests, and presentations for 2500+ visitors.- Secured US Coast Guard and American.

Miami, FL

• CappSci Inventors
• Developed the program strategy, logistics, and recruitment for CappSci Inventors competition, a $1 million international grant competition and Frost Science Museum-based inventor-in-residence prize.
• Recruited inventors revolutionizing coral reef protection and carcinogen detection.
• Teamed with MDCPS STEM director and hosted a round of judging by students in marine science and biomedical magnets to give feedback of the competition’s finalists’ inventions.
• Gathered six expert judges in the fields of coral reef biology and carcinogen recognition for the decision making panel. Created all material summarizing the technologies and inventor credentials for judges.
• Engineered joint Nerd Night where 70+ members of the public voted for the most effective invention.

• Educated visitors on marine ecosystems, monitored touch tanks, and led sea star and squid dissections.
• Led star shows, ran planetarium programming and maintained equipment.
• Member of box office, selling tickets and merchandise, while delivering excellent customer service.
• Recruited scientists for Underwater Festival, Innovation and Engineering Weekend, and Brain Day.
• Initiated activities such as pre-k anemone game, tech fashion show, and solar oven baking.
• Aided in scheduling, logistics and execution of signature events

Pinecrest, FL

• Adjusted and maintained classrooms to fit the needs of instructors
• Was praised for great customer service performance and registered patrons for classes.
• Answered patron questions and performed secretarial and custodial duties.

• Reference: Stephanie Sims
• Educated college students on sustainable habits and their impacts on campus and the environment
• Established Bicycle Benefits in Gainesville, a program giving discounts to cyclists.
• Communicated with businesses to gain program membership.
• Created and executed marketing strategy to get cyclists on board with the program.

Coordinated all sustainability facets for the Swamp cup, including zero waste management and curriculum for sustainability hut.

I worked with Adobe Photoshop to edit the look of newspapers before they were uploaded onto the internet.