Neighborhood General Manager for the Van Aken District in Shaker Heights, Ohio, consisting of 103 apartments, 64,000 SF of office and over 100,000 SF of retail.

- Conduct site selection for national retail clients in three state territory.- Negotiate purchase and lease agreements to obtain site control.- Create site plans that comply with applicable zoning regulations.- Build site construction budgets in tandem with civil engineers.- Take property through entitlement process to obtain necessary approvals for construction.

As a City Planner for the City of Lakewood, I have focused on park improvements as well as improvements to our cycling infrastructure. I have paid special attention to the Birdtown neighborhood, co-authoring a mixed-use overlay as well as creating special incentives for the home improvements through the City's Community Development Block Grant programs. Additionally, I intake and process applications for our various home improvement loan and grant programs, while administering our Commercial Property Revitalization Program, which provides loans and grants to commercial property owners to make facade improvements.I also serve as the Secretary to Lakewood's Planning Commission

Licensed real estate salesperson specializing in first-time homebuyers and investors. Well versed in conventional, FHA financing requirements, while also assisting and facilitating owner financing.

• Planned, designed , and coordinated public engagement events for diverse stakeholders that utilized technology in new ways. • Created and managed systems to track progress of ongoing projects and initiatives in order to facilitate progress, evaluate success, and apply findings to future projects.• Facilitated various community meetings, forums, events and conferences.• Created web environments that promoted productive civic dialog.• Provided technical support for stakeholders and Civic Commons staff as needed to allow for successful implementation of project and initiatives.

• Analyzed congressional district for opponent strengths and weaknesses. • Created voter outreach plan that focused on traditional voters, but also targeted independents and utilized social media heavily. • Successfully garnered "earned media" on continual basis to expand name recognition and saturation. • Managed campaign volunteers, identifying individual strengths to optimize volunteer efforts. • Worked with vendors while maintaining campaign expenses.

• Successfully managed campaign by identifying voter demographics and targeting those supportive of candidate. • Designed campaign website and literature for mail program. • Created voter outreach program that included targeted door knocking, community events, and mail program. • Managed campaign expenses.

• Created custom solutions to meet the technical needs for consumers.• Provided troubleshooting to help customers choose applicable technology. • Assisted customers looking to upgrade their computers.

As Campaign Manager for Brian Cummins, I coordinated door to door canvassing, assisted with campaign fundraising, and recruited and managed 15 volunteers. As a part of voter outreach I managed our voter database to identified likely supporters and targeted undecided voters.

As a graduate assistant with CSU's AHANA Peer Mentoring program, I assisted in the recruitment of incoming freshmen, coordinated mentoring relationships among incoming freshmen and upperclassmen while also facilitating academic and socially oriented programs. Our program strived to increase the retention and graduation rates of minority students at CSU. Students in our program were retained and graduated at higher rates than the university average, in large part to support and resources offered through the AHANA program. Additionally, I created a database to track academic progress, program participation, etc.

Researched Early College curriculum and instruction methods.Worked with 8th grade Cleveland Metropolitan School District student in summer enrichment program.Created proposal for community design curriculum for Design Lab Early College.

Worked with office staff to create a more useful and efficient constituent tracking database.Constituent Service

Used GIS to create a multitude of maps for the departmentCompleted and successfully received environmental study grant for the Southside Greenway Project. Shadowed economic development officers negotiating with developers and small businesses.